Bush's King visit scorned

[missile_bender]

The Slave Party wants credit for Martin Luther King. It says in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,

President Bush's visit on Thursday to observe what would have been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 75th birthday isn't sitting well with area tribute organizers. They say Bush invited himself to their party and will potentially force the cancellation of some events due to security concerns. What's more, they say, Bush will profit from a fund-raiser he will piggyback with his visit to Atlanta.

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But the MLK March Committee, a group of area civil rights activists who worked with King, say they have worked for months on a program to honor the civil rights leader at Ebenezer Baptist Church, across the street.

"They told us that the Secret Service wanted us out of there by 2 p.m.," said the Rev. James Orange. "We are not leaving the church." The Ebenezer program from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. focuses on human rights.

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Nice. Exploit MLK. You know Bush would be a slave owner if this was 1860. The organizers were nice about it. I would have told him to keep his civil rights hatin' ass home.


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[PATRICK]

1. I would love

Some tape of Bush gloating how he was milking the event to influence people he would shaft. His actions seem to prove not just exploitation and insensitivity but actual enjoyment of rubbing people's noses into it.

It adds up but never gets exposed. What cute games these clever little guys play.

[corporatewhore]

2. Well i would have focused my event if bush came on mlks Antiwar

and nonviolence views for his pleasure

[Fleshdancer]

3. I have an ignorant confession to make...

I thought we celebrated MLK day on MLK's Birthday. All these years, I though his b-day was on Jan. 19th, not today (15th). I'm really embarrassed by this. :spank:

Now to bring my post on topic, I have no doubt bush will want to exploit MLK Day. It's campaign year after all. :grr:

[NashVegas]

4. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=312886&mesg_id=312886

[MattPinNC]

5. He's in a lose-lose sitch ....

..if he snubs the event, hell will be paid.
..if he shows , hell being paid ...

vvv

[TexasPatriot]

6. so i'm flipping channels

and i see Bush's speech carried live on CNN and MSNBC... and I see Fox talking about Michael Jackson.

hmmmm....

Fox, who fauns all over every word from the administration, carries the same Rumsfeld press conferences live, etc etc... but they dont want to show Bush praising MLK.

hmmmm....

[0007]

13. Phil Gramn's, Dicky Flatt story is one of the funniest, I've ever read

"I thought about Dicky Flatt because he works for a living. He is in business with his wife, his momma, and his brother and brother's wife...

Is there any heat on Wendy from the Enron scandal? Wendy did say after Enron got busted, that she knew where the money was!!

[Sparkle]

7. This is one time where I support Bush*.

The man is in the WH and I believe he should be there in Atlanta to honor Dr. King. Would they rather he not show up? They need to stop complaining.

[missile_bender]

8. The WH imposed its imperial will on the how he was going

putting their plans in an uproar. Also, how many times did Bush snub the NAACP? As president it's proper for him to honor MLK, but it's not proper for him to exploit him, especially with his poor record on minority issues.

[Bridget Burke]

10. He's got a $2000/plate fundraiser in Atlanta that night.

The honor to MLK is just an excuse so OUR tax dollars can pay for the trip.

The visit is going to cause a strain on the commemoration because of "security" issues. Also, I believe that quite a few African-Americans dislike Bush--with good reason.

I wonder how the "First Amendment Zones" will be enforced for this event. Some of the people concerned were demonstrating when Bush* was a yell-leader at Yale. They or their brothers were sent to Vietnam while he was AWOL from a cushy berth in the Air National Guard. (Brief review of Republican policies in the ensuing years goes here.) Now, their sons & daughters are in Iraq while he (or his handlers) plot more wars & cut social spending.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. "They" had their voting rights tossed in the trash in Florida

and had "Jim Crow" era laws used to disenfranchise them by his installment...so maybe "they" have good reason not to desire his presence for a photo-op.

[Say_What]

18. Bullsh*t!!

That spineless POS in the WH is nothing but a f*ck'n hypocrite and everyone knows it. Particularly in the USSA where *democracy* depends on the color of ones skin.

On edit: Honor??? What the hell does PretzelBoy know about HONOR?? He's a criminal with an administration full of thugs and war criminals for keeerist's sake.


Protestors try to hold signs above Atlanta transit buses as police stand on top while President Bush (news - web sites) makes a stop at the Martin Luther King, Jr., crypt in Atlanta, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2003. The police tried to move the protestors to another area further from the crypt and when they wouldn't move they moved several buses between the protestors and the area. The Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr. King and his father preached is in the background. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)

[Judi Lynn]

9. The first President I've seen who was so self-promoting.

There's not a civilized bone in his unwelcome body. What a moran.

[The Stranger]

11. This practically defines the "Compassionate Racism" that was part

of his last campaign.

[damnraddem]

12. Just wait for the Secret Service to throw people out of their own church.

I guess that will be Dubya's newest faith-based initiative.

