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After the gratifying response to our War Against Christmas Competition, we just didn t get around to this year s Martin Luther King School Brainwashing Prize. So many targets, so little time! However, MLK Day got around to us. A VDARE reader writes that his 8-year old daughter came home from school to report a special presentation, by an alleged victim, on King and segregation – after which the children were told by their teachers that any reservations by parents were to be IGNORED. This inspired him to some Internet research.
The Educational Establishment has turned January into a period of heavy Martin Luther King indoctrination.
Clara Jean Ester was a college student at Memphis State College in Tennessee when she bore witness to a series of pivotal moments in civil rights history.
As a junior, Ester joined the Memphis Sanitation Strike in 1968, alongside African American sanitation workers who were calling to demand better working conditions and higher wages.
She was there at around that same time that Dr. Martin Luther King gave his final speech. She was also there the next day when Dr. King was assassinated.
At StoryCorps in Mobile, Ala., earlier this month, Ester, now 72, remembers the last days of Dr. King s life.
Insurrection demands deepest reflection
Bill McGill
“The cry for civil rights is like a rubber band: intermittent passionate public support stretches it forward, despite those anchored in the past pulling it backward. It stretches and stretches until that support starts to drift away to something shinier and newer – then it snaps back.
“The stretching has made it slightly longer, so there is some progress – three steps forward, two back is still a step forward – but it s nowhere near what was promised. And we await another horrific act to bring the unaffected back to help us pull forward again.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,