>Would you like to revisit the youtube videos of "Obama's going to buy me a new house, he's going to buy gas for my car"? Or going to get me some of Obama's stash?
I'm not going to say that some people aren't stupid. That's stupid. But it's meaningless. You can find anything on YouTube. I can get conservatives saying incredibly wacky things on there.
>What part of King's I Have a Dream speech do you think I have a problem with? I agree with the above paragraph you posted. MLK talking about cashing a check wasn't talking retribution.
Yeah, he kind of was. How about the use of the term "marvelous militancy" in the same speech?
>Hell, after 50 years of the great society,
Most of which was torn down starting in the '70s...
>democrats have created a system hindering blacks from becoming successful.
No, they really haven't.
>Look at your party's treatment of successful black conservatives who have proven blacks don't need to vote for a democrat to get ahead.
Correct. They just need to kiss the right white people's asses.
>MLK didn't ask for quotas. MLK didn't ask for blacks to bypass college entrance requirements to college because they are black.
I can't tell you how he felt about those things because they weren't issues of his day. Racial relations weren't far enough along yet for that to be discussed. But:
en.wikipedia.org
The Poor People's Campaign was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States. It was organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and carried out in the wake of King's assassination.
The Campaign demanded economic and human rights for poor Blacks, Chicanos, Indians, and Whites. After presenting an organized set of demands to Congress and executive agencies, participants set up a 3000-person tent city on the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks.
>MLK didn't ask for black Panthers intimidating voters in Philadelphia with baseball bats and guns to be given a get out of jail free card.
Not even worth addressing that Foxgasm...
MLK even acknowledged whites who were marching with him.
So? Are you implying something about Obama not acknowledging whites?
>MLK wasn't demanding I write him a check
Sure sounds from the above like he was... also from this from the Poor People's Campaign: "The Poor People’s Campaign was motivated by a desire for economic justice: the idea that all people should have what they need to live. King and the SCLC shifted their focus to these issues after observing that gains in civil rights had not improved the material conditions of life for many African Americans. "
>You'll have to elaborate on this strawman, I won't even try to guess what you think I believe. I'm for equality, color blindness, helping people who need help, yet your party promotes racial division in addition to profiting from dividing Americans.
MLK was for the government -- yes, the government -- helping the poor.
"The Poor People’s Campaign sought to address poverty through income and housing. The campaign would help the poor by dramatizing their needs, uniting all races under the commonality of hardship and presenting a plan to start to a solution. [6] Under the "economic bill of rights," the Poor People's Campaign asked for the federal government to prioritize helping the poor with a $30 billion anti-poverty package that included a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure and more low-income housing. ["
Your party has been admitting outright that it's been trying to keep minorities from voting! Think a guy who said this: "We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. " would be OK with that?
>MLK was no community organizer, Obama is.
From King himself:
To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to society but not wantonly destructive. Moreover, it is more difficult for government to quell it by superior force. Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militancy wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many did not even want. Civil disobedience has never been used on a mass scale in the North. It has rarely been seriously organized and resolutely pursued. Too often in the past was it employed incorrectly. It was resorted to only when there was an absence of mass support and its purpose was headline-hunting. The exceptions were the massive school boycotts by Northern Negroes. They shook educational systems to their roots but they lasted only single days and were never repeated. If they are developed as weekly events at the same time that mass sit-ins are developed inside and at the gates of factories for jobs, and if simultaneously thousands of unemployed youth camp in Washington, as the Bonus Marchers did in the thirties, with these and other practices, without burning a match or firing a gun, the impact of the movement will have earthquake proportions. (In the Bonus Marches, it was the government that burned down the marchers' shelters when it became confounded by peaceful civil disobedience.) This is not an easy program to implement. Riots are easier just because they need no organization. To have effect we will have to develop mass disciplined forces that can remain excited and determined without dramatic conflagrations.[
That is basically the textbook definition of community organizing.
>Btw, Obama is no Lincoln either.
Never said he was.
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