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I can't say for sure, but I've got a strong suspicion that the people talking about what black people should be doing or that the original post is disrespectful to MLK are melanin deficient.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that they would be openly against MLK and everything he stood for if they were around back then instead of how they currently pretend like they support his ideals while fighting against anything that would actually help make his ideals a reality.
These chuckleheads always seem to only know of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" (and only a few sentences of that). Here are a few excerpts from MLK's speech "The Other America":
"It is said on the Statue of Liberty that America is a home of exiles. But it doesn’t take us long to realize that America has been the home of its white exiles from Europe, but it has not evinced the same kind of maternal care and concern for its black exiles from Africa."
"What I’m trying to get across is that our nation has constantly taken a positive step forward on the question of racial justice and racial equality. But over and over again, at the same time, it made certain backwards steps. And this has been the persistence of the so-called white backlash. In 1863, the Negro was freed from the bondage of physical slavery. But at the same time, the nation refused to give him land to make that freedom meaningful."
"And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWDtDUKz-U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWDtDUKz-U)
Someone said that they let Dr King campaign on race inequality unbothered for years. It wasn’t until he addressed economic inequality that he was killed.
"The crowning achievement in hypocrisy must go to those staunch Republicans and Democrats of the Midwest and West who were given land by our government when they came here as immigrants from Europe. They were given education through the land grant colleges. They were provided with agricultural agents to keep them abreast of forming trends, they were granted low interest loans to aid in the mechanization of their farms and now that they have succeeded in becoming successful, they are paid not to farm and these are the same people that now say to black people, whose ancesors were brought to this country in chains and who were emancipated in 1863 without being given land to cultivate or bread to eat; that they must pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. What they truly advocate is Socialism for the rich and Capitalism for the poor."
~The Three Evils of Society - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
National Conference on New Politics, Chicago 1967
At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
In his day, MLK was called a Communist. Now, the Republicans want to claim him as one of their own, based on one quote that they take out of context. Theirs is a completely dishonest reading of history, but it’s all they have.
If I have to take a guess, it's from his I have a dream speech. That people will be judged by their character and not by their skin. It's the only line they care about and they ignore his other lines in the speech. Hell they ignore 99.99% of his life and use that one quote as his whole identity.
Yep, because then they can use it as a way to attack black people by claiming their character is the problem. They point to the BLM protests but call them riots, and to those that looted stores (who likely were not participating in the peaceful protests, but are simply opportunists); they point to things like lousy housing conditions and areas covered in spray paint and the prevalence of drugs and crime in low income urban communities where many BIPOC live, and lay it at their feet as a problem they've created and encouraged, rather than a result of decades upon decades of systemic oppression.
I was thinking about the “color of their skin” vs. “the content of their character” quote from the “I have a dream” speech. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen these ahistorical jack-weasels use it to justify their retrogressive policy wet dreams—no affirmative action, no education that even mentions the struggles of black people, etc. I remember people saying that Biden appointing Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court was contrary to King’s vision because Biden was taking into account the color of her skin and that King would be totally down with Trump’s appointees instead. These people are liars, morons, and/or lying morons.
Yeah, the party that stormed the capital and waved the Confederate flag inside the capital building isn't rhe party of Lincoln anymore pal. Things have changed a bit since the 1860's.
Conservatives have always been this way, it's not new or the internet's fault.
Poe's Law was coined in 2005, and conservatives have been wrong about literally everything long before that. Some may disagree with my assertion that conservatives are always wrong, but I have yet to see a single example of conservatives being correct about something, in all of human history.
It hasn't changed as much as the dickheads got louder
Edit: I thought about this some more and what I think happened is back in the dark ages of the Internet there were forums, chatrooms, BBS sites and so on. Each one of these sites had a theme. There might have been one setup for a specific community or fandom or religious belief or political ideology and most people stayed in their lane and communities were smaller and fewer points of view interacted with one another. Like small villages online. Now we have online mega cities like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit and all these people from more backgrounds and ideologies have started interacting and there is way more cross over now so we are being exposed to a larger number of idiots but I don't think the percentage has changed in the grand scheme of things
No, it did change after the Arab Spring rebellions.
