Posted on 08/29/2019 6:43:00 PM PDT by Perseverando
"I have a dream ... where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers,"
stated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., AUGUST 28, 1963, at the Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C.
Martin Luther King, Jr., attended Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia, 1942-1944.
Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He wrote in Up From Slavery (1901):
"I learned this lesson from General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
With God's help, I believe that I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any wrong that he may have inflicted upon my race.
I am made to feel just as happy now when I am rendering service to Southern white men as when the service is rendered to a member of my own race.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice."
Booker T. Washington stated:
"In the sight of God there is no color line, and we want to cultivate a spirit that will make us forget that there is such a line anyway."
"I have always had the greatest respect for the work of the Salvation Army especially because I have noted that it draws no color line in religion."
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There’s that great story of this white autistic boy having a meltdown and is being touched by this black child.https://thegrio.com/2019/08/28/little-boy-warms-hearts-when-he-comforts-autistic-boy-crying-on-first-day-of-school/
Those of us who can remeenber, remember that the negro protesters of that day wanted the chance to live like “White people”.
They already knew how it was to be treated ‘special’.
“Not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”.
He certainly had his flaws.
But considering that charlatans and greedy animals that took his place, it would have been better had he lived to an old age.
He would have said “what are you doing accepting being treated so differently? As if you’re not bright enough to take care of yourselves?”
i could be wrong, but he would be repulsed by RACE being asked on every questionnaire.
And he’s throw up if he saw what jackson and sharpton have done to destroy black folks.
Speaking of history...Wasn't it Lyndon B Johnson that said...
I don't know if signing this bill is right.....But I can promise you I'll have those N*ggers voting Democrat for the next 100 yrs...
Do your own DD as to the statement and the voting results for the elections since then..
(this is a question...Not a staetment)
Martin Luther King was not the only black leader of the 1960s
We also had Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panther Party For Self Defense who had a slightly different philosophy and mission statement of revolution and black power.
Not that many in today’s black community care much about Martin Luther King or his philosophy - Malcolm X is their guy and Black Power is their philosophy
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