Martin Luther King Day 2020

[CrusaderFrank]

“Whenever any black person utters words that make white people adjust their collars, white people unfailingly respond with a variation of the phrase “but not all white people.” If they are bold enough, they might even challenge you with the Super Saiyan Caucasian preamble of all preambles: “What would Martin Luther King say about ...”

Michael Harriot

How did you do on the SAT

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

View attachment 299066
"Come heeyah and gibs doktah kang sum lovin gur....foes I haves ta rapes ya!"


I wonder how many lil kangs he made? The world may never know...the extent of the raping.
Martin Luther King Jr ‘laughed as pastor friend raped woman in hotel and had affairs with 40 women’, FBI tapes claim

Clearly rightwing racism is alive and well in America.

Doesn't fit that narrative does it? The brain resists relearning anything. This is a result of evolution and the millennia of calorie conservation hammered into our genes. However...resist that urge as calories (at the moment) are cheap, and readily available.
King was a serial philanderer and, in the least, rape enabler. Though he made many great speeches, in the end, he was a vile human.

 

[IM2]

Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed
Seventy-five percent of Americans disapproved of the civil rights leader as he spoke out against the Vietnam War and economic disparity

Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for "loitering" in Montgomery, Alabama, in September 1958. (Wikimedia Commons)

By James C. Cobb
smithsonianmag.com
April 4, 2018

According to an early 1968 Harris Poll, the man whose half-century of martyrdom we celebrate this week died with a public disapproval rating of nearly 75 percent, a figure shocking in its own day and still striking even in today’s highly polarized political climate.

Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed | History | Smithsonian Magazine

How was Martin Luther King Jr. viewed by white Americans at the time?

In today's United States, MLK Jr. is universally regarded as a hero and patriot (...or as universally regarded as one can be in this nation). By that, I mean all races, all political parties—everyone is in agreement that he was an "outstanding American" and a courageous leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

But how was he viewed at the time, and particularly how was he viewed by the American public? In other words, what did whites have to say about MLK Jr. back before he was the revered icon he is today?

If possible, I would appreciate some form of analogy with a reference that someone in 2015 would relate to, in order to be able to understand a bygone era's public sentiment in a more visceral way. I realize this may be a silly or crude exercise, but, for example, was King closer to an "Al Sharpton" figure (as in, largely viewed unfavorably, a "no-good troublemaker") or a "Pope Francis" figure ("What a great soul").

I'm curious how King's image has warped over the decades...

How was Martin Luther King Jr. viewed by white Americans at the time?

Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood
March 30, 2018 12.30pm EDT

Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform and redeem the United States. His birthday is celebrated as a national holiday. Tributes are paid to him on his death anniversary each April, and his legacy is honored in multiple ways.

But from my perspective as a historian of religion and civil rights, the true radicalism of his thought remains underappreciated. The “civil saint” portrayed nowadays was, by the end of his life, a social and economic radical, who argued forcefully for the necessity of economic justice in the pursuit of racial equality.

The radical King
King’s “I Have a Dream,” speech at the March on Washington in August 1963 serves as the touchstone for the annual King holiday. But King’s dream ultimately evolved into a call for a fundamental redistribution of economic power and resources. It’s why he was in Memphis, supporting a strike by garbage workers, when he was assassinated in April 1968.

He remained, to the end, the prophet of nonviolent resistance. But these three key moments in King’s life show his evolution over a decade.

This remembering matters more than ever today. Many states are either passing or considering measures that would make it harder for many Americans to exercise their fundamental right to vote. It would roll back the huge gains in rates of political participation by racial minorities made possible by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the same time, there is a persistent wealth gap between blacks and whites.

Only sustained government attention can address these issues – the point King was stressing later in his life.

King’s philosophy stood not just for “opportunity,” but for positive measures toward economic equality and political power. Ignoring this understanding betrays the “dream” that is ritually invoked each year.

Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood

 

[K9Buck]

So the white double standard has been applied.

If the great Dr. MLK Jr. were alive today, he would be devastated at the sight of what black people are doing to fellow blacks and other Americans. White racism isn't responsible for the monolithic rate of violence and crime in black America. If MLK were here today, he'd be calling out the race hustlers like Al and Jesse, the Democratic Party and guys like you for perpetuating the plight of black America.

