Forgetting our history: Iraq or Viet Nam according to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The National Radio Project has an excellent program called "Making Contact". On December 14, 2005 they aired an excellent show called "Standup, Speak Out: Honoring Human Rights."

The 3 speeches presented by Martin Luther King Jr., Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and Children's Defense Fund President, Marian Wright Edelman offer a sharp critique of the current state of human rights, but Making Contacts presentation of these speech excerpts also offers a hopeful message of individual action.

The half hour is well paced, never lags and presents some surprisingly relevant social commentary, especially from Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful 1967 speech entitled "Beyond Vietnam, a Time to Break Silence".

While the whole show is excellent, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "Beyond Vietnam, a Time to Break Silence" is outstanding, and is as relevant today as it was when he gave it in 1967. It's as if Americans have forgotten their history in as little as 35 years. Listen to King's speech. It will give you shivers, and make you think of the current administration's policy in Iraq as surely as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's for Viet Nam.

Click on the link below which will take you to the Making Contact web site where you can listen on line or down load the show for free.

Link: Standup, Speak Out: Honoring Human Rights.