Over the last six months or so, I’ve been thinking a lot about nonviolence, what Ghandi meant by it, and then what King meant by it. I find myself more interested in the shape of the ideas, than the poetry of the speeches. In fact, the melodic tonal qualities of his way of speaking, are kind of hard to listen to. I’ve a much easier time listening to Neil Degrasse Tyson’s cosmos singsong or Obamas halting, carefully chosen one at a time cadence, than the traditional black gospel voice of King.
TL;DR: It not the performances or the written form of his speeches I find important or interesting, it’s the ideas they contain. And expressions of those ideas can’t be copywrited, only expressed. Kind of tragic there hasn’t been more such expression in 50 years time.
