Comments on: MLK Day, 2010 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2010/01/18/mlk-day-2010/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:22:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Raine http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2010/01/18/mlk-day-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-5545 Raine Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:35:04 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/?p=2012#comment-5545 One most certainly could, Bernita. Thus all the cheers and tears and celebration when he was elected. The sound of validation. The sound of progress. HOPE. But the discord still remains. One only has to listen to certain extremists to hear it publicly, to certain hate-mongering media hosts, to the occasionaly slips of the tongue people in office make. And I wonder how much longer it might've taken if Dr. King had not been killed. One most certainly could, Bernita.
Thus all the cheers and tears and celebration when he was elected. The sound of validation. The sound of progress. HOPE.

But the discord still remains. One only has to listen to certain extremists to hear it publicly, to certain hate-mongering media hosts, to the occasionaly slips of the tongue people in office make.

And I wonder how much longer it might’ve taken if Dr. King had not been killed.

]]> By: Bernita http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2010/01/18/mlk-day-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-5544 Bernita Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:55:08 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/?p=2012#comment-5544 Could one say that President Obama is his manifested legacy? Could one say that President Obama is his manifested legacy?

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