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June 19, 2013

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MLK events continue this afternoon in DeLand, this week at Stetson
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Coming together — Pastor Melvin Dawson speaks at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast this morning, Jan. 21, at Stetson University. Seated,, from left on the speakers' platform, are Volusia County Chair Jason Davis, Stetson President Wendy Libby, and DeLand Mayor Bob Apgar, who also shared remarks. Following the breakfast, participants will march to Chisholm Community Center in DeLand. Woodland Boulevard will be closed to accommodate the march.

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Talented — Youngsters show off posters they made to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2012. A similar celebration of youth talents is planned today, Jan. 21, at 10:30 a.m. in Chisholm Community Center, 520 S. Clara Ave. in DeLand..

Freedom rider to speak at Stetson University Jan. 22

By Sarahrose Ministeri
BEACON STAFF WRITER

posted Jan 21, 2013 - 10:02:18am

Events to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continue through Jan. 23 in West Volusia.

At 10 a.m., Woodland Boulevard in Downtown DeLand is closed in preparation for a march from Stetson University to Chisholm Community Center. The roadway will reopen in a few hours. Details about the march are below.

Inauguration celebration

Making this a special MLK Day is the fact that President Barack Obama's inauguration also occurs today in the nation's capital.

Although Obama officially took the oath of office for his second term yesterday, the public inauguration is today. From noon to 2 p.m. today at Chisholm Center, 520 S. Clara Ave., the big-screen television will broadcast the swearing-in, and the inaugural parade.

Because Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, was a Sunday this year, the public celebration was moved to Jan. 21. This will be the second time in history that a presidential inauguration and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day have coincided.

The event at Chisholm Center is sponsored by the MLK Planning Committee, Greater Union First Baptist Church, and the Democratic Club of Northwest Volusia County. All are welcome.

Vendors at Chisholm Center will offer hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks, barbecue, T-shirts and more for sale.

"Being aware of where we came from, not forgetting the past, the strength it took us to get here and especially our faith in God are all part of honoring Dr. King's legacy," Arvia Shanell Hall said.

Hall, who graduated from high school in 1990 as Arvia Bruten, is DeLand High School's only African-American valedictorian. She went on to earn an engineering degree and now works in Georgia, where she lives with her family.

Hall was the keynote speaker at the seventh annual Deltona DreamKeepers' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast Jan. 19 at New Hope Baptist Church in Deltona.

Annual breakfast

The celebration began today in DeLand with the annual MLK Jr. Commemorative Breakfast in Stetson University’s Rinker Field House.

After breakfast and speeches, the unity march will proceed from the Stetson campus through Downtown DeLand to Chisholm Community Center at 520 S. Clara Ave. in DeLand, where a youth program starts at 10:30 a.m. The program will feature youngsters displaying various talents.

Spring Hill Boys and Girls Club Director Althea Chavers looks forward to the series of events each year.

"It's inspiring seeing the community come together in a positive manner," Chavers said.

Back on Stetson's campus, the university's Center for Community Engagement is encouraging people to make MLK Day "a day on, not a day off," by helping neighbors through service.

From 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, Stetson students, faculty, staff and alumni will help those in need by volunteering at several locations around West Volusia, including The Neighborhood Center, the Halifax Health Hospice Center, United Cerebral Palsy, the MainStreet DeLand Association and the Chisholm Community Center.

Freedom rider, museum exhibit

Stetson University's celebration of the King legacy will continue through the week with guest speaker and Freedom Rider Dr. Ernest "Rip" Patton coming to campus.

The university will also host guided tours of the Sanofka African American Traveling Museum.

The museum exhibit will be on display 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, and 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in the Stetson Room in the Carlton Union Building.

Patton will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, also in the Stetson Room.

The museum and Patton's talk are free and open to the public. For more information, call Stetson University at 386-822-1400.

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TO cmaglaughlin | posted Jan 22, 2013 - 3:44:55pm
I will pray for you because your life must be very miserable. May God help you to see the light and find healing for your soul. May he help to bring peace and love to you to eradicate all your hatred you have of other people.
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Kevin | posted Jan 22, 2013 - 8:42:41am
cmaglaughlin, you are missing the forest for the trees. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. courageously led a movement to ensure that all people in our country could have equal protection - both under the law and in practice. I admit that I haven't done a great deal of research about the details of his life, but it seems from your statement that much of this is unsubstantiated and/or hearsay ("reported by FBI"), and is a disservice to a person who did more to lift our country out of oppression and inequality than almost any other person in the last hundred years.
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I,C. | posted Jan 21, 2013 - 11:48:56pm
Today was a Good Day. Bless the Pres. and family. God bless the U.S.A..
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Impressed | posted Jan 21, 2013 - 8:47:25pm
@cmaglaughlin - What an interesting post! It has certainly inspired me to do some reading on the matter.

