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February 21st 2006 at 5:27 pm in Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics I just read this article in the Guerrilla Funk Thought Box that I couldn’t resist to share here. It’s on Martin Luther King, what he stood for, and current politicians using it for their own good:
Today, a slick rhetorical formula enables current generations of such miserly politicians to keep praising the legacy of Martin Luther King while sticking knives into it.
Such duplicity is facilitated by a baseline of media coverage that automatically recycles the truncated versions of history promoted by the politicians who dominate Washington. At least dimly, those political hacks understand a key axiom described by George Orwell: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
The rest of the article is pretty good as well…
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