MLK was assassinated because he was about to shut the nation DOWN. Wanted 2 TRILLION in reparations to FBA. MLK files prove it. Dems will ignore this!

[Barlow]

No, don't leave out the context. What does the thread title say?

With that in mind, the fukk does MLK assassination have to do with "Dems ignoring it?" The main point is if anything of that magnitude is getting got, its getting got with blood. Who here is ready to spill blood for a fight that was theoretically lost shortly after it had its best chance of happening?

Note: I am NOT saying don't fight for reparations. I am saying the people with the "Reparations or bust" mentality probably aren't putting in real work for it anyway, so keep that shaming shyt for when we don't have someone actively eroding the very civil rights that Dr. King died in the aftermath of.

I mean it’s, true dems, republicans and mostly everyone who touts mlk ignore this.

If you think it’ll be got with blood that’s your opinion but:

1. When has anything we’ve gotten in this country not been met with blood
2. Why is fighting for reparations so ludicrous and dangerous but we can still beat a bunch of nazis in office who yet according to yall won’t let us do anything and are going to deport all of us? Will that not be met with blood?

Speaking personally, it’s more work being done locally to fight for reparations than anyone complaining about trump and ice on here everyday. You ask for a solution and nikkas just continue to say the sky is falling.

 

[alpo]

we can’t get reparations in 2025 but somehow we were steps away from getting trillions in the 60’s??



Y’all don’t live in the real world lol

Faggit mad punk boy

 

[Mordith]

My bad

 

[Barlow]

What post of mine did you respond before this one?

Now nikkas is blind

 

[MoshpitMazi]

RIP king

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

we can’t get reparations in 2025 but somehow we were steps away from getting trillions in the 60’s??



Y’all don’t live in the real world lol

It’s a long shot to say the least, but you’re talking about 2 different political climates… it’s worth fighting for at the end of the day…..even if the chances of succeeding are less than 5 percent

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

And certain supposed pro-black folks got the nerve to besmirch that mans legacy.

Yep. The brehs that talk about the, "Civil Wrongs Movement"

 

[NAUGHTY]

Johnny Cochran tried to sue the US for reparations as well. Him and a couple other US attorneys. It was a “conspiracy” back in the day that his death was linked to him helping form the Reparations Assessment Group. And now this with Dr. King.

 

[Peter Popoff]

And him and X was definitely #bothsides

And a lot of black people opposed him, Malcom X and the black panther party either because of their controversial past, strategies or simply because of 1 or 2 little nuances which they didn't agree with.

Still relevant to today.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I'm familiar with MLK.
My question is regarding the WH documents. Nothing presented in the documents that were released by the WH mentions anything about King and reparations for Black people. Unless I missed something in those specific documents (if I did, please point me to it), the premise of this post is misleading.

Not sure what your aim is…. Why did you leave out the part that states “The boycotts were meant to disrupt every sector of America with the black dollar until needs were met. Why would poor whites be owed reparations?

 

[Mordith]

you mean like the dozens of reparations committees that have been sabotaged and blocked across the country?

My bad I didn't see your response until now.

Reparations committee= begging your oppressor to do what's right which is a futile which explains why it went nowhere.

The Civil Rights movement provide the template for the only strategies that have a chance to create change in American society. Civil disobedience and economic boycotts are the only tried and true strategies available to us, but in 2025 nikkas just want to hear themselves talk.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

And certain supposed pro-black folks got the nerve to besmirch that mans legacy.

I think a lot of 60s and 70s babies was on that "Malcolm = good; MLK = bad" shyt back in the late 80s and early 90s. Even Chuck D hinted at that shyt in 'Fight The Power.'

They saw Malcolm as visibly angry and assumed he was more of a pro-Black radical and thought MLK half-stepped.

Usually heard this from nikkas up north that didn't understand the racial politics of the South. MLK was more plugged in to the levers of power and moved accordingly. Malcolm was more on the outside and needed a more radical message to be heard. Malcolm misunderstood Martin's goals. Martin was looking at racial equality but ALSO economic equality for everyone (Poor People's Campaign).

Once Malcolm came back from Mecca, his worldview was broader and he could see why Martin moved the way he did.

It's a lot easier to take an aggressive tone in NYC versus Birmingham.

 

[85 East]

If you ever read about cointelpro this isnt shocking. He had the ability to complete that strike too. With a little planning and convincing a few unions to strike alongside with him, he could have become the most powerful man in America. Hoover feared Martin and Malcolm. Really feared Malcolm.

 

[At30wecashout]

I mean it’s, true dems, republicans and mostly everyone who touts mlk ignore this.

If you think it’ll be got with blood that’s your opinion but:

1. When has anything we’ve gotten in this country not been met with blood
2. Why is fighting for reparations so ludicrous and dangerous but we can still beat a bunch of nazis in office who yet according to yall won’t let us do anything and are going to deport all of us? Will that not be met with blood?

Speaking personally, it’s more work being done locally to fight for reparations than anyone complaining about trump and ice on here everyday. You ask for a solution and nikkas just continue to say the sky is falling.

1. That's not the point. Who is fighting for it in that way? It's way more "No vote until reparations" than folks actually building coalitions and trying to control local politics and build. If people get things in blood, it doesn't always literally mean blood, but the "getting it" part involves more work than hopping into peoples conversations and derailing it for the hardest goal black American's can push for which is transformative reparations.

2. I did not say fighting for it is ludicrous. I'm pro-reparations, i'm just not pro "Throw everything that does not directly address black-only reparations in the trash". Also, the thing about the nazi fight, its not benefiting all white people...you know, the numerical majority in the country. You can get WAY more people to agree to fight nazis than you can to agree to give trillions or even billions of dollars of reparations to black people. A big part of picking fights is knowing when you can win them. This country has backslid and we can't win that fight.

3. As for local reparations, I know. I am in Chicago and have big ties to Evanston Illinois who has had a successful reparations program for 6 years and has distributed over $5 million to 212 black families in 4 years.

Evanston Local Reparations | City of Evanston

But guess what happened?

Judicial Watch Files Class Action Lawsuit over Reparations

Out of state conservatives challenging it in court since last summer. Oh, one of the Republican state senators recently:

"We're going to carve out a little thing for you, give you a few bucks to keep you quiet. Oh, by the way, we're going to pack a bunch of illegal immigrants into your communities, but here's a little money to shut up,” said Chesney, R-Freeport. “It should be offensive, one, to the people they're targeting—they're trying to give this money to—but it should offend everybody.”

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_118ff0e2-9e96-48bc-97cc-f745e1f0909e.html

Misrepresents the program and throws immigrant salt into it. The program was built on the premise that Evanston redlining took black people out of the city for decades and the best way to address it was to self-fund with marijuana proceeds to make housing affordability easier for black people who have ties for former black residents.

And about that lawsuit...

Flinn v. City of Evanston 1:24-cv-04269 (N.D. Ill.) | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse

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clearinghouse.net

Hon. John F. Kness

A Trump appointed, federalist society judge I live a stone's throw from Evanston so I follow this. Reparations are going to take the L and if fighting against white supremacists so they don't further erode what was built in blood decades ago doesn't motivate some black folks, we truly and collectively have no leg to stand on.

 

[melraH]

CACS are evil as fukk not only did they got him out the paint they paid for wars by poisoning Black communities. Sick ,evil shyt.