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MLK's birthday
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 02:42:32 -0600 (CST)
From: raiseup@swbell.net (OverTiME)
To: raiseup@swbell.net
Subject: KAIROS: Happy B-lated B-DAY Martin!!!!
Newsgroups: rec.music.hip-hop
Organization: RAI$E UP!!
Wassup yall!!!
This yo boy...OverTiME Comin Down one mo gen.
I couldnt post this yesterday...TiME is of the ESSENCE.
But i thought yall might like to check it out.
Its some REAL shit by one of my life long potnaz.
Its bout MARTIN fo his birthday.
Also own a side note:
ERE major Black leader got on CNN on MLK B-day and *ALL* admitted
that in 1998, the CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE fo Black People is now
a struggle fo ECONOMIC FREEDOM.
Say prayer wit yo folkz fo EREBODY.
Stay UP!!
OverTiME
what's up dog?
yeah, my pastor was speakin on some good things this sunday.
kairos is greek. u know wit it being MLK holiday and everything,
he was speakin on how he felt king might feel about how his name
has been commercialized. ex: his name on t-shirts, people putting
his name in their grants to get ends, or like those two organizations
in houston that were fightin about which one was havin the "official"
mlk parade. anyway, rev. was sayin how people don't realize that
mlk didn't set out to be a civil rights leader. he had just finished
doin his first sermon for his church in alabama when the bus boycotts
got started. he initially said that they could use his church
to basically have a rally to inform people about the plan. but,
once he got up to speak to the crowd to introduce the committee
of women who actually came up wit the idea for the boycott, everybody
was gettin all fied up. that's when the women decided that mlk
would be a could person to help them rally people together for
the boycott. u know all of this started in '55. anyway the same
thing basically happened during the march on washington. it was
a whole lot of people who was supposed to give a speech that didn't.
the rev. say people was basically arguin about it behind the scenes.
after a lot of boring speeches, and three hours or so of standing
in 92 degrees weather, the crowd started gettin restless. they
were waitin to here martin. they sent mahalia jackson up and the
crowd got crunk. u know all church goin black folks liked mahalia.
mlk came up after her. rev. says that martin was supposed to deliver
a written speech about how govt. needed to pass these certain
civil rights bills,etc. but then mahalia was in the back, basically
pumpin him up to tell the crowd about the dream. he had delivered
speeches a couple of weeks before the march in two other cities,
talkin about a dream he had. he diverted from his written speech
one time and started sayin, "go back to mississippi, go back
to alabama", etc. so rev. says that were women on the front
row like, "go head son!" when one of the march organizers
realized he had gone away from the planned speech, they were basically
whispering in the back, to stick to the speech.
at the time the three major networks were there, and his speech
was supposed to be about 8 minutes to accommodate the networks
programming. (this was the only time in history that all three
major networks covered a rally for black people, live!) not even
the million man march was covered live by all three major networks.
it hadn't happened before or since.
well, mahalia was in the back tellin martin to "tell them
about the dream". so when he went away from the scripted
speech again, he just started flowin. so when he started sayin
"freedom should ring from every mountain and molehill",
etc., it really got krunk. so he went wit it.
rev. says that the boycott and that "i have a dream"
speech basically were the two biggest events in mlk's life, but
neither one was planned by martin. God had that plan for him.
both times he just got caught up, and it was on!
kairos--Our lives are directed according to a calendar we cannot
read and which we have no control.
2 fingas
Body
As in MiND, BODY, & SOUL
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