Fighting For All Against Poverty

In his final book Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
broadens his fight against poverty to include
all since there are more poor whites than blacks
in this country. After reading the article below
you may want to run out and purchase the book.



Many people are celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day by doing service or simply taking some time off. A few writers, however, have turned their attention to literary works by and about King. Here's a quick roundup.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s final manuscript, "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" was written in Jamaica in 1967. Originally published in 1968, "Where Do We Go From Here" was reissued by Beacon Press this month. The website The Root looks at its cross-racial call for economic justice:

“In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out,” King wrote in 1967. “There are twice as many white poor as [black] poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and [black] alike.”

This was a radical — and unpopular — change for the preacher who is best-known for pushing voting, employment, housing and other civil rights for black Americans. At this point in his career, during what would become the final months of his life, he was widening his field of vision to seek an end to poverty among all Americans.

The New Yorker's Book Bench blog also turned to King's last book, focusing on his prescient analysis of technology. King wrote:

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.





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Blame The Politics

I guess the saying remains to be true
that it takes thick skin to be involved
in politics. Check out the story below
and feel free to express your comment
on Obama's choice for Transportation
Secretary, Erroll Southers.



Reporting from Washington - Erroll Southers, President Obama's choice to head the Transportation Security Administration, withdrew his name from consideration Wednesday, dealing a setback to an agency still grappling with the security failures that led to an alleged attempted airliner bombing on Christmas Day.

Southers, whose nomination had been blocked by Republican opposition, complained in a statement Wednesday that he had become a political lightning rod.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Southers said the confirmation process made him question his willingness to participate in public service.

"I am not a politician. I'm a counter-terrorism expert," said Southers, assistant chief of airport police in Los Angeles. "They took an apolitical person and politicized my career."

The White House accepted Southers' withdrawal while maintaining that he would have made an excellent TSA administrator.

Obama nominated Southers, a former FBI agent, in September to head the TSA. But Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who complained that Southers hoped to make good on an Obama pledge to allow TSA workers to join unions, had placed a hold on his confirmation by the Senate.

Southers also had faced questions over an event years ago, when he had ordered criminal background checks on the boyfriend of his estranged wife.





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"From Atlanta to the Mountain top
It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
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The Smell Of Death

The people of Haiti can smell it coming
and there is very little that they can do
about it. Relief to this small island nation
in the Caribbean is coming at a very slow pace.
Does this also remind you of another disaster
that involved many people of color in recent years?
Why is relief always so slow when it comes to
non-whites? We certainly want to here from you on
this.




Reporting from Leogane, Haiti - Only the goats risk the cool shade of the century-old colonnades left standing in this provincial capital.

The people have hauled themselves and their possessions into the middle of the dirt roads, away from the fallen storefront arches and tin roofs that now rest on piles of brick like crumpled hats. Leogane looks like an archaeological dig overrun by squatters who wait for food, medical attention and shelter from the sun and coming rain.

International aid is starting to pour into Port-au-Prince, two hours to the east. On Monday, four ships carrying 2,200 Marines anchored off the coast and began ferrying supplies and personnel ashore. There were scattered reports of looting and gunfire in the capital, but U.N. officials said the relief effort was gaining momentum. And international teams were still finding victims alive under the rubble.

In Leogane, hub of Haiti's sugar cane country, residents have seen just an Argentine medical team and the Spanish Red Cross, which is assessing sanitation and water needs here.

In a city of 130,000, only one well is pumping water -- no faster than the flow of a garden hose. And it's not drinkable.

Residents have given up expecting that any of those still trapped in the rubble will be rescued. After the initial grief and fear, there is a strange pause in the story of last Tuesday's earthquake.

People here can smell the inevitable.





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"From Atlanta to the Mountain top
It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
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To learn more and hear
excerpts from this treasured
program,click here:
http://www.kingprogram.net/

Shaq Attacked

Oh Boy!
Looks like another high profile athlete
is having mistress problems. Shaquille O'Neal
is being sued by his mistress. Check out
the video and the get back with us with
your thoughts on this news breaking controversy.



 





Get your copy of the award winning King:
"From Atlanta to the Mountain top.
It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
tells the story of the Civil Rights
movement and the life of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
To learn more and hear
excerpts from this treasured
program,click here:
http://www.kingprogram.net/

Shaq Attacked!

Oh Boy!
Looks like another high profile athlete
is having mistress problems. Check out
the video and the get back with us on
your thoughts.













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Get your copy of the award winning King:
"From Atlanta to the Mountain top.
It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
tells the story of the Civil Rights
movement and the life of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
To learn more and hear
excerpts from this treasured
program,click here:
http://www.kingprogram.net/

Is It In The Religion?

