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JULIAN BOND DELIVERS MARTIN LUTHER KING ADDRESSCivil rights pioneer Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was on campus in January to deliver the University's inaugural Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Address. The author, commentator, and former legislator who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, now teaches at American University and the University of Virginia. In his address, Bond pointed out that popular culture has given us an unrealistic view of heroes like King and that we tend to honor him more for his commanding presence and baritone cadences than for many of the things he stood for. Likely to be overlooked, Bond said, was King as the critic of the evils of capitalism and as the pacifist "who equated apartheid in South Africa and South Alabama." People who like to quote King's "I Have a Dream" speech, he concluded, tend to forget that it is "a dream that remains a dream today."
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