 

[IM2]

9 MLK Quotes the Mainstream Media Won’t Cite

The Martin Luther King Jr. who is cynically trotted out every time racial unrest erupts in our cities is the MLK who can be conveniently used to prop up the status quo. He is MLK reduced to “I Have A Dream,” used in conservative political ads to scare-monger about invading, job-stealing Mexican immigrants. He is the almost wholly fabricated MLK whom the modern GOP claims would today be one of their own, presumably standing alongside them as they vote against the poor, people of color and women of every race at every opportunity. He is MLK reimagined as the passive figure the fascist, racist right in this country wants us to be as they lean into the boot on our necks.

In reality, those examples rely on half-truths and half-reveals of who MLK truly was. In real, big-picture life, MLK was far more radical than the cherry-picked lines from his speeches and books would suggest, a man who moved further left over the course of his long and weary fight for African-American civil rights. By 1966, MLK had become an outspoken opponent of "liberal" white complicity in white supremacy, of American imperialism and warmongering, of the capitalist system itself. Modern right-wingers’ use of quotes from MLK (here are a few examples) twist and misuse his words in ways that belie much of what he ultimately came to stand for.

1. “Why is equality so assiduously avoided? Why does white America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains?

The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.”

— Where Do We Go From Here, 1967

2. “I contend that the cry of "Black Power" is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years."

— Interview with Mike Wallace, 1966

3. "But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?…It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity."

— “The Other America,” 1968

4. “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

— “Revolution of Values,” 1967

5. “Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor – both black and white, both here and abroad.”

— “The Three Evils of Society,” 1967

6. “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

—“Beyond Vietnam,” 1967

“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn. The reality of substantial investment to assist Negroes into the twentieth century, adjusting to Negro neighbors and genuine school integration, is still a nightmare for all too many white Americans…These are the deepest causes for contemporary abrasions between the races. Loose and easy language about equality, resonant resolutions about brotherhood fall pleasantly on the ear, but for the Negro there is a credibility gap he cannot overlook. He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.”

— Where Do We Go From Here, 1967

7. “The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”

— “The Three Evils of Society,” 1967

8. “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

— Southern Christian Leadership Conference speech, 1967

9. "First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

— Letter From a Birmingham Jail, 1963

9 MLK Quotes the Mainstream Media Won’t Cite – Alternet.org

 

[IM2]

So the white double standard has been applied.

If the great Dr. MLK Jr. were alive today, he would be devastated at the sight of what black people are doing to fellow blacks and other Americans. White racism isn't responsible for the monolithic rate of violence and crime in black America. If MLK were here today, he'd be calling out the race hustlers like Al and Jesse, the Democratic Party and guys like you for perpetuating the plight of black America.

There is no monolithic rate of violence and crime in black America son. The root cause of our problems is white racism. Your daily repetition of lies does not change that. Jesse Jackson worked with King. Al Sharpton as a young man worked in a King program.

"The Martin Luther King Jr. who is cynically trotted out every time racial unrest erupts in our cities is the MLK who can be conveniently used to prop up the status quo. He is MLK reduced to “I Have A Dream,” used in conservative political ads to scare-monger about invading, job-stealing Mexican immigrants. He is the almost wholly fabricated MLK whom the modern GOP claims would today be one of their own, presumably standing alongside them as they vote against the poor, people of color and women of every race at every opportunity. He is MLK reimagined as the passive figure the fascist, racist right in this country wants us to be as they lean into the boot on our necks."

That's your imaginary king saltine. That King never existed. King would be patting me on the back while saying well done.

 

[K9Buck]

There is no monolithic rate of violence and crime in black America son. The root cause of our problems is white racism.

The murder rate in black America is at least FIVE times greater than any other segment of America.

You blame "white racism" while blacks are being murdered on a daily basis by other blacks.

Carry on.

 

[IM2]

There is no monolithic rate of violence and crime in black America son. The root cause of our problems is white racism.

The murder rate in black America is at least FIVE times greater than any other segment of America.

You blame "white racism" while blacks are being murdered on a daily basis by other blacks.

Carry on.

No it's not. Whites are killing whites in the same percentages. And whites commit more overall violent crime.

Yes, white racism is the root cause. If you understood anything about psychology, you'd understand how I can say that.

