I Miss Martin Luther King

Hello DonaldvoTrumpovich,

DonaldvoTrumpovich said:
Thanks PollTaker. I'm just going to copy your list and add a few more like Sailor and Text Drivers are Killers. That should clean up a lot of posts and keep out the vitriolic drivel.
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You're quite welcome. Thanks for the suggestions. I shall act accordingly should anyone flame on me (or express overt racism.) Since personal attacks are allowed in this forum I give posters the benefit of the doubt until aggression is directed at me.
 
Bigdog said:
Conservative Christian Rev. Dr. MLK would totally rip the racist, hate whitey Left to shreds.
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i find it very sad that the people that they quote actively advocate for color of skin to be one of the characteristics for employment or educational opportunities.
 
tsuke said:
i find it very sad that the people that they quote actively advocate for color of skin to be one of the characteristics for employment or educational opportunities.
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Nixon had to implement AA to stop the democrat controlled socialist gov't unions from discriminating against minorities.

AA for college ensures that young Blacks, who aren't prepared, will drop out and be saddled with huge college debt.
 
Bigdog said:
Nixon had to implement AA to stop the democrat controlled socialist gov't unions from discriminating against minorities.

AA for college ensures that young Blacks, who aren't prepared, will drop out and be saddled with huge college debt.
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didnt they cause a crisis of some sort where people undeserving of credit were given it due to the color of their skin?
 
Hello katzgar,

katzgar said:
Oops, the OPer missed a racist
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I am not concerned. Those who belong on my Ignore List will eventually slip up and find their way onto it. There have been only a few days so far when I have not added to my Ignore List.

Bigdog, are you going to take that?

I have seen the way you like to express yourself. Why don't you go ahead and flame on me if that's what you really want to do? Naturally, my standard practice will be observed should you take this opportunity.

My list is full of those who cannot control their outbursts.

Some seem to have the ability to clean up their approach at the flip of a switch.

Are respect and restraint found in your realm?

I never understood why people want to lash out personally at others with whom they disagree. I respect somebody for having an opinion and standing by it with respect for others. Our nation is founded upon the principle that we, the people, are responsible for the governance of our own nation. In order to live up to that tremendous responsibility, it requires a well informed and actively engaged populace. This means we need to talk with one another about what's going on and what we ought to do about it. All views should be heard. But that doesn't mean everyone is entitled to insult those with home they disagree. That accomplishes nothing. It actually holds the nation back because once the insulting begins, meaningful conversation ends. Participants tend to cease discussing ideas, and focus instead on emotions and on another.
 
Politalker,

The leftwing shuts down nearly every discussion by screaming racist.

:dunno:
 
Hello Bigdog,

Bigdog said:
Conservative Christian Rev. Dr. MLK would totally rip the racist, hate whitey Left to shreds.
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The left is very wide and includes many views, not all of which are what you say. Are there racists on the left? Of course there are. Are there racists on the right? Without a doubt, there are far more racists on the right than on the left.
 
Hello volsrock,

volsrock said:
JFK FILE: FBI MONITORED MARTIN LUTHER KING'S 'ABNORMAL' SEX LIFE OF ORGIES, HOOKERS

http://www.newsweek.com/declassified-jfk-file-details-fbi-sex-smears-about-martin-luther-king-701996

Yup a Great man, so no more slamming of Trump ...since 'ABNORMAL' SEX LIFE OF ORGIES, HOOKERS etc, do not disqualify a man from being great
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I saw your comment. It is predicated on the false notion that two wrongs make a right. Two wrongs do not make a right. If one person commits a wrong, and is not held accountable for it, that does not make it OK for someone else to commit the same wrong.

MLK may have had some secrets. Had they been known of at the time, his credibility would have been diminished, and his work would have been less effective. And that would have been a shame.

We know about President Trump's infidelity. It does diminish his credibility, and because it does, it also diminishes the credibility of the United States of America. And that is a shame. It is a shame that hurts each and every one of us each and every day. It is a shame which must be dealt with. It is a shame which cannot be overlooked forever. It is a shame which many in the Republican party have overlooked in their zeal for power. It is not acceptable.
 
PoliTalker said:
Here is a general email sent out by Congressman John Lewis, who marched with MLK, and was nearly killed for it:

"Obama.org

Fifty years ago today, I was with Robert Kennedy in Indianapolis when we heard that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot and killed.

