Happy MLK Day everyone.

[Tre]

The cast could've been a little more diverse, though:

[Rudee]

I don't judge a man by the color of his skin.  I judge a man by the size of his nostrils. 

[Soul Crusher]

And if I post that im a racist   

[Marty Champions]

http://billygraham.org/story/remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Billy Graham was in Australia at the time of King’s death. He remembers the moment someone approached him with news of King’s assassination, which was followed by journalists seeking a quote: “I was almost in a state of shock. Not only was I losing a friend through a vicious and senseless killing, but America was losing a social leader and a prophet, and I felt his death would be one of the greatest tragedies in our history.”

Describing how he met King during a 1957 Crusade meeting in New York City, Mr. Graham writes in his autobiography, “One night civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom I was pleased to count a friend, gave an eloquent opening prayer at the service; he also came at my invitation to one of our Team retreats during the Crusade to help us understand the racial situation in America more fully.”

As their friendship grew, King asked Mr. Graham to call him by his nickname. “His father,” explains Graham, “who was called Big Mike, called him Little Mike. He asked me to call him just plain Mike.”

Martin Luther King, Jr., entered the Christian ministry and was ordained in February 1948 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, at the age of 19. In 1954, upon completion of graduate studies at Boston University, he accepted a call to serve at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.

While there, King was an instrumental leader in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, made famous by the nonviolent resistance and arrest of Rosa Parks. He resigned from Dexter Avenue Baptist in 1959 to move back to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

From 1960 until his death in 1968, he also served as co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

King credited Mr. Graham with having a significant part in reducing the tension between whites and blacks in the South. In 1965, Mr. Graham canceled a tour of Europe to preach a series of crusades in Alabama, praying that the Gospel would tear down walls of division between the races and seeing the importance of his work alongside King’s.

King later said, “Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.”

During the civil rights movement, Mr. Graham preached: “Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man’s religion, and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.”

Reflecting on how his thinking changed through the years, Mr. Graham writes, “I cannot point to any single event or intellectual crisis that changed my mind on racial equality. At Wheaton College, I made friends with black students, and I recall vividly one of them coming to my room one day and talking with deep conviction about America’s need for racial justice.

“Most influential, however, was my study of the Bible, leading me eventually to the conclusion that not only was racial inequality wrong but Christians especially should demonstrate love toward all peoples.”

Always liked mlk and billy

I swear things racially would be better if mlk were still around

[Andy Griffin]

I will be glad that all the FB people can put away their sanctimonious MLK quote statuses that so many people feel compelled to "like" and all the self-loathing white people can drop the "we still have a long way to go" observations until February. 

Kwanzaa was invented in 1969. 

[NaturalWonder83]

Haters gonna hate
Potatoes gonna potate

[Erik C]

We should also remember how, on the day after MLK was killed, that Jesse Jackson showed up on all the morning news shows on TV, wearing a a ketchup stained shirt, lying about how he cradled the bloodied body of his dear friend MLK, in his arms and cried.

[doison]

Mlk is a perfect example of how you confront a issue, you do it with a non violent educated and thought out plan..

Today it's just riots in the street and more violence then they wonder why things only are getting worse..

Oh that's right it's everyone else's fault

This

[Walter Sobchak]

Mlk is a perfect example of how you confront a issue, you do it with a non violent educated and thought out plan..

Today it's just riots in the street and more violence then they wonder why things only are getting worse..

Oh that's right it's everyone else's fault

MLK's message would be lost on the black community of today. They're more interested in what Oprah and Lil' Wayne have to say.

And then Obama would have the MSM ignore MLK and put a ban on having him in the media.

[hardgainerj]

Mlk is a perfect example of how you confront a issue, you do it with a non violent educated and thought out plan..

Today it's just riots in the street and more violence then they wonder why things only are getting worse..

Oh that's right it's everyone else's fault

thank this guy not mlk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

[38-26-40]

Everyone enjoying vacation today reflecting like most of us are?

I don't work so every day is a vacation for me 

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

thank this guy not mlk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

Yep, no one had more balls than this guy...black, openly gay in the 30's and up, and sitting in the front of the bus.

[calfzilla]

King.

[Dave D]

What a couple of weird looking dudes.

LOL

[Kwon_2]

I was shocked to find out that the holiday Kwanzaa was started by some black dude in the 1960's.

Here I thought it was some ancient African tradition or something.

 

Didn't know that, but i'm celebrating Kwonza every month.

[phil mcgroin]

I never knew they had a federal holiday celebrating milk.I do love me some with chocolate chip cookies.

[Tre]

And if I post that im a racist   

GetBig is one of the only Sharpton-approved racist sites out there. 

[Tre]

[Aerian]

thank this guy not mlk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

Wow, quite the role he played in modern history......that very few people know about.