Posted on 01/15/2018 8:01:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In November of 2008, I was invited to Chicago to watch the election returns at Grant Park and be there with Barack Obama as he became the first African American ever elected U.S. president. I respectfully declined. Instead I spent election night in Atlanta, leading National Action Network’s (NAN) watch night service, similar to the New Year’s Eve service and countdown that we do every year.
A half-century ago King led a movement — a movement that was predicated upon securing voting rights, job opportunities, fair housing, educational opportunities, an end to racial discrimination and ending income inequality. Today, in 2018, we find ourselves at a crossroads: Everything King fought so tirelessly for is under attack once again.
One of the biggest criticisms we hear about Trump is that he has spent his first year in office attempting to reverse President Barack Obama’s policy achievements. While there is a lot of truth to that statement, it represents only half the story. In fact, Trump and his administration are undoing the progress that was achieved, not just by Obama, but by the civil rights movement.
The White House has so far gone after health care, criminal justice reform measures, and environmental regulations while endorsing voter suppression tactics, flirting with nuclear disaster, and passing tax cuts that benefit corporations and the wealthy while indicating that they plan to target the social safety net next. Almost all of these maneuvers will directly impact communities of color; often, these types of measures impact communities of color the most.
A situation this dire requires an equally impressive response. We must resist not only Trump, but also all those who would turn King’s dream into a nightmare.
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Sharpton turned MLKs dream into a nightmare a long time ago.
“Trump is turning Dr. King’s dream into a nightmare.”
The race hustling poverty pimp is fearful he will lose his gravy train.
Keeping blacks fearful and dependent is his sickening goal.
But its a new day and the chains are coming off; hallelujah!!
“Unemployment among black workers is at its lowest since at least the early 1970s, when the government began tracking the data.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/05/black-unemployment-rate-falls-to-record-low.html
The “progressive” definition of “progress” is abject destruction. What losers.
Nightmare? Black Lives Matter marching and chanting, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon”, has become the nightmare of the dream that MLK once had. The ideal of being a colorblind country has gone by the wayside, abandoned by the “liberals” everywhere. Their “Black Liberation” theology sounds suspiciously like they may have absorbed a number of elements of Islam, and not the good elements, either.
Socialism is NOT the salvation of the American black population, just as it has never been the salvation of any people in the world where it was adopted and soon enforced with an iron hand, as it must be if continuity is expected. Otherwise it breaks down and the society loses its cohesiveness altogether, reverting to tribal groups, which are notorious for a total lack of individual liberty and economic advancement.
Boy, is this ever a “Break out the fainting couches” article.
Yes, by any measure. Most of the media and the Democrat Party are racist too, and they can't even see or understand why. Discrimination on the basis of male gender and white ethnicity is completely expected in our time to combat what they call "racism". They are deaf and blind, but they certainly aren't mute.
Alveda King: Outrageous to call Trump ‘racist’
Fox News ^ | 1-13-18 | Fox News
Posted on 1/15/2018, 7:42:47 AM by sheikdetailfeather
Jan. 13, 2018 - 3:18 - Fox News contributor shares her perspective.
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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3622616/posts
Yep, just the other day I saw Donald Trump put an old black lady in a headlock and force her to the back of the bus. Shameful.
/sarc
Tawana Brawley
The only thing Trump has changed is more jobs, higher wages, and good jobs coming back to the USA. MAGA!
Saw Dr. Alveda King this morning.
She was GREAT!
I guess that means she can’t be a black leader anymore??!!
I do believe the media is doing so much damage to what they are trying to do... they are trying to remove him or make us hate him.. and they are doing the opposite. The anger out here can be vented in the voting booth and he’ll be reelected for another 4 years. They think we are not enough in number to do this?! We did it in 2016... and I don’t think their rhetoric has done anything but made us more determined to keep the only hope we have.. in office!
“...Sharpton is a racist....”
Yeah, it is how he acquires money. A first class gutter crawler. Black America should be reminded that it was the DEMOCRATS that supported slavery. And maintaining their ‘victim status’ is essential to RAT votes. Tammany Hall never died.
“Yep, just the other day I saw Donald Trump put an old black lady in a headlock and force her to the back of the bus. Shameful.”
You missed the evil Trumpster, kicking her off the bus via the back door.
When MLK was alive they had higher employment, education, home ownership, business ownership, marriage rates and stronger extended families. LBJ and the DNC destroyed the black family.
Exactly. They are the true racists.
Deliberately.
‘Nuclear disaster’ impacts communities of color the most ???
Yes, and all thanks to President Donald J Trump....
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