I have a Dream" by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Spartacus]

A boy is born in hard time mississippi
Surrounded by four walls that aint so pretty
His parents give him love and affection
To keep him strong moving in the right direction
Living just enough, just enough for the city...ee ha!

His father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floors for many
And youd best believe she hardly gets a penny
Living just enough, just enough for the city... yeah!

His sisters black but she is shonuff pretty
Her skirt is short but lord her legs are sturdy
To walk to school shes got to get up early
Her clothes are old but never are they dirty
Living just enough, just enough for the city...um hum

Her brothers smart hes got more sense than many
His patiences long but soon he wont have any
To find a job is like a haystack needle
Cause where he lives they dont use colored people
Living just enough, just enough for the city...

Living just enough...
For the city... ooh, ooh

 

[rykertest]

that is why we are human, there has never been a perfect man/woman, nor will there ever be.

you're lookin at him bub.

 

[Spartacus]

And he can take being stabbed by a letter opener like a real man.

DuBois was a better writer than King anyways, King just had a real nifty speaker voice.

W E.B.
back in college a bunch of us dropped one of our regular courses and substituted a night school course to keep our load intact
about a dozen of us took
"Black American History"
as we figured the course was a breeze and our party schedules were uninterrupted
one of the course requirements was to do a presentation on a famous black
as you may have figured the blacks in the class did martin,mr x,and carver
we white boys did some research and found the "unknowns"
I did W E.B. DuBois
I knew him because as a kid I collected stamps and Mr DuBois was featured on a commerative stamp about 1975 or 1976

 

[Spartacus]

After graduation from Fisk, DuBois entered Harvard (via scholarships) classified as a junior. As a student his education focused on philosophy, centered in history. It then gradually began to turn toward economics and social problems. As determined as he was to attend and graduate from Harvard, he never felt himself a part of it. Later in life he remarked "I was in Harvard but not of it." He received his bachelor's degree in 1890 and immediately began working toward his master's and doctor's degree.

DuBois completed his master's degree in the spring of 1891. However, shortly before that, ex-president Rutherford B. Hayes, the current head of a fund to educate Negroes, was quoted in the Boston Herald as claiming that they could not find one worthy to enough for advanced study abroad. DuBois' anger inspired him to apply directly to Hayes. His credentials and references were impeccable. He not only received a grant, but a letter from Hayes saying that he was misquoted. DuBois chose to study at the University of Berlin in Germany. It was considered to be one of the world's finest institutions of higher learning. And DuBois felt that a doctor's degree from there would infer unquestionable preparation for ones life's work.

During the two years DuBois spent in Berlin, he began to see the race problems in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and the political development of Europe as one. This was the period of his life that united his studies of history, economics, and politics into a scientific approach of social research.

 

[Spartacus]

I think king had some very good ideas, but was a very immoral man in his personal life. Do as he says not as he does is how I see him.

I live about 30 miles from Selma and can tell you how the "march to Selma" was a moving orgy
but this is a beautiful speech and it's message rings true

 

[biteme]

WHere's the evidence that he beat prostitutes? That's the allegation that bothered me. Everything else was just being human. He plagiarized his doctorate thesis. So what?