A Reflection on the movie 'Selma' and MLK Jr.

junyabee: Duty to Warn Urgent (Unlearned) Lessons From MLK: Pointing out the Stupidity of America’s Militarist, Pro-Fascist, Anti-Democracy, Interventionist Foreign Policy (An Excerpt from MLK’s 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” Speech) By Gary G. Kohls, MD “Each day the war goes on the hatred increases … The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism” – Unnamed Buddhist monk 1967 This week anti-racist Americans honor Martin Luther King (and racist Americans sneer at) and his heroic pioneering efforts to achieve liberation for African-Americans from their second-hand citizenry. Next month, during Black History Month there will be opportunities to learn more about African-American history from slavery up to the present day. According to his most famous and most censored-out speech (excerpt below, which turned out to be his death warrant), Dr King gave his listeners an important history lesson about the folly of colonialism and militarist, interventionist foreign policies that eventually and inevitably see “the chickens coming home to roost”. The lessons that King tried to teach us explained why our nation (not to mention France and Britain and other murderous white Christian colonizers throughout the history of the world like Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Germany, Italy, etc), are constantly provoking mortal enmity among the billions of disrespected victims in every region of the world where our corporate resource extractors have landed the troops and propagandists to make the world “safe for predatory capitalism”.

chronology: junyabee. No nation in the history of the world has approached international relations with a Liberal Agenda. The U.S.A. post WW2 did take a 'Self Determination' and 'Freedom' policy for a while, The Roman Republic did engage in a modernizing policy of road building, theatres etc, but for the most part all Nations have taken the conservative line, including America.

Like David Bowie said in the Last Temptation of Christ to radicals, 'it makes no difference to Rome if you use love or violence to change the world, Rome wants everything to stay the same' so does America.

junyabee: 'Time marker' , I appreciate your observation. The OP, gkohls@cpinternet.com , post these opt-in emails just about daily. He will respond to comments. I post his commentaries to expand the universe of his distribution.