Let me just put this right here...
Posted on 08/15/2016 10:20:49 AM PDT by Prov1322
Dr. King, who was actually a very woke radical, said in a March 1968 speech that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”
I want to lead with Dr. King, in part because his words are so often bastardized by enemies of the Black Lives Matter Movement, to explain why our modern day concerns and methods are all wrong. Daily, I see some conservative say, “Dr. King would be turning over in his grave” if he knew this, that, or the other about black folk today. That's garbage. There's nothing new under the sun. Everything we are dealing with today, ranging from police brutality, to overt discrimination, to economic inequality, to the unrest and riots that often grow out of such conditions, was deeply and painfully familiar to Dr. King as well.
He was arrested at least 30 times in protests and demonstrations over inequality in America. Back when he was being arrested, critics were probably saying Booker T. Washington would be turning over in his grave over Dr. King's practices. King called these protests and other actions “civil disobedience.” In essence, he felt it was necessary to sometimes break laws, but in a civil manner, be it through a march on a road or a sit in at a lunch counter, to demonstrate to the world the unjust conditions being experienced in black communities all over this nation. The goal was to be seen and heard by the nation, and indeed the world, in order to effect demonstrative change in local communities.
When Dr. King said “a riot is the language of the unheard,” I believe it was, in part, a peek into his own emotions and frustrations with how slow society was changing. He knew what it was like to want justice, to want equality, to want fairness and balance, but not have it. He knew what it was like to speak out, but be ignored. Non-violent resistance was not the natural human (or American) response to injustice, but an incredibly difficult value decision that required training to uphold.
Just because one can never have enough of the eloquent mendacities of LilShaun when a riot breaks out.
Filed under "You Just Can't make This Up"...LilShaun's last paragraph...
These cities, and the people in them, aren't quick to anger. Quite the opposite — African Americans might be the most patient, long-suffering people in the world, but even that patience has limits. The National Guard was brought in to “bring order” to Milwaukee, but what the city needs right now isn't order, so much, but equality.
Can someone point to the injustice and unrest that transpired during Bush admin? No, we cannot. Professional protesters, astroturfers, etc., all funded by commie globalists.
Clinton?
Bush Sr?
Reagan?
Carter?
Here in Cincy 2001 we had one big riot/unrest and was fixed with a collaborative agreement.
No Soros, no 0bama, no Jarrett, No Bill Ayers.
Dr. King’s most famous thought was that he wanted blacks to be judged by their merits, not the color of their skin. That’s the exact opposite of what BLM is pushing today. So yeah, Dr. King probably is turning over in his grave based on what the inheritors of his cause have done with it.
“Equality” defined by what, exactly? Burning down the weave shop and a couple of liquor stores accomplished, what, exactly?
These people want revolution, but in a way that deprives the rest of us of our peace and property. Rather than join us in a movement towards prosperity, they’ve chosen to join a movement that aims only to deprive others of what they have. It can’t work, and won’t work, as has been proven time and time again.
Riot all they want, they can’t riot their way to prosperity.
They don’t want equality of opportunity, they’ve had that for a long time. They want equality of results and think that burning down their own neighborhood will get it for them.
Average I.Q. of 85 and that 15% below normal is huge.
There’s a race war raging, I didn’t start it but I have chosen sides.
Let me just put this right here...
The slave doesn’t dream of being free, he dreams of being Master.
You forgot to add the “massive barf alert” warning tag.
Equal rights? no problem. You have that under our Constitution. Equal effort? Ha! THAT will be the day...
Martin Luther King, Jr. practiced and preached NON-VIOLENT civil disobedience. The Milwaukee rioters and the BLM thugocracy have nothing to do with him, and he would indeed be appalled by their behavior.
The “Gap” is the “Ambition Gap”.
If your ambition is getting high and making fun babies, well, you aren’t going to go very far in life.
If MLK were alive today, he’d be called an “Uncle Tom.”
They don’t care about equality of opportunity, they want equality of outcome at best, superiority of outcome at worst (based on the perspective of those they would rob to achieve their ends).
Make no bones about it, this is a push towards slavery of white people (which has happened in the past and has a longer history of such than most Africans I would suspect).
These people don’t want to work towards prosperity - that would be acting white. We just can’t have that in post-racial America.
IQ only 85? wow...
They are the perfect footsoldiers for Soros and the rest of the rats. Stupid and willing to go bezerk.
Something that this “author” conveniently failed to mention in his espousal of the feelings of the late, great Dr. King.
Precisely. MLK taught nonviolence.
That’s the circle that cannot be squared by `LilShaun King’ as hard as he (or she) might try. This is how bad it’s gotten: this pinhead is suggesting that MLK would approve the violence going on now perpetrated by Black thugs.
Black Lives Matter apparently want black people to be ignored by police. They want to live outside society while enjoying the benefits.
It’s as if the Mafia rioted every time a wise guy was shot.
MLK would be appalled at black people rioting because an armed criminal was shot by police.
You want 'equality', LilShit? How about you EARN YOUR DAMN PAYCHECK like the rest of us?
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