Bravo Emptywheel
by digby
Emptywheel has written a great MLK piece, using his own words to analyze President Obama's speech on Friday. It concludes with this:
How ironic, how prescient, that King spoke of our arrogance breaking the backbone of our power. Not only does it threaten to break the ideological backbone of our hegemony — replacing our liberties with our policing — but it quite literally threatens to balkanize the communication backbone we’ve exploited to become that policeman.
President Obama seems to understand what a crisis this poses to our leadership. He does not, yet, understand that that leadership was not supposed to be policing the world.
Now click over and read the whole thing. It's short and to the point.
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