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    Black Lives Matter's Silence on a Champion of Racial Equality


    One name that goes conspicuously unmentioned by those self-proclaimed champions of racial justice such as Black Lives Matters is an internationally acclaimed American hero who lived his life for racial equality. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his life for it, too. King’s quest for equality and his legacy are inconvenient for today’s vigilantes, because his efforts contrasted sharply with theirs—both with regard to their goal and means.

    While today’s self-righteous violent protesters have left vulnerable inner-city neighborhoods devastated and residents in tears of anguish, King staked all he had on a belief in the unifying power of passive resistance and nonviolence, as did others who brought about worldwide change, from Mahatma Gandhi to Nelson Mandela.

    Today’s racial-grievance opportunists portray blacks as impotent victims, unable to move forward or upward under the weight of a legacy of slavery and the all-purpose villain of institutional racism. In their agenda, equality of opportunity makes no difference. Instead, their proclaimed goal is to demand equality of outcome by monetizing the suffering of their ancestors as reparations—checks that would be handed to them. The demand for reparations ignores problematic issues of who should pay for and who should receive remuneration and the situation of the descendants of blacks who owned slaves and of those who arrived on our nation’s shores—penniless but filled with hope—long after the end of slavery. The accounts of sports superstars of the NFL and NBA who were once millionaires but ended up bankrupt can serve as cautionary tales regarding the inconsequential impact of cash payouts in the absence of qualities such as delayed gratification, personal restraint, and foresight.

    In contrast with today’s racial justice vigilantes, King did not advocate lowering the bar for standards of behavior and ethical values among those he represented. The most aspirational element of his famous Dream was that his children would one day be judged by the content of their character. The history of the black community is replete with evidence that, even against the greatest odds and oppression, moral qualities of personal responsibility, determination, integrity, and mutual assistance were sufficient to empower men and women to achieve success.

    In 1917, in the Bronzeville area of Chicago, there were 731 black-owned businesses. Blacks owned $100 million in real estate there in 1929. Some 192 local churches provided social services. In Philadelphia, blacks dominated the catering business until the end of the 19th century, making that city’s catering famous across the country. James Forten, one of Philadelphia’s principal sailmakers, employed more than 40 white and black workers and had a fortune of $100,000 in the 1830s. The Chesapeake and Marine Railroad and Dry Dock Co. was formed by black Baltimore dockworkers after 1,000 black workers lost their jobs in 1863. In St. Louis, Madam C. J. Walker made a million dollars with the invention of the first commercially successful hair-straightening process.

    In the first 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, black Americans had accumulated a personal wealth of $700 million. They owned more than 40,000 businesses, 40,000 churches, and 937,999 farms. The literacy rate had climbed from 5% to 70%. Black commercial enclaves in Durham, N.C., and the Greenwood Avenue section of Tulsa, Okla., were together known as the Negro Wall Street.

    In an era of legalized discrimination, the marriage rate in the black community was higher than it was in the white community despite times of economic deprivation and racism. In 1925 in New York City, 85% of black families had a man and woman raising children. In stark contrast, the current rate of births to unwed mothers is above 75%. Today, young black men who take responsibility to raise and nurture their children significantly increase those children’s chances for academic success and educational attainment and decrease the likelihood that they will drop out of school, spend time in prison, or engage in destructive or self-destructive behavior.

    Dr. King said that we must reach down into the deep, dark regions of our souls and sign our own Emancipation Proclamation. In looking back, we need to rediscover the standards and institutions that blacks historically embraced to accomplish the liberation of mind and spirit that allowed them to survive and thrive.

    Intertwined with the agenda of today’s racial justice warriors is the ultimate goal of the destruction of the nation. Dr. King was confident in the belief that the success of his quest for equality was rooted in the promise of America’s founding vision and documents and the progress that has been made toward their realization. In his “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” he wrote:
    “One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence…. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation because the goal of America is freedom … and our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.”
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

  • #2
    As the arbitrator of who is and who isn't legitimately black, Joe Biden, has proclaimed from the plantation house, MLK is yesterday's news because George Floyd is far more important than King ever was.

