Just have to see today's 'google' to see this in action..................

That's what happens when high profile individuals pass into history. The founding fathers probably wouldn't even recognize themselves or one another should they come face to face with the current rendition of themselves. It's all part of the up is down, black is white, etc., thing. Actually, speaking of black is white, look at Dr. Kings monument.

King's dream was that one day people would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. That sentiment, of course, was lost on both the white and the black community that still thinks that Obama is a revolutionary force for good with no other evidence than that his skin isn't white. If King were alive today, he probably would be arrested for a lot longer than 24 or 48 hours. He probably would be called a terrorist and "legally" be forced to languish naked in some army cell for the rest of his life. To say today what King said then, however more true now than it was then, would be a dangerous thing to do, for surely the greatest terrorist organization on the planet today has it's home base in Washington, DC. How do you win a war on "terror" when your strategy for winning that war is to out terrorize terrorists.

It is entirely predictable, but no less scurrilous for being so, that the Establishment has hijacked, co-opted, and virtually obliterated Dr. King's legacy as an evolving radical.

The scrubbed, sanitized result pays lip-service to King's worthy civil-rights leadership and fervent advocacy of non-violent dissent and protest; it effectively focuses on his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to the exclusion of all else.

But it was only when King began to transcend his role as a reformer, and escalate his dissent to deeper, more profound, revolutionary critiques of capitalist classism and imperial militarism that he became a marked man.

To reluctantly employ a banal, puerile, pop-culture cliché: in Dr. King's case, being designated a "marked man" was only the first phase of becoming mummified and diminished into a tame "Role Model".

The obscenely ugly memorial dedicated last year, including the truncated inanity of its inscribed quote, is a shrunken head writ large.

To use a term employed by writer Rahul Mahajan, it is indeed reprehensible that King's legacy has been whittled down and reduced to a kind of "plaster sainthood".

The radical King, who was brutally murdered by the government's military and security-state agencies, has been placed in a whited sepulcher; the gelded, airbrushed result reduces King to a mere "Positive Role Model", a sort of second-generation Booker T. Washington: a benevolent patron saint of pious, complacent "good citizenship" and docile, submissive "community service" and civic volunteerism.

In life, the Establishment overclass regarded King as "part of the problem"; in death, this same overclass is determined to write a "victor's history" to ensure that King's legacy is reduced to a pasteurized, processed, politically narcotic product that is "part of the(ir) solution".

What we see is how the commemoration of Dr. King becomes a reminder. We see also how he: a person], is treated as a theoretical text book with content substances applied in attempt to evaluate the past and enable assessing the present. Capped thus, by his anti "Vietnam" war speech, followed by applied interpretations in Real News video; the article "How fares the dream" - Paul Krugman; and "Right-to-work and the Tim Crow legacy that affronts King's memory" - John Nochols], it is easy to construct the complexity of a 'reminder' status. Both the depths and shallowness of that complexity are easy to follow in various versions of comments seen across today's Common Dreams articles.

Isn't it a marvelous thing for one man? Martin truly reached the mountain top from below! Christ was not born for the rich and wealthy, but we have also seen the rich and wealthy give-up all for the poor - if not in wealth at least in political maturity: with full interest of the poor at heart. To this end and because of the significance of political values I am not leaving it bare here but just have to contextualize political personalities like JFK and Olof Palme, aware in our comparative world that "uneasy lies any head wearing the crown of politics", as we consciously appraise in pros and cons arguments.

What is history?---if not to make us better understand our environments, systems and the world at large. The quality of that understanding is our challenge today. Martin is no more with us now that we begin to confess that our democracies fail us "circumstantially" and as "matters of fact"! An important point here is: how we consciously connect "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown of politics to (i) circumstances, and (ii) matters of fact. Facts are easy to twist and manipulate, but I think circumstances do not fall prey in that way. With all respect for the fallibility of man: especially the politician in certain systems it is good that "reminders" are reminders, for one is still to guess how Dr King would have reacted to Obama. And to drive the guess too much saps the ability to see and understand the range clearly in a democratic world of politics and citizens easy for politics and power to sway even against all rationality!

My belief is: were Dr. King with us today, he would be weighing issues, thanking God and hoping yet for a politics still to make more of his dreams practical realities, but he would also be highly afflicted because of growing darkness in our societies, systems and the world at large. Probably, therefore understanding the issue of degrees of good and bad, he would be able to adjust to a "better evil" in the process of continuing with the call for change he stood for.

It was first John-the-Baptist that came before the Christ. He prepared the way and you and I know it was neither easy for him nor for the Great Son of Our Holly Father (God), in our world. We know the gap between politics and God is an interpretable myth. At one time, and for the short time He was with us, we saw that! They even said he dinned with sinners, drank and ate too much. It is good to take real stock across Malcom X; Dr King, Booker T. Washington, Du Bois and the rest of them, but still appreciate progress made and not let ironies or occasional pitfalls make minds wobble too much at a time the NAVY call for "ALL HANDS ON DECK"!