The leader of our movement for civil rights was gone, assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.

And I believe something died in all of us that day. Something died in America.

But I've also always held the belief that what he left us — the way of hope, the way of peace, the way of love, a philosophy and discipline rooted in nonviolence — cannot be taken away. These things are eternal.

On Monday, I had the privilege of meeting with President Obama and a group of young men in Washington, D.C. for a My Brother's Keeper Alliance roundtable. Together, we commemorated the legacy of Dr. King, celebrated his life, and looked to the future.

I believe we can always do more to embody the teachings of Dr. King, not just on the anniversary of his death, but every day.

And young people are demonstrating that spirit to us. They are organizing and speaking up. They're marching. They're demanding more for themselves and their generation.

And so I had a message for the young folks I met with this week.

When I was growing up as a child in Alabama, I saw crosses that the Klan had put up. I saw signs that said "white" and "colored." There were places we couldn't go. The majority of African Americans could not participate in a democratic process in the South. We could not register to vote. And when I first came to Washington to go on the Freedom Rides in 1961, black people and white people couldn't be seated together on a Greyhound bus leaving this city.

When I got involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a young man, we'd sit in at restaurants. People would spit on us, put their cigarettes out on us, pour hot coffee down our backs. I was arrested 45 times in the 1960s. I was beaten, left bloody and unconscious.

But I never gave up. And today, you cannot give up.

That's what Dr. Martin Luther King can teach us today. His message is as important now as it was 50 years ago:

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Because of King and the actions of so many others, we brought those signs down. We earned the right to sit in those restaurants. We earned the right to vote.

Now, all across the South and all across America, there are elected officials who are people of color. In the recent elections in Virginia and around the country, more people of color and more women were elected to positions of power. They are African American, Latino, Asian American, Native American. Our country is a much better place — a much different place — in spite of all the setbacks and interruptions of progress.

Dr. King taught us to be brave, to be courageous, to be bold. I don't know where America would be, where many of us of color would be, were it not for him.

His legacy was to speak up, stand up. When you see that something isn't right or fair, you have to do something — you have to get in the way. Get into good trouble.

The young men I met with this week give me so much hope for our future."

—Congressman John Lewis "
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Thanks for posting this.
 
Hello ThatOwlWoman,

ThatOwlWoman said:
Thanks for posting this.
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You're welcome. Thanks for your participation in this thread. I didn't realize until I read Congressman Lewis' email that it was 50 years. It is reassuring to see so many joining this positive discussion.
 
PoliTalker said:
Today is the anniversary of MLK's death.

It was a sad day for the United States of America.

The assassination was a set-back for race relations in America, which are still strained to this day.

I had hope that President Obama, as the first black president, would use his bully pulpit to further the work of MLK, but sadly he was not interested in doing so, and let the monumental opportunity pass.

Worse yet, his election energized hate groups across the nation and reignited racial animosity.

How will the USA ever overcome racial tensions and discrimination?

Shall we overcome?
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If I could make 2 comments...
1) MLK was assassinated by a DEMOCRAT
2) Lots of people like to speak for the deceased MLK, and they attribute issues to him that he never embraced.

He was a great advocate for racial equality, but he never asked for race based preferential treatment.
 
PoliTalker said:
Today is the anniversary of MLK's death.

It was a sad day for the United States of America.

The assassination was a set-back for race relations in America, which are still strained to this day.

I had hope that President Obama, as the first black president, would use his bully pulpit to further the work of MLK, but sadly he was not interested in doing so, and let the monumental opportunity pass.

Worse yet, his election energized hate groups across the nation and reignited racial animosity.

How will the USA ever overcome racial tensions and discrimination?

Shall we overcome?
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with love, truth and Democracy
 
Sirthinksalot said:
If I could make 2 comments...
1) MLK was assassinated by a DEMOCRAT
2) Lots of people like to speak for the deceased MLK, and they attribute issues to him that he never embraced.

He was a great advocate for racial equality, but he never asked for race based preferential treatment.
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to a racist equal looks like inequality

you could never speak for MLK
 
With the ' ban list ' in mind this could develop into a decent JPP discussion.
Congrats to the OP.
 
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