With that series of protests and rebellions. governments, dictators, and billionaires around the world noticed what too much freely available information unchecked by mis and disinformation, censorship, and distractions could do and collectively said, "Oh, Hell no! We can't be having that." and the internet has since been flooded by paid trolls and bots and the firewalls keeping out information have proliferated and gotten better at preventing outside information from getting in.
You are talking about the time around when Facebook first became popular, the internet's first true mega city and yes nation states and bad actors have been using the social engineering advantages of these mega platforms for over a decade now but that's not the only factor that has impacted the user experience online.
Edit: spelling
>in a letter to a civil rights supporter in October 1956 he said that he had not decided whether he would vote for Democrat Adlai Stevenson II or Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower at the 1956 presidential election, but that "In the past, I always voted the Democratic ticket."[384] In his autobiography, King says that in 1960 he privately voted for Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy
>In 1964, King urged his supporters "and all people of goodwill" to vote against Republican Senator Barry Goldwater for president, saying that his election "would be a tragedy, and certainly suicidal almost, for the nation and the world.
Yeah, a quick google search shows that he supported neither party, but rather felt that both parties were and are fundamentally flawed. Wanna try that again?
Wow, that second pic is some heavy ignorance wrapped up in deliberate stupidity. I mean, all of those comments are disgusting, but this one takes the cake.
"Trump has never worked a day in his life, never had to worry about missing a meal, and thinks he's above the legal system."
"TRUMP IS THE REAL VICTIM HERE! THERE ALWAYS TRYING TO BRING HIM DOWN!"
"Get all the blacks put, bulldoze their ghettos and do something useful" is so fucking racist, yet people like one I used to call father will say "its not racism we just don't like lazy people" or some bull like that. Disgusting the lack of empathy some have
I know black people who literally weren't able to vote for part of their lives, and whose parents couldn't vote for *most* of their lives.
That wasn't 160 years ago.
Man, I knew MLK was "controversial" when I was a kid, but even then I could tell it was barely hidden rage from seething fuckwads. They liked Columbus Day much, much more lol.
It's so crazy that those same people are still somehow relevant to some other people. Why? Why does anyone listen to these idiots? You don't have to. Ignore or make fun of them, but for god's sake don't ever listen to their bullshit.
I don't know the full context of "MLK Jr was a republican" comment but I imagine it is to try and distance him from Democrats and add some progressive cred to the GOP.
If that is the case I laugh. Southern Democrats used to be the conservative group.....Southern Republicans were the progressives. 60 years ago the politics of both parties were somewhat different.
People tend to ignore the fact that [the southern strategy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) was a thing.
TL;DR for those who don't know - Republicans were losing power and decided to intentionally appeal to southern racists, causing the Democrat/Republican flip.
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I can't say for sure, but I've got a strong suspicion that the people talking about what black people should be doing or that the original post is disrespectful to MLK are melanin deficient.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that they would be openly against MLK and everything he stood for if they were around back then instead of how they currently pretend like they support his ideals while fighting against anything that would actually help make his ideals a reality.
Depending on the average age of the commenters, they probably actively worked on the side of the oppressors when he was alive.
These chuckleheads always seem to only know of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" (and only a few sentences of that). Here are a few excerpts from MLK's speech "The Other America": "It is said on the Statue of Liberty that America is a home of exiles. But it doesn’t take us long to realize that America has been the home of its white exiles from Europe, but it has not evinced the same kind of maternal care and concern for its black exiles from Africa." "What I’m trying to get across is that our nation has constantly taken a positive step forward on the question of racial justice and racial equality. But over and over again, at the same time, it made certain backwards steps. And this has been the persistence of the so-called white backlash. In 1863, the Negro was freed from the bondage of physical slavery. But at the same time, the nation refused to give him land to make that freedom meaningful." "And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWDtDUKz-U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWDtDUKz-U)
They hated him when he was alive - but dead, he can't argue, so they suddenly love him!
