The Martin Luther King Day speech from New Orleans that DESERVED to get attention

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Wynton Marsalis at Tulane

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[meekorouse.livejournal.com]

thank you! That's the sort of speach I think that a lot of people were hoping for yesterday.. and you are right in that it's a shame it's not the one being played for cnn & everywhere over and over..

The one that we have here.. in LA, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa,(one wonders if there aren't 10 of him he's everywhere) was in the MLK parade yesterday in LA and his words though brief were mellow and appreciative and worthy of repetition.. because despite whether folks like LA's Mayor or not (and I kind of do despite him not being my Mayor) he was saying that Dr King wasn't fighting the peaceful fight just for black America but for everyone.. for all the disenfranchised people of our country. =)

He noted that if it weren't for the civil rights act & the voting rights act he wouldn't be here as Mayor.. He's the first Hispanic American Mayor of LA in many many years.. seanyoda was saying (since I didn't look it up) that it's possible his the first Hispanic Mayor of LA since California was an American state. =) Ok I'm rambling. =) Thank you again for posting the link. =)

from the LA times:

The parade's grand marshal, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, was participating in King Day speeches just before the parade and was a few minutes late for its motorcade. The pearl-colored convertible, with children as passengers, left without him. After about five minutes, the mayor arrived in a sport utility vehicle and jumped into his parade vehicle with the youngsters.

"I would not be here if it were not for the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King," said Villaraigosa, the first Latino mayor in Los Angeles in more than a century. He was later seen walking the parade route.