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Memphis march honors slain civil rights leader MLK

Hundreds of union members and their supporters marched in Memphis on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder, calling for a new commitment to the human rights causes he died for.

With the march and a dedication ceremony Thursday, they honored King and the sanitation workers strike that brought him to Memphis, where he was assassinated in 1968.

In a light drizzle, more than 1,000 marchers wore T-shirts with union logos and held signs saying “We are Memphis” or bearing the slogan for the 1968 strike: “I am a man.” Participants came from as far as Louisiana, California and New York.

Surviving Memphis strikers Baxter Leach, Alvin Turner and the Rev. Leslie Moore joined the marchers when they arrived at a rally at the National Civil Rights Museum, built on the site of the old Lorraine Motel where King was shot down.

Moore, 66, was in his early 20s at the time of the strike. He still drives a truck for the Memphis sanitation department.

“Something lifted off of us when Dr. King came to Memphis,” Moore said in an interview days ahead of the march. “Before he came, we had a hard time. When he came, it looked like everything brightened up, a light began to shine out.”

Speakers at the rally included Martin Luther King III and Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

City officials had begun the day by dedicating a section of historic Beale Street to the 1,300 sanitation workers who walked off their jobs in February 1968 after two garbage collectors were crushed to death in a malfunctioning truck. The strikers demanded — and eventually received — higher pay and safer working conditions.

The street, named “1968 Strikers Lane,” runs in front of the headquarters of AFSCME Local 1733. Martin Luther King Jr. supported the union when he came to Memphis to make speeches and march with the workers.

The civil rights leader was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel when he was killed by a rifle bullet on April 4, 1968. James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the killing and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He died in prison in 1998.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News

Republican Racial Catch 22

By capblack

Nadra Enzi Republican Racial Catch 22

Author’s Note: This is my American History Month (Black Liberal History Month alternative) message to the GOP and the Black community:

Obama’s second victory sent the GOP into its usual clumsy rendition of what I call “Republican Racial Catch 22.”

Racial Catch 22 is the impasse White Republicans and Black citizens experience by unspoken mutual consent- despite pundit carping.

The GOP doesn’t have more Black members because that’s a choice neither group has made in large measure.

The top two reasons include irreconcilable differences in ideology, and, in bold print in many minds, racism.

I’d like to parse the racism claim as follows:

Can Republican Black membership swell when most of their mental interpretations of the acronym G-O-P spells K-K-K?

No amount of ham-handed claims of MLK being Republican (not unusual for his generation) or recitation of notable American Black appointees will easily dispel this programming.

Conversely, numerous White Republicans skeptically dismiss increasing Black membership given our image of a group of die-hard socialists like Van Jones.

Giving Obama and any Demo-crack dealer on the ballot almost 100% of our voter turnout doesn’t fill GOP numbers crunchers with hope.

This is the Republican Racial Catch 22: a party whose bitter irony is that its ancient role in going to war over Black enslavement is now viewed as the enemy of our modern advancement.

Until White Republicans and Black voters finally decide to talk and work together at the local level upward, debating the expanding of the GOP’s Black membership is just whistling Dixie.

As founder of American History Month, the alternative to Black (Liberal) History Month, my advice comes from its motto:

“Celebrate U.S.- Not Us Verses Them!”

White Republicans and Black folks haven’t had enough adults step up and force them to play in the same political sandbox, instead of rock-throwing from across America’s partisan playground.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism

‘All Life Is Not Equal’

By Matt Barber

Abortion Protestor SC ‘All Life is Not Equal’

First, on a personal note: Thank you, thank you and thank you, Mary Elizabeth Williams! What a glorious service you’ve done the pro-life cause. I know, that’s not what you intended. But that’s precisely what you’ve accomplished.

Did I say thank you?

In her jaw-dropping article “So what if abortion ends life?”, Williams – a mainstream, though uncharacteristically honest pro-abort scribe for Salon.com – has inexplicably broken from the Orwellian left’s ministerial script. In so doing, she’s severely undermined the very cause for which she would gladly “sacrifice” (dismember alive, that is) her very own daughter. A daughter, mind you, whom she coldly acknowledges to be “a human life.”

But enough with the pleasantries.

In his 1925 manifesto “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler wrote: “Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal.” Though technically a human life, “the parasitic Jew is a human life without having the same rights as the Aryan.”

Mother Germany is the boss,” he declared. “Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous Jew. Always.”

Ha! Just kidding. Actually, Ms. Williams wrote those things. She wrote them, not from Nazi Germany in 1925, but rather from America. Wednesday.

She wrote them, not about the Jewish people, but instead about the most vulnerable of all people: the child in her mother’s womb. (A holocaust by any other name …)

Yes, welcome to Feminist Funland, where the women are randy and the children are dead. In “So what if abortion ends life?” (I just love writing that), Williams, like some unintentionally creepy clown, guides us through the “pro-choice” house of mirrors, revealing with crystal clarity the true horror behind the left’s distorted reflections.

“While opponents of abortion eagerly describe themselves as ‘pro-life,’” she writes, “the rest of us have had to scramble around with not nearly as big-ticket words like ‘choice’ and ‘reproductive freedom.’”

Here, Ms. Williams essentially admits what the life community has said for decades – that the euphemistic language of “choice” and “reproductive freedom” long employed by the multi-billion-dollar abortion industry is exactly that; euphemism – propaganda.

In so many words, she goes on to acknowledge that, rather than “pro-choice,” “pro-death” is indeed the appropriate moniker for her movement. “Yet I know that throughout my own pregnancies, I never wavered for a moment in the belief that I was carrying a human life inside of me. I believe that’s what a fetus is: a human life. And that doesn’t make me one iota less solidly pro-choice,” she proclaims.

Nice. Wonder how many of the little Williams babies made the cut.

But the money line? “Here’s the complicated reality in which we live,” she declares. “All life is not equal.”

Get that, Thomas Jefferson? “All life is not equal.” Put that in your self-evident-truth-pipe and smoke it. We clear, MLK? Wrap that “I have a dream” up in a big wad of “All life is not equal” and get to the back of the Birmingham bus.

Indeed, Ms. Williams is a militant feminist, and that’s adorable; but her line of reasoning here is anything but fresh and cute. It stems from the utilitarian rotgut Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger poured down the gullet of her power-drunk eugenicist fans – foremost of whom was the hypertensive fuhrer himself.

Still, to be fair, I’ll let Ms. Williams speak for herself: “Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides,” she finds. “She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.”

In other words: “Me no likey? You die.” Or, as Hitler really did say: “We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew.” Old Adolf, of course, defined “health” to mean exactly what feminists mean by it. “Health: Any reason at all.”

Maybe I’ve been at this too long, but I love it when liberals mistake sociopathy for conviction – candor for courage. I revel in those rare moments when left-wing extremists, nestled warm inside the foul bowels of their “progressive” echo chamber, pull back the wizard’s curtain just far enough to expose, if only for an instant, the wicked sty in which they roll, splash, and play.

Like this gem: “If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant,” Williams boasts, “you bet you’re a-s I’d have an abortion. I’d have the World’s Greatest Abortion. … I still need to acknowledge my conviction that the fetus is indeed a life. A life worth sacrificing.”

“The World’s Greatest Abortion.”

“A life worth sacrificing.”

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Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He serves as Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism