If MLK were alive today the rightwingers would call his a race hustler

[High_Gravity]

The MLK that's never quoted - YouTube


That King above would scare the hell out of whites today.

I'd Dr. King over Al and Jesse any day of the week.

To me it doesn't matter, anyone who is doing the right thing for the people I'm for them, but I'm more of a Malcolm X-Fred Hampton type, but I love a lot of what King stood for and its a shame that most people don't because they think he was a docile man. Sharpton and Jackson have their faults, but I'm not against them.

I am a big Frederick Douglass fan.

 

[Bass v 2.0]

The MLK that's never quoted - YouTube


That King above would scare the hell out of whites today.

I'd Dr. King over Al and Jesse any day of the week.

To me it doesn't matter, anyone who is doing the right thing for the people I'm for them, but I'm more of a Malcolm X-Fred Hampton type, but I love a lot of what King stood for and its a shame that most people don't because they think he was a docile man. Sharpton and Jackson have their faults, but I'm not against them.

I am a big Frederick Douglass fan.

I don't read much on him, I'll check up. I like the militance because people will take notice of that.

 

[High_Gravity]

The MLK that's never quoted - YouTube


That King above would scare the hell out of whites today.



To me it doesn't matter, anyone who is doing the right thing for the people I'm for them, but I'm more of a Malcolm X-Fred Hampton type, but I love a lot of what King stood for and its a shame that most people don't because they think he was a docile man. Sharpton and Jackson have their faults, but I'm not against them.

I am a big Frederick Douglass fan.

I don't read much on him, I'll check up. I like the militance because people will take notice of that.

Frederick Douglass got into a fist fight with a couple of his slave owners, I read his auto biography very good book.

 

[Sky Dancer]

If MLK were alive today, the right wing would assassinate him again.

 

[Bass v 2.0]

I am a big Frederick Douglass fan.

I don't read much on him, I'll check up. I like the militance because people will take notice of that.

Frederick Douglass got into a fist fight with a couple of his slave owners, I read his auto biography very good book.

I will read up on him, worth checking out, a lot of blacks were more "radical" than what some people believe.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

I don't think we can really make a comparison. The US was a lot more racist in the 1960s than it is now.

That is true.

Its like comparing apples and oranges.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

The MLK that's never quoted - YouTube


That King above would scare the hell out of whites today.

I'd Dr. King over Al and Jesse any day of the week.

To me it doesn't matter, anyone who is doing the right thing for the people I'm for them, but I'm more of a Malcolm X-Fred Hampton type, but I love a lot of what King stood for and its a shame that most people don't because they think he was a docile man. Sharpton and Jackson have their faults, but I'm not against them.

What was scary about that?

Im white and have no issue with what he said, especially considering the context of the racial conditions in the country when he said it.

He actually just motivated me to stand taller on my convictions and to be proud of them regardless of what some ignorant people might think and say.

 

[High_Gravity]

I don't read much on him, I'll check up. I like the militance because people will take notice of that.

Frederick Douglass got into a fist fight with a couple of his slave owners, I read his auto biography very good book.

I will read up on him, worth checking out, a lot of blacks were more "radical" than what some people believe.

Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Biography - Biography.com

 

[Bass v 2.0]

I don't think we can really make a comparison. The US was a lot more racist in the 1960s than it is now.

That is true.

Its like comparing apples and oranges.

The only real big difference is that there's a much larger black middle class, the same racist stereotypes, poverty, ghettos, joblessness, police brutality still exists today as it did back then.

 

[Bass v 2.0]

The MLK that's never quoted - YouTube


That King above would scare the hell out of whites today.

I'd Dr. King over Al and Jesse any day of the week.

To me it doesn't matter, anyone who is doing the right thing for the people I'm for them, but I'm more of a Malcolm X-Fred Hampton type, but I love a lot of what King stood for and its a shame that most people don't because they think he was a docile man. Sharpton and Jackson have their faults, but I'm not against them.

What was scary about that?

Im white and have no issue with what he said, especially considering the context of the racial conditions in the country when he said it.

He actually just motivated me to stand taller on my convictions and to be proud of them regardless of what some ignorant people might think and say.

Well maybe you wouldn't but to a lot of whites, that kind of speech would scare them. Of course this is MLK saying this and since the media has watered him down since his death he doesn't seem scary, but let Malcolm X say that and then there's fear.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You mean if LBJ didn't have "That ****** preacher" whacked?

 

[High_Gravity]

I don't think we can really make a comparison. The US was a lot more racist in the 1960s than it is now.

That is true.

Its like comparing apples and oranges.

The only real big difference is that there's a much larger black middle class, the same racist stereotypes, poverty, ghettos, joblessness, police brutality still exists today as it did back then.

I think more white people are open minded now, back than if me or you moved into a white neighborhood we would be harassed, attacked and have crosses burned in our yards on a daily basis, my parents marriage would not even be recognized.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Barry44 has inverted MLK's principles. True classical liberals (which include almost no American liberals or conservatives today) agree with MLK, not Barry44's wierd interp.

fine classic liberals rule, todays liberals suck...deal?

todays conservatives are largely against affirmative action...Todays liberals are largly in favor of afirmative action....Do you think MLK would be in favor of affirmative action??

I know he would be in favor of individual American affirmation. What do you think?

