Art & Design – Audio by Robert F. Kennedy introduces John Lennon's song, "Love," which provides the soundscape for this dramatic Spadecaller video presentation regarding the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Accompanying the photos and artwork of Spadecaller are paintings by Paul Gaughin and Leonardo Da Vinci.
Thanks Spade. A very meaningful video as we approach the 40 year anniversary of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. It is still hard to comprehend to this day that Dr. King and Sen. Kennedy were gunned down only within a couple months of each other.
A very difficult time for our country. May both to include John Lennon continue to rest in peace.
Excellent, the paintings and the choregraph was very nice! Thanks Spadecaller!
If only everyone could feel other peoples pain, then and only then, would everyone change.
texangel, that is such a huge and important point you make in your second line; if only we were able to feel, even for just an instant, the real pain of another, wouldn't all intentional hurting gradually cease?
Beautiful work again Spade, and of timeless relevance. For those old enough to remember the dreadful news of those assassinations, it really does not seem four decades past.
Goose bumps literally ran up and down my body all the way from my tail bone up my spine to my head and back again. When have I been so inspired with emotion? It has been so long. The evil of assassines has taken away so many influential people in our country. How long must we endure? So many brave young souls have gone by the way of the bullet. Their crime? They offered hope instead of despair, love instead of hate, compassion instead of revenge, peace instead of violence.
Has anything really changed? Our choices in this country today remain the same. I can see a young man on the horizon that offers hope instead of despair, love instead of hate, compassion instead of revenge, and peace instead of violence. His name is Barack Hussein Obama. How shall we receive this man? What shall history tell us? Who shall pledge their lives to protect this one from the evil of assassines, be they assassines of bullets or words, or shall history repeat itself?
ML
For me, you hit the nail on the head. That is exactly what motivated me to make this video. I left Obama out of the clip, because I didn't want the message thwarted by pettiness and partisan bias. Your sentiments are the same as my own, ML. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe our role, spadecaller, is to be vigilant to the horrible possibilities out there that may end in another tragedy. Certainly, you are being vigilant in making us aware of the possibilities, and I hope I am being vigilant in the war on words, but I am afraid it will have to be just more than these two venues as their is still so much hate and evil in this world. I hope all out there reading and listening to these threads will realize it is they, too, who need to be vigilant if we are to overcome this evil. It may be someone who physically watches over our leaders, or notices something afoul and reports it to authorities. Whatever it is, we must always be vigilant.
ML2007 - Your comment on vigilance is so true (IMHO). If just one person had been just a tad more observant, how different the world today could have been...
Said vigilance applies to all things in life, from politicians to finance. It's easy these days for those who SAY they didn't know to be caught out, so there's no real excuse for them to get away with it........
That speech is one of the most important times in American history, when news that MKL had been shot reached Indianapolis. I believe one of the only cities that didn't riot that night was Indianapolis...
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/rfk.htm
"Ladies and Gentlemen - I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening. Because...
I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.
For those of you who are black - considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible - you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge. "
"We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.
But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times. "
"My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."
"So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, yeah that's true, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love - a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land. "
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
...Langston Hughes -
(Who sums it up as pertaining to your wonderful video Spade, thanx!)
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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." Aeschyus
May we cherish their message of love... and spread it to others. Hope you enjoy the video.