MLK Jr. was a great man and inspirational and all but..

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Yeah this thread was just to try to show love to someone else in the movement. My OP came off a little negatory toward King, didn't mean to do that. I was just reading about Wyatt the other day and wanted to show him the love he deserves on a day that is all about Civil rights. While we're on the subject, why doesn't anyone ever bring up that the US Govt was found guilty of murdering king

Because they weren't.
They were named" in conspiracy to kill him" in a civil trial of another man who had conspired to kill Dr. King.
The government wasn't found guilty of shyt, because their assassination attempt likely never went through.

 

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I think it's great that there is a day dedicated to MLK and the movement that helped us all.

The only annoying thing is the people posting MLK quotes out of context to fit their narrative. It was even worse during the Baltimore/Ferguson riots seeing people trying to use MLK as a tool against black folks outraged.

 

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Disregard the c00n bit, everyone gets it in these coli streets.
However wasn't he passive? wasn't the whole movement he spearheaded passive?
Campaigned, marched, pleaded and begged because they had no guts to do anything else.
Perhaps they are not to be faulted; they were born into that situation but didn't inherit any means to combat it.

Isn't it peculiar that the people we look up to (the MLKs, the Mandelas) were basically passive and kumbaya, let's forgive and love all, even those who have and continue to harm us. Yet the heroes of all other groups stood with arms and said no more, my will my way, I will not forget I will not forgive, you die by my hand

Do you not get that just marching could have gotten you killed.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Disregard the c00n bit, everyone gets it in these coli streets.
However wasn't he passive? wasn't the whole movement he spearheaded passive?
Campaigned, marched, pleaded and begged because they had no guts to do anything else.
Perhaps they are not to be faulted; they were born into that situation but didn't inherit any means to combat it.

Isn't it peculiar that the people we look up to (the MLKs, the Mandelas) were basically passive and kumbaya, let's forgive and love all, even those who have and continue to harm us. Yet the heroes of all other groups stood with arms and said no more, my will my way, I will not forget I will not forgive, you die by my hand

Theres nothing passive about literally putting your life on the line

 

[keond]

Disregard the c00n bit, everyone gets it in these coli streets.
However wasn't he passive? wasn't the whole movement he spearheaded passive?
Campaigned, marched, pleaded and begged because they had no guts to do anything else.
Perhaps they are not to be faulted; they were born into that situation but didn't inherit any means to combat it.

Isn't it peculiar that the people we look up to (the MLKs, the Mandelas) were basically passive and kumbaya, let's forgive and love all, even those who have and continue to harm us. Yet the heroes of all other groups stood with arms and said no more, my will my way, I will not forget I will not forgive, you die by my hand

The thing is Martin is looked at as passive but Malcolm is looked as a revolutionary. Both were fighting for the same thing. Both were killed because of it. Neither harmed physically a white person in the name of the movement.Im not saying that to shyt on Malcolm, i loved that brotha. But both essentially did the same thing. They brought attention to the movement. Neither were violent.

Marching in Selma Alabama in 1965 was like a death wish. MLK was vigilant in not just talking but taking the fight directly to cause. He died after giving a speech fighting for poor people and shytting on Vietnam DESPITE multiple death threats. He wasn't twitter fingers. Being black in the 60s (hell even today) and speaking against white folks was literally risking your own life. It took a enormous amount of "guts" and or courage to walk in that mans shoes.

 

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[BmoreGorilla]

Your point? Is that the mark of courage? Is that what men should aspire to?

That while your folks are dehumanized, maimed and killed; while your women are beaten, your children's growth stunted, your elderly spit at; century after century, that men should appeal to reason, read poetry and quote bible verses about love and charity?



Perhaps passive is not the right word. But I see nothing heroic in any of it.

You see nothing heroic about what the man did? He put his life on the line and that's not heroic

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Fair enough, I understand. I'm not shytiting on anyone. It's easy for me to speak when I never walked in their shoes.

I'm just saying that to me, he who meets force with force, violence with violence, is above he who meets them with meekness.

Can you turn the other cheek and call yourself a man, among men?

How was he meek? Dude literally put himself in the line of fire

 

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Have white trolls deep in the red make threads low key shytting on MLK on MLK day brehs

You can play the systemic racism card all day breh but I don't see white athletes laying chicks out in the elevator or throwing jabs at hoes in the club..

Keep supporting the mainstream hip-hop that promotes this behavior though brehs.. surely that has nothing to do with it

I'm white and I like music I can learn from. Where they teach you and educate you while you listen. Wu-Tang, Akala, Lowkey, Immortal Technique, etc..


But the majority of white people I know love Drake, Gucci and Future and the new shyt.

And this forum isn't racist

Most white people haven't

I know the majority of this forum loves to play the victim and hate ALL white people. But when people refer to the white man being evil and bringing them down, they're generally referring to the powerful white man that runs things.. not the every day white dude posting on the coli that works a shytty 9-5 and eats hot pockets.

Damn how you gonna send me to the Bushes? Guess y'all can't handle another successful white man.

That Joe Budden album nice though, right?

I don't get it. Not even the 5 Percent Nation hates the every day white dude as much as all of y'all. Kendrick wants to sign a white dude and y'all are freaking out like he's a sell out and suddenly hates black people. . You can like white and black people you know, it's not like you can only be exclusive to one. Most people are just people brehs.

I mean, if this forum really thinks the white man is the devil (since the entire forum is made up a 5%ers), then they would just getting with white women so those women can't have white kids . Black women don't gotta get with men, but if every single person was mixed we could focus our hate on each other because of location, religion, height and those types of things instead of race.

The only people syaing anything bad about that are people like you that want white people to act that way. I swear if you woke up one day and all the white people were gone you wouldn't know what to do with yourself.

 

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@J.V Koba here's another one

 

[keond]

I'm just saying that to me, he who meets force with force, violence with violence, is above he who meets them with meekness.

Can you turn the other cheek and call yourself a man, among men?

Yea but thats idealogy. The reason why Kings approach worked somewhat is because everytime black folks met white folks violence with violence they blew us off the map. See the Chicago uprising, Black Wallstreet and others. There was no way we were going to be able to advance the cause in 1960 fighting white folks in a 90% white country. Thats why the settled on civil disobedience. It wasn't about just turning the other cheek. You do realize that they defied Jim Crow Laws? They sat at counters and basically trespassed so that this country would be publically shamed across the globe. The focus was putting the spotlight on America. We wasn't about to overthrow the government in 1960 with pea shooters and .22 revolvers when this country got nukes, tanks, and shyt. The only way they could really bring about change was to confront racism openly.

The inroads they made allowed the later more militant organizations to grow a foot hold. Keep in mind this was a decade later. This was only due to the prior movement that King headed.

No Black Panthers without the mustard seeds of DISOBEDIENCE planted by MLK.

 

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Notice the users lurking this thread?

 

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