If you blacks would just listen to Dr. King!

[IM2]

That's a song we hear sung often at USMB.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

We did listen to Dr. King.

And it's time to give us our check.

 

[Oddball]

 

[Asclepias]

That's a song we hear sung often at USMB.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

We did listen to Dr. King.

And it's time to give us our check.

Hey but to hear some of these clowns tell it, MLK was a staunch republican.

 

[IM2]

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"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

He did say it.

 

[harmonica]

God bless America

 

[Godboy]

That's a song we hear sung often at USMB.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

We did listen to Dr. King.

And it's time to give us our check.

Oh, if he said that, nevermind. We arent giving you money. Go get a job you lazy bum.

 

[Godboy]

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"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

He did say it.

He shouldnt have. It makes him look weak when he holds his hand out like a beggar. I think less of him, now that youve shown me this.

 

[MarcATL]

MLK was a bonafide socialist.

 

[IM2]

That's a song we hear sung often at USMB.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

We did listen to Dr. King.

And it's time to give us our check.

Oh, if he said that, nevermind. We arent giving you money. Go get a job you lazy bum.

After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor.

You owe us money. And you owed us the money for all 43 years I worked.

So it's time to give us our check.

 

[IM2]

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"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

He did say it.

He shouldnt have. It makes him look weak when he holds his hand out like a beggar. I think less of him, now that youve shown me this.

"But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

I don't think King would care much about what you think.

 

[Meathead]

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"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

He did say it.

He shouldnt have. It makes him look weak when he holds his hand out like a beggar. I think less of him, now that youve shown me this.

"But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

I don't think King would care much about what you think.

So you're blamiing black failure on MLK?

 

[fncceo]

 

[AveryJarhman]

Seems everyone has an opinion about Dr. King.

"Dr.Martin Luther King Jr would be ashamed of black people in 2019." ~James Hawthorne - Ghetto News Network



Peace.

 

[TNHarley]

That's a song we hear sung often at USMB.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

We did listen to Dr. King.

And it's time to give us our check.

Oh, if he said that, nevermind. We arent giving you money. Go get a job you lazy bum.

After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor.

You owe us money. And you owed us the money for all 43 years I worked.

So it's time to give us our check.

I dont owe your whiny racist ass a goddamn thing, faggot.

 

[Godboy]

That's a song we hear sung often at USMB.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

We did listen to Dr. King.

And it's time to give us our check.

Oh, if he said that, nevermind. We arent giving you money. Go get a job you lazy bum.

After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor.

You owe us money. And you owed us the money for all 43 years I worked.

So it's time to give us our check.

I dont owe your whiny racist ass a goddamn thing, faggot.

 

[Oddball]

If you blacks would only listen to Malcom X....

 

[MisterBeale]

That's a song we hear sung often at USMB.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”

"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla

We did listen to Dr. King.

And it's time to give us our check.

You know IM2, I agree with you, and I agree with King about the problem. It was the stake holders that controlled the government to get what they wanted. Now, you want to try to control the government to get what you want. Yet, you are so short sighted, you do not see any future problems with this.

But believe me, IT WILL cause more problems. It always does.

The problem here, is what you are suggesting as the solution, is to remedy it with more bad governance.

Government is never the solution, it only causes problems.

We are taught this in a children's song, a parable from a young age. We can take this as a lesson about using government to solve problems caused by government.

Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly


The truth is, King was a uniter, not a divider. You are using his legacy to divide folks, and he would take a dim view of that.


Rebranding MLK: How the Establishment Blackened His Dream and Whitewashed His Legacy
Rebranding MLK: How the Establishment Blackened His Dream and Whitewashed His Legacy

". . . King realized that the infringements against “black” folks in America were interconnected to the injustices felt by marginalized people throughout the world. That awakening is the reason he traveled to Memphis, by standing up for striking sanitation workers, he was hoping to form a bridge between poor folks irrespective of their skin color. The establishment love people who lead sectional movements—those who seek exclusive justice are doing the work of the status quo—what they will not abide are those who try to unify the oppressed and inspire collective actions.


King paid with his life for having the courage to pursue inclusive justice. After he was murdered, institutions of power—from government, academia to mainstream media and beyond—kicked in, stealthy erased King’s legacy and replaced it with disinformation. What has taken place over the past fifty years is a systematic and coordinated effort to blacken his narrative and dilute the power of his message.


I must pause here and explain what I mean by blackening Martin Luther King. What MLK fought for, and ultimately died on behalf of, was for equality and fairness for all. By narrowing the scope of his cause and containing his sacrifice to only as a struggle for “black” people, opinion leaders successfully ghettoized him in an effort to lessen his appeal to a broader constituency. . . "

 

[IM2]

The government worked fine for whites

The truth is, King was a uniter, not a divider. You are using his legacy to divide folks, and he would take a dim view of that.