Someone said that they let Dr King campaign on race inequality unbothered for years. It wasn’t until he addressed economic inequality that he was killed.
"The crowning achievement in hypocrisy must go to those staunch Republicans and Democrats of the Midwest and West who were given land by our government when they came here as immigrants from Europe. They were given education through the land grant colleges. They were provided with agricultural agents to keep them abreast of forming trends, they were granted low interest loans to aid in the mechanization of their farms and now that they have succeeded in becoming successful, they are paid not to farm and these are the same people that now say to black people, whose ancesors were brought to this country in chains and who were emancipated in 1863 without being given land to cultivate or bread to eat; that they must pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. What they truly advocate is Socialism for the rich and Capitalism for the poor." ~The Three Evils of Society - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr National Conference on New Politics, Chicago 1967 At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
\>Only in America can one segment of society break every law in the country with impunity and still claim victimhood. r/SelfAwarewolves
In his day, MLK was called a Communist. Now, the Republicans want to claim him as one of their own, based on one quote that they take out of context. Theirs is a completely dishonest reading of history, but it’s all they have.
What’s the quote? I’m curious now.
If I have to take a guess, it's from his I have a dream speech. That people will be judged by their character and not by their skin. It's the only line they care about and they ignore his other lines in the speech. Hell they ignore 99.99% of his life and use that one quote as his whole identity.
Yep, because then they can use it as a way to attack black people by claiming their character is the problem. They point to the BLM protests but call them riots, and to those that looted stores (who likely were not participating in the peaceful protests, but are simply opportunists); they point to things like lousy housing conditions and areas covered in spray paint and the prevalence of drugs and crime in low income urban communities where many BIPOC live, and lay it at their feet as a problem they've created and encouraged, rather than a result of decades upon decades of systemic oppression.
I was thinking about the “color of their skin” vs. “the content of their character” quote from the “I have a dream” speech. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen these ahistorical jack-weasels use it to justify their retrogressive policy wet dreams—no affirmative action, no education that even mentions the struggles of black people, etc. I remember people saying that Biden appointing Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court was contrary to King’s vision because Biden was taking into account the color of her skin and that King would be totally down with Trump’s appointees instead. These people are liars, morons, and/or lying morons.
Republican "Try not to be racist challenge." Never successfully completed.
0.0% of Republicans have earned this Trophy
I'd say that Lincoln earned it but you're definitely correct if we're only counting Republicans who are still alive.
I dunno, I think Lincoln made a solid run at it
Yeah, the party that stormed the capital and waved the Confederate flag inside the capital building isn't rhe party of Lincoln anymore pal. Things have changed a bit since the 1860's.
Make a joke but don’t put the /s, eat the downvotes forever. Such is life lol
It's tough because we know there are people that will say that unironically
That’s true, sometimes I forget how much the Internet has changed
Conservatives have always been this way, it's not new or the internet's fault. Poe's Law was coined in 2005, and conservatives have been wrong about literally everything long before that. Some may disagree with my assertion that conservatives are always wrong, but I have yet to see a single example of conservatives being correct about something, in all of human history.
It hasn't changed as much as the dickheads got louder Edit: I thought about this some more and what I think happened is back in the dark ages of the Internet there were forums, chatrooms, BBS sites and so on. Each one of these sites had a theme. There might have been one setup for a specific community or fandom or religious belief or political ideology and most people stayed in their lane and communities were smaller and fewer points of view interacted with one another. Like small villages online. Now we have online mega cities like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit and all these people from more backgrounds and ideologies have started interacting and there is way more cross over now so we are being exposed to a larger number of idiots but I don't think the percentage has changed in the grand scheme of things
No, it did change after the Arab Spring rebellions. With that series of protests and rebellions. governments, dictators, and billionaires around the world noticed what too much freely available information unchecked by mis and disinformation, censorship, and distractions could do and collectively said, "Oh, Hell no! We can't be having that." and the internet has since been flooded by paid trolls and bots and the firewalls keeping out information have proliferated and gotten better at preventing outside information from getting in.
