Posted on 01/23/2005 7:33:44 AM PST by Lando Lincoln
That was a different revolt. The blacks were fighting the tyranny of the Jim Crow laws. Everyone should have used restraint back then. Including the people that were lynching blacks.
You originally were complaining about the violence of the sixties. The point is that tyranny breeds violence--whether it was tyranny of the Crown or tyranny of other citizens.
I don't remember any tyranny in the 60's. There certainly was some revolting things going on in the South, but not elsewhere. I don't see that as a reason to riot and burn cities in the North and West. There is still too much hatred toward whites, which only causes resentment toward blacks. Not all of us are guilty, you know.
Then, you would not have had any reason to cause a riot back then. I guess you could have used any bathroom, water fountain, seat, or pool you chose to. You were never considered a second-class citizen. I guess you just won't ever get it.
I don't think YOU get it. Not everyone experienced that, not even blacks. Some did, I don't deny that. But what happened to blacks in the South then didn't happen to them in New York, Chicago, Watts, Detroit, or even in Miami. It was an EXCUSE to loot and burn, just like the Rodney King trial. That was really smart -- burn down their own neighborhoods. Real smart.
The world has gone insane, my friend, because it depends on the relativist mishmash like what the meaning of is, is. historical revisionists don't like the harshness of philosophical absolutes or inconvenient facts and the Constitution is studded with them. It is much easier for some, to imagine that humanity is evolving and that the Constitution must be 'interpreted' as a flexible and living document malleable enough to fit the times. Those that do would really be better off in Europe or some other 'enlightened' society where their organizing doctrines can be changed as often as they do their underwear. Perhaps more often.
No thanks.
Me? I'm in the it says what it means camp because humanity will always remain the same and organized power will always seek to usurp humanity's God-given rights and freedom. I've got a sneakin' suspicion you and I are poles apart.
MLK like JFK was lucky enough to get killed BEFORE all the real truth about both came out--ergo a saint.
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