August 2011
34 posts
“It is one of the great ironies of history: While King spent the last year of his life vilified by much of the liberal political establishment and alienated from many allies in the civil rights movement, he has become a symbol of tolerance and accommodation. King’s most prophetic utterances about American militarism, foreign wars and economic exploitation have been whittled down to bumper sticker-sized banalities over the years. We’ve become so fixated on MLK’s “dream” rhetoric — at the expense of the hell-raising that was once an integral part of his witness — that his words no longer pose the threat that they once did.”
—MLK Gets Set in Stone, but the Man Is Missing (via azspot)
Worth more than 10X all the child support paid last Year
”total U.S. child support collections in Federal fiscal year 2006 totaled $23.9 billion, $11 billion of which was paid to families who have never been recipients of public assistance.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_support_by_country
