I have a dream that white people will one day SHUT THE FUCK UP with referencing Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech. First of all, they can't even correctly quote even one line from the speech. Second, the man said so much more than I Have a Dream in his other speeches but the media doesn't want white people to hear anything other than the proverbial, "Can't we all just get along." For God's sake, the man was assassinated for his views so clearly white people wanted him silenced. Isn't it just like white people to pretend to be supporters now, after his blood was needlessly spilled.
"It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
"When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by the law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison."
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.
Have you ever met anyone who admitted to spitting on children of color who were just trying to go to a previously segregated school, spoken to someone who advised they didn't support civil rights or had someone tell you that they thought that people of color should have never had the vote?!?
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how once something becomes generally accepted as a basic right that everyone and their mother jumps on the bandwagon. As if it weren't even necessary to have a "movement" in the first place.
I love you guys.
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