—written by a black author,
Spokesman for Color Us United–Advocating for a Race-Blind America
Posted on 01/15/2023 6:41:51 PM PST by know.your.why
Oooh... I have a new Freeper I like. Well said, Retain Mike.
Jesse Jackson worked with MLK so I think he would be proud of the way Jesse divided the country and made millions for himself. BTW there were 2 hookers in the motel room when MLK was shot. Jesse was there at the time.
#13 “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Booker T. Washington
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education
“Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.”
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
“My experience is that people who call themselves “The Intellectuals” understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that, if these men could have gone into the South and taken up and become interested in some practical work which would have brought them in touch with people and things, the whole world would have looked very different to them. Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have taken a more hopeful view of the situation.”
Booker T. Washington
MLK would probably revere Trump for having to put up with FBI spying like Dr. King had to put up with including the audio sex tape sent to him in January 1964 to blackmail him into obedience to the Democratic Party in 1964.
To me, the obvious first difference would be the rise of Jesse Jackson as King's successor. If Jackson hadn't had the "bloody shirt" to wave around, would Jackson have risen to prominence? Sure, he was close to King but where would he have been later in life if King had lived?
Jackson ran for President in 1984. What if King had run instead? In fact, what if King ran in 1976 against Jimmy Carter in the Democrat primary? Would King have been the first black President? Would we not have had a President Reagan? Would the Berlin Wall have not come down?
Who can say how history would have changed if Martin Luther King, Jr. had lived?
-PJ
It has been my belief for the past several decades, that if MLK had not been shot and killed, during the 80’s and 90’s, he would be acting and race-baiting the same as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and all the other blacks that were riding on his bandwagon during the 60’s.
I read some years ago that the “I have a dream” speech was plagiarized from a black preacher that gave basically the same speech at either th 1952 or 1956 Republican convention.
He would think all was for naught.
MLK has been thrown under the bus.
His notion of content of character not color of their skin is polar opposite with identity politics.
In fact, the notion is considered racist today by the woke
He stole church funds and spent them on prostitutes.
A few corrections: Black males make up about 6% of the population and commit more than 50% of the murder and far higher carjackings and violent crime. There is more segregation now than in the past 50 years. MLK was going 1968 woke before he died coming out against the Vietnam War and other causes. He and LBJ are the two men mostly responsible for the destruction in the black community today and society in general.
Thank you.
MLK's actual birthday was yesterday, Jan. 15.
His inspiring word from the March on Washington speech in 1963 are often quoted, but I don't think we can say how he would have adapted to later developments. Would he have embraced racial preferences on the grounds that they benefited his people? I wonder if he is on record expressing an opinion one way or the other.
Amazing truth, amazing he had the gonads to put that on paper. Thanks for telling me about it.
Read later.
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