The man said all that, talking of injustices beyond racism, J. Edgar Hoover spied on him and his private life, and he was shot. Shot dead in his prime. With his message delivered in part, not in its entirety. Not universally. He persevered until then.
Now that he's dead, he has his day set aside. Hypocrisy and mendacity go hand in hand, and it is more important to realize that injustices of all kinds were part of his agenda and still exist as strong as ever, than to welcome the day off, where given.
When you are presented with a two-party choice for Congress between Michele Bachmann and Elwyn Tinklenberg then both parties are depreciating your vote to practical nothingness, and that giant triad, "racism, materialism and militarism," really are present and likely to remain so with little likelihood or lessening on all three legs when one's vote is so cheapened. It is not a matter of pure absolutes, or ideology, but of probabilities - it being more probable you will have a voice heard if you own a chain of newspapers and a network, as Rupert Murdoch does. And that's so, here in America, and regardless of whether he has a vote or is a citizen of another nation, voting there.
You got a vote. Be happy. You're told that frequently.
You have as much a voting right as Nasser Kazeminy. Smile, warm and fuzzy over that truth of politics and power in the twenty-first century. You are so very empowered.
We have been promised change. We will see what unfolds.