While I am a child of the sixties (and I date myself here), I do not wish that I participated in the protests of that era. I did so in the early 1980s and that was enough for me.
However, it was a time to be alive. There was much worthy of protesting; from the treatment of blacks in the American south (indeed, much of the nation), to the Vietnam War, to the destruction of the Great Society programs to feed the war.
This evening, I heard an amazing speech by the Reverend Martin Luther King. Say what you will of his private life he was a hell of a speaker and a conscience for our society. It is a truly moving speech and you owe it to yourself to hear this master of rhetoric incite the nation to take action.
How could anyone not listen to this speech today and appreciate his wisdom and foresight and even its applicability to the current travesty that is our foreign policy in Iraq.
The parallels are quite striking and left as an exercise to the listener.
Posted by artandscience at August 10, 2005 10:30 PM