Chie Satonaka
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Now the martyrdom, on que.
No good faith was involved.
Every time.
I think we actually did this same thing in another thread. The more things change...
Now the martyrdom, on que.
No good faith was involved.
It's also kinda telling that MLK is the only black pokemon that anybody seems to be able to name. Him and Jesse Jackson are the black monolith to 95% of people trying to discuss issues of race.
Real talk, name the guy in my avatar without googling him.
Is this faux outrage?
I respect the information posted, but disagree with your premise.
At the end of the day, Dr king was just one man in the never ending civil movement , a movement drenched in violence and injustice, with people Stokely Carmichael, Ida B. Wells, and Malcolm X and the man and women who are not remember by time. Please remember the man, not the version you learn in school.
And please stop Whitewashing MLK and the Civil rights movement.
this isn't whitewashing
it's just them twisting his existence to benefit their own narrative
they're quite good at it too
But what is there to gain from pushing this view of MLK?
But what is there to gain from pushing this view of MLK?
But what is there to gain from pushing this view of MLK?
Because this is the way MlK would have wanted to be view, not this romanticize version.But what is there to gain from pushing this view of MLK?
Real talk, name the guy in my avatar without googling him.
Just made these. Hopefully they get some use
Are you sure? Respected African American Historian Bill O'Rielly says otherwise.
It's also kinda telling that MLK is the only black pokemon that anybody seems to be able to name. Him and Jesse Jackson are the black monolith to 95% of people trying to discuss issues of race.
Real talk, name the guy in my avatar without googling him.
I haven't. How many examples are there of this happening?
Considering I'm a supporter of BLM and the use of violence if necessary as a last resort, perhaps I'm out of touch with these tactics as I have no exposure to it.
EDIT: Of course Fox News and Bill O'Reilly...
You should have dropped this in the BHM thread, friend.
This is like asking Ja Rule for his opinion
AmazingJust made these. Hopefully they get some use
But what is there to gain from pushing this view of MLK?
MLK-namedropping is now a corollary to Godwin's law that applies exclusively to civil rights discussion.
mlk? I don't have that one lemme check the pokedexIt's also kinda telling that MLK is the only black pokemon that anybody seems to be able to name. Him and Jesse Jackson are the black monolith to 95% of people trying to discuss issues of race.
Real talk, name the guy in my avatar without googling him.
This is like asking ja rule for advice on how to send humans to mars and tweeting it to NASAThis is like asking Ja Rule for his opinion
State and Revolution said:During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the consolation of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
I feel you. Thanks for making this thread, OP. It really is needed.This thread felt so needed i felt catharthic finally seeing it
A dead man tells no tales.Like, people HATED MLK Jr. but he dies and suddenly people wanna act as if he was beloved. Same shit happened with Ali, and will happen with any civil rights activist who is still alive
Rob Schneider is a human-shaped piece of shit.
this isn't whitewashing
it's just them twisting his existence to benefit their own narrative
they're quite good at it too
People often forget how important the threat of genuine riots were to making civil rights a priority. And MLK didn't shy away from that threat either, he saw it as the logical outcome of an oppressed minority being ignored.
It's also annoying how his later strong anti-war stance and socialism often get ignored.
like so many brothers and sisters before and since, his beautiful and rich mahogany tones have been flattened to the matte black of the history books that paint him as the friend of well-meaning whites and the moral opposition of angry blacks.
Real talk, name the guy in my avatar without googling him.
OP is right and racists think MLK is this picture perfect "one of the good ones" when in reality he'd be an advocate for black lives matter in today's world
But what is there to gain from pushing this view of MLK?
Yesssss. I'm so tired of people using MLK's revised history to stifle people of color.