Well, just for historical reference, in Greenwood, Ms. in 1964 at a NSSC rally attended my Dr. King, Stokley Carmicle dropped the "BlacK Power" bomb on Dr. KIng and even though Dr. King had immediate reservations about the term, he ponderd on it worker thru his initial reactions and in his book *Where Do We Go From Here" (1967) here are a few of his thoughts:

"First, it is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment... It is a cry of daily hurt and personal pain. For centuries the Negro has been caught in the tenticles of white power... Black Power is a reaction to the failure of white power.

Second, Balck Power, in its braod and positive meaning, is a call to black people to amass the political and econimic strength to achieve their legitamate goals. No one can deny that the Hegto is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power. Indeed, one of tyhe great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power...

Black power is also a call for the pooling of balck finacial resources to achieve economic security...

Finally, Black Power is a psychological call to manhood. For year the Negro has been taught that he is nobody, that his color is a sign of biological depravity, that his being has been stamped with indelible imprint of inferiority., that his whole history has been soiled with the filth of worthlessness. All too few people realize how slavery and racial segregation have scarred the soil and wounded the spirit of the black man. The whole dirty business of slavery was based on the premise that the Negro was a thing to be used, not a person to be respected..."

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In Dr. KIng's ability to re-examine and to re-think the events of the 60's as they were unfolding, it is MHO that Dr. King has the capacity to stick with the truth on one hand while changing to the times on the other...

Yes, he was initailly shocked at by "Black Power" yet found a way to take the reality that Stokley Carmicle infused into the civil rights movement in Greenwood, Ms... and run with it...

This thread is about rmembering Dr. King and what he meant to the movement and I hope these quotes take I continue to share take the "Day" part out of MLK... It's not *a* day... It's *every* day...

B~