There's a new show that's pushing the envelope between satire and bad taste. A show that is till one of my favorites (At least till it gets cancelled...). It's called "The Boondocks" which is a term refering to the country/rural area. It's a cartoon, based on a newspaper comic strip, it's the opening show of Sunday Night's "Adult Swim" Late Night block of adult-oriented cartoons (Just like my "Cowboy Bebop"). This week's episode, timely aired around the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday has a "what-if" scenario (Probably a Dream Sequence) in which King survived the attempt on his life in Memphis and slips into a coma for 31 years.
To top that, I watch the season premiere of "24" (I apologize for revealing spoilers to anyone who missed it...) and in the first 20 minutes (I guess), Dennis Haysbert who plays the former president of the United States gets killed VERY simular to the assasination Dr. King.
I don't know what is it about this holiday...it gets just the amount of respect as a parade on Veteran's Day in November. But aside from that why is TV paying no respect to the memory of this fallen civil rights leader? Someone should look into this...
It's not right.
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At 7:56 AM,
kimmyk said…
i'll be honest-i know nothing of how dr king died.
that's my own fault i agree...and since you've brought this to my attn. i shall google him and what all that was about.
it's not that i dont care-its just ive never taken the time to know....
At 8:19 AM,
kimmyk said…
Ok, I'm back....I didn't know he did all those things-and I didn't know he came to Rosa Parks aid. Very interesting life. When we lived in Georgia we went to Atlanta a few times there was this street i think it was martin luther king jr parkway or something-now it makes sense.
wonder why if he died in april they celebrate his life in january?
and another thing i learned while reading-i thought the 40's, 50's were when racially motivated crimes took place...i thought by the 60's it had all subsided-seems it was the 60's when everything happened. (or seemed to happen) sheesh! i just got my history education.
i read it all here-
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm
did you read any of his books? seems he published one a year...wonder how he found the time?!
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