A NYT article asserts that the sermon from which the words were taken spoke out against buying cars you can’t afford, and how advertisers manipulate people. They included a link to the sermon, http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_the_drum_major_instinct/index.html. It’s well worth reading. And I liked this little bit:
“Now that’s a fact. That the poor white has been put into this position, where through blindness and prejudice, he is forced to support his oppressors. And the only thing he has going for him is the false feeling that he’s superior because his skin is white—and can’t hardly eat and make his ends meet week in and week out.”
Mr. Blawt about 6 years ago
James Armistead reminds you to stand and applaud when the president speaks…
gammaguy about 6 years ago
Couldn’t use Malcolm X for that mountaintop commercial. They’d have to show the mountain climbing him.
Cerabooge about 6 years ago
Try the modern version of a snipe hunt; find something that isn’t monetized.
Cerabooge about 6 years ago
A NYT article asserts that the sermon from which the words were taken spoke out against buying cars you can’t afford, and how advertisers manipulate people. They included a link to the sermon, http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_the_drum_major_instinct/index.html. It’s well worth reading. And I liked this little bit:
“Now that’s a fact. That the poor white has been put into this position, where through blindness and prejudice, he is forced to support his oppressors. And the only thing he has going for him is the false feeling that he’s superior because his skin is white—and can’t hardly eat and make his ends meet week in and week out.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/business/media/mlk-commercial-ram-dodge.html