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the mountaintop
By briantologist | January 15, 2007
I just heard the “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech on the radio, and it fucking killed me. I don’t know how it escaped my attention that he gave that speech the night before he was murdered, but Jesus, I just don’t have the words. God help us all.
Topics: Baffled Mutterings, Laments | 7 Comments »
January 15th, 2007 at 10:48 am
“Jesus– murdered; Martin Luther King– murdered; Malcolm X– murdered; Gandhi– murdered; John Lennon– murdered; Reagan … wounded.” – Bill Hicks
January 15th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Yeah, when he says, “I may not get there with you”? Fuck.
January 15th, 2007 at 11:57 am
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm
Haunting.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
When I was teaching at TU, I had a class full of students who had never heard the “I Have a Dream” speech (obv. not from BTW). I played it for them and many of them sobbed.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
extremely well said. thank you for that.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Extremely well said. Thank you for that, Brian.
January 15th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Thanks, cw, for the link; I played it for my 12-year-old just now so she’d know what this day off from school really was about.
And of course I bawled like a baby. What a dork.