Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens Seen High Above From Airline Seat - NYC Up Close With U2

The Twitterverse shows us Roosevelt Island from an airline seat high above NYC.

Quicker than a ray of light she's flying #manhattan #latergram #eastriver #rooseveltisland https://t.co/z51YvGf6us

— Shakthi J (@ShakthiJ) December 3, 2015

Quicker than a ray of light she's flying #manhattan #latergram #eastriver #rooseveltisland

A photo posted by Shakthi J. (@shakthij) on Dec 2, 2015 at 6:29pm PST

And U2 shows us NYC



up close and in song.

A Roosevelt Islander's Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Image from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.com

The third Monday in January has been designated as a Federal holiday in honor of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was born January 15, 1929 and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

An excerpt from his 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail".

...An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

Let me give another explanation. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically elected? Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered. Can any law enacted under such circumstances be considered democratically structured?

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in it's application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.

Here is audio of the Birmingham letter.

Pride (In The Name of Love) is U2's Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky.
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride.

In the name of love
What more in the name of love.
In the name of love
What more in the name of love.

A You Tube video of U2's Pride interlaced with a slide show of Dr. King's speeches and news clips.

Good to be Back in New York, New York with U2

I was out of town all last week finally returning on Friday night. Whenever I am away for more than a couple of days, even if I am having a good time, I start missing the streets, noise, sites and smells of New York City. That is why I love this song that captures the spirit, vitality and essence of NY as only they can. U2 does New York at Irving Plaza in 2000.
You Tube video link is here.