I believe the Hard Right is certainly not classically liberal, anymore than today's Hard Left.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

The MLK that's never quoted - YouTube


That King above would scare the hell out of whites today.



To me it doesn't matter, anyone who is doing the right thing for the people I'm for them, but I'm more of a Malcolm X-Fred Hampton type, but I love a lot of what King stood for and its a shame that most people don't because they think he was a docile man. Sharpton and Jackson have their faults, but I'm not against them.

What was scary about that?

Im white and have no issue with what he said, especially considering the context of the racial conditions in the country when he said it.

He actually just motivated me to stand taller on my convictions and to be proud of them regardless of what some ignorant people might think and say.

Well maybe you wouldn't but to a lot of whites, that kind of speech would scare them. Of course this is MLK saying this and since the media has watered him down since his death he doesn't seem scary, but let Malcolm X say that and then there's fear.

Well if anyone white is scared by those comments then they really need to take some time to reflect.....that was a great speech!

And yeah check out Frederick Douglas...another great black man from history. I think of a few quotes of his during tough times to get me through. "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

 

[Bass v 2.0]

I agree with the OP, King would be called a race hustler today and would be attacked as a socialist, Marxist, Communist etc, just as he was when he was alive by rightwingers like the ones today, nothing they're saying is new today.

 

[rightwinger]

Jackson and Sharpton do a lot of things that King did in the civil rights movement, maybe not 100% but nevertheless they did some very similar things. Today, any African Americans who stands up against racism against minorities and doesn't fall within the rightwing spectrum politically is called a race hustler. When Larry Elder makes a book called "Stupid Black Men and how to play the race card" the rightwingers don't see that as "race hustling" since Elder is a black rightwinger, if Jackson or Sharpton criticizes racism they're race hustlers. King, with his record of fighting against racism would be called a race hustler by today's rightwingers.

That's better than what they used to call him when he was alive. They used to call him a Communist, Un American, racist...

Kinda like what they call Obama

 

[Bass v 2.0]

That is true.

Its like comparing apples and oranges.

The only real big difference is that there's a much larger black middle class, the same racist stereotypes, poverty, ghettos, joblessness, police brutality still exists today as it did back then.

I think more white people are open minded now, back than if me or you moved into a white neighborhood we would be harassed, attacked and have crosses burned in our yards on a daily basis, my parents marriage would not even be recognized.

There's been a small measure of "progress," kind of like what Malcolm X said, when a 12 inch knife is pulled out only 6 inches the knife isn't as deep but still there and even if it was yanked out its going to leave a scar. I know black people today who have bought homes in affluent neighborhood full of whites who have had police pull up to their house to ask them what are they doing in that neighborhood or the people in that neighborhood have called police on them to report "suspicious" people in their neighborhood, there's a lot of work that needs to be done.

 

[High_Gravity]

The only real big difference is that there's a much larger black middle class, the same racist stereotypes, poverty, ghettos, joblessness, police brutality still exists today as it did back then.

I think more white people are open minded now, back than if me or you moved into a white neighborhood we would be harassed, attacked and have crosses burned in our yards on a daily basis, my parents marriage would not even be recognized.

There's been a small measure of "progress," kind of like what Malcolm X said, when a 12 inch knife is pulled out only 6 inches the knife isn't as deep but still there and even if it was yanked out its going to leave a scar. I know black people today who have bought homes in affluent neighborhood full of whites who have had police pull up to their house to ask them what are they doing in that neighborhood or the people in that neighborhood have called police on them to report "suspicious" people in their neighborhood, there's a lot of work that needs to be done.

Oh I agree 100%, we are not there yet and there is alot of work that needs to be done however I am sure things are definently better now than they were in the 1960s.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Jackson and Sharpton do a lot of things that King did in the civil rights movement, maybe not 100% but nevertheless they did some very similar things. Today, any African Americans who stands up against racism against minorities and doesn't fall within the rightwing spectrum politically is called a race hustler. When Larry Elder makes a book called "Stupid Black Men and how to play the race card" the rightwingers don't see that as "race hustling" since Elder is a black rightwinger, if Jackson or Sharpton criticizes racism they're race hustlers. King, with his record of fighting against racism would be called a race hustler by today's rightwingers.

That's better than what they used to call him when he was alive. They used to call him a Communist, Un American, racist...

Kinda like what they call Obama

Go query what Strom Thurmond use to call MLK. Or J. Edgar Hoover. Or . . .

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Jackson and Sharpton do a lot of things that King did in the civil rights movement, maybe not 100% but nevertheless they did some very similar things. Today, any African Americans who stands up against racism against minorities and doesn't fall within the rightwing spectrum politically is called a race hustler. When Larry Elder makes a book called "Stupid Black Men and how to play the race card" the rightwingers don't see that as "race hustling" since Elder is a black rightwinger, if Jackson or Sharpton criticizes racism they're race hustlers. King, with his record of fighting against racism would be called a race hustler by today's rightwingers.

That's better than what they used to call him when he was alive. They used to call him a Communist, Un American, racist...

Kinda like what they call Obama

Go query what Strom Thurmond use to call MLK. Or J. Edgar Hoover. Or . . .

Before he had him and Malcolm X assassinated LBJ called MLK 'that ****** preacher"