Re: on privatization and accountability

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Martin Luther King's "core values and vision" were in his unwavering 
commitment to nonviolence, to justice, and to human dignity, not your 
wacky Marxist agenda to have parents, staff, and students in the school 
community control corporate wealth.  What part of "jettison that 
ridiculous baggage" didn't you understand?

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: Cbgord@aol.com
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:53:19 EDT
Subject: Re: [arn-l] on privatization and accountability


 Thanks for bringing up what Martin Luther King "actually said and 
stood for." Here are a few examples of his core values and vision:

 … I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world 
revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. 
We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a 
person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives 
and property rights, are considered more important than people, the 
giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are 
incapable of being conquered.

 Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967



 There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the 
question, “Why are there forty million poor people in America?” And 
when you begin to ask that question, you are rais­ing a question about 
the economic system, about a broader distribu­tion of wealth. When you 
ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

Where Do We Go from Here?, by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967

  …And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask 
questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the 
discouraged beggars in life’s marketplace. But one day we must come to 
see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It 
means that questions must be raised. And you see, my friends, when you 
deal with this you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You 
begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask 
the ques­tion, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a 
world that’s two-thirds water?” These are words that must be said.

Where Do We Go from Here?, by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967



 We are now making demands that will cost the nation something. You 
can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without 
talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about end­ing slums 
without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really 
tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with 
folk then. You are messing with the captains of industry... Now this 
means that we are treading in difficult waters, because it really means 
that we are saying that something is wrong.., with capitalism.... There 
must be a better distribu­tion of wealth and maybe America must move 
toward a Democ­ratic Socialism.

 Statement to his staff, 1966 quoted in I May Not Get There With You, 
Michael Eric Dyson



 In a message dated 5/19/2006 6:58:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
ABurke5054@aol.com writes:
 Finally, trying to enlist Martin Luther King in your ludicrous Marxist 
assault on corporations is a distortion of what he actually said and 
stood for, a disservice to his memory, makes you look ridiculous, and 
does your cause no good at all. Jettison that ridiculous baggage.