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Peace, Propaganda, and the Promisted Land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ~Free-Palestine (https://www.deviantart.com/free-palestine)

So I've had a lot going on lately. In my head. As usual, I don't know really where to begin. So I guess I'll do it like Kid n' Play and go Back to the Basix. I've never been much of a Green Peace Tree Hugging Environmentalist type of leftist. But, honestly, what is more basic than the state of the environment. When I graduated from High School one of the speakers, Rev. Billy Kyles, who was with Dr. King when he was shot, talked about the environment. He pointed out that just ten years ago if you had told him that he would have to buy his water or that there would be days that people with respiration problems would be advised to stay indoors

Every year on the first Monday following 15 January, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, people take their paid day off of work, students take off school, and the white media will publish an obligatory editorial about the life and times of Dr. King. Television news will talk about his contributions in the battle for desegregation in Birmingham (1963), the "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. (1963), the march on Selma (1965), and then, skipping three entire years, his assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Why miss those three years? What did Dr. King do for those three years? I'll tell you. For those three years, Dr. King underto