For those who are convinced that our choice is between theocracy and progressivism, a small bit of history for you to consider:<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, December 13 [1961], Slater King, who had been elected vice president of the newly formed Albany Movement, led 200 protestors to city hall. At the courthouse steps they stopped to pray for the students’ release. As SNCC had hoped, people were drawing on their own strengths, notably their passionate religious commitment, to rally under the civil rights banner. By the end of the march, Slater King and his 200 marchers were on their way to jail. Police Chief Laurie Pritchett arrested them for parading without a permit. “We can’t tolerate the NAACP or SNCC or any other nigger organization [taking] over this town with mass demonstrations,” Pritchett said in a news conference.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
By mid-December, Chief Pritchett and his officers had arrested more than 500 demonstrators. Albany’s mayor, Asa Kelly, agreed to negotiate the possible integration of the bus and train stations as well as conditions for the release of the prisoners now packing city jails.<\/p>\n
The Albany Movement had not anticipated so many arrests, especially of homemakers, cooks, maids, and laborers. Recognizing the need for outside help, movement president William Anderson decided to call an old college classmate in Atlanta – Martin Luther King, Jr. He asked the minister to come to Albany and speak at a movement rally.<\/p>\n
That Friday night, the Shiloh Baptist Church overflowed with people who had come to hear Rev. King. Loudspeakers were set up outside for those who couldn’t get in. “I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom,” they sang. “Martin Luther King says freedom-Let the white man say freedom.”<\/p>\n
“Eyes On The Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954 – 1965” p 168<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Let me toss out an idea: the issue isn’t so much the content<\/b> of the values; the issue is how they are framed within the context of the larger values held by many in America.<\/p>\n
I believe that the progressive values I’m most interested in – environmental stewardship, equality, tolerance, a government standing up for the less powerful – can be framed within the values of community, family, home that I believe are central to many who voted against Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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