Martin Luther King Day
Posted on Monday, January 16 at 11:18 by Bee
Queries on every variation of Dr. King's name lead the way, and interest has mounted in his pictures, quotes, and speeches -- especially the legendary "I Have a Dream" speech and any video of it. Searchers have also sought out his widow Coretta Scott King, his convicted killer James Earl Ray, and background on his assassination.
We've recorded surges in "civil rights" and "civil rights movement," as well as "martin luther king day 2006," "mlk holiday," and "national holidays."
The swell of a thousand eighth-grade reports this week, or the power of association, perennially shine a spotlight on folks from the annals of black history and the civil rights struggle. Here's a sampling of some of the other Search spikes we've seen...
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
Jackie Robinson
George Washington Carver
Harriet Tubman
Abraham Lincoln
KKK
Jesse Jackson
Frederick Douglass
Nelson Mandela
Sojourner Truth
Booker T. Washington
Gandhi
Thurgood Marshall
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on January 17, 2006]
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Yes, Martin Luther King was a great man and he moved a nation almost out of the dark ages, but you do still have a little way to go, never the less .. you are moving forward even though it is rather slowly.
We too have a long way to go, but we are moving along as well, this is why I guess we are reconized as a very good example , as a nation that gets along very well as a multi-culture society. Trust me more room for improvement and with political reform , it will happen.
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060116/w011638.html">http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060116/w011638.html</a><br />
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* "Sirleaf sworn in as president; pledges break with Liberia's violent past <br />
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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pledged a "fundamental break" with Liberia's violent past as she was sworn in Monday as president, carving her name into history as Africa's first elected female head of state. <br />
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Wearing a traditional African headdress, Sirleaf took the oath of office in a ceremony attended by thousands of Liberians and scores of foreign dignitaries, including Laura Bush, wife of the U.S. president, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. <br />
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"We know that your vote was a vote for change, a vote for peace, security . . . and we have heard you loudly," Sirleaf said in her inaugural speech. <br />
"We recognize this change is not a change for change's sake, but a fundamental break with the past, therefore requiring that we take a bold and decisive steps to address the problems that have for decades stunted our progress," she said. <br />
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Sirleaf, who has held senior jobs at Citibank, the United Nations and the World Bank, takes charge of a country struggling for peace after a quarter century of coups and war. <br />
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Speaking for the first time as president, she pledged to unite the country and to stamp out corruption in order to secure the trust of skeptical foreign donors whose aid is desperately needed to rebuild. <br />
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In a statement, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan congratulated Sirleaf, saying she had a "historic mandate to lead the nation toward a future of lasting peace and stability." <br />
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Also attending were several African heads of state, including Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki. <br />
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Sirleaf will serve a six-year term as head of Africa's oldest republic, founded by freed American slaves in 1847. The country has known little but war, however, since a rebel group led by Charles Taylor plunged the country into chaos, invading from neighbouring Ivory Coast in 1989. <br />
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Taylor became president in 1997 but stepped down and was exiled to Nigeria as part of the 2003 peace deal brokered as rebels pressed on the capital. <br />
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He is now wanted on war crimes charges by a UN-backed war crimes court in Sierra Leone for his role in backing a brutal rebel group during that country's 1991-2002 civil war. <br />
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Nigeria has refused to hand Taylor over to the court and Sirleaf has said only that she would consult with regional leaders regarding Taylor's future. <br />
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Rich in diamonds, iron ore and timber, Liberia was relatively prosperous and peaceful until a 1980 coup saw illiterate Master Sgt. Samuel Doe seize power and order cabinet ministers tied to poles in their underwear and executed. <br />
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Harvard-educated Sirleaf was finance minister at the time, but was spared. <br />
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Twice imprisoned in the 1980s by Doe's junta, Sirleaf fled into exile. <br />
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When Taylor launched a rebel invasion in 1989, Sirleaf briefly supported him - a move that still draws criticism today. The war saw children as young as 10 take up arms. Fighting uprooted half the country's three million people and killed 200,000. <br />
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A truce paved the way for presidential elections in 1997 that Sirleaf lost to Taylor. The brazen bid earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." <br />
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After another rebel war forced Taylor from power in 2003, Sirleaf ran for president again, this time winning a heated November run-off against her soccer star rival, George Weah, who was backed by ex-rebel leaders and many former combatants. <br />
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Cool! Progress being made every here and again by those in the world who desire freedom from the oppression of the old colonial powers of Britain/France/Spain...and the Communist regimes too...these people desire to throw off the shacles of La Phrancophonie (read Paul Martin, Chirac, Chretien, Desmarais family, and associated groups)...YOU GO GIRL!!! Hope she kicks Martin's corrupt leftist/communist Canadian ass oot along with his shipping company!!! For GOOD!!!<br />
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Add this courageous woman's name next to Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Condaleeza Rice, Colin Powell...and now we have Ellen Sirleaf...a new world is arising out of the ashes of corrupt colonial oppression...as those who had been formerly "colonized" take control over their own destinys...much as the people of America have taken over control of their own destiny from European colonial/imperialist powers...and kept/maintained that control over their own destiny even in the face of the world's oppressive communist/socialist/militant/totalitarian/dicatorial forces that are so greatly admired and emulated by Trudeauian Canada, such as the old USSR/Cuba/China/North Korea, fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany!!! So yes...add Ellen's name on that list with MLK and company's...good people all!!! God Bless.
IT DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH CANADIAN POLITICS ! Sure are some stupid ass ppl .
Martin Luther was a great speaker of volumes ...unlike some of the garbage which is often listed on here . The people who said disrespectful things ,will always get what is coming to them . Hence "What comes around goes around ."
He died at the hand of a fellow american, pretty much in the same way and for the same reason those good old American boys took out JFK. It always about politics and the dirty party systems.
Which is why this story is under "Our Civil Liberties".
When was the last time Canada had someone who fought for our rights, like MLK jr.? Emily Murphy?
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
I tried every avenue known in Canadian politics to seek help for injured workers.. all has fallen of deaf ears. We have Canadian military and civilians who were treated like lab rats at Base Gagetown and tested with the Rainbow Herbicides... falling on deaf ears.
The bottom line is we have a bullshit bureaucracy here in Canada, put in place not serve all citizens, but to serve and protect the abuses.
We will never have a Martin Luther King or a Rosa Parks... but we do have a Brian Mulroney .. Conrad Black ... Paul Martin .. parasites. Canadians have a long way to go to get a political system that will reconize the most honourable of our society... right now we give the houours to people like Black and other who associate and fly in those same circles.
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Good government is not a party government
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Dave Ruston
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Your mantra has been your opinions are stifled due to their contrary nature, when they are actually stifled for being without perceivable foundation.
What was their point when in the end we still have millions of people left behind to day. They were a falsh in time a moment that has passed by and did not leave an ever lasting impression on our "government" .
Government / political parties love to use these people as examples, but very rearly continue on in their name. Think about the way they honoured Louis Riel, wasn't it at the end of a rope?
Norman Bethune was note for his work in China .
Tommy Douglas was part of a system that is now a failed system and a corrupt one.
Terry Fox .. well his family are doing very well on managing the money collected in his name , thus was turned into a marketing tool.
Now who is looking out for the rights of Canadians today.. not one frigging politican or bureaucrat. It all about the money and those with monety buy power and get justice. Those with out money , get the finger in Canada.
We do more to protect people out side Canada than we do to insure those who live here. This is all thanks to that corrupt party system, it is a nasty structure.