Sullen Toys: Martin Luther King- ‘I Have A Dream Speech: August 28, 1963’

Source:Sullen Toys with Dr. Martin L. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.

Source:FreeState MD

“I Have A Dream Speech August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King”

From Sullen Toys

Dr. King’s I Have a Dream Speech, is the crown jewel of the American civil rights movement because it laid out exactly what the vision of the movement is, that it is about jobs, justice and equal rights. Which is why you hear Dr. King quoting the United States Constitution that guarantees certain basic human rights to all Americans, not just European-Americans, or European-American men, but the entire country. All of us all Americans share these basic constitutional rights. Which was exactly what the American civil rights movement was about a fight for freedom.

The civil rights movement is not too different what the American Revolution was about a fight for freedom as well and to have these constitutional rights. A big difference being that the Dr. King wing of the movement was non-violent from its start, to its core and to its end. And the fact that the Europeans who won the American Revolutionary War didn’t intend to include other Americans in the U.S. Constitution, the fact is they did when they said all men have the basic human rights. And Dr. King and his movement did was to say they are here to collect those rights that the United States Government owes them under the U.S. Constitution.

I mean just look at the words of the I Have a Dream speech. Dr. King saying that he has a dream that one day his children would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Here’s someone whose economic politics at least would make him a Democratic Socialist today and yet he’s calling for a color-blind and even race-blind society. Which would actually put him to the Right of a lot of people who claim to be his supporters today, who are very race conscience and even have racial if not racist views towards Caucasians, even Jews and especially Southern Anglo-Saxons, people of British background.

The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur- Bill O’Reilly: ‘The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr.’

Source:The Young Turks talking about Bill giving Dr. Martin L. King the O'Reilly Finger.

Source:FreeState MD

“Bill O’Reilly used the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have A Dream speech to attack African Americans and claim that MLK was pro-right wing. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.”

From The Young Turks

So I guess you couldn’t have your own cable talk show, if you weren’t also a psychic and mindreader. Because apparently Bill O’Reilly has some super ability to go into dead people’s minds and read what they would think 45 years after their death. Which is apparently that Bill O’Reilly was doing about Dr. Martin Luther King. A man by the way, that Mr. O’Reilly never even met, let was able to ever talk too.

I don’t know where Bill O’Reilly gets the 75% of African-American babies being born out-of-wedlock. But he does have a point about the state of the current African-American community. And would have problems with it and disagreements with the community. And would want to see more done so this community doesn’t have more poverty, less education, fewer fathers in the households, more crime and murders and people in prison than the rest of the country as a whole.

But I guess it wouldn’t be The O’Reilly Finger, I mean Factor, if Billy wasn’t just stating the obvious and emphasizing the negative. Fifty-years after the I Have a Dream speech, fewer African-Americans now live in poverty, more go to school and finish school, graduate from college, live in the middle class. African-Americans. Still not doing as well as Caucasians, as well as Asians, regardless of ethnicity, and perhaps Latinos, again regardless of race or ethnicity. And that is still the challenge for this community to come to par with the rest of the country and not have negative statistics that are twice the average of the entire country.

To accomplish this, more African-Americans and Americans in general in poverty, need to go to good schools, finish school, further their education, not have kids until they’re personally and financially ready to take care of them and then actually raise their kids. And this get to men in the community that are man enough to create babies and life, but not man enough to raise their own kids. And leave that to the mother who isn’t doing very well herself, yet ready to raise kids all by herself.

The Birch Swinger’s: ‘Bobby Kennedy’s Speech For Humanity’

Source:The Birch Swingers- U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Democrat, New York) perhaps in 1966.

Source:FreeState MD

“Bobby Kennedy’s Day of Affirmation speech set to the soundtrack of the Social Network & Gladiator. The Day of Affirmation speech was a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy to National Union of South African Students members at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 6, 1966. Kennedy, who was then a U.S. Senator from New York, gave the speech two years before his 1968 presidential campaign, which came to an end when Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles.

Considered to be one of his greatest speeches, the Day of Affirmation Address, coupled with Ted Kennedy’s eulogy for Bobby, offer precious words of wisdom decades after their initial utterance.”

From The Birch Swingers

Senator Robert F. Kennedy giving a great, liberal democratic speech. And I should explain what I mean by that.

A lot of Bobby Kennedy’s supporters are quite frankly, Hippiecrats. People who I like to call limousine liberals. Those are folks who talk like hippie-leftists, who like to blame America, blame the rich, (while leaving themselves out, of course) as well as people that they like to call “white people”, or people they would call white men, or just white males, or even white boys, (except of course themselves) for everything that they think is wrong with America and the rest of the world. When the fact is, the so-called limousine liberals, are just as liberal as everyone else, who love American capitalism and liberal democracy. Meaning they’re real Liberals, not faux-leftists.

What Senator Kennedy was doing here, (I guess in 1966) was making the case for liberal democracy. And not just for European-Americans, or in this case Afrikaans , who are European-South Africans, but for everybody. And why everyone is entitled to live in freedom. Regardless of their racial or ethnic background.

