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"My daddy, Rev. A.D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior -- we are a family of faith, hope and love. And that's why I'm here today," Dr. Alveda King said. "Glenn says there is one human race, I agree with him. We are not here to divide. I'm about unity. That's why I'm here, and I want to honor my uncle today." Earlier on that day she had also appeared on Good Morning America and made the following statement. "I'm joining Glenn to talk about faith, hope, charity, honor. Those are things that America needs to reclaim. Our children need to remember to love each other how to honor each other, their parents, God and their neighbors. I agree with Glenn on all of those principles. So that's why I'm here. For me it's principles over politics."

And so Dr. Alveda King stood before Glenn Becks rally on the anniversary of her uncles "I have a dream" speech with Glenn Beck by her side before his teabagger supporters about faith, hope, charity, honor and unity. But is that what Glenn Beck and his teabagger following about? Martin Luther King Jr, her uncle, made social justice the theme of his mission. He spoke up for the oppressed. By contrast, Glenn Beck spoke out against this thing called social justice and advised his followers to flee from any church that would preach this and that social justice were code words for Marxism. An organization as ACORN, dedicated to helping the very people that Martin Luther championed, was unjustly smeared, demonized and ultimately destroyed by Beck and the unfair and unbalanced Fox fake news for which he works. Now one is left asking, does she not see the disconnect between her uncle's preaching and that of Beck's? Does she also believe like many of Beck's wacky wonky wingnut peers that her Uncle was also a Marxist? And furthermore, did she not notice that she alone represented her family at Beck's rally?

But perhaps she belongs with Beck and his wacky wonky wingnut friends. She has for all practical purposes joined them with her absurd comments on gays and lesbians, which is as follows;

"It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage."

What is wrong with this picture, other than the fact no statistical evidence was ever presented in which proves that the sacred institution of marriage is endangered? Insofar as genocide is being threatened for all of humanity by the presence of homosexuals, then why is the population of the world growing as rapidly as it is. If anything, these sexual outcasts do not add to the population boom in a world in which is unable to provide the adequate resources for the children who already come into it. Ms. King, you fail to honor your uncle by being at Beck's rally. If anything, you have made mockery of his memory and have dishonored him. He would have been ashamed of you.

Sounds of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

Postscripts- 1 September 2010

To Tom Kovach , a GOP candidate for Secretary of State of Kansas,

To Steven Colbert of the Colbert Report,

Thanks Colbert, you have inspired me. Recently you have declared that if the Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he was not an human-turtle hybrid, you would take him at his word. Naturally this was in response to McConnell saying that he would take President Obama's word that he is not a Muslim, which was really lame of him.