In terms of reclaiming something, or more importantly, moving it forward...
he has something of a point.
When MLK Jr was killed, he was moving ever more into the realm of social justice (which Beck does not like) and of economic justice.
There have been people who have explored the cracker south, but more than anyone, it has been MLK Jr who helped me understand them and ... accept them (something most 'liberals' do not do). He puts together how the plight of the poor white, southern or other, is linked to the plight of blacks... and browns, though he was not so up on that, but all fits.
so 1 - when older white liberals carry on about how they were all about the civil rights movement and "we liberals" stand by blacks (partly meaning in the phrase that 'we liberals' are white males)... they are lying. don't see too many young white boy faces from California in the marches. nope.
2 - when they (they being those white males who didn't get excited until they might be drafted to go to Vietnam) talk down the south while ignoring the issues that led to riots in Detroit and Watts and etc, it is not to excuse the south, but to point out that we have a systemic problem with race in this country. to sit in California and feel proud proud proud as a white person while blacks are in ghettos and failing school and making up the larger percentage of their very large prison population, is pure bs.
and I go on now, though I could go on more. Beck is all wrong. but so is Sharpton. and so is that fool queer dude who got on MSNBC and spoke about the repub who came out as gay and talked about how 'we' feel about it. he is only he. don't fakking talking about how 'we' feel unless he has called me. which he didn't. he, being a whilte male queer, thought he had the right to get on tv and say how WE feel? yes, according to Koan I am a lousy member of my 'tribe', not the least because I did not realize I was a member of a tribe. silly moi.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :) |
