Hey Martin, I Got a Dream, Too

Today is DREAM SPEECH ANNIVERSARY DAY. Good thing it's summer and schools are already closed. Surprised it's not a national holiday and they shut down the post office. King's birthday is a holiday but the guy should have TWO official days, at least. After all, HE HAD A DREAM.

Nobody else ever did, did they? Lincoln and his emancipation proclamation? Oh fuck that. Ancient history.

Kennedy? He gave speeches too. Another martyr. But who cares. The guy fucked around, too. So did King but let's not talk about that.

"I HAVE A DREAM" isn't like a John Lennon dream either.

Lennon imagined a WORLD living as one. No religion, too. John packed a lot of dreams into one song. Dr. King was pretty much one issue. He had ONE dream. An important one, and one that was shockingly and disgracefully a nightmare 50 years ago.

Let's remember, that not all great men who got a bullet in the head are created equal. Or remembered equally. Lincoln's birthday is now combined with Washington's as one holiday. Kennedy's birthday is not honored at all. John Lennon, who fought desperately to live in America...where he was shot in the back...is not honored by America.

But back to Dr. King, who was a great man, a courageous man, a non-violent man...but someone whose speech remains just a speech and not a plan of action.

But what would he say NOW? Would this man who preached non-violence be pleased that 3 gangsta black kids shot a white student baseball player in the back?

Would he walk through neighborhoods smiling at the Crips and the Bloods, and waving to the idiots who take out guns and fire them off at random killing babies and children through project windows?

Would he be listening to rap? Telling people like Bill Cosby to fuck off and be "real" and talk in Ebonics and spend money on bling and foot wear? That wearing your pants down around your thighs and showing your underwear is a sign of culture?

Would he be pleased that black girls make fools of themselves "twerking" and being on those talk shows where they scream about wanting paternity tests to determine which of a dozen black guys is the father of which of a dozen children they've spawned?

Maybe he'd be happy that Oprah-doprah Winfrey squealed insanely in some posh Switzerland store to help her movie be #1 at the box office, timed to open during all the "50th Anniversary of THE SPEECH" hoopla.

Anybody dreaming that the fuckheads in Egypt and Syria will stop killing each other over religious babble and imaginary friends and the right way to wash their feet 10 times a day?

Martin, look at any American Internet newspaper (FREEEEEEEEE at last FREEEEEEEEE at last) and you'd think it's a Black Planet already, because all the coverage is about black sports figures, and black musicians, and black actors (Denzel Washington and Will Smith and Jamie Fox and Samuel L. Jackson and Eddie Murphy and Morgan Freeman). The gossip is non-stop Kanye and Beyonce and Jay-Z. Fact is, Doc, that black overpopulation means you better have more more more blacks at the movies, because nobody else goes to the movies anymore. The VMA awards were totally dominated by black rap and black dance and Miley acting black and Thicke stealing from Marvin Gaye...because whites steal copies of their favorite music on the Internet while blacks at least steal it on CD from stores...which still means a royalty.

"I have a Dream..." is even copyrighted. Trademarked. He gave this speech in public, but it is one of the few film clips that requires a ROYALTY to use. The King Family (no, not the white ones who were on the Lawrence Welk show) control and authorize and get money from its usage. A special little deal that the Kennedy family never asked for on "Ask not what your country can do for you..."

I have a dream that the media will stop showing Kanye's snarling, sullen mug every fucking day. Make that a day dream. A little one. Not asking too much...not asking that "hate crime" be tacked on to cases of blatant black on white assassination...like three hoodlums shooting a man in the back because they listened to rap music and the "culture" of The Crips.

The who? Martin, you mean there were no CRIPS 50 years ago? My my, how times have changed for the better.

Dr. King's speech, like "The King's Speech" and most speeches, is not remembered very factually. Fact is, almost all of it was aimed at blacks. The point was for blacks to get together, non-violently and visibly, and gain strength to move forward toward change. Dr. King referenced Lincoln, but mostly to point out that the Negro was not yet emancipated.

"Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed," said Dr. King. "Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today my friends -- so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

The last lines of his speech were a bit closer to Lennon, in hoping for ALL people to enjoy freedom, "to speed up that day when all of God's children -- black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics -- will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

But be careful what you wish for. "Free" at last, to Kim Dotcom, to Julian Assange, to Hans DeVente and Mephisto and Zinhof and ZEROPAID is a little different from what Dr. King viewed as free, as dignity, and as justice.

Some blacks are disappointed that everything's not perfect 50 years after King delivered his speech? Everyone should be disappointed.

And not everyone is paying attention to another set of words, which end: "with liberty and justice for ALL."