What don't you understand about "Peace"???

(music Video included)

King accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10,1964. This picture should tell you a lot. King is not holdling on to a rifle magnum gun magazine, whatever, like a mentally deranged maniac.

King said, at his award ceremony ..:"I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind." King also said.."I refuse to acccept the idea that ...man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him."

We all make "choices" some good some not so good, but the choice to be about "violence" and promote violence is wrong headed and only leads to more problems.

King: "I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam (a lot of sam in this, okay to smile) in the river of of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him...

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in realilty.

This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Now, let's think about all of this in terms of 2010 and 2011. In the summer, August 2010 folks gathered at the Lincoln Memoral laid claim to MLK's legacy. They said MLK doesn't belong to African American's. That means,that they, the folks talking were not African American's. The problem is not that they were not African American's.

The problems is they were not and don't represent or are not represevatives of King's philosophy of Non-violence.

Here are some quotes given to me in a flier by our local PeaceVigil. Quotes from the Folks,

Expressing their confusion:

I want people"Armed and Dangerous" rep. Michelle Bachmann. "Knockoff Obama" Liz Trotta foxnews. "Get what Kennedy got" fox nation. "We came unarmed This Time." T party sign

"Second American Revolution" Rush Limbaugh. "Kill Michael Moore" Glenn Beck

"Time to Reload" "Fire a Salvo"-Sarah Palin.

It's pretty clear that these "folks" are confused and incompatible with MLK's legacy of Non-Violence.

But I want to offer a little bit of hope for them too. Change. It can happen. It might be noted that Alford Nobel was in his past, I am told an Arms dealer. Can you believe it? Yes, Sarah, there is hope for all of US.

Watch this vidoe and think about it: