Its 1 am, after a night of some tall boys at BWW, good football, and great friends. It got me thinking on the way home, of how great our country currently is, and one of the people that has alot to do with it, is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It's hard for me to put into words (due to me being dumber than a post) what he means to each and every person. What does he mean to me? Hes someone who changed not only our country, but I'd like to think alot of human kind. He changed the way kids growing up at that time, and grow up now think. He changed the way adults young and old at the time thought. He changed our country for the better so much that its unspeakable. Alot of my friends are of minority race due to where I went to school. I love my friends to death, and I'd like to think, alot of the reason we got a chance to meet and become friends from school, was due to him. Helping desegregate schools and day to day life. I couldn't think of my life without my school friends, and to think of a modern day of seperate drinking fountains and seperate bathrooms, and a person not being allowed into a resteraunt due to his skin color is unthinkable. I consider myself lucky for growing up in this era of racial tolerance as opposed to the 50s and 60s when it took such a special man like MLK to change it.
So, please, take a moment of the day, and give thanks to whoever, that MLK graced us with his fantastic life, and his fantastic teachings.
Have a great MLK day everyone.
Nice Post TPark.I concur.
How could anybody change your thinking?
I thought this was going to be another Tom Cruise thread.
I was guessing Reagan.
Nice interracial love post.
I wonder what he thinks of the Jews and The Holocaust.
Oh, wait . . .
Wasn't Dr. King a liberal and endorsed democratic socialism? Interesting...
Details, details. Don't weigh down T with such things.
T is just trying to be politically correct. Kudos.
Not at all. Once again, the geniuses and wonderfull people of Spurstalk rear their lovely heads.
The heck with this.
What do you expect?
your an asshat with us 364 days a year and the one day your lilly white funnel cake eating ass decides to show his tree hugging Oprah Winfrey
feed the world book club side,
Are wee supposed to all of a sudden drop what we a re doing and run to block buster and rent Roots so we can join all the rich white people who feel guilty the one day of the year?
Nigra Please!
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this is my favorite part!
I'm not racist, one of my best friends is black.
the minority race salutes you for your courage.
This topic would be ok if maybe Angel_Luv or RashoFan made it.
Somehow it loses it's sincerity when you see the biggest whitest person at ST trying to get us all to have Lunch with Al Sharpton.
It's no big secret TPark's parents are rich, and their ancestors didn't get that way without owning a slave or two.
Maybe that's were the guilt comes from?
I wonder in the Bizzaro world if there is a chubby black kid in a forum trying to get his black friends to salute Christopher Columbus one a year.
FWIW, I think T Park is sincere.
Although I always wonder how everyone who comes out praising MLK this time of year (not just T Park) reconciles MLK's nonviolence stance their own opinions.
Is nonviolence how just blacks should deal with being attacked, but no one else?
Thank you Shoogar.
that... He didn't change . I still had to go to work today.
I agree with Shoog and take TPark at his word on this one.
I also agree that there's more to believing in the things that Dr. King fought for than just praising his work.
I think that violence should be a last, last, LAST resort in all situations.
But, then again, I'm a weenie Californian.
Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act.
It took a president to get it done.
You need to have Randy Newman's birthday made a federal holiday.
Why can't we respect MLK and Blacks all year round, why make it a special one day event?
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