You aren't going to get facts from stormfront child.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

So the white double standard has been applied.

Martin Luther King Day 2020
Monday, January 20
(in 12 days)

The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King fought against white racism. When he made his famous speech in 1963, he was saying that he wanted his kids to live in a world without white racism where they could be seen for the content of their character by WHITES, not that he was talking about some fictional society that ignores racism. We need to understand that almost every word he spoke was in opposition to white racism. We need to learn that he was asking whites to stop being racists and that whites start looking at blacks not for the color of their skin but that WHITES begin looking at us for the content of our character. He was not asking blacks to ignore white racism under the guise of some fake colorblind belief.



That was his dream. The end of white racism. But his life has been deconstructed by right wing racist whites to remake him into a mealy mouthed black conservative republican. When you discuss race in the various social media platforms or society in general, there is always somebody white who thinks they can tell you how what you say would not be approved by King because you are opposing white racism unapologetically and in no uncertain terms. King has been dead for over 50 years now and just like in almost every other matter of race relations; a certain part of the white community has amnesia about King.

Quoting MLK

In these next 12 days, I am going to present a cure for that amnesia.

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'Give Us the Ballot' Speech - May 17, 1957

You mentioned “white racism” over and over in 2 paragraphs while discussing Dr. King. In how many of the good doctors remarkable speeches did he ever utter the words “white racism”? Perhaps he never used those words in his speeches because he was truly, in his heart and mind, against racism. I’ll admit I can learn a lot from MLK, so could you if you would read his words, rather than change them.

Nice try.

Three Evils of Society: War, Poverty, and Racism - MLK Speech 1967

Where in that speech does he utter “white racism”? Don’t pretend to put your unworthy words into his mouth.

I don't have to put words in his mouth. Maybe you need to keep Dr. Kings name out of your unworthy mouth.

Because he damn sure wasn't talking about black racism.

So the white double standard has been applied.

Martin Luther King Day 2020
Monday, January 20
(in 12 days)

The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King fought against white racism. When he made his famous speech in 1963, he was saying that he wanted his kids to live in a world without white racism where they could be seen for the content of their character by WHITES, not that he was talking about some fictional society that ignores racism. We need to understand that almost every word he spoke was in opposition to white racism. We need to learn that he was asking whites to stop being racists and that whites start looking at blacks not for the color of their skin but that WHITES begin looking at us for the content of our character. He was not asking blacks to ignore white racism under the guise of some fake colorblind belief.

That was his dream. The end of white racism. But his life has been deconstructed by right wing racist whites to remake him into a mealy mouthed black conservative republican. When you discuss race in the various social media platforms or society in general, there is always somebody white who thinks they can tell you how what you say would not be approved by King because you are opposing white racism unapologetically and in no uncertain terms. King has been dead for over 50 years now and just like in almost every other matter of race relations; a certain part of the white community has amnesia about King.

Quoting MLK

In these next 12 days, I am going to present a cure for that amnesia.

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'Give Us the Ballot' Speech - May 17, 1957

You mentioned “white racism” over and over in 2 paragraphs while discussing Dr. King. In how many of the good doctors remarkable speeches did he ever utter the words “white racism”? Perhaps he never used those words in his speeches because he was truly, in his heart and mind, against racism. I’ll admit I can learn a lot from MLK, so could you if you would read his words, rather than change them.

Nice try.

Three Evils of Society: War, Poverty, and Racism - MLK Speech 1967

Where in that speech does he utter “white racism”? Don’t pretend to put your unworthy words into his mouth.

I don't have to put words in his mouth. Maybe you need to keep Dr. Kings name out of your unworthy mouth.

Because he damn sure wasn't talking about black racism.

There! Right there! He railed against RACISM, but your ignorant, insecure ass doesn’t want to be held to the high standard that King set. You’re unhappy with who you are, so you blame others for your station. Rather than set an example for young blacks in this country by leading a successful (doing the hard things) life, you take the cowards path, and scream others are keeping you down. Racism will never end because there will always be ignorant fools among us, and you are proof that those fools can be black just as easy as they can be white.

 

[Godboy]

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"Come heeyah and gibs doktah kang sum lovin gur....foes I haves ta rapes ya!"


