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Oval Office rug gets history wrong - via Wa Po
First, all the brouhaha about the administration spending huge sums of money on the Oval Office makeover while the president shagged fairway shots at Martha's Vineyard is unfair and unbalanced. Note well the depressingly deplorable condition of the "room of gloom" before:
But now, hope and change aesthetic ascension!
The circumference of the purported $300K - $500K rug is woven with famous quotes from notable Americans. One moving excerpt reads, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - ascribed to Martin Luther King. The problem is, it was not King's quote. It was penned by one Theodore Parker at the dawn of the Civil War. King used it, and properly attributed it to Parker. (Interesting bio on him in the WaPo article linked.
The veneration of King in our culture is proper and fitting. He was a remarkable human being with an indomitable passion and spirit for truth and justice. He would, I rather suspect, be appalled today - not at the Glen Beck rally at the National Mall, but at the likes of hypocrites like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton claiming to carry his legacy in the form of demagoguery, and racism mandated in law and regulation.
I also suspect that had he known how many streets were to be named after him, he may have preferred the title "Marty King". The challenge of getting "The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr Ave" to fit on a readable street sigh has perplexed modern civilization.
Oval Office rug gets history wrong - via Wa Po
First, all the brouhaha about the administration spending huge sums of money on the Oval Office makeover while the president shagged fairway shots at Martha's Vineyard is unfair and unbalanced. Note well the depressingly deplorable condition of the "room of gloom" before:
But now, hope and change aesthetic ascension!
The circumference of the purported $300K - $500K rug is woven with famous quotes from notable Americans. One moving excerpt reads, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - ascribed to Martin Luther King. The problem is, it was not King's quote. It was penned by one Theodore Parker at the dawn of the Civil War. King used it, and properly attributed it to Parker. (Interesting bio on him in the WaPo article linked.
The veneration of King in our culture is proper and fitting. He was a remarkable human being with an indomitable passion and spirit for truth and justice. He would, I rather suspect, be appalled today - not at the Glen Beck rally at the National Mall, but at the likes of hypocrites like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton claiming to carry his legacy in the form of demagoguery, and racism mandated in law and regulation.
I also suspect that had he known how many streets were to be named after him, he may have preferred the title "Marty King". The challenge of getting "The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr Ave" to fit on a readable street sigh has perplexed modern civilization.
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