larry correia, thank you. it s been years since dr. martin luther king gave the i have a dream speech. and his niece, alvita king reflects on her uncle s legacy here in
one of the things i remember reading because you know, i remember thinking dr. king was a great civil rights leader, then, i read the text of the, i want to use the term, his sermon. his speeches were really sermons. i remember doing a project and read dozens and dozens. what amazed me is that he didn t want to be known as a civil rights leader. he wanted to be known as a preacher of the gospel. yes. yet that is not talked about all that much today because i guess it s politically incorrect to mention it. i brought one of his prayer books with me. i m just going to read one line from his own prayer. he asked god to grant us visions to lift us from worldiness and sin through jesus christ we pray, amen that. is the heart of the man. you re saying when you read his sermons and listen to his
was a baptist minister from atlanta, georgia. he fought to overturn the jim crowe laws not with violence, but peace. we seek nonviolence and passive resistance and still determined to use the weapon of love. mike: that was in alabama, where dr. king was leading the montgomery bus boycott to end the days where blacks had to give up their seats for whites, the boycott lasted more than a year until a court put an end to segregation on buses. through the leadership conference dr. king worked with other civil rights lead towers bring the movement for equality not just for the south, but throughout the nation. i still have a dream. yes. it is deeply rooted in the american dream. mike: in 1963, dr. king brought the march to washington and announced his dream for all to hear. i have a dream that one day
every morning. it s faster and easier than coffee. every afternoon when that 2:30 feeling hits. -every day. -every day. every day is a 5-hour energy day. [ male announcer ] 5-hour energy. every day. sean: one week ago, president obama rolled out the epic flip-flop on same-sex marriage. while the policy switch was intended to endear him to his base, he is feeling a backlash from many supporters. look week on my radio program, i was joined by people to discuss the obama flip-flop excuse me, excuse me evolution on the same-sex marriage would impact the 2012 general election. at the same time, dr. king and professor butler noted that it was too soon to know how the african-american community would respond. but seven days remight haved, they are back. dr. alvita king is the pastoral
signing up to be volunteers and look at devastating numbers from the des moines register poll, you have to wonder whether or not he can make it over the next few weeks and whether it s worth it to try to go into the iowa caucuses and make any kind of a dent and then of course, the long trail after that, likely he wouldn t do much in new hampshire, south carolina certainly would be his as a conservative. he can do well there. when your numbers are, the last time they measured it in the des moines register poll, only 4% in iowa and trending down from 23%, that doesn t speak to a very viable campaign in anyone s political strategy. kelly: and you know, herman cain of course, recorded i m reminded of a song i m going up the rough side of the mountain if he were to choose to stay in, he would be going up the rough side of the mount. i noticed alvita king, the niece of martin luther king, jr. was at the podium