Was he?

From Most Hated to American Hero: The Whitewashing of Martin Luther King Jr.

Michael Harriot

Contrary to popular belief, when King died, he was not an icon of freedom and equality. In fact, most of the country disliked him. Sadly, on April 4, 1968, a bullet splattered bits of Martin Luther King Jr.’s brains and blood across the balcony of Memphis, Tenn.’s Lorraine Motel.

Then, and only then, was white America ready to make him a hero.

In 1987, a Gallup Poll revealed that almost 75 percent of Americans had a favorable rating of King. That same year, when the Roper Center asked which American they respected and admired the most, Americans named King more than any other person (pdf), living or dead. Even now, if you ask any black person whose name do white people bring up whenever black anger gives them the heebie-jeebies, “Is that what MLK would have wanted?” is second only to “What would Jesus do?”


White people love Martin Luther King Jr.

For them, he is the standard-bearer for resistance while negotiating the minefield of white sensibilities. In the rewriting of history, King has been fashioned into an apologetic freedom fighter who carefully sidestepped white ire while pointing out inequality. They have cunningly backdated their admiration for King and the civil rights movement to prove that they have always stood on the side of justice.

It is bullshit.

In August 1966, less than two years before King was gunned down, when a Gallup Poll asked Americans for their opinion of King, 63 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of the civil rights icon. In a Harris Poll that same year, 95 percent of African-American respondents gave King a favorable rating.

In that same Harris Poll, 54 percent of whites said that they would not march or protest if they “were in the same position as Negroes,” and two months later, in October 1966, 85 percent of whites (pdf) said that civil rights demonstrations hurt Negroes more than they helped. By December, many whites had changed their minds, but 50 percent told Harris pollsters that Martin Luther King Jr. hurt “the Negro cause of civil rights.”

Why did King cause so much consternation among white people?

Despite what they would have you believe, Martin Luther King Jr. never embraced “all Americans.” He was as pro-black as they came and spent much of his time calling out white people. Not only was he critical of the population of active racists, but he reserved much of his scorn for those who sat on the sidelines doing nothing.

https://www.theroot.com/from-most-hated-to-american-hero-the-whitewashing-of-m-1824258876

Before he died-

MLK On Economic Justice



Whites practicing racism are the dividers. Not blacks wanting it to end.

 

[MisterBeale]

The government worked fine for whites

The truth is, King was a uniter, not a divider. You are using his legacy to divide folks, and he would take a dim view of that.

Was he?

From Most Hated to American Hero: The Whitewashing of Martin Luther King Jr.

Michael Harriot

Contrary to popular belief, when King died, he was not an icon of freedom and equality. In fact, most of the country disliked him. Sadly, on April 4, 1968, a bullet splattered bits of Martin Luther King Jr.’s brains and blood across the balcony of Memphis, Tenn.’s Lorraine Motel.

Then, and only then, was white America ready to make him a hero.

In 1987, a Gallup Poll revealed that almost 75 percent of Americans had a favorable rating of King. That same year, when the Roper Center asked which American they respected and admired the most, Americans named King more than any other person (pdf), living or dead. Even now, if you ask any black person whose name do white people bring up whenever black anger gives them the heebie-jeebies, “Is that what MLK would have wanted?” is second only to “What would Jesus do?”


White people love Martin Luther King Jr.

For them, he is the standard-bearer for resistance while negotiating the minefield of white sensibilities. In the rewriting of history, King has been fashioned into an apologetic freedom fighter who carefully sidestepped white ire while pointing out inequality. They have cunningly backdated their admiration for King and the civil rights movement to prove that they have always stood on the side of justice.

It is bullshit.

In August 1966, less than two years before King was gunned down, when a Gallup Poll asked Americans for their opinion of King, 63 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of the civil rights icon. In a Harris Poll that same year, 95 percent of African-American respondents gave King a favorable rating.

In that same Harris Poll, 54 percent of whites said that they would not march or protest if they “were in the same position as Negroes,” and two months later, in October 1966, 85 percent of whites (pdf) said that civil rights demonstrations hurt Negroes more than they helped. By December, many whites had changed their minds, but 50 percent told Harris pollsters that Martin Luther King Jr. hurt “the Negro cause of civil rights.”

Why did King cause so much consternation among white people?

Despite what they would have you believe, Martin Luther King Jr. never embraced “all Americans.” He was as pro-black as they came and spent much of his time calling out white people. Not only was he critical of the population of active racists, but he reserved much of his scorn for those who sat on the sidelines doing nothing.

https://www.theroot.com/from-most-hated-to-american-hero-the-whitewashing-of-m-1824258876

Before he died-

MLK On Economic Justice



Whites practicing racism are the dividers. Not blacks wanting it to end.

I don't think you understand what I am getting at.

Do you understand what the current president is trying to do? Do you understand what he and King have in common?