Comments on: The King Center http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/ Why bother seeing the world for real? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:13:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Karen Peralta http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-187493 Karen Peralta Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:04:11 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-187493 Dear Anybody, Hey, does anyone know what's up with the King Center website? Their main website is awfully flawed, and has been so for quite some time. Their latest annual progress report as published on the website is for 2001-2002, and a great many of their links are dead. I tried writing their information and webmaster emails, and both were returned. I then tried writing their donations email, and it was not returned, but it was never answered. I know Coretta Scott King, the King Center founder, died in 2006, and at least two of their children were supposed to be on the Board of Directors of the King Center, so somebody real should be taking better care of their website. But they aren't. They have more than a dozen dead links and several dead email addresse also. This is not good. Help them, somebody, please. I tried to, and couldn't. Sincerely, Karen Peralta www.rainbowriting.com www.bookauthorswriters.com kcp Dear Anybody,

Hey, does anyone know what’s up with the King Center website? Their main website is awfully flawed, and has been so for quite some time. Their latest annual progress report as published on the website is for 2001-2002, and a great many of their links are dead. I tried writing their information and webmaster emails, and both were returned. I then tried writing their donations email, and it was not returned, but it was never answered.

I know Coretta Scott King, the King Center founder, died in 2006, and at least two of their children were supposed to be on the Board of Directors of the King Center, so somebody real should be taking better care of their website. But they aren’t.

They have more than a dozen dead links and several dead email addresse also. This is not good. Help them, somebody, please. I tried to, and couldn’t.

Sincerely,

Karen Peralta
http://www.rainbowriting.com
http://www.bookauthorswriters.com

kcp

]]> By: Brian http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-115832 Brian Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:03:40 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-115832 Just a little wider angle on that would reveal a fascinating (to me) detail: Ebenezer Baptist Church, the new sanctuary built across the street to replace the crumbling (but still extant) original Ebenezer next to the burial site, was sited so that you can look out its front window directly to the burial site. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=atlanta,+ga&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=33.755775,-84.373257&spn=0.002422,0.005912&t=k&om=1" rel="nofollow">Here's the link in Google Maps</a> Just a little wider angle on that would reveal a fascinating (to me) detail: Ebenezer Baptist Church, the new sanctuary built across the street to replace the crumbling (but still extant) original Ebenezer next to the burial site, was sited so that you can look out its front window directly to the burial site.

Placemark: Here’s the link in Google Maps / Google Earth

]]> By: Tim http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-115712 Tim Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:05:57 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-115712 Um, yeah, Fleudeu, that's supposed to be the joke. :D Um, yeah, Fleudeu, that’s supposed to be the joke. :D

]]> By: randall http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102377 randall Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:48:03 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102377 The national civil rights museum in memphis, TN is where King was killed. http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=450+mulberry+st.&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=29.066668,68.642578&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=35.134477,-90.057713&spn=0.001827,0.00419&t=k&om=1 It was a hotel when he was killed there. The museum is very impressive documenting everything from slaves dying for equal rights to the greensboro sit-ins to the recent marches on washington d.c. For all that are interested in Dr. King's life and the civil rights struggle in america, this museum is a must see The national civil rights museum in memphis, TN is where King was killed.

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

It was a hotel when he was killed there. The museum is very impressive documenting everything from slaves dying for equal rights to the greensboro sit-ins to the recent marches on washington d.c. For all that are interested in Dr. King’s life and the civil rights struggle in america, this museum is a must see

]]> By: Fleudeu http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102371 Fleudeu Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:59:32 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102371 Uh, JFTR: Tim, the steam engine did not come our of america. ;-) Uh, JFTR: Tim, the steam engine did not come our of america. ;-)

]]> By: James http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102367 James Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:44:46 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102367 I've visited the King Center (I'm a Brit). It's in a quite scary area of Atlanta, and I had to walk miles from the tube (MARTA), or perhaps I was just young and stupid, but it's a very impressive site. I’ve visited the King Center (I’m a Brit). It’s in a quite scary area of Atlanta, and I had to walk miles from the tube (MARTA), or perhaps I was just young and stupid, but it’s a very impressive site.

]]> By: Cyre http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102364 Cyre Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:39:47 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102364 This is REALLY Robert E. Lee Day in Alabama!!! This is REALLY Robert E. Lee Day in Alabama!!!

]]> By: Tim http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102363 Tim Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:34:48 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/01/15/the-king-center/#comment-102363 MARTIN LUTHER KING, WOO! Seriously, he's probably the best thing to come out of America since, like, the steam engine. I dunno if I would call the "I Have A Dream" speech the best speech ever, though. It's up there, but King himself has written some better speeches. For example, at Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965: "I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?"...I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because "truth crushed to earth will rise again." How long? Not long, because "no lie can live forever." How long? Not long, because "you shall reap what you sow." How long? Not long." YES, SUH! I also like how he spoke out against the Vietnam War: "We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and the suffering poor in Vietnam. ... I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and dealt death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken." PS I'm just kidding about the steam engine; calm down, ya Brits. MARTIN LUTHER KING, WOO! Seriously, he’s probably the best thing to come out of America since, like, the steam engine.

I dunno if I would call the “I Have A Dream” speech the best speech ever, though. It’s up there, but King himself has written some better speeches. For example, at Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965:

“I know you are asking today, “How long will it take?”…I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because “truth crushed to earth will rise again.” How long? Not long, because “no lie can live forever.” How long? Not long, because “you shall reap what you sow.” How long? Not long.”

YES, SUH! I also like how he spoke out against the Vietnam War:

“We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and the suffering poor in Vietnam. … I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and dealt death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken.”

PS I’m just kidding about the steam engine; calm down, ya Brits.

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