What was it that could have caused a young
black man from a wealthy family in Nigeria
to want to blow up a plane on Christmas Day?
Could it be in the religion? Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab was practicing Muslim who's
behavior changed quite abruptly according
to family members. What's your take on this
situation? Check out story below.


Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa - The family of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man charged with attempting to destroy a transatlantic airliner, expressed shock at his actions in a statement released Monday, adding that they were thankful no lives were lost.

Abdulmutallab's father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, is a wealthy former Nigerian banker, who recently retired as chairman of First Bank and was a government minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

A statement signed "The Mutallab Family" described the family's alarm in recent months as Abdulmutallab, known to friends and family as Farouk, cut off contact and disappeared.

Pledging to fully cooperate with all investigations, the family said in the statement that the change in Abdulmutallab's behavior was "very recent" and "completely out of character."

His father was so worried about his son's whereabouts and behavior that he had recently reported the issue to Nigerian security agencies and U.S. officials.

"The disappearance and cessation of communication . . . are completely out of character and a very recent development, as before then, from very early childhood, Farouk, to the best of parental monitoring, had never shown any attitude, conduct or association that would give concern," the statement said.

"As soon as concern arose, very recently, his parents reported it and sought help.

"Prior to this incident [the attempted bombing], his father, having become concerned about his disappearance and stoppage of communication while schooling abroad, reported the matter to the Nigerian security agencies about two months ago and to some foreign agencies about a month and a half ago, then sought their assistance to find and return him home.

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It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
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Will The Real Tiger Woods Please Stand Up!

Well what you see is what get these days with
Tiger Woods. Since the the sex scandal story
broke about the world class golfer interest of
what he does off the golf course has become
somewhat bigger than what he does on the golf
course. What do you think is going on with Tiger?




Tiger Woods may be playing cat-and-mouse with the media, but readers of Vanity Fair will see much more of him than ever before when the February issue hits stands next week.

The cover shot, part of a spread taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz before his sex scandal, shows a bare-chested Woods in a black cap lifting weights. The magazine says the layout depicts "a raw, unguarded Woods," and captures him "in prophetic isolation."

At VanityFair.com, Leibovitz said of the images: "Tiger is an intensely competitive athlete – and quite serious about his sport. I wanted to reveal that in these photos. And to show his incredible focus and dedication."

In the cover story, author Buzz Bissinger ("Friday Night Lights") refers to Woods as “a sex addict who could not get enough” and cites a 1997 GQ interview with the golfer, who was 21 at the time, as evidence of the real Woods.

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It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
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Kevin Cooper Cut And Dry?

I know a little sumtin-sumtin about justice in San Bernardino.
With a conviction rate of nearly 98% they like things neat and
tidy. San Bernardino can also be very sloppy when it comes to
real police work. I knew a black guy who fought a murder case
there for two years and the delays came from the prosecution.
When the case finally went to the jury it took them less than ten
minutes to acquit. Instead of good police work the prosecution
was trying to build it's case on a prior manslaughter conviction.
Kevin Cooper is more convenient and economical to that upscale
area of San Bernardino. It got the county untold millions of
dollars to protect the surrounding communities from the inmates
at Chino prison and Chino Hills name is not tarnished by the mention
of a drug hit gone wrong. The Kevin Cooper case is a real doozy.
Check it out and then let yourself be heard.



On a Sunday morning in June 1983, Bill Hughes arrived at a hilltop home in Chino Hills, concerned that his young son hadn't returned home in time for church after a sleepover.

Hughes had called from his own home nearby but had gotten no answer. No one stirred when he knocked on the back door. Stepping over to the master bedroom window for a glimpse inside, he was confronted by horrific carnage.

The bloodied bodies of Doug and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica, and his son, 11-year-old Christopher, lay strewn from bedroom to hallway. Amid the clumps of hair, flesh and bones lay Joshua Ryen, 8, still breathing despite a slashed throat and skull fracture.

San Bernardino County authorities initially blamed the slayings on a cult or gang, as the five victims had 143 stab wounds from three different weapons.

But suspicion soon turned to one man: Kevin Cooper, who had escaped from a state prison not far from the Ryens' home two days before the murders.

Now, after 26 years, the legal hurdles to Cooper's execution have been surmounted. With the Supreme Court's decision last month not to review his claim of innocence, the 52-year-old becomes only the sixth of California's 697 death row prisoners cleared for lethal injection once a federal judge approves revised procedures.

But the exhaustion of Cooper's legal recourse hasn't silenced supporters who claim he was the victim of corrupt law enforcement and stunning bad luck.

The opponents of capital punishment who have long clung to puzzling clues and hints of police misconduct have been joined by a prison warden, 11 federal judges and five jurors now bothered by allegations that Cooper was framed.

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"From Atlanta to the Mountain top
It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
To learn more and hear
excerpts from this treasured
program,click here:
http://www.kingprogram.net/