
Bernice King’s gay-inclusive speech at MLK rally surprises LGBT participants
Via: http://bit.ly/wpxqDw Bernice King took the stage today at Atlanta’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. rally and included gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people among the various groups she said need to come together to fulfill her father’s legacy. In a passionate, sermon-like speech about building unity, King said she didn’t care if people were Hindu,...

On X-Men, Race Relations & The Elephant In The Room
The X-Men comic book franchise started in 1964 as a daring parable: gifted individuals (more engaging/descriptive word?) persecuted for being born “differently” than the rest of the world. These “mutants” had two divergent leaders in Professor X, the MLK stand-in who believed humans and mutants could live together in harmony and Magneto, the Malcolm X radical who...