MLK appreciation thread

[Thegospel]

The irony... Your info comes from Movies, and Television because if you actually read and researched this subject independently I can put my life on it you wouldn't have the views you do.

This is the problem with the world we live in.

People rely on the Media to form their thoughts and opinions

Just let it go anyway, because it's clear you don't know enough on the topic to form constructive replies. 1love 1nation

You don't know what I've researched. All you've done is bring up some Jew who helped mlk. And post a quote from Malcolm x. Neither of you two have added anything to this thread that was breaking news. Just talking about how misinformed we are and to research more. Point us in the direction to this great info you have. Ill wait

 

[WaveGang]

You don't know what I've researched. All you've done is bring up some Jew who helped mlk. And post a quote from Malcolm x. Neither of you two have added anything to this thread that was breaking news. Just talking about how misinformed we are and to research more. Point us in the direction to this great info you have. Ill wait

I'll tell you like I told dude

My link is in books, you know thats where they hide all the good shyt

As far as the internet goes, I guess you gotta do some independent research and put the pieces together. There's alot of research points to go by from my post, I can assure you its all out there

In the age of technology ignorance is a choice

 

[ScottyG]

MLK gets all those praise to make people forget about Malcom X.

 

[Mr.Black]

the only thing i appreciate is getting a 3 day weekend because of this fraudulent ass nikka's birthday

 

[WaveGang]

MLK gets all those praise to make people forget about Malcom X.

Malcolm X the "anti-white radical black militant"?

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but the TV said....

 

[ScottyG]

Malcolm X the "anti-white radical black militant"?

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but the TV said....

Read his story in 8th grade and always knew he was the man since

 

[Thegospel]

Y'all are characters

 

[Birnin Zana]

His strong voice was created, his influence was created... he had the media and other entities behind him bruh. You know nothing of what you speak of

I'm actually giving a lecture this weekend on the anniversary of Dr Tony Martins passing, you welcome to come if you live in the UK

Please don't ever question my activism. Coz believe me when can go there

By the end of his life, MLK was strongly at odds with Lyndon Johnson and much of the mainstream due to his views on the Vietnam War and his push for the Poor People Campaign.

While he was planning for a large, aggressive BUT non-violent march in D.C. to emphasize the plight of the poor in America back in 1968, the Johnson administration planning as if it was a violent military takeover.

The MLK of 1968 was a different man from the MLK of 1963. Was his message "created" in his earlier years? We can't say. What we can say is that it was more accepted--or in line with the Johnson Administration--back then. As time went, he realized the movement had to go much further than that.

I'd like to think his viewpoints simply evolved over time.

 

[Birnin Zana]

MLK gets all those praise to make people forget about Malcom X.

Ironically enough, the mainstream back in 1968 onward--after MLK's death, mind you--promoted his 1963 march (and an idealized version at that) in an attempt to diminish the Poor People Campaign that was in disarray due to King's death. Clearly it worked. The Poor People Campaign was a failure and ultimately became a distant footnote in history, just like the Martin Luther King of 1967-1968.

Amy Nathan Wright wrote about the Poor People Campaign of 1968, including how the March on Washington 1963 was being pushed at the expense of the PPC. It's available here: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/3230/wrighta71412.pdf?sequence=2

General information can also be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People's_Campaign

Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and many others, including MLK himself, have been a victim of such a push. Promoting them in a proper light simply wasn't beneficial for the powers that be.

Malcolm and Martin working together would have been great for the country. It's almost no wonder the feds were hard at work trying to destabilize their movement.

 

[Captain Crunch]

MLK is no puppet. He stood for workers rights and he even wanted to create a second bill of rights: where every American has the right to a living wage.

MLK is the only non-president ever to have a national holiday after him. He changed our society.

Bet you hard-headed posters never knew that about him. All you think that he was some kind of pushover for white people and never for black power

 

[Birnin Zana]

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[Roaden Polynice]

Props to @HoopDreams94 for putting me on Stan Levinson.

Doing further research, dude was a genius, an absolute hero

And it begs the question, how did I not know of him?

 

[WaveGang]

Props to @HoopDreams94 for putting me on Stan Levinson.

Doing further research, dude was a genius, an absolute hero

And it begs the question, how did I not know of him?

I swear I'm so tempted to rep this post


This is the good kinda trolling

 

[Thegospel]

Lol at how this thread ended. nikkas hating on me saying king changed towards the end (like) another guys comment saying the same. Characters indeed

 

[4fossa]

Hey dawgs. I was just now talking to mah nikkas about history, black story specifically. And there's NO WAY to not hate cacs when you think about how the enslavery ended, and media programming on blacks from that on.


And I was also saying about Haiti, a country who black folk literally took the power over the whites (way before the end of slavery). What did happened? EVERY other country turned their back on them. So as you guys probably know, a country can only grow up with "help" of anothers (in economy deals and trades, at least). But how could others countries trust a place wich there wasn't white people ruling? This kinda of shyt get on the nervers if you start to think about.