--- In [email protected], "seventhray1" <steve.sundur@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@> wrote: > > > > > > I do enjoy your constant projections of peace, happiness and love on > to others, I'm sure you make your heroes Gandhi, MLK and the Dalai Lama > proud of you !!! Keep it up !!! > > > I know your beef with Gandi, and the Dolly Lama. But what is the > problem with MLK? >
Somewhat related topic. Last night I saw a PBS documentary on the Freedom Riders. Great piece. Those students and volunteers, men and women, white and black were incredibly "ballsy" and courageous. And brought down a long standing Jim Crow policy by taking the offensive -- the Freedom Rides and practicing highly disciplined non-violent resistance against a horrendously racist and violent culture. No other tact had worked for 100 years, and I don't see how other approaches would have achieved the same result in the same time span. And MLK was behind the curve, not ahead of it on that one. (But for those dissing King, I hope you have and encourage you to read Letter from Birmingham Jail -- an his other writings.) (And while I have some issues with Ghandi's economic policies, again, what approach other than non-violent resistance would have defeated the British (Evil) Empire?)
