Posts Tagged ‘Martin Luther King Jr.’
What would MLK do with today’s technology?
8:13 pm By la Macha · Uncategorized · Comments Off
19 Jan 2010
Over at Vanity Fair, there is a really brilliant post about how MLK might’ve used today’s technology to organize back when he was alive. Some of the posts are very humorous, like the example I have here–and others are very pointedly sad or ironic. And as the author succinctly notes, MLK would’ve definitely used twitter and other social media (he was a forerunner of the use of television, after all), he would’ve been well aware of the problems as well:
His popular legacy remains one of speeches, but he attended and organized meetings and direct-action campaigns. He put his money (what little he had), his time, and his life where his mouth was. I imagine he would be frustrated by the passivity and false sense of action that Twitter can promote.
Amen to that.
Remembering Dr. King
9:43 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|history|race · 1 Comment
4 Apr 2008
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There will be speeches by all the presidential hopefuls. The media will say that Obama has an edge because he’s black and ignore the race baiting by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and well the outright racism from the McCain camp.
In my daughter’s school there will be a lesson on how thanks to Dr. King the white students and students of color can be in the same classroom and then the ESL students will be taken out of the class and miss important information being taught from 15 year old textbooks.
We’ve come a long way huh?
I was listening to some of Dr. King’s speeches this morning (WBAI 99.5 in NYC has an all day special) and listening to the speechs and comparing then to the truthful words of Jeremiah Wright, make Wright sound like, well, nothing to worry about.
Racism and Inequality don’t take Paid Holidays: Remembering MLK.
8:57 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Justice · 3 Comments
16 Jan 2006
I asked some third and fourth graders about their day off from school today and if they knew why they had it. A third grade Puerto Rican student said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made a speech about “having a dream and black people”. South Asian fourth graders said “he made sure that blacks didn’t have to sit on the back of the bus”. Both of these students said no one at their NYC public school spoke to them about Dr. King and his legacy. Both of these students of color who benefit from his work and the work of his contemporaries were just happy to have a break from high stakes test prep. We are failing as a society if that is all our children walk away with at the end of this day.
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