Dr Martin Luther King saved this country

[rightwinger]

Ah that's bullshit. Their hard work worked. Excuses & rewards without merit only keeps them down.

Oh sure, I saw AA in action, they hired a black (a racist) for a position he couldn't handle. After years of entertaining the BS they walked him out the door.

For decades, White males got affirmative action that reserved not only the best jobs, but the training for those jobs exclusively for them.

 

[jc456]

Have no idea what you mean?
Care to be more specific?
Of course killing Lincoln helped democrats, since Lincoln has started the Republican party.
But the Republicans quickly changed.
Instead of being the progressive and liberal party that Lincoln stated, they because the corrupt party of the wealthy by 18880.
Teddy Roosevelt was the only Republican after that, to be progressive and liberal.

Demofks have and always will be the only party oppressing blacks! Voting rights is a diversion to do absolutely nothing for blacks! How did Teddy win then? Can’t have a party of one idea beaten in the party by another idea if that original idea was the majority? You’re lost and your continued brainwashed tactics don’t work here!

 

[Rigby5]

Prior to Affirmative Action, high paying career opportunities were available only to White Males

Women, blacks, minorities lacked the “essentials” to hold management and professional positions

Affirmative Action gave them a chance…it worked

And even more important is that it has been proven that standardized testing is inherently racist.
It is not a good measure of the odds of a person's success.
It does not matter if this testing bias is deliberate or not.
AA makes sense, is more fair, and works.

 

[jc456]

And even more important is that it has been proven that standardized testing is inherently racist.
It is not a good measure of the odds of a person's success.
It does not matter if this testing bias is deliberate or not.
AA makes sense, is more fair, and works.

Standardized testing is demofks holding back blacks!

 

[rightwinger]

And even more important is that it has been proven that standardized testing is inherently racist.
It is not a good measure of the odds of a person's success.
It does not matter if this testing bias is deliberate or not.
AA makes sense, is more fair, and works.

Not just for blacks

But before AA, educated women were relegated to secretaries, nurses, teachers, bank teller positions

Blacks tended to be restricted to menial positions

AA worked

 

[Rigby5]

No he didn't. Apparently you are unfamiliar with the high number of violent protests that came down in the 1960's. Many of our nation's Urban Prairies were founded when protesters burned down buildings during the Race Riots, and they've never been rebuilt.

Those violent riots in 1967 would have been a lot worse if not for MLK Jr.

 

[Orangecat]

He saved this country??

No, that's just some butt-kissing BS.

 

[jc456]

Ah that's bullshit. Their hard work worked. Excuses & rewards without merit only keeps them down.

Oh sure, I saw AA in action, they hired a black (a racist) for a position he couldn't handle. After years of entertaining the BS they walked him out the door.

Again, if all people are equal, can’t ever be a leader

 

[jc456]

Those violent riots in 1967 would have been a lot worse if not for MLK Jr.

There would never have been any protests if there was no mlk

 

[Orangecat]

AA worked

Racism usually does work, but the means don't justify the ends for us non-racists.

 

[rightwinger]

There would never have been any protests if there was no mlk

Bull Connor took care of that

 

[jc456]

Racism usually does work, but the means don't justify the ends for us non-racists.

Keeping the blacks in unison is the racism

 

[rightwinger]

Jim Crow Etiquette - 2006 - Question of the Month - Jim Crow Museum

Blacks were expected to refer to white males in positions of authority as "Boss" or "Cap'n" -- a title of respect that replaced "Master" or "Marster" used in slave times. Sometimes, the white children of one's white employer or a prominent white person might be called "Massa," to show special respect. If a white person was well known, a black servant or hired hand or tenant might speak in somewhat intimate terms, addressing the white person as "Mr. John" or "Miss Mary."

All black men, on the other hand, were called by their first names or were referred to as "Boy," "Uncle," and "Old Man" -- regardless of their age.

 

[LeftofLeft]

I grew up in the 60's and saw most of the Civil Rights movement. Like most Americans, I was outraged at the assasination of Dr King. When we talked about giving him a national holiday ten years later, I looked at it as a form of appeasement for outraged blacks.....a way of giving them their own holiday to quiet them down.

In reading about the Civil Rights movement in subsequent years, I realized what a great American Dr King was. Black Americans came back after WWII to find that despite fighting and dying in defense of their country, they were still treated like lesser Americans. They found they were not allowed to mingle with whites, were not welcome in much of the country they had fought for. Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human. Some whites were outraged at the thought of eating with blacks, using the same restrooms, riding on public transportation with them.

As black Americans began to protest their treatment in their own country they were met with harsh resistance from both white militants and governments who swore to support inequal treatment. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to freely associate, rights to a fair trial. Those who resisted were met with terrorist attacks. Lynchings, bombings, arrest and assasination of their leaders.

Most of us faced with such horrific treatment in our own homeland would fight violence with violence. How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?

When the courts did not protect blacks, armed conflict would seem a reasonable response. Dr King knew violence would only result in more violence against you. He modeled the Civil Rights movement around Gandhis peaceful resistance theories. By using cameras to document the treatment of peaceful protestors he saved this country from an armed violent protest that would have destroyed this country.


America returned from WWII as an economic and military superpower. But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower. By changing the way we treat our citizens, Dr King, more importantly, saved our soul. By forcing us to look in a mirror and see who we really are, he enabled us to become a truly great country.

On this Martin Luther King day I hope everyone can reflect on what a great American he was and how much better off we all are

Biden reflected, George Floyd is MORE significant than Dr. King.

 

[rightwinger]

Usually it was expected that blacks would step off the sidewalk when meeting whites or else walk on the outer street side of the walk thereby "giving whites the wall." Under no circumstances could a black person assume an air of equality with whites. Black men were expected to remove their caps and hats when talking with a white person. Those whites, moreover, who associated with blacks in a too friendly or casual manner ran the risk of being called a "****** lover."

 

[rightwinger]

The white owners of clothing stores did not allow blacks to try on clothing as a general rule, fearing that white customers would not buy clothes worn by African Americans. Some stores did allow blacks to put on clothing over their own clothes or to try on hats over a cloth scarf on their heads. Shoes were never tried on as a general rule, but most white clerks did allow exact measurements to be made

 

[rightwinger]

If a black person needed an ambulance, for example, a private, black-owned-and-operated wagon or auto would have to be obtained. No exceptions were allowed no matter the extent of the injury or emergency.

 

[jc456]

Biden reflected, George Floyd is MORE significant than Dr. King.

Yeah, a drug addict who didn’t give a shit about his own, and the store owner who lost out! Only a demofk

 

[otto105]

Nothing odd about it. BOth parties had embraced equal rights for blacks by then. There was a national consensus on the issue.


On that issue.


The lefty love affair with socialism, that was/is still a problem.

Nope, it's republic embrace of authoritarianism that is the problem.

 

[Correll]

That consensus was the result of shock at watching terrorist attacks in the South as angry mobs and police attacked blacks who were peacefully protesting

Credit the Bus Boycott, lunch counter protests, bombings of black schools and churches, attack dogs, fire hoses on children, the viscous Selma beatings

Sure. God FOrbid if any credit is given to the white Americans who, you know, actually made the call and formed the consensus in favor of equality.


Because if you do that, you undermine white bashing in the future. Or even the present.