"A time comes when silence is betrayal."

Back home, Black History month is almost over (shortest month of the year). So it's fitting for me to post a bit of Black History which is truly: World History.

Every year, almost like clockwork, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech gets airplay. The charismatic orator is frozen on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. No doubt it was a great presentation, deeply moving and full of dazzling poetry and inspiring images. But it was not his most important speech, nor was it his most courageous one. That was to come on April 4, 1967 in Riverside Church in New York. There King demonstrated his political maturity and understanding of how the system works. He moved beyond a simple race analysis to include class and foreign policy issues. He forcefully denounced the war in Vietnam. He called the US "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world" and he deplored the "giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism." Exactly one year later King was assassinated in Memphis. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

The abstract and photo above were found at Alternative Radio

Were you alive when he made that speech?
The folks at Global Research bring you the speech in text and audio format so you can see that the "madness" hasn't ceased.

Then there's the YouTube video...