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Posted on 11/01/2007 6:04:11 AM PDT by coffee260
I wonder if MLK ever spoke out against the oppression of Black Cubans under Fidel (I’m guessin’ he didn’t). Batista was a Black Cuban.
I don’t see how you can read those speeches and positions and not recognize he was clearly Socialist.
Lincoln has been called the first communist by people that don't understand how he wanted to ensure equality.
Show me one socialist country where the poor don't work and yet are paid a wage (which during MLK time) would put them on an equal footing with the middle class for doing nothing?
Even the worst forms of socialism aren't based on such stupidity as you are desperately trying to read into what King said.
It is impossible to create a formula for the future which does not take into account that our society has been doing something special against the Negro for hundreds of years. How then can he be absorbed into the mainstream of American life if we do not do something special for him now, in order to balance the equation and equip him to compete on a just and equal basis? ...Few people consider the fact that, in addition to being enslaved for two centuries, the Negro was, during all those years, robbed of the wages of his toil. No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries. Not all the wealth of this affluent society could meet the bill. Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. ...
Justice for black people will not flow into society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory. Nor will a few token change quell all the tempestuous yearning of millions of disadvantaged black people. White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo. When millions of people have been cheated for centuries, restitution is a costly process. Inferior education, poor housing, unemployment, inadequate health care--each is a bitter component of the oppression that has been our heritage. Each will require billions of dollars to correct. Justice so long deferred has accumulated interest and its cost for this society will be substantial in financial as well as human terms. - Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait, 1964
“Desperately trying to read into” ? C’mon, man, now you’re just trolling. You’re reminding me of the dead parrot skit from Monty Python.
How we would have voted if it were 50 or 100 years ago and how long dead people would vote now are at best parlor games.
What matters is getting things right in the present.
One less-obvious reason was that many Southern states had "white primaries" under the legal theory that the parties were private organizations, and could restrict their membership as they pleased. Since Republicans rarely won anything in the Democrats' "solid South," the primary was the race that mattered, and black votes were rendered more or less irrelevant.
The supreme court banned white primaries in 1944, but I don't know how long it took the states to comply.
It is impossible to create a formula for the future which does not take into account that our society has been doing something special against the Negro for hundreds of years. How then can he be absorbed into the mainstream of American life if we do not do something special for him now, in order to balance the equation and equip him to compete on a just and equal basis? ...And who was he talking about that did all those things to black people....The Democrats!Few people consider the fact that, in addition to being enslaved for two centuries, the Negro was, during all those years, robbed of the wages of his toil. No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries. Not all the wealth of this affluent society could meet the bill. Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. ...
Justice for black people will not flow into society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory. Nor will a few token change quell all the tempestuous yearning of millions of disadvantaged black people. White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo. When millions of people have been cheated for centuries, restitution is a costly process. Inferior education, poor housing, unemployment, inadequate health care--each is a bitter component of the oppression that has been our heritage. Each will require billions of dollars to correct. Justice so long deferred has accumulated interest and its cost for this society will be substantial in financial as well as human terms. - Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait, 1964
Every attempt by the republicans to make things equal in this country for those that suffered under the abuses of the democrat party has been subverted by the democrats, welfare, affirmative action,the war on poverty civil rights all subverted and perverted to becomes tools for the democrats continuing to subjugate a whole race of people.
Hasn't this party always been the one that wanted all our citizens to be treated as equals under the law? Isn't that what Dr. King was asking for as well?
Maybe I'm the only one here that remembers how brutal and vile blacks were treated by democrats in the south, or how republicans stood up to them and stood beside Dr. King when Democrats were willing to use force against people asking for what our constitution guaranteed them as citizens.
Maybe I am the only one that remember how Mexicans were treated better then blacks in the south, or how a black man couldn't ask a decent wage without risking their jobs or in some cases their lives.
If it is socialism to want equality for all our citizens, doesn't that make The Republican party the true socialists in this nation?
There is more to socialism then asking for a decent wage, civil rights, or respect as a man or a woman, and neither of you have shown me enough to make me say the man wasn't a republican, if anything you have shown that he embodied the ideas that have been the hallmark of this party and the antithesis of what the democrats have proven they believe in.
Are you seriously endorsing Marxist economics as a logical and workable solution to 400 years of oppression ?
Democrats won the black vote by throwing money at them and it worked.
King wanted the minimum yearly wage to be the same as the median income! That doesn't even make sense, because the median income would drastically increase if the minimum wage was increased to equal the median income! The only way the minimum yearly income would equal the median yearly income would be if everyone in the country made the exact same wage! That doesn't sound like socialism to you? The median income in the US in 2006 was over $32,000. Do you think it would be a good idea to raise the minimum wage to $16 an hour!?
I’m not real proud of the fact that he was a Republican. Marxists have no place in the GOP.
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