17 minutes that started continued some pretty momentous change. The prospect of change (and the agents of that change) proved so scary and dangerous that the authoritarian assholes among us moved quickly to try to kill it.
The problems King was trying to tell us about haven't gone away.
Here's one of the more imprtant points from a longer talk by Tim Wise - I've put this one up a coupla times before, and I'll keep going back to it until I can recite it verbatim:
It's about what's fair vs what's unfair. It's about getting USAmerica Inc to live up to its promises, and to stand by its word. It's about demanding "the power" to behave like regular human beings.
We should never expect anything more, and we must never accept anything less.
And also too - if this doesn't apply to you, then why're you gettin' all bent outa shape about it?
The problems King was trying to tell us about haven't gone away.
Here's one of the more imprtant points from a longer talk by Tim Wise - I've put this one up a coupla times before, and I'll keep going back to it until I can recite it verbatim:
It's about what's fair vs what's unfair. It's about getting USAmerica Inc to live up to its promises, and to stand by its word. It's about demanding "the power" to behave like regular human beings.
We should never expect anything more, and we must never accept anything less.
And also too - if this doesn't apply to you, then why're you gettin' all bent outa shape about it?
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