[worldgonekrazy]

17. Don't you know the Faith Based Initiatives are only for one group?

The racist, bigoted, mean-spirited, Christian Right.

[Say_What]

15. "Money for jobs and housing, not war" and "It's not a photo-op George."

Yahoo article says that the protestors were getting louder and louder and the POS pResident left without facing the protesters. Spineless F*CK!

From the Yahoo article.

..."Bush go home" and "peace not war" the protesters shouted from behind a barrier of parked buses across the street from King's grave.

Bush was accompanied by King's widow Coretta Scott King, and sister, Christine King Farris. The president placed the wreath, bowed his head for a few moments, and departed without speaking or facing the protesters as the boos from the crowd increased.

The protesters carried signs with slogans like "Money for jobs and housing, not war" and "It's not a photo-op George."

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040115/pl_nm/bush_dc>

[peterh]

19. related to picture in news item....

Text from Dow Jones:

At a fund-raiser in Atlanta, Bush was introduced by Democratic Sen. Zell
Miller, a conservative courted by the campaign after last year announcing that
he would support Bush's re-election.
"I can guarantee you that I will not be the only Democrat working for his
re-election," said Miller, greeted with loud hoots of approval from the mostly
Republican crowd.
True to Miller's word, there were several other Georgia Democrats in the
audience to lend their support to Bush, a fact in which the president openly
exulted. After thanking Miller and the other Democrats profusely, Bush had a
joke for the Republican supporter: "I'm kind of taking you for granted tonight,"
he said to laughter.



After his token wreath-laying appearance….it’s off to the “show me the money” white boys club…here’s hoping scoundrels like Zell will have a broom closet for an office next year.

[Karenina]

22. Now that's REICH

BWHAHAHAHAHA!!! I have to laugh to keep from crying!!! :silly:

[Say_What]

23. Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet

Recently got the CDs of this speech and others by Malcolm available on Pacifica Radio Archives website. Still current after all these years.

<clips>

...<21> So, what I'm trying to impress upon you, in essence, is this: You and I in America are faced not with a segregationist conspiracy, we're faced with a government conspiracy. Everyone who's filibustering is a senator -- that's the government. Everyone who's finagling in Washington, D.C., is a congressman -- that's the government. You don't have anybody putting blocks in your path but people who are a part of the government. The same government that you go abroad to fight for and die for is the government that is in a conspiracy to deprive you of your voting rights, deprive you of your economic opportunities, deprive you of decent housing, deprive you of decent education. You don't need to go to the employer alone, it is the government itself, the government of America, that is responsible for the oppression and exploitation and degradation of black people in this country. And you should drop it in their lap. This government has failed the Negro. This so-called democracy has failed the Negro. And all these white liberals have definitely failed the Negro.

...<33> When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket. Civil rights means you're asking Uncle Sam to treat you right. Human rights are some thing you were born with. Human rights are your God given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time any one violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court. Uncle Sam's hands are dripping with blood, dripping with the blood of the black man in this country. He's the earth's number-one hypocrite. He has the audacity -- yes, he has -- imagine him posing as the leader of the free world. The free world! And you over here singing "We Shall Overcome." Expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, take it into the United Nations, where our African brothers can throw their weight on our side, where our Asian brothers can throw their weight on our side, where our Latin-American brothers can throw their weight on our side, and where 800 million Chinamen are sitting there waiting to throw their weight on our side.

<34> Let the world know how bloody his hands are. Let the world know the hypocrisy that's practiced over here. Let it be the ballot or the bullet. Let him know that it must be the ballot or the bullet.

http://www.indiana.edu/~rterrill/Text-BorB.html

[Gman]

16. I'm not at all implying that you are not good too but...

"I would have told him to keep his civil rights hatin' ass home.

the civil rights leaders there are truly very good, loving people. Unfortunately, they would never tell them this. Bush took advantage of their goodness and bullied his way in. This is an excellent contrast between the forces of good and an evil, sinister, cancerous blight on humanity.

[Malva Zebrina]

20. well the photo ops have it down pat

Coretta King approves of George Bush and the photos prove it.<snerk> Look how they are holding hands!! That means it was perfectly fine of George to appear there and usurp the celebrations to MLK--Look how humble he looks.

Most of the dozen or so that I saw on the Yahoo slideshow, present a picture of complete advocacy and complete subservience by the Kings, to the Bush who was there and was so humble to present a wreath on the grave of the assissinated Martin Luther KIng while they looked on. Sorry, I know that is probably not the case, but is IS what the photos are showing.

Here is only one.



Guess it was OK for Bush to pre-empt the Martin Luther King celebration in that church across the street, eh? He, once again, has prevailed, it seems, in spite of the protests.

[Ksec]

21. beginning of the end

You angered a very powerful group when you diss MLK.

Hes messing with the wrong people.