This weekend and on MLK Day we will hear Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech ad nauseam. While it is a great and historical speech I believe it's not the one many in this current United States especially politicians and political pundits need to hear. It's one that we ALL need to listen to and more importantly understand. That speech is King's "The Drum Major Instinct" The paralells between the time he gave the speech and today's world are amazing.
Listen to the speech here The Drum Major Instinct

2 comments:
Very good. We typically don't hear this one. Glad you posted this.
Martin Luther King Jr.
March like a southern university battle of the bands bayou classic styling drum-
mAjor for peace - bending over backwards on freedoms field of racial equality.
a dReamer is sleeping - but we as a people have awakened to remember and live your dream as our reality.
you Taught us how to fight and win with
non vIolence as a movement.
oh my a Nobel peace prizeman
struggLed peacefully initiating
lunch coUnter sit ins - encountering violence.
even jail Time,
evil water Hoses, police dogs barking up
the wrong trEe.
this is a reveRend ordained by god!
a clergyman taKing jim crow off the menu.
his people got tIred of
trying to constaNtly stomach injustice.
rosa parks did not Get up and settle for
an indigestive preJudice plate of racist gout causing jim crow
thank god her feet weRe swelling with hurt- she stayed seated and broke a discimnating plate.
By Poeticblackness
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