Martin Luther King says .....

[LOIE]

So many whites here claim to be experts on Dr. King. So let us review some of the things he sad during his life other than one line in the ' I Have a Dream" speech.

What stands out for me is the line about clouds of inferiority forming in the minds of black children, because at the same time thoughts of superiority were forming in the minds of white children. Whatever changes can be made to bring about genuine equality, our minds must first change and we must genuinely believe that all men are created equal.

 

[IM2]

Yeah, right.

I am a product of that era. How about you?

Yep, And the fact is many of his speeches were not live on TV.

Many were.

I was alive at that time OK?

If you guys heard so many of his speeches it's funny how you can only repeat one line in one of them.

"One day when ALL Gods children can say"......That's memory, now make your point.

And that's all you know. Which is why you need to watch the video.

 

[IM2]

Yeah, right.

I am a product of that era. How about you?

Yep, And the fact is many of his speeches were not live on TV.

Many were.

I was alive at that time OK?

If you guys heard so many of his speeches it's funny how you can only repeat one line in one of them.

What guys are those?

You guys. White conservative republicans.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I am a product of that era. How about you?

Yep, And the fact is many of his speeches were not live on TV.

Many were.

I was alive at that time OK?

If you guys heard so many of his speeches it's funny how you can only repeat one line in one of them.

What guys are those?

You guys. White conservative republicans.

Racist.

I am not nor have I ever been have never been a Republican.

 

[IM2]

Yep, And the fact is many of his speeches were not live on TV.

Many were.

I was alive at that time OK?

If you guys heard so many of his speeches it's funny how you can only repeat one line in one of them.

What guys are those?

You guys. White conservative republicans.

Racist.

I am not nor have I ever been have never been a Republican.

LOL! Now calling someone a white republican is racist.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Many were.

I was alive at that time OK?

If you guys heard so many of his speeches it's funny how you can only repeat one line in one of them.

What guys are those?

You guys. White conservative republicans.

Racist.

I am not nor have I ever been have never been a Republican.

LOL! Now calling someone a white republican is racist.

Indeed. Why even bring "white" up?

 

[IM2]

Quoting MLK
Saturday October 15th 2011 by abagond



Quoting Martin Luther King, Jr is a common racist defence of White Americans.

How can quoting one of the greatest civil rights leaders be racist? TransGriot put it this way:

Far too many times people are fixated on or like to quote the pre-August 28, 1963 words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. People also have this irritating tendency to hurl pre-1963 MLK quotes at POC’s when they get nervous about POC’s venting about their battles with whiteness and white supremacy.

Whites quote MLK to silence.

The quote they most often use:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

King is seen as pushing a see-no-evil, kumbayah colour-blindness as the way to bring people together and end racism. So when people of colour are see-evil, race conscious and not properly kumbayah, whites use this quote to shut them up as being “divisive”, as going against the true spirit of Dr King (as sanitized by white people).

Yet King saw the evils of American society quite clearly – not just against blacks but in general. And he was hardly the sort to keep quiet about it to make peace with whites, which is what MLK-quoters seem to expect from people of colour. King:

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is – and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

…

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

…

John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth.

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

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Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

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It’s an evil war. No matter where it leads, no matter what abuses it may bring, I’m going to tell the truth.

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We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. … We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.

And far from pushing colour-blindness, King saw black pride as necessary:

We must stand up and say, “I’m black and I’m beautiful,” and this self-affirmation is the black man’s need, made compelling by the white man’s crimes against him.

Quoting MLK

 

[IM2]

I was alive at that time OK?

If you guys heard so many of his speeches it's funny how you can only repeat one line in one of them.

What guys are those?

You guys. White conservative republicans.

Racist.

I am not nor have I ever been have never been a Republican.

LOL! Now calling someone a white republican is racist.

Indeed. Why even bring "white" up?

When I start saying I'm superior to whites you can call me a racist.