    I'm always still in trouble again

    "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
    "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
    "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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    • #3
      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
      As the arbitrator of who is and who isn't legitimately black, Joe Biden, has proclaimed from the plantation house, MLK is yesterday's news because George Floyd is far more important than King ever was.
      You're saying BLM Trumps MKL?

      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
        You're saying BLM Trumps MKL?

        It is what the arbitrator of who is really black has proclaimed.

        For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

        Who am I to question his wisdom






        Oh, and you have a capital letter where it doesn't belong

        I'm always still in trouble again

        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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        • #5
          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
          Oh, and you have a capital letter where it doesn't belong
          I was drawing attention to the OrangeOne. You know, Mr. Racism hisseff?
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
            I was drawing attention to the OrangeOne. You know, Mr. Racism hisseff?
            Ahhh. IATF.[1]

            Say no more.


            1. It's All Trump's Fault

            I'm always still in trouble again

            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Cow Poke
              Today’s racial-grievance opportunists portray blacks as impotent victims, unable to move forward or upward under the weight of a legacy of slavery and the all-purpose villain of institutional racism. In their agenda, equality of opportunity makes no difference.
              Yes, if only stuff like this could just go away:

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              • #8
                Originally posted by whag View Post
                Yes, if only stuff like this could just go away:

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                Yes, that, too.
                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                  Yes, that, too.
                  I know white people might be scared with what’s going on, and understandably so, but imagine how disturbing the above “sentiments” are to black people.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by whag View Post
                    I know white people might be scared with what’s going on, and understandably so, but imagine how disturbing the above “sentiments” are to black people.
                    I absolutely agree - ya got no argument here! Or, the three police officers recently fired (no, four) for "reenacting" 'the choke hold'.

                    I think MLK hit the right tone, and BLM is throwing him under the desegregated bus.
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                      I absolutely agree - ya got no argument here! Or, the three police officers recently fired (no, four) for "reenacting" 'the choke hold'.

                      I think MLK hit the right tone, and BLM is throwing him under the desegregated bus.
                      I think that if conservatives hadn’t flipped their lid at Kaepernick taking a knee, which in comparison to rioting is the most peaceful of stances, things wouldn’t have accelerated. Surely, the right has been doing some rethinking on the threat of kneeling vs. the threat of rage boiling over in the streets.

                      I think Trump, in an attempt to placate the outraged anti-Kaepernick demographic, which is—let’s be honest—most of his base—unwittingly revealed he and Pence deep down don’t appreciate peaceful protests.

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                      Keeping in mind, of course, that Obama brutalized peaceful protesters of an energy pipeline.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                        I absolutely agree - ya got no argument here! Or, the three police officers recently fired (no, four) for "reenacting" 'the choke hold'.

                        I think MLK hit the right tone, and BLM is throwing him under the desegregated bus.
                        Right, who here wouldn't agree with this...

                        One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence…. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation because the goal of America is freedom … and our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.”
                        Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by seer View Post
                          Right, who here wouldn't agree with this...

                          One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence…. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation because the goal of America is freedom … and our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.”
                          He also said riots are the language of the unheard, hence The riots after he was assassinated and Hong Kong.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by whag View Post
                            I think that if conservatives hadn’t flipped their lid at Kaepernick taking a knee, which in comparison to rioting is the most peaceful of stances, things wouldn’t have accelerated. Surely, the right has been doing some rethinking on the threat of kneeling vs. the threat of rage boiling over in the streets.
                            Meh.... It's not the peaceful protesters who are driving this thing. It's the extreme leftists nutters, and the 'moderate' left doesn't know what to do with them.

                            I think Trump, in an attempt to placate the outraged anti-Kaepernick demographic, which is—let’s be honest—most of his base—unwittingly revealed he and Pence deep down don’t appreciate peaceful protests.

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                            Keeping in mind, of course, that Obama brutalized peaceful protesters of an energy pipeline.
                            I think you're off base on this one, but...
                            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by whag View Post
                              He also said riots are the language of the unheard, hence The riots after he was assassinated and Hong Kong.
                              But our idiots have been heard, they won't shut up about the lie of systemic police racism.
                              Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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