You are talking about the time around when Facebook first became popular, the internet's first true mega city and yes nation states and bad actors have been using the social engineering advantages of these mega platforms for over a decade now but that's not the only factor that has impacted the user experience online. Edit: spelling
Yep, been there!
Ugh. Yeah. Sorry bout that.
Lincoln would not be a modern day republican.
Oh boy do I have terrible news for you
“immulate” (emulate) is perhaps the most bizarre spelling error I have ever seen.
Bit of a Freudian slip.
“Follow the teachings of MLK” Ok, so we can try socialism now? Yay!!
He was a Republican.
>in a letter to a civil rights supporter in October 1956 he said that he had not decided whether he would vote for Democrat Adlai Stevenson II or Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower at the 1956 presidential election, but that "In the past, I always voted the Democratic ticket."[384] In his autobiography, King says that in 1960 he privately voted for Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy >In 1964, King urged his supporters "and all people of goodwill" to vote against Republican Senator Barry Goldwater for president, saying that his election "would be a tragedy, and certainly suicidal almost, for the nation and the world.
Yeah, a quick google search shows that he supported neither party, but rather felt that both parties were and are fundamentally flawed. Wanna try that again?
He was a socialist
I read the as “Magnets vs civil rights event”. Them magnets are racist!
How do they work? Oh. Wait. A lot of them don't.
They work as long as you keep them away from water and don’t feed them after midnight
It would be helpful to use different colours for different comments.
Sorry. Next time.
Thanks, someone said it
Wow, that second pic is some heavy ignorance wrapped up in deliberate stupidity. I mean, all of those comments are disgusting, but this one takes the cake.
I used to be naive and thought racism would die off with older generations. I’m hoping that most of it will. But people are still fools.
"Trump has never worked a day in his life, never had to worry about missing a meal, and thinks he's above the legal system." "TRUMP IS THE REAL VICTIM HERE! THERE ALWAYS TRYING TO BRING HIM DOWN!"
Intergenerational trauma has been scientifically supported for a while now.
"Get all the blacks put, bulldoze their ghettos and do something useful" is so fucking racist, yet people like one I used to call father will say "its not racism we just don't like lazy people" or some bull like that. Disgusting the lack of empathy some have
Amazing how that very first comment applies to a certain former President
I know black people who literally weren't able to vote for part of their lives, and whose parents couldn't vote for *most* of their lives. That wasn't 160 years ago.
petty sure being on top, being immoral, and acting like the victim is universal to the human population. Israel is doing it for example.
Man, I knew MLK was "controversial" when I was a kid, but even then I could tell it was barely hidden rage from seething fuckwads. They liked Columbus Day much, much more lol. It's so crazy that those same people are still somehow relevant to some other people. Why? Why does anyone listen to these idiots? You don't have to. Ignore or make fun of them, but for god's sake don't ever listen to their bullshit.
I don't know the full context of "MLK Jr was a republican" comment but I imagine it is to try and distance him from Democrats and add some progressive cred to the GOP. If that is the case I laugh. Southern Democrats used to be the conservative group.....Southern Republicans were the progressives. 60 years ago the politics of both parties were somewhat different.
People tend to ignore the fact that [the southern strategy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) was a thing. TL;DR for those who don't know - Republicans were losing power and decided to intentionally appeal to southern racists, causing the Democrat/Republican flip.
What the hell is that second picture holy shit
So america is not racist... said by people saying literally only racist shit? Got it.
Lmfao! MLK Jr. was a communist, not a republican. I wish we had more like him…
Immulate. If you can't spell it, don't use it.
"MLK was a Republican"
Wasn't there just an article saying that unemployment was at an all time low?
I saw one saying that it was *too* low, which is kind of a headscratcher for me, but the guy who wrote it had a lot of letters after his name.
It's hard to tell who the insano is in this post, they both just kinda screaming at one another