Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did

[KingsOfKings]

Happy birthday mlk

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Damn, I'm taking Tuesday off.

 

[mastermind]

The greatest American ever

 

[-DMP-]

Good article. A lot of what whites did back then has been white washed.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

He smashed white hoes

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Half expected this to be about the German


RIP

 

[Dillah810]

Great read

 

[Dad]

It wasn't marches or speeches. It was taking a severe beating, surviving and realizing that our fears were mostly illusory and that we were free.

 

[Jalether]

I have a dream, that every time a republican/conservative quotes the only portion of MLK's speech they know and
love to weaponise, that they conbust into flames

 

[Conan]

The greatest American ever

Neolibs on here probably in love with the sanitized kumbaya version

 

[mastermind]

Neolibs on here probably in love with the sanitized kumbaya version

They believe more in government that does nothing than the people that push for change.

 

[Dave24]

Great article

@Kang The Conqueror

@humminbird

@Realm-Breaker

 

[Professor Emeritus]

MLK was that dude. I hate the watered down version of Martin Luther King they try to push on us. Imo his I Have a Dream speech was nowhere near his best speech. His last speech in Memphis and his multiple speeches about the Vietnam War was some next level shyt. I have alot of his speeches on my ipod. I laugh everytime a conservative quote MLK out of context like they would have liked them if he was alive.

Exactly this. Do you know how many times I've read on this site that MLK Jr. was just about "marching", as if they really think the entire American experience changed and White people transformed Black rights in America because someone did a march?

The greatest American ever

I'd cosign that.

It wasn't marches or speeches. It was taking a severe beating, surviving and realizing that our fears were mostly illusory and that we were free.

It was WAY more than that too though.

People do a terrible job of missing all the shyt that actually made the CRM work. The degree of organizing, the degree of mass cooperation, the economic beatings they gave to Southern businesses, the government services they forced to a standstill, the legal actions in the court, the brilliant manipulation of public narratives and the media, and the willingness to do all that in the face of real risks to one's own life and safety, it was a fukking OPERATION for 15+ years and people try to reduce it into good feelings and the same disorganized half-committed bullshyt you see too often today.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I have a dream, that every time a republican/conservative quotes the only portion of MLK's speech they know and
love to weaponise, that they conbust into flames

Neolibs on here probably in love with the sanitized kumbaya version

They believe more in government that does nothing than the people that push for change.

Once he was dead, the center-right and the center-dems both had strong motivation to nerf MLK Jr. and make him out to be some non-threatening speech-giver. Neither one wished to actually deal with the issues he brought up and both were frightened of the methods he used, so it was better to sweep all that shyt under the rug and talk about him like a great success story that they could claim for themselves but was all in the past and over with.

 

[Yapdatfool]

Once he was dead, the center-right and the center-dems both had strong motivation to nerf MLK Jr. and make him out to be some non-threatening speech-giver. Neither one wished to actually deal with the issues he brought up and both were frightened of the methods he used, so it was better to sweep all that shyt under the rug and talk about him like a great success story that they could claim for themselves but was all in the past and over with.

I hate the watered down version of MLK. Really diminished his impact and on purpose too.

I suck for even thinking that all MLK did was what white people said he did. SMH @ me.


While I feel Brother Malcolm is the more relatable leader to modern life (for good and bad) MLK accomplished a LOT to change America, too bad it didn't change that much.