>I could care less about his politics, but he definitely was against what you and democrats support.
"In the years leading up to his death, he expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam." King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., called the Poor People's Campaign."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
He was a community organizer! You guys hate those! He died marching with a union! You're making up what he stood for based on one quote that you parrot over and over and over Conservatives fought kicking and screaming against him. Reagan thought he was a Marxist. You guys didn't want to celebrate his birthday. These are facts. This is history.
Have you actually ever read his speech in its entirety?
>Democrats could care less about blacks, it's all about buying their vote.
You really think blacks are so stupid that they need to be artificially bought?
>Don't forget, we need to tilt the playing field to make it level, right Z? Spend a moment and remind me again how tilting the playing field is going to make it level....
>"Retribution"
This is the same bullshit conservatives have been spouting for 150 years. Read some history. White conservatives were saying that stuff in King's time.
You wanna talk retribution? Who said this?
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check.
Martin Luther King Jr. said that, in the same damned speech you cite one line from, over and over and over out of context. The man's entire life was against the assholery you espouse. If you were alive in the '60s you'd hate the man. If Obama said those lines today you'd shit your pants.
And King got more "radical" later on. I can cite you speech after speech of his. It won't matter; you'll ignore it.
-Z |
