50 Years Ago Today.......

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

Martin Luther King was murdered, why shouldn't we mark this day in history? I feel the same way concerning JFK and RFK as well.

@lolakimono I didn't want your beautiful thread to be sabotaged.

You Don't Own Me- Leslie Gore
(You don't Know) How Glad I Am- Nancy Wilson

skuggles · ‎11-20-2013

In the grand scheme it was not long ago at all ... yesterday really on the human timeline. He stood for something and one of the results was the loss of his own life. "And still he rises". And there's a darn good reason. we all know it.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@skuggles wrote:
In the grand scheme it was not long ago at all ... yesterday really on the human timeline. He stood for something and one of the results was the loss of his own life. "And still he rises". And there's a darn good reason. we all know it.

@skuggles

We all don't know it, or at least I don't know what the darn good reason was that he lost his life.

skuggles · ‎11-20-2013

There's no darn good reason he lost his life @Noel7. There's a darn good reason that "still he rises".

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

OK, I also don't get the scheme of time comment. Humans have been around 200,000 years. Are we supposed to wait or what?

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@skuggles wrote:
There's no darn good reason he lost his life @Noel7. There's a darn good reason that "still he rises".

OK, thanks @skuggles .

skuggles · ‎11-20-2013

@Noel7 wrote:
OK, I also don't get the scheme of time comment. Humans have been around 200,000 years. Are we supposed to wait or what?

It happened so recently that it is really a "fresh wound" in the hearts of men/women, and yet there are those who wish to bury it in the annals of ancient history, well that's the excuse of some.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

Dr. King was a valuable part of SF Glide Memorial Church, and today they rang their church bell 50 times in memory of his loss.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@skuggles wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
OK, I also don't get the scheme of time comment. Humans have been around 200,000 years. Are we supposed to wait or what?

It happened so recently that it is really a "fresh wound" in the hearts of men/women, and yet there are those who wish to bury it in the annals of ancient history, well that's the excuse of some.

That's true @skuggles You are correct.

happycat · ‎09-18-2010

I think we should mark the day in history. And I think children should learn all about him in school and I thought they were. Till my future daughter in law who teaches 2nd grade told me it wasn't in her lesson plan. So she found copies to run off and give the kids and diverted from the lesson plan.

I really don't understand why nothing about Martin Luther King was in the lesson plans. And I don't like it.