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2:23 pm
July 28, 2016
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It's often said that MLK wouldn't support "extremists" like Black Lives Matter and that the new civil rights movement isn't respectable.
Racists like to lie about who MLK was to silence people speaking against racism. It's a tactic employed widely.
People say things like Real Protesters Have Permits and BLM Don't Get Permits That's Why the Police Stop them.
MLK was arrested for organizing a protest without permission. The courts tried to stop him from organizing black southerners and forbade him from organizing, which led to his arrest. The claim that BLM aren't a respectable movement because they don't always operate within the law shows ignorance.
It is often said too that MLK wouldn't block a street or highway. The claim that BLM are doing a disservice to their message by being a nuisance to people who just want to go about their day, not like MLK, is a gross misrepresentation of who MLK was. One of his most iconic demonstrations was a boycott of a transportion system. He and other civil rights activists of his time regularly disrupted the transportation system.
"BLM isn't a respectable movement like the civil rights movement because they bus people in! MLK focused on his own communities first!"
The truth is, if you're suspicious of BLM, if you think they hate white people, or are violent thugs you would have thought the same about MLK. So the question is why? What information are you ingesting that is trying to manipulate you into thinking that BLM is bad? Or that MLK wasn't?
Most white Americans thought MLK was a thug, an outside agitator, who did more to prevent black liberation than to secure it.
If you really believed that all lives matter we wouldn't need to say black lives matter
2:55 pm
May 4, 2014
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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018! Here's Trump, Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, & friends receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1986. It is said to embody "the spirit of America in (a) salute to tolerance, brotherhood, diversity and patriotism. Honorees may be native-born or naturalized, but most importantly, they are individuals who have made it their mission to share their wealth of knowledge, indomitable courage, boundless compassion, unique talents and selfless generosity with those less fortunate."
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2:56 pm
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February 15, 2014
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The difference that I see is the violence that some BLM protests/marches have done. Mind you, not all BLM rallies fall into violence and many support peaceful protests. King's response to riots in 1967: "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."
I support protests and rallies for anyone as long as laws are not broken. It's a great thing about this country that many countries do not have.
Again, I am not saying BLM is violent. Some groups do break the law during protest. BUT that is not something exclusive to BLM. Many different groups on all sides have fallen into the violence during protests.
While King may have broken the law on occasion, he had definitely spoke out against violence. This is a nice growing trend within BLM. Many more "sub-chapters" of BLM are also speaking out against the use of violence. This is really great and helps honor MLK and his ideas.
I support any and all groups that are taking on the mantle of non-violence. That is why I am good with the new direction many in BLM are taking. I hope that it continues to spread to all other protest groups that may still be stuck in a violent mindset.
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4:48 pm
August 21, 2016
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He wasn't that great. Just a pushover who got followed.
5:42 pm
February 5, 2016
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MLK is the greatest social activist of our time and one of the most important US figures.
Krusty Phunk, get over it, Trump is a bigot. Juggalos are against bigotry lmao.
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Old Mr Dangerous6:09 pm
March 30, 2013
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Today is my birthday. This is the first time Martin's actual birthday landed on his observed Monday in quite a while.
I've always been proud of sharing a birthday with him.
I remember this Caucasian fellow asked me when my birthday was. He was a fellow Toys R Us employee back in like 2001. I told him that I was born the same day as Martin Luther King, Jr. He made a disgusted face and literally uttered "ugh".
Nothing worse than sharing a birthday with a durn coon, I guess. Sigh. It's weird the little instances that we remember.
Anyway, I have a great Disinformstion book I found years back. Whole chapter about how King was set to start a march for poor people of all races before his demise. I'll have to try and relocate it.
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Noah Fence7:06 pm
July 28, 2016
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Psyral Infection said
The difference that I see is the violence that some BLM protests/marches have done. Mind you, not all BLM rallies fall into violence and many support peaceful protests. King's response to riots in 1967: "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."I support protests and rallies for anyone as long as laws are not broken. It's a great thing about this country that many countries do not have.
Again, I am not saying BLM is violent. Some groups do break the law during protest. BUT that is not something exclusive to BLM. Many different groups on all sides have fallen into the violence during protests.
While King may have broken the law on occasion, he had definitely spoke out against violence. This is a nice growing trend within BLM. Many more "sub-chapters" of BLM are also speaking out against the use of violence. This is really great and helps honor MLK and his ideas.
I support any and all groups that are taking on the mantle of non-violence. That is why I am good with the new direction many in BLM are taking. I hope that it continues to spread to all other protest groups that may still be stuck in a violent mindset.
King also said that a riot is the voice of the unheard. So...
Anyway, the perception of violence by BLM is no different than the perception of violence by Dr. King. Look at that cartoon. People used the same talking points against him that they use now against BLM.
If you really believed that all lives matter we wouldn't need to say black lives matter
7:11 pm
July 28, 2016
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Old Mr Dangerous said
Today is my birthday. This is the first time Martin's actual birthday landed on his observed Monday in quite a while.I've always been proud of sharing a birthday with him.
I remember this Caucasian fellow asked me when my birthday was. He was a fellow Toys R Us employee back in like 2001. I told him that I was born the same day as Martin Luther King, Jr. He made a disgusted face and literally uttered "ugh".
Nothing worse than sharing a birthday with a durn coon, I guess. Sigh. It's weird the little instances that we remember.
Anyway, I have a great Disinformstion book I found years back. Whole chapter about how King was set to start a march for poor people of all races before his demise. I'll have to try and relocate it.
Happy birthday. And yes, a lot of people don't realize that king was moving towards socialism right before his death. A lot of people believe that that was ultimately why he was murdered. Many of these people also believe the government killed him, which is a bit of a misunderstanding.
If you really believed that all lives matter we wouldn't need to say black lives matter
7:46 pm
December 19, 2013
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blm can suck it all day long man fat lives matter way more
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SPOOKYtheFUNGINoah Fence is a RACIST piece of shit and so are you if you support him. No excuses.
8:51 pm
July 28, 2016
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If you really believed that all lives matter we wouldn't need to say black lives matter
12:54 pm
May 4, 2014
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krunkazphuk said
...Here's Trump, Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, & friends receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1986. It is said to embody "the spirit of America in (a) salute to tolerance, brotherhood, diversity and patriotism. Honorees may be native-born or naturalized, but most importantly, they are individuals who have made it their mission to share their wealth of knowledge, indomitable courage, boundless compassion, unique talents and selfless generosity with those less fortunate."
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2:34 pm
July 28, 2016
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You're literally praising a white man in a thread dedicated to anti racist activist hero but you're not racist at all right?
Don't you have a white genocide to prepare for?
If you really believed that all lives matter we wouldn't need to say black lives matter
12:00 pm
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February 15, 2014
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Noah Fence said
You're literally praising a white man in a thread dedicated to anti racist activist hero but you're not racist at all right?Don't you have a white genocide to prepare for?
They don't have to be exclusive. Can't a "white" man be praised as anti-racist? The article posted was exactly that. It was about an award given for that. I still do not understand your definition of "racist". A person who distinguishes another person or group of people by "race" is, by definition, racist. Nothing more, or less than that. All of the recent redefinitions of the word seem to be, by classic definition, actually racist.
1:47 pm
August 21, 2016
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And I got called a race baiter...
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