This wasn’t some new-left, revolutionary, hippie speech, calling for the fall of America and “taking down the man” and calling that liberalism, which of course it isn’t.

Person To Person: Edward R. Murrow- Interviewing Marilyn Monroe: April 8th, 1955

Source:Lampur Monroe with Person To Person Marilyn Monroe in 1955.

Source:The Daily Journal

“Person to Person interview with Marilyn Monroe and Milton and Amy Greene.”

From Lamour Monroe

Edward R. Murrow was sort of the Mike Wallace of the 1950s, or perhaps Mike Wallace was the Ed Murrow post-Murrow. But what I mean by that is Murrow was a very intelligent and great journalist and interviewer who preferred hard news, but was so great at what he did and such an intelligent interviewer, that he could interview practically anyone important that is. And entertainers are important, not as important as I believe they should be and definitely not as important as others people seem to believe they are. But they are important in society and life wouldn’t be worth living as much without them.

As much as Ed Murrow could interview anyone and that probably included pro athletes as well, hard news was his steak and potatoes. What kept him fed and what kept in journalism. If it was his choice, he probably doesn’t take Person to Person and make that his show. Which was sort of late night TV back in the 1950s, perhaps a prime time version of The Today Show or Good Morning America. Shows that are generally about making people feel good and telling them about things that they follow in their free time and generally not hard news shows.

But Murrow was also if not the most popular figure at CBS in the 1950s, certainly one of them news or otherwise and CBS was going to use him as much as possible to help their network. And they knew how good of an interviewer he was and how he and Person to Person could help their network. And that Murrow also had See it Now as part of CBS News, so he was going to do his hard news show anyway. That is why someone who was the quality journalist of an Ed Murrow, is interviewing the Goddess of Hollywood at the time, Marilyn Monroe, in 1955.

Research Channel: 'Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice'

Source:Research Channel- Reverend Jesse Jackson speaking at this lecture.

Source:FreeState MD

“An annual event during University of Pennsylvania’s celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. King; each year, it highlights a scholar of African descent who is committed to the field of social justice. The 2004 guest was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, in conversation with the Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, moderated by Dr. Tukufu Zuberi.”

From the Research Channel

Martin L. King was a true Social Democrat. Not a Marxist, or a Communist, but someone who believed in using government to redistribute wealth from the wealthy and use that money through government to provide for low-income people who lacked the basic tools to live well in America. Which in many ways is what democratic socialism is about, to see to it that a few people don’t do so well, while so many others live without the basic necessities.

Had Dr. King lived past 1968 and wasn’t assassinated at thirty-nine years old in 1968, the next stage of his movement would have been about poverty in America economic and social justice. And perhaps would have been the modern Bernie Sanders, or Henry Wallace of his generation. And perhaps we would have seen the Green Party emerged in the 1970s as a true Social Democratic Party that could compete with Democrats and Republicans.

Economically speaking, I see Senator Bernie Sanders as the Martin King of his generation. Depending on how you define generations and would Senator Sanders and Dr. King, be in the same generation, or not. But two men who are essentially anti-wealth. That being wealthy and economically independents are bad things in their view, when others go without. So in their view, you need a big government to take from the well-off, to give to the less-fortunate, so no one has to live in poverty.

Thom Hartmann: ‘What To Do With The Slaves When They Are No Longer Needed?’

Source:Thom Hartmann on American labor in capitalism.

Source:FreeState MD

“Thom Hartmann says surplus workers are being converted into criminals for profit.” 

From Thom Hartmann

“What To Do When You No Longer Need Your Slaves?”

Source:Russia Today anchor Thom Hartmann.

From Russia Today

I know Thom Hartmann not only knows this, because he’s not just not an idiot, but an intelligent man, but perhaps believes his viewers aren’t aware of that.

Thom Hartmann is really combining 4 different subjects into one: slavery, high unemployment, poverty, and mass-incarceration, into one topic. And then arguing that Franklin Roosevelt had the silver-bullet solution to dealing with high unemployment back in the 1930s. Not mentioning the fact that unemployment was still 17.2% at the end of 1939. Compare that with 3/2% right before 1929 stock market crash.

Again, businesses are in the business to make money, at least when they’re for-profit and privately own. Thom Hartmann works for himself and makes a good living doing what he does, in one of the biggest, wealthiest, and most expensive cities to live in, at least in America, which is Washington. Workers obviously work for a living, to pay their bills, to have a good life, etc. Slaves and prisoners, are simply trying to get through each day, while they’re someone else’s property

FOX News: John Fugelsang Talking Politics (2011)

Source:FOX News talking to comedian John Fugelsang.

Source:FreeState MD

“Comedian, actor, radio and television personality John Fugelsang appears on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” to discuss politics and The Stephanie Miller Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour.”

From Shanen FO

This is just about John Fugelang talking about American politics in 2011 and who was up and down that year. They talked about Newt Gingrich for President, who ran for President in 2011/12. And you get to hear what John Fugelsang and the rest of the panel thinks about what was going on in American politics late that year.