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Monday, January 18, 2010
Remembering America's Greatest Spiritual, Ethical and Political Leader, Martyr
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
Had he not been martyred, could the Rev. Dr.King have been the United States of America's first African-American President? That would have been a remarkable dream. Despite, or perhaps because of, the despair triggered by his martyrdom, before his death, Dr. King predicted a Black US President within 25 years, countered to the more conservative prediction of 40 years by assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Bob Dylan performs at the March on Washington
Joan Baez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A troubling, visionary statement of what might have been had the Confederate States of America succeded and defeated the United States of America in the Civil War:
Kevin Wilmott's brilliant "alternative history"and faux documentary film, produced by Spike Lee, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America.