I wonder how many lil kangs he made? The world may never know...the extent of the raping.
Martin Luther King Jr ‘laughed as pastor friend raped woman in hotel and had affairs with 40 women’, FBI tapes claim

The expected debunked racist conspiracy theory. Now tell us about his communism.

When was it debunked? They cant even access those records for another few years, so how could it be debunked?

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

I can’t believe you people are actually attempting to have a serious discourse with Markevious X here.

One thing we should ALL take away from our local Wakandan scholar here is that his opinions, and justifications are the Norm in the black and brown communities in America.


The future does not bode well.

The farm equipment will be taking charge of the farm.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

View attachment 299066
"Come heeyah and gibs doktah kang sum lovin gur....foes I haves ta rapes ya!"


I wonder how many lil kangs he made? The world may never know...the extent of the raping.
Martin Luther King Jr ‘laughed as pastor friend raped woman in hotel and had affairs with 40 women’, FBI tapes claim

The expected debunked racist conspiracy theory. Now tell us about his communism.

When was it debunked? They cant even access those records for another few years, so how could it be debunked?

You would have better luck conversing with your cat. Jigaboo Jim here is a Parrot. He doesn’t have a single original thought.

 

[Godboy]

View attachment 299066
"Come heeyah and gibs doktah kang sum lovin gur....foes I haves ta rapes ya!"


I wonder how many lil kangs he made? The world may never know...the extent of the raping.
Martin Luther King Jr ‘laughed as pastor friend raped woman in hotel and had affairs with 40 women’, FBI tapes claim

The expected debunked racist conspiracy theory. Now tell us about his communism.

When was it debunked? They cant even access those records for another few years, so how could it be debunked?

You would have better luck conversing with your cat. Jigaboo Jim here is a Parrot. He doesn’t have a single original thought.

Jigaboo Jim? Only a bitch motherfucker needs racial slurs in a debate. Shut your bitch ass up.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

View attachment 299066
"Come heeyah and gibs doktah kang sum lovin gur....foes I haves ta rapes ya!"


I wonder how many lil kangs he made? The world may never know...the extent of the raping.
Martin Luther King Jr ‘laughed as pastor friend raped woman in hotel and had affairs with 40 women’, FBI tapes claim

The expected debunked racist conspiracy theory. Now tell us about his communism.

When was it debunked? They cant even access those records for another few years, so how could it be debunked?

You would have better luck conversing with your cat. Jigaboo Jim here is a Parrot. He doesn’t have a single original thought.

Jigaboo Jim? Only a bitch motherfucker needs racial slurs in a debate. Shut your bitch ass up.

 

[Gracie]

Once upon a time, I would have celebrated it. Now? Thanks to IM2 and the other doofuses with his same mindset, I now see skin color and hell no will I ever celebrate such holidays again that has to do with blacks.

Congrats, IM2. You singlehandedly made me racist.

 

[IM2]

The New Negro | Talk on Defeating Oppression w Dr. Martin Luther King

 

[bluzman61]

So the white double standard has been applied.

Martin Luther King Day 2020
Monday, January 20
(in 12 days)

The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King fought against white racism. When he made his famous speech in 1963, he was saying that he wanted his kids to live in a world without white racism where they could be seen for the content of their character by WHITES, not that he was talking about some fictional society that ignores racism. We need to understand that almost every word he spoke was in opposition to white racism. We need to learn that he was asking whites to stop being racists and that whites start looking at blacks not for the color of their skin but that WHITES begin looking at us for the content of our character. He was not asking blacks to ignore white racism under the guise of some fake colorblind belief.

That was his dream. The end of white racism. But his life has been deconstructed by right wing racist whites to remake him into a mealy mouthed black conservative republican. When you discuss race in the various social media platforms or society in general, there is always somebody white who thinks they can tell you how what you say would not be approved by King because you are opposing white racism unapologetically and in no uncertain terms. King has been dead for over 50 years now and just like in almost every other matter of race relations; a certain part of the white community has amnesia about King.

Quoting MLK

In these next 12 days, I am going to present a cure for that amnesia.

Martin Luther King Jr. - 'Give Us the Ballot' Speech - May 17, 1957

He was against racism of ALL color, NOT just white racism. He was a good and honorable man who was colorblind in his thoughts and ideas. He is a national treasure.

 

[IM2]

 

[IM2]

 

[IM2]