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on the 15th obv but celebrated today.

happy birthday dr king

nah lowing has previously posted mlk was a bit of a fraud, cheated on his missus and plagiarised his phd thesis & i have a dream speech.

dont think it was anything racist though.

Last edited by m3thod (2011-01-17 18:55:01)

Yeah but he plagiarised his thesis so everything else he did is invalid.
Plus he's black, I mean c'mon.

Spearhead wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Yeah but he plagiarised his thesis so everything else he did is invalid.
Plus he's black, I mean c'mon.

Yeah, being murdered for being a peace activist and everything.  I mean, c'mon man, it's the rich white man here who is being oppressed, through political correctness and taxes.

what taxes, you mean STEALING HONEST HARD-WORKING WHITE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE'S MONEY?

DUnlimited wrote:

Spearhead wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Yeah but he plagiarised his thesis so everything else he did is invalid.
Plus he's black, I mean c'mon.

Yeah, being murdered for being a peace activist and everything.  I mean, c'mon man, it's the rich white man here who is being oppressed, through political correctness and taxes.

what taxes, you mean STEALING HONEST HARD-WORKING WHITE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE'S MONEY?

Don't forget the heterosexual males who are now discriminated against because only two gay men can marry in certain states, but not two straight guys.

It's that day again. Happy Birthday MLK Jr.

Macbeth wrote:

Nonviolent protest doesn't work without there being at least some threat of violence behind it. Gandhi and the Indian protest were the last stop right before another full Sepoy rebellion that in the post WW2 cold war climate, Britain would not be able to stop. MLK's protest were the last stop before racial warfare in a U.S. still struggling to prevent the expansion of the USSR.

I'm not downplaying what either man has done. I'm just saying that when trying to get political change on the level both of those guys worked towards then widespread political violence and terror has to be at least a possibility.

I had a discussion with one of my Professors about the extent to which MLK helped accomplish civil rights for minorities in the United States. It was more of an argument as he was yelling at me and labeling me a racist. All throughout the semester he was asserting the US was "the land of the free, home of the brave" and kept reiterating similar rhetoric. One of the examples he used was the civil rights movement being a pinnacle of US exceptionalism. I said that civil rights laws were passed under the guise of "liberty and equality for all," and the real pressure was from the Soviets and fear of more countries turning Communist he went off.

Alas, internest convergence

Dangit missed it by a day.

Oh well Happy Birthday

My bday today.

Almost forgot.

Happy Birthday

It's so easy to say the only reason civil disobedience worked is because there was threat of violence behind it, because virtually any protest movement has the threat of violence behind it.  But that doesn't detract from the fact the civil disobedience in the '60s was THE biggest factor in the civil rights movement gaining real wins. 

You're not saying anything profound, and it seems like you are dismissive of the civil disobedience championed by MLK in a thread honoring him.  In other words, you're a real piece of shit.

Happy Birthday