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MLK day
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01/15/24 02:49 PM
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bigbob_ftw
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Sadly his dream is all but dead.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988208
01/15/24 05:02 PM
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Longhunter
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One step forward and two steps back...
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Re: MLK day
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#8988221
01/15/24 05:10 PM
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ntxtrapper
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Of all the American heroes to have a holiday for and it's decided to be this guy. SMDH.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988249
01/15/24 05:42 PM
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Nolanco
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I think his memory is worth celebrating. He promoted peaceful non-violence to affect needed change in this country -- the same moral force that Gandhi used to drive the British out of India. Compare his methods to those of say, the Black Panthers back in those days. I was surprised to learn that Dr. King and his wife paid the hospital bill for Julia Roberts' birth:
It’s true, Martin Luther King Jr. paid the hospital bill when actress Julia Roberts was born Roberts’s parents were friends with the civil rights activists, and welcomed the King children into their theater school
By Sydney Page Washington Post
When actress Julia Roberts was born 55 years ago in Smyrna, Ga., a couple swooped in and paid her parents’ hospital bill. It was Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.
The story, not widely known, recently resurfaced on social media. A retweet of a video compilation of Roberts from a fan on Oct. 21 read: “Martin Luther King Jr paying for her birth is still a little known fact that sends me.”
The collective jaw of the internet hit the floor.
While countless people were touched, others wondered whether it was even true.
“It sounds like fake news,” someone wrote in response to the tweet.
A few days later, though, it became clear that the Kings’ kind deed was far from a myth. To mark Roberts’s birthday on Oct. 28, Zara Rahim, who has a significant social media following, shared a video clip on Twitter, in which Roberts confirms the story during an interview with television personality Gayle King.
“The day you were born, who paid for the hospital bill?” King asked Roberts during HISTORYTalks, a September event in D.C., hosted by the History Channel and A&E Networks.
“Her research is very good,” a seemingly surprised Roberts quipped.
Then, Roberts provided a definitive response: “The King family paid for my hospital bill.”
“Not my family,” King replied, clarifying that Roberts was referring to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. “Why did they do that?”
“My parents couldn’t pay for the hospital bill,” Roberts said.
She explained that her parents — Walter and Betty Roberts — owned a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers Workshop, which they welcomed the King children to attend.
“One day Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school, because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids,” Julia Roberts said. “My mom was like, ‘Sure, come on over.’ And so they just all became friends and they helped us out of a jam.”
Bernice King, the youngest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, tweeted Sunday that she was grateful the story was getting attention, “and that so many people have been awed by it. I know the story well, but it is moving for me to be reminded of my parents’ generosity and influence.”
While the tale of Roberts’s hospital bill wasn’t widely known until recently, stories had previously been told about the two families and their friendship in the 1960s, a time of Jim Crow laws and segregation in the South.
A 2001 CNN interview featuring Julia Roberts, her mother and Yolanda King — the firstborn child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King — highlighted their connection.
“It was an extended family, it really was. And all of these Black kids and White kids getting along, no problems,” Yolanda King said.
A 2013 essay by Georgia-based author Phillip DePoy also discusses the families’ relationship — and how it led to turmoil and targeting. He described a story from 1965, when he — then a 15-year-old boy — was part of a production put on by the Roberts’ theatrical group. In the play, which was based on a story by writer Joel Chandler Harris, he and Yolanda King kissed, sparking uproar.
“I was primarily Caucasian and Yolanda wasn’t,” wrote DePoy, who did not respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post. “That’s what the trouble was about.”
According to him, “a tangential member of the Ku Klux Klan” witnessed the kiss and subsequently blew up a vehicle parked nearby. “The cops who had been watching the show just wandered over, talked to him, put him in handcuffs and took him away with very little energy.”
Beyond chronicling the incident, DePoy also explained the impact the Roberts family had on those who attended their theater school — and the Atlanta acting scene more broadly.
“Yolanda King spent the rest of her life involved in theater; my brother, Scott DePoy, who had joined the workshop before I had, continues to work all over the Southeast. Eric Roberts eventually went to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London,” he wrote.
Just as the Roberts left an impact on the King family, the same was true in the reverse.
Like her parents, Roberts has long been a racial justice advocate. While filming “Sleeping with the Enemy,” in the spring of 1990 in a small South Carolina town, Roberts got into a heated argument with a local bar owner, who denied entry to a crew member because he was Black.
“I was enraged, I was out of my mind,” Roberts said in a 2001 interview with CNN.
She’s made 1,750 Wikipedia bios for female scientists who haven’t gotten their due
In response to hearing Roberts recount the hospital bill story, Gayle King said: “I think that’s extraordinary, and it sort of lays the groundwork for who you are.”
“Oh, absolutely,” Roberts replied.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988250
01/15/24 05:44 PM
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bigbob_ftw
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He would be considered a conservative these days
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Re: MLK day
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#8988253
01/15/24 05:45 PM
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The Dude Abides
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I am still looking for the perfect apron, one with reinforced knee areas would be perfect.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988256
01/15/24 05:53 PM
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reeltexan
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LBJ killed most of that for votes.
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
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Re: MLK day
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#8988265
01/15/24 06:12 PM
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Re: MLK day
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#8988348
01/15/24 08:31 PM
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TurkeyHunter
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He would be considered a conservative these days I believe he would be disappointed in people that try to hijack a cause for political reasons.
To be determined
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Re: MLK day
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#8988356
01/15/24 08:40 PM
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bigbob_ftw
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He would be considered a conservative these days I believe he would be disappointed in people that try to hijack a cause for political reasons. Absolutely.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988366
01/15/24 08:54 PM
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ntxtrapper
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He would also be sad that in 2023 the most dangerous thing in America for a young black male is another young black male.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988497
01/16/24 12:26 AM
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Biscuit
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Too bad , I’d probably vote for him today
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Re: MLK day
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#8988592
01/16/24 02:39 AM
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T Bone
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Of all the American heroes to have a holiday for and it's decided to be this guy. SMDH. I’ll bite.. What led you to that position?
I really hate to do what I am about to do, because it will be very painful for you.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988627
01/16/24 03:38 AM
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Jgraider
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Yep. How many illegitimate kids did he have?
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Re: MLK day
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#8988640
01/16/24 04:03 AM
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Sneaky
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Of all the American heroes to have a holiday for and it's decided to be this guy. SMDH. Yep. People only see what they want to.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988750
01/16/24 02:20 PM
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J.G.
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MLK Jr. would have been disappointed in the words and actions of Barack Obama.
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Re: MLK day
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#8988753
01/16/24 02:26 PM
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Buzzsaw
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typical of todays agenda, they couldnt stand not making it all political. shame on them
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Re: MLK day
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#8988794
01/16/24 03:31 PM
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onlysmith&wesson
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Yep. How many illegitimate kids did he have? At least one if we're following the Jesse Jackson plan for success in life.
An unethical shot is one you take, that you know you shouldn't.
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Re: MLK day
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#8989706
01/17/24 10:45 PM
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...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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