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Message started by Dr. Caligari on Jan 20th, 2015 at 2:29pm

Title: Could've Martin Luther King survived in Australia?
Post by Dr. Caligari on Jan 20th, 2015 at 2:29pm
Fat chance. He would have been squashed and squelched and battered into total dejection.

It's Martin Luther King Day in USA. Have a good one.

nytimes.com/2015/01/20/us/king-holiday-events-include-air-of-protest-over-deaths-of-black-men.html


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In Atlanta, about 200 young demonstrators sat down in the middle of Peachtree Street, not far from the annual Martin Luther King's Birthday commemoration at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and briefly stopped the parade.

In St. Louis, a group of protesters rushed the stage at a prayer service, bringing the event to a halt until the police arrived.

In New York, there was a “die-in” outside Bloomingdale’s, in the heart of an upscale shopping area, while in Boston, similar “die-ins” took place on streets between Boston Common and the Public Garden and then in front of the Statehouse.

The nation’s celebration of Dr. King’s birthday on Monday was punctuated by protest, as a new generation of activists, angered by the deaths of several unarmed African-Americans in confrontations with the police, demanded that the traditional holiday rituals of speechmaking, community service and prayer breakfasts give way to denunciations of injustice and inequality.

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“The events that have happened have kind of diminished his dream a little bit,” said Aleah Hutchinson, 17, who attended a King event in Athens, Ala., and won a local essay contest connected to the holiday. “He wanted us all to work together in unity, but when certain events occur, like the events in Ferguson and the Trayvon Martin case, it kind of diminishes his dream a little bit because at that point, we’re not working together.”

Title: Re: Could've Martin Luther King survived in Australia?
Post by Rocketanski on Jan 20th, 2015 at 3:00pm
My sock radar is oscillating.

Title: Re: Could've Martin Luther King survived in Australia?
Post by Honky on Jan 20th, 2015 at 3:04pm

Dr. Caligari wrote on Jan 20th, 2015 at 2:29pm:
Fat chance. He would have been squashed and squelched and battered into total dejection.


Luckily he was in the US where he could squash, squelch and batter his wife into total dejection instead.

Title: Re: Could've Martin Luther King survived in Australia?
Post by Dnarever on Jan 20th, 2015 at 3:08pm

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Could've Martin Luther King survived in Australia?


Yes in the cell next to Dr Haneef till he was thrown out.

Title: Re: Could've Martin Luther King survived in Australia?
Post by bogarde73 on Jan 20th, 2015 at 3:10pm
He could have got a gig at Hillsong.

Title: Re: Could've Martin Luther King survived in Australia?
Post by Steampipe on Jan 20th, 2015 at 3:11pm
Depends how water he would take with him.

Title: Re: Could've Martin Luther King survived in Australia?
Post by Dr. Caligari on Jan 20th, 2015 at 3:12pm

Rocketanski wrote on Jan 20th, 2015 at 3:00pm:
My sock radar is oscillating.


If you release the joystick your head may stop spinning.

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