Posted on 08/27/2013 11:05:14 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
There were school buses parked for as far as my childhood eyes could see. Dad and I were amongst a sea of mostly black faces. The stage seemed a mile away from us. Black movie star Lena Horn took to the microphone. Her speech of heartily yelling one word drove the crowd wild with delight and applause. "FRREEEDDDOOOOMMMM!!!"
While Dr Martin Luther King, Jr's speech made history, I was extremely impressed that Ms. Horn could simply utter one word and exit the stage leaving the crowd electrified.
We wore commemorative buttons that day. Dad said I told him, "I'm not taking off this button until we get our freedom."
Another thing that resonated in my young impressionable brain was MLK saying something about dreaming of a day when little black boys and girls and little white boys and girls would walk together in love. No, those were not MLK's exact words, but that's the message I took home. It felt good, honorable and right.
Black civil rights movement pioneers such as Jesse Jackson were entrusted with building upon MLK's well-intentioned legacy. Tragically, Jackson along with a majority have been seduced to the dark side (Liberalism).
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A friend called me and said "Hey I think I'm lost. I'm on MLK Jr. Blvd. heading east, what should I do?"
Chris: You're on MLK Jr. Blvd? Run! Run! Run!
Do you not know that the spelling of her name is Lena Horne?
And that she was a communist sympathizer?
“Freedoooommmm!” so that is where Mel Brooks got his Braveheart line from!~
I remember hearing Reagan deliver the line “Do you feel lucky punk?” to James Dean, long before Clint Eastwood delivered it to Samuel L. Jackson.
IMDB doesn't record any such career overlaps for these actors: Jackson's career is not shown as beginning until 1972, a year after the release of "Dirty Harry" where Eastwood delivers the "punk" line and Dean's short time in Hollywood (1951-55) shows multiple TV appearances with a few movies, none of which appear on Reagan's list of TV shows or films.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!
It was a JOKE....and a good one!
They turned from GOD to satan... end of story.
OK, guess it was just too early for me to get that and I took it literally. Oh well...
That wasn’t Samuel L. Jackson, it was Albert Popwell. He was in a number of Clint’s movies.
There was a remarkable episode of G.E. Theater where
James Dean and Ronald Reagan appeared together in a drama called ‘The Dark, Dark Hours’, where Dean played a home intruder and Reagan the father who must protect his family. Here are the highlights from that show broadcast live on CBS Sunday, December 12, 1954.
Dean’s character was threatening the doctor, to have him patch his friend. “That is a .32 caliber bullet. It is very small. I could probably kill you before I would die.
“Do you feel lucky, punk?”
General Electric theatre, 1954.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6419376n
http://www.tvparty.com/movdean.html
And I bet you can find it on Youtube where I watched it.
You are right. Popwell was in all of the dirty harry movies except Dead Pool which he missed due to a scheduling conflict.
“I gots to know!”
Thanks for the info. I thought that might be where they would overlap so I was looking specifically for that type of show in their IMDB listings but either missed it or it isn’t there. Guess Hollywood has a long memory for repeats and re-uses.
OK, a check of IMDB shows it in Dean’s filmography but not in Reagan’s.
I watched it on You Tube.
Reagan seemed to enjoy doing the introduction of young James Dean as a bright young talent. The Doctor played by Reagan was a tightly controlled character, older, wiser. JD was given a wider range, from swaggering, vicious, to outright tears over the death of his friend.
Dean was indeed a bright young talent.
It was a live broadcast at the time, and one of the links was to a CBS report of where it had been rediscovered.
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