Comments on: quiet griot: mumbled musing

By: Kevin Spinks

Kevin Spinks — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:00:43 +0000

Read your article in cycling news great stuff. Then read some of your
blogs. I just finished reading a Biography of Dr King written by his wife . The man had incredible wisdom and courage . America is in dire need of real leadership and vision . I got to ride my bike just so I don’t lose my mind. Taske care Kevin.

By: fred dintenfass

fred dintenfass — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:01:39 +0000

Thanks for reading! It gets very little attention but I think it’s an amazing speech. I downloaded a bunch of MLK and Malcolm X speeches a few years back and was struck then by what an amazing piece of work it is. What’s also interesting to me about it is that King was absolutely reviled for it — the New York Times panned it and criticized him pretty harshly and he kind of fell out of favor with a lot of the political connections he’d made. Exactly (give or take, I think, one day) one year later he was dead and we stayed in Vietnam for a whole bunch more years.

By: PH

PH — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:42:22 +0000

I have never heard of “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” until today.