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POPSNew Obama Indoctrination Song For School Children: THE OBAMA SONG 
We began to write the song after watching the Inauguration. Our school day is packed bell to bell with academics, but were usually able to spend the last five minutes of singing songs as short ELD (English Language Development) activities. Day by day we used this tiny window of time to brainstorm lyrics. As the song took shape, the children became more and more proud of their accomplishment. It soon morphed into a tribute to MLK and others honored for their work towards social justice. By February the song was done. We got requests to come and perform from adjacent classrooms that heard it coming from our room at the end of the day. Their egos boomed. I decided to make it something they'd never forget by producing the video. Nobody forced the children to participate--in fact a few sat it out. When it was finished, they were hoping the President himself would see it and wanted to be able to show it to friends and relatives.
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POPSObama speaks to NAACP, on 100th Anniversary
OMG! In the last two days, after his busy week overseas, the President came back and right away was fighting strong and hard to get a national health care plan for USA citizens (we don't have one). While there are so many doubters, so many critics, and so many opponents and enemies to his presidency he keeps on blasting them away and moving forward. Now, today, he spoke at this 100th Anniversary of one of the USA's most noted black civil rights group. Just that made it an event: the first Afro-American president speaking to the NAACP...and on their 100th anniversary. It was good, for sure...but near the end when he refered to last week being is the Slaver's Fort in Ghana and went on from there (starting with the hypocrisy of a church at the slave fort the slave traders built for themselves) -- and went on to those noted activist who fought and died for black civil rights and got into the whole MLK or M_Ali no holds barred fullness of it all ---- simply mind blowing! Aw
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POPSDo you remember March1st 1968 ???? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was laid to rest, after a life time of service. And a single gun shot took away a farther, minister, leader,No Bell peace Prize winner and a man of God.
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POPSMLK Children Abusing IP Law (Again) To Try To Squeeze Money Out Of Anyone Who Honors Him From Techdirt:: " Of course, this also highlights a fun point for those who pitch the idea that copyright should last forever and descend to the heirs of the content creator. As the ownership gets spread out among younger generations, getting them to agree on anything will be quite unlikely. In any case, it's a sad "legacy" the MLK estate is leaving here, concerning the overly aggressive "protection" of copyrights against those who clearly wish to honor the man's own legacy. "
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POPSGhosts of Democrat Presidents Past Here's the wrap: Clinton did take a stab at redemption, shooting a missile at an aspirin factory—oh, and at an intern named Monica Lewinsky. One missile missed its mark. Thankfully George W. Bush stepped in and re-established America's position on "Don't Mess with Texas," by kicking some Iraqi tail. Bush also told the world that the US is not beholden to anybody when it comes to our sovereignty and protecting our citizens. With all the potential world hot spots looming, is there any sane person who believes Obama to be the right man for the job? I know he was recently battle-tested in Somali with that confrontation...with the four Somali pirates.
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POPSThe Obama Update My Blog is for the Urban, Youth and Minority crowds. It gives a daily update as to what the President, his staff and his administration are up to! Then breaks it down in a way you can understand! With a daily Short synopsis, definitions and of course my colorful commentary!
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POPSSecret anti-terror Bush memos made public by Obama What a cad. The memo was written a month after 9/11. Does anyone remember what life was like THEN? No thoughts on the history of that time? As one writer wrote, "I'm glad my legal rights will still be intact as they identify me by my dental records." No president would ever do such a thing. However, since this seems OK, how about the secrets pertaining to the murder of JFK, the personal life of MLK, the death of Foster, the birth certificate of Obama, etc....?
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POPSMan Arrested for Sending “7/7 Ripple Effect” DVD to Judge Sure that was all set up just like 9/11!! All of this will come out (at least 9-11) 30 - 40 years from now.. Just like anything else they wait till everyone is dead or have forgotten about it as old history news.. Just like the MLK, JFK etc. cases!!!
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POPSCultural Education My daughter's kindergarten class had a party with popcorn and punch as they watched the Inauguration on tv. I was really happy that they let them watch and encouraged them to be excited about our political process. My daughter asked me if we have ever had a woman as President and when I said no, she asked if a woman could be President. Then she wanted to know if she (as a kid) could vote. I don't want to waste an opportunity to encourage her interest. I think her school is doing a good job. Her description of MLK was terrific. "He was a man that changed things to make it fair for everyone."
