It's hard to find RX's mp3s on the web - but in case you're looking I posted a bunch (with RX's explicit permission) at this site: http://www.corkinthewater.com/blog/download-music-by-rx/

MLK was a socialist, so why do you have reagan with all that shit about 'making our own decisions' i.e. let's let the corporations do what ever they want and steal the rug out from underneath popular struggle before it even has a chance to breathe. Martin knew it, Reagan sold us out.

Matthe, I believe that the very points you make were actually made in that video with the comparisons between the freedom sought by King had little connection to the kind of 'freedom' Goldwater and Reagan wanted to defend.

the irony is that vehemence with which people attack religion and christianity here, but people forget that it was MLK's faith that drove him and sustained him.

I'm not a christian myself, but people have to remember that the majority of christians are not crazy right-wing nut-jobs. You can't toss out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak...

Wonderful video, and as suggested by Matt L and Thomas MCKay, a great contrast of freedom.

Is MLK correct? Is true freedom found in social equality, i.e. the Civil Rights Act of '64?

Are Goldwater and Reagan correct? Does the Government's interference under the CRA challenge the founders' ideals of freedom, including (perhaps) the freedom to be an ignorant bigot?

The following election, in which LBJ beat the snot out of Goldwater, marked an important shift in American politics. A generation later, the most wealthy and powerful woman on Earth happens to be black (Oprah), while others sit on rooftops desperate for aid, too poor to escape to safety (Katrina).

Have we achieved MLK's dream? What would MLK think of Ludacris, BET and Sean John if he were alive today? What would he think about Oprah? Dafur? Katrina? Barrack Obama?

I'm heartened and I'm sure Rx is as well that at least some see the point. I think he said something like I'll probably just piss off both sides with this one.

Iva, you make a good point. Many people driven by religious faith have done great things. The early civil rights movement, and King's theology was pretty much in line with what was mainstream American Christianity at the time.

But things have changed quite a bit since that time. Mainstream Christianity in the states has altered. The right wing mega Churches, the people that were once considered extreemist by most Christians, are now the mainstream in America.

You hear very little from MLK type Christians any more but the new mainstream, the new right wing political Christianity never shuts up. That is the variety that is attempting to remake America and the world in their own image, using 'God' as an excuse fro their greed and power lust.

Not all Christians fit that mold, I've know many that do not but the majority? I don't know. The ones you mostly hear from, the ones in the news, the ones with direct ties to political power and corporate money are the ones the rest of us are so disgusted by.

The nut jobs appear to be the majority now. If not in sheer numbers, certainly in their effect on the country and contemporary American theology.

Does Arizona still oppose MLK day? Seems pretty clear the contrasting visions of freedom being presented. But, I think the wonderful irony presented here is the hypocrisy of the Kennedy brothers who endorsed the FBI surveillance of MLK.

its about social responsibility. MLK urged people to take account of thier lives and to do what is right, not what is convinient. Malcom X did much the same, but was less willing to allow people to stay on the middle road, he asked people to choose a side. In many ways Regan also represents freedom, but rather than MLK and malcom X's social freedom, Regan wanted economic freedom. economic freedom means equal opportunity, but not equal outcomes. People decy corporations, but they forget that it is these very corporations that make modern life possible. without them life would be very different, and not necessarily for the better.

Now I'm not a native English speaker, but wouldn't that be: 'Let freedom REIGN'?

Or is it a pun I'm not getting...

Oops, it is 'ring'. Must have misheard for 30 years.

My bad...