Would I have stood with MLK?

guno said:
ATLANTA — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launched a $40 million scholarship program ...... plans to put 50 students through law schools around the country ]
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if they are only getting 50 lawyers for $40M they are really fucking things up......
 
guno said:
ATLANTA — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launched a $40 million scholarship program on Monday to support a new generation of civil rights lawyers, dedicated to pursuing racial justice across the South.


With that whopping gift from a single anonymous donor, the fund plans to put 50 students through law schools around the country. In return, they must commit to eight years of racial justice work in the South, starting with a two-year post-graduate fellowship in a civil rights organization.

“The donor came to us,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “The donor very much wanted to support the development of civil rights lawyers in the South. And we have a little bit of experience with that.”

Indeed, the LDF has been backing civil rights lawyers ever since its founding by Thurgood Marshall in 1940, during an era when Black people rarely had effective legal representation and Black students were turned away from southern universities. It funded the creation of Black and interracial law firms in several southern states in the 1960s and 1970s, and has built a network of lawyers since then.

Reflecting the urgency of these times, the fund has set an application deadline of Feb. 16, giving this fall's incoming first-year law school students less than a month to make their cases for the opportunity.

“While without question we are in a perilous moment in this country, we are also in a moment of tremendous possibility, particularly in the South,” Ifill said. “The elements for change are very much present in the South, and what needs to be strengthened is the capacity of lawyering.”


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good...or-50-future-civil-rights-lawyers/ar-BB1cTFhU
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Sounds more like a fund to train more agitators to whine and cry making false claims about how bad white people are while refusing to acknowledge it lies within them alone.
 
Michael_Panetta said:
Lol. You're copying my old humor. On this board, my signature used to be, "Most people think they're smarter than most people." Dealing with you is ironic, and also a bit funny because you can't see how.
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That you think you're smarter than anyone is humorous. You have to work extra hard to come up to the level of the average 85 IQ black.
 
Michael_Panetta said:
Lol. You're copying my old humor. On this board, my signature used to be, "Most people think they're smarter than most people." Dealing with you is ironic, and also a bit funny because you can't see how.
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sorry, I've had signatures turned off for years..........but in my experience internet posters who tout their own intelligence rarely demonstrate any.........so you've fallen from the weight of your own irony.....
 
Jarod said:
In honor of MLK, I wanted to share this quote from Untamed by Glennon Doyle. “I imagined myself to be the kind of white person who would have stood with Dr. King because I respect him now. Close to 90 percent of white Americans approve of Dr. King today. Yet while he was alive and demanding change, only about 30 percent approved of him—the same rate of white Americans who approve of Colin Kaepernick today. So, if I want to know how I’d have felt about Dr. King back then, I can’t ask myself how I feel about him now; instead I have to ask myself: How do I feel about Kaepernick now? If I want to know how I’d have felt about the Freedom Riders back then, I can’t ask myself how I feel about them now; instead, I have to ask myself: How do I feel about Black Lives Matter now? If I want to know how I’d have shown up in the last civil rights era, I have to ask myself: How am I showing up today, in this civil rights era?”
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Comparing a whining, narcissistic, 5th rate athlete to MLK, and a band of terrorists to the Freedom Riders?

Too ridiculous.

Pathetic too.
 
Jerome said:
Ok, so it's concluded, now, you're a racist, pigheaded dumbfuck.
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Calm down. You need to learn the difference between evidence and confirmation bias.

A larger percentage of black Americans are arrested for marijuana than are white people. That's a statistic, but it's not "evidence of racism." To say so is actually confirmation bias.
 
Jerome said:
No, you don't understand the claims at all. Black people are 6x more likely to be shot while unarmed. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/b...illed-by-police-harvard-study-says-2020-06-26

Black people are FAR more likely to be arrested for drug use and distribution, despite using and selling at the same rate as whites: https://www.aclu.org/report/report-...inal-law-reform/war-marijuana-black-and-white

Staggering Racial Bias: Marijuana use is roughly equal among Blacks and whites, yet Blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession.

Black people have less than 1/10th the generational wealth of white people (thanks to past discrimination, slavery, jim crow, etc). https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/

[FONT=&]This history matters for contemporary inequality in part because its legacy is passed down generation-to-generation through unequal monetary inheritances which make up a great deal of current wealth. In 2020 Americans are projected to inherit about $765 billion in gifts and bequests, excluding wealth transfers to spouses and transfers that support minor children. Inheritances account for roughly [/FONT]4 percent[FONT=&] of annual household income, much of which goes untaxed by the U.S. government.


Housing discrimination is not only responsible for much of the wealth gap, but also the education gap, since black children are far more likley to grow up in neighborhoods that are over-policed, and have underfunded schools: [/FONT]https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2019/08/07/472617/systemic-inequality-displacement-exclusion-segregation/



Now you don't have the "I haven't seen evidence of that" excuse anymore.
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Most likely it comes down to
there's usually more police presence in dangerous neighborhoods.

If this country is so racist.

Maybe we need new ideas.

Like a Black autonomous state.

Where Blacks could control police, businesses & politics to a far higher degree.
 
I actually did march with MLK in 1965.
I was a freshman in college at the time.

I was never so insecure about my Euro-American heritage that I thought we couldn't compete if on equal footing with African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, and indigenous Americans.
The American goal of equality didn't seem threatening to me in my late teens, not has it seemed so since.
The Trumpanzee racists have one overriding problem: they're all too aware of their own tragic inadequacies.
 
No moderates would have stood with MLK.

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
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Most people on JPP would not have stood with MLK.
 
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