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...earned the right, with his 75th birthday coming up next week, to play the old man in winter and affect an air of elegant fatigue. He could, in presenting his fifth State of the Union address, simply brandish the record of his Administration, then settle in before the fireplace and wait for the world to cheer...
Congratulations! Chris Farley, for your sobering and insightful essay on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday (Crimson, Jan. 22). Undoubtedly, your statements may shock the sensibilities of many, who would rather ignore the racial problems that still remain in this country. Despite the progress that has been made, racism is all too pervasive in the U.S., and the economic and social inequalities that separate Blacks and whites are staggering. Too many Americans, intoxicated with their own self-righteousness, choose to wave their flags in the face of racism and listen to the man (Ronald Reagan) who twists the words...
...birthday party, just a Republican party. "Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all or we are not free," said Dr. King. There's no victory without something won. It doesn't matter if you're allowed into the restaurant if you can't pay for the meal. You can't dream if you can't go to sleep, a victim of supply-side insomnia...
...America is much, much sicker...than I realized when I first began working in 1955," said Dr. King. There are polyps of racism in the soul of America as surely as there are polyps of cancer in the colon of the president. It is not Dr. King's birthday we should observe, but his assassination. It's not how far we've progressed that should be measured but how far back we've been set. Over one-half of Blacks think Reagan is a racist. We want a color-blind society, says Reagan. Color-blind, maybe. But like any creature...
...Happy birthday...