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Linda | posted Jan 21, 2013 - 8:43:44pm
I spent the day with the TV off and saved on my electric bill rather than hear the lies spewing ... He is not my president and I could really care less about MLK- I am not racist - i treat people how they treat me i dont care what color or creed you are.
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Dear cmaglaughlin | posted Jan 21, 2013 - 6:15:10pm
I must say that I enjoyed reading your post. Most people do not care about the truth.
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cmaglaughlin | posted Jan 21, 2013 - 4:32:40pm

His name wasn’t Martin Luther. It was Michael. It was decided by his father ‘Martin Luther’ had a more prominent ring to it, so he went by that. He never legally changed his name. To this day, he lived and died as Michael King. While working on his dissertation for his doctoral degree at Boston University, he heavily plagiarized from another author who had done research on a subject similar to King’s. An academic committee later found that over half of King’s work was plagiarized, yet would not revoke his degree.King was dead by this time, and the committee ruled that revoking the title would serve no purpose. It was also discovered that King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech was also not his own. He stole it from a sermon by Archibald Carey, a popular black preacher in the 1950’s. King was under FBI and Robert Kennedy surveillance for several years (until he died) due to his ties with communist organizations throughout the country. King accepted money from the organizations to fund his movements. In return, King had to appoint communist leaders to run certain districts of his SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), who then could project their communist ideas to larger audiences. A federal judge in the 60’s ruled that the FBI files on King’s links to communism to remain top-secret until 2027. Senator Jesse Helms appealed to the Supreme Court in 1983 to release the files, so the bill in the Senate to create the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday could be abolished. He was denied. One of King’s closest friends, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, wrote a book in 1989 in which he talked about King’s obsession with white prostitutes. King would often use church donations to have drunken sex parties, where he would hire two to three white prostitutes, occasionally beating them brutally. This has also been reported by the FBI agents who monitored King. King was married with four children. Monday is “Martin Luther King” Day. A day when this country comes to a screeching halt so we can have parades and memorials to honor this man, a man that most of the world views as a saint for his role in the civil rights movement .No other public holiday in the United States honors a single individual. Of all the great leaders in our Nation’s history – none of them have their own holiday. All of our great war heroes share Memorial Day. All of our great presidents share President’s Day. Yet King – a man who was a phony, a cheater, a traitor, and a sexual degenerate – gets a day of his own. I have a big problem with that. I’m not trying to take anything away from African Americans, but I am trying to point out that the vast majority of people are sorely mistaken about Michael King, and that reverse discrimination is blatantly obvious everywhere you look today. President Bush once got himself in some hot water when he spoke out against the University of Michigan for giving black applicants precedence over more qualified white applicants. Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, and other black leaders trashed him! Think about that – Bush made a stand for equal human rights, but low and behold – in this case they didn’t want to be treated as equals. Make up your minds. As a white heterosexual male, I feel like I belong to one of the more abused ethnic groups in this country today. Can I do anything about it? Absolutely not. If I dare speak out I’ll get labeled a racist, harassed by the media, subsequently lose my job, and never be able to show my face in public again. But what I will do is enlighten as many people as possible in hopes that when you’re watching the news Monday evening, and you see our politicians falling all over themselves to be filmed in a black church somewhere, you might stop and ask yourself – what about us?Last, but certainly NOT least by a long shot…MLK did not believe in the deity of Christ nor His bodily resurrection! Now, how can you call yourself a “Christian, Reverend”, lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, carry around a Bible, and preach on Christmas and Easter,(on what topic, I’ll never know, among other Sundays) and deny the two most important and vital tenets of Christianity? Definitely the blind leading the deaf, dumb and blind. Don’t believe me? Google search “Martin Luther King on the deity of Christ” Jesus said, “Except you believe that I AM(He-God)you are lost in your sins.” In the book of Revelation, Jesus says, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. the first and the last, and besides me there is NO other.(God). He also said, “If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father also.” So Obama gets sworn in with his hand on a heretic’s Bible, a prayer asks God to bless the GAYS, and the rest will be history, if we last that long.

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