Coincidentally, I was browsing around You Tube earlier this week, and eventually got to Mavis Staples singing Eyes on the Prize, which never ceases to astound me, and the entire Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech, which does likewise.
By the way, it's not particularly long--less than twenty minutes--and well worth listening to...
Anyway, I can't help but contrast the inspiring, hopeful rhetoric of Reverend King's dream with it's lineal opposite: the literally perverse, ugly, straight from the sewer toxins spewed from the piehole of Rush Lamebone over the past few days. It seems as if Rush has a dream, too, but it's so disgusting that one of his own dittoheads called him on it.
Hoping--or, as he spat it out, "dreaming"--for/of a "riot" is disgusting beyond the pale. Oh, but I'm sure Lamebone will insist it was all a joke, but that's actually about as funny as joking that Tiger Woods should be lynched...or laughing about people drowning in New Orleans because of the flood.
That said, I think Lamebone DOES manage to inform us of one thing--that he, and those who think like him, really DON'T get the concept of civil society.
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