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He would be turning over in his grave if he saw the illegitimacy, welfare dependence, the black on black violence, the black on white violence, the drug use, the gang culture, rioting, the pissing away of free education and affirmative action, the laserlike focus on non issues such as "microagressions" and "cultural appropriation," and the lagging of the black community behind even ESL students in some metrics.
He would turn over in his grave if he could see Detroit, or even the average hip hop video.
Just give it up. The era of whining and crying about the great conservative bogeyman is done. Obama killed it. After seven years of a black president, MLKs dream apparently realized, not only has the needle not moved a single tick for the black community in general, but it is in many ways moving backwords, with violence dramatically on the rise again after a couple of decades of cooling off.
Physician, heal thyself.
blacks and libs twist a lot of things and then claim it is the conservatives that do this.
SMH, conservatives and those that use words like *******. Reality check for you; MLK's dream was to handle race and race relations as mature adults. Color blind, does NOT mean, to zip it when it comes to talking about it at all (talking about race doesn't automatically equal racism, fools) and call anyone who has a legitimate beef and tries to fight it in some way a "race baiter".
"Too many conservatives have twisted MLK's dream deliberately.'
I'd say toomany liberalss have twisted MLK's dream deliberately.
They fought and won, justifiably, for EQUAL treatment and GOT it. Then the first thing they do is implement Affirmative Action which is just the OPPOSITE of EQUAL treatment.
When was the last time you heard a liberal say anything close to what King said; "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."
He called the Cambridge, MA police "stupid" for arresting a black Harvard professor, even while admitting in the same speech that he didn't know what had happened.
The police did act stupidly. They had verified that in fact they where standing in Dr. Gates' house, but in stead of apologizing for any inconvenience and leaving they arrested him for disturbing the peace.
SMH, conservatives and those that use words like *******. Reality check for you; MLK's dream was to handle race and race relations as mature adults. Color blind, does NOT mean, to zip it when it comes to talking about it at all (talking about race doesn't automatically equal racism, fools) and call anyone who has a legitimate beef and tries to fight it in some way a "race baiter".
MLK's dream was that we would not be judged by the color of our skin. Liberals are the ones who treat blacks as some kind of special class of person.
As a conservative I treat everyone the same but in the liberal mind that makes me a racist.
It's undoubtedly a good thing that most of what he said has been forgotten, because the above is nonsense.
Two thirds of the world is water? Sure -- undrinkable salt water.
Apparently many conservatives have forgotten what King stood for because now many conservatives claim his values align with theirs. To get there conservatives tend to quote a single line from a single speech and ignore the whole body of his writings and speeches.
SMH, conservatives and those that use words like *******. Reality check for you; MLK's dream was to handle race and race relations as mature adults. Color blind, does NOT mean, to zip it when it comes to talking about it at all (talking about race doesn't automatically equal racism, fools) and call anyone who has a legitimate beef and tries to fight it in some way a "race baiter".
What the hell has a persons personal politics have to do with rights, liberty and equality under the law?
Calling a person a "*******" has nothing to do with race, what silliness are you babbling about?
Apparently many conservatives have forgotten what King stood for because now many conservatives claim his values align with theirs. To get there conservatives tend to quote a single line from a single speech and ignore the whole body of his writings and speeches.
That probably is his most quoted line from his most important speech. What other values and speeches are you referring to?
The police did act stupidly. They had verified that in fact they where standing in Dr. Gates' house, but in stead of apologizing for any inconvenience and leaving they arrested him for disturbing the peace.
"Too many conservatives have twisted MLK's dream deliberately.'
I'd say toomany liberalss have twisted MLK's dream deliberately.
They fought and won, justifiably, for EQUAL treatment and GOT it. Then the first thing they do is implement Affirmative Action which is just the OPPOSITE of EQUAL treatment.
How do you know that Dr. King would have been against Affirmative Action. I certainly would not claim Dr. King would have supported every action done under the label of Affirmative Action, but his actions when he was alive demonstrate that he was not opposed pressuring institutions to correct racial in balances.
In Dr. King's "Where do we go from here" speech Dr. King notes several of the achievements of Operation Breadbasket most of which in today's parlance would be labeled Affirmative Action.
The following is the first achievement that Dr. King spoke about.
The most dramatic success in Chicago has been Operation Breadbasket. Through Operation Breadbasket we have now achieved for the Negro community of Chicago more than twenty-two hundred new jobs with an income of approximately eighteen million dollars a year, new income to the Negro community. [Applause] But not only have we gotten jobs through Operation Breadbasket in Chicago; there was another area through this economic program, and that was the development of financial institutions which were controlled by Negroes and which were sensitive to problems of economic deprivation of the Negro community. The two banks in Chicago that were interested in helping Negro businessmen were largely unable to loan much because of limited assets. Hi-Lo, one of the chain stores in Chicago, agreed to maintain substantial accounts in the two banks, thus increasing their ability to serve the needs of the Negro community. And I can say to you today that as a result of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago, both of these Negro-operated banks have now more than double their assets, and this has been done in less than a year by the work of Operation Breadbasket. [applause]
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