mike_mccue
Thank you Dr. Martin Luther King.
You did some real good stuff!
best regards,
mike
Thank you Mike.
I took my time responding to this, because this is something that was important for me, and I even got suspended from school because a Principal was a jerk, and did not believe in American people that stood up for the right thing!
Over 100 of us, got back into school because Paul Soglin and Eugene Parks went to fight for us, and unintentionally, embarassed a Principal, that had no respect for people, and was ... a racist ... and many of us called him that!
The next day, after he was shot, we went to school and the flag was flying full mast ... we asked it to be lowered. Reasonable request. And the Principal, refused. We started a sit-in, that ended up with over 300 people, and we decided to play dirty ... we called the big names and the newspaper ... and let them have it ... it took 4 days, andn I was re-instated, as my dad had not returned from Europe and when my dad went in to talk to the principal he said ... "my son did something that is honorable and important! I do not believe that he did anything wrong!" ... and the principal was out of words! The principal was already aware that my father had gotten a nomination for the cigar in Literature (later lost to Saul Bellow and Juan Ramon Jimenez), and the University of Wisconsin was really proud to have such a "scholar" with them, and there had been a few articles here and there about this ... and everytime I had an issue with them, up to and including a teacher calling me a foreign spic ... I went to the Principal's Office ... and he was looking for something that he thought he had more power over the students than any student had a reason to believe and be up over him!
I also helped create one of the Dr's very first March for Hunger, in Madison, and I walked some of it, not all of it, and helped put together some money with it. Along with us, were Father Groppi, and a very young man that everyone knows these days by the name of Jesse Jackson! He was not as literary or as well learned and read as his mentor, but he had a big mouth!
All in all ... I am not one for heroes and find them boring, because they all are "men and women" just like you and I ... but some of us believe in something much stronger and important ... than just ...nothing ... or a badly translated book, whose stories were stolen from hundreds of others around the time and place!
So, for me, he was important, and now you know why King Crimson's first album is so important for me ... it is about this ... a time and place, where people believed in something, but many were not listening to the winds, and thought it was all just advertising, like today ... and by the time you hear a National Anthem, it didn't mean anything any more ... it was in the middle of garbage! And ... THAT ... is the way we think many times!
Sorry about the rant ... but we all did great things and we also did bad things ... all of them important to our chemistry and heart ... the question is ... were we believers, or were we just following our erections? ... that is the problem!