Wed
Feb 8 2006
11:18 pm
By: Andy Axel
I recently posted the following diary at DailyKos:
Convenient Heroes: MLK's Legacy in the Bush Administration.
If you haven't listened to Dr. Lawson's words this year, especially now, in the wake of the death of Coretta Scott King, please do. I'd hate to think that y'all were taking Tucker Carlson's word for what the King legacy means to America.
(And I don't mean everyone here, naturally, but (a) as this is Black History Month, and (b) as the GOP is desperately trying to sanitize their own damned legacy as relates to MLK; this speech has tremendous import.)
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