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POPSHunger,gold& tin war,obama from kenya, M.L.King The day before Barack Obama is sworn in as the United States' first African-American president, his country is celebrating its national holiday for the black civil rights leader, Martin Luther King. Dr King's sister, Christine King Farris spoke to the BBC about her brother and gave her views on Barack Obama's presidency. Barack's bingo-loving stepmother, Kezia Obama lives in a council house in Berkshire & was once married to Obama's late Kenyan-born father, Barack Senior. Her children mostly live in Kenya, the place where she first met the man who is now one of the most important people in the world. Will the african children have food now, or just an ongoing gold war? its family now.
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POPSKing's Anti-Imperialism and the Challenge for Obama Obama's plan to order the beginning of a withdrawal from Iraq on day one of his administration is consistent with the anticolonialism of the King tradition and of Obama's own autobiography. But the dark clouds over the Obama administration are Afghanistan and Palestine. What Obama accomplishes on those two issues will powerfully shape his presidency. Only if he can avoid perpetuating colonial abuses in both can he hope to claim the mantle of anticolonialism from King and from his own father. For the Bush administration assiduously robbed other human beings of their status as images of the divine, and the US will not be whole until Afghans and Palestinians can say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at Last, Free at Last, Great God Almighty, I'm Free at Last."
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POPSI'm sorry, Obama is no Lincoln
While I don't agree with much in the article, I do agree with what I clipped. Obama and the the American people need to go back and read the real history of the War Between the States and Lincoln's premise. Free the slave----not free the slaves----his commitment was to preserve the Union of the United States. For that he is well commended. Trying to lay claim to one aspect of Lincoln's criteria is deceptive when ignoring the rest. At least, honestly, clarify those aspects of the personality that he is exulting. By hey!! Lincoln and Washington are now lumped together on "President's Day" while MLK, who was no President or unilaterally exulted, is given a State holiday observance. So perhaps Obama should have chosen the more poignant and politically correct mentor. Lincoln was a great man and President, but time/history have sorted out and pick and chose those things to be remembered. I greatly admire his humility, his personal fortitude, his powerful will and values. He
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POPSMLK Schedule NOTE: FOR INFORMATION ON ALL EVENTS EXCEPT THOSE WITH A CONTACT NAME AND NUMBER, YOU CAN CALL 404-584-0303 OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE @ www.mlkmarchaaar.org.
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POPSCrowds Mob White House, Time Square, Chicago, MLK's Church, Streets When I saw the TV spot of a mob surrounding a car on the street I had the thought/memory of some riot, the mob shaking the car, overturning it, pulling out the driver and beating them (the past). What was going on? -- The woman in the car came upon the cheering crowd, her own joy exploded, she stopped the car, got out, started singing -- the crowd gathered around her and all sang on the street. Thousand spontaneously streamed to the White House, waved flags, pressed against the gates and lustily chanted: "Yes, we can! Yes, we can!" NOBODY alive has every seen anything like this. MLK's church in Georgia - thousands gathered inside and when the news of victory was announced a chanting a roar went up so strong is could have blown off the roof. Sort of like a World Cup Victory Celebration --- except that is was 4828 kilometers long. (or something like that) P.S. This slideshow on this page, 38 pics, is my favorite. Jubilation is what it was, and I've never used that wo
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POPSMartin Luther King Jr: "I Have A Dream" Speech given on August 28, 1963. (Full version.) I saw Jesse Jackson crying and his tears made me think of this speech. I can only imagine what MLK would have said and felt, had he been alive today. Let freedom ring. .:) If you're in a rush, here's a shorter version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWTKZLKWYHE
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POPSQuote of the Day heard on NPR Just caught a bit of Ira Glass on This American Life who played a piece of tape of a son of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy talking about his father's speech the night MLK was assasinated.
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POPSall they have is fear... "All they have left is Fear. Hate. Racism. They had Stupidity all along. Don't be surprised if, like JFK, MLK, or Bobby Kennedy, some idiot goes after Obama. That's all John McCain has to hope for. And don't be surprised if the terrorism alert level is raised, and a domestic attack comes out of nowhere. That's all John McCain has to hope for." OUR COUNTRY IS BETTER THAN THIS.
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