(http://www.saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/page_images/articles/Chido%20Onumah.jpg?1309224913) By Chido Onumah On April 4, 1967, at the height of US involvement in the Vietnam War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” The thrust of the speech, an excoriation of the US government, was the compelling need for America to do something, and urgently too, to stop the atrocities in Vietnam, and bring that inglorious war to an end.