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originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: seeker1963
It's your logic why do you need me to explain it to you?
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: seeker1963
I wonder about perception with some people.
I posted about the need for a minority message... you came outta nowhere with people who preach equality are anti-LGBT. That left me only the supposition that you perceive all black people as anti-LGBT because some black people are.
Apparently I DID need to explain your own logic to you.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Wondering if MLK day is racist to me sounds racist in itself.
Only a racist would wonder if MLK day is racist in my opinion.
originally posted by: Jamie1
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Wondering if MLK day is racist to me sounds racist in itself.
Only a racist would wonder if MLK day is racist in my opinion.
Why?
Can you explain that leap in logic?
originally posted by: Kali74
There will continue to be a need for a minority message for as long as minorities are treated unequally. You guys want minorities to be all accepting, act as if everything is equal when it isn't. We've come far but we aren't there yet.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
originally posted by: Jamie1
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Wondering if MLK day is racist to me sounds racist in itself.
Only a racist would wonder if MLK day is racist in my opinion.
Why?
Can you explain that leap in logic?
Its like saying love means hate, or equality means repression.
Its like calling the sky the earth, or like calling hot cold.
Calling a day racist which celebrates the man who called for an end to racism is in itself racist, because the day is celebrated for an end to racism.
To call the day which celebrates the end of racism racist just shows the problem within the psyche of our current emergent racist generation.
I think its racist to call those who wish to end racism racist.
Its also race baiting. . . . I would imagine this thread goes against the T&C of ATS calling a day which celebrates the end of racism, a racist day is hate speach in my opinion. I will flag it to the mods in hopes they may remove it.
Instead of a trace buster think of it as a race buster
originally posted by: Jamie1
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
originally posted by: Jamie1
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Wondering if MLK day is racist to me sounds racist in itself.
Only a racist would wonder if MLK day is racist in my opinion.
Why?
Can you explain that leap in logic?
Its like saying love means hate, or equality means repression.
Its like calling the sky the earth, or like calling hot cold.
Calling a day racist which celebrates the man who called for an end to racism is in itself racist, because the day is celebrated for an end to racism.
To call the day which celebrates the end of racism racist just shows the problem within the psyche of our current emergent racist generation.
I think its racist to call those who wish to end racism racist.
Its also race baiting. . . . I would imagine this thread goes against the T&C of ATS calling a day which celebrates the end of racism, a racist day is hate speach in my opinion. I will flag it to the mods in hopes they may remove it.
Instead of a trace buster think of it as a race buster
Newsflash...
MLK Day has nothing to do with ending racism.
It's a national day of service.
www.nationalservice.gov...
The OP observed that some celebrating MLK Day may not be as color-blind and MLK had hoped for.
originally posted by: Jamie1
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Jamie1
Go back to the Civil Rights Act.
The southern Democrats are who tried to block it. The Republicans were the party that were the impetus to get it passed.
Somewhere along the way it was turned into a political football, which the Democrats claim to own now.
That's complete BS.
A higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats.
Want to try again.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Jamie1
Go back to the Civil Rights Act.
The southern Democrats are who tried to block it. The Republicans were the party that were the impetus to get it passed.
Somewhere along the way it was turned into a political football, which the Democrats claim to own now.
That's complete BS.
JFK carried 70% of the black vote. JFK (and RFK) were both well known for their support of the Civil Rights Movement (and their relationship with MLK and Coretta Scott King). Then in 1964, the Republicans ran Goldwater for President. Goldwater viewed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as unconstitutional and voted against it. MLK said that the nation would break out in "violence and riots, the like of which we have never seen before" if Goldwater was elected. If I'm not mistaken Johnson got something like 94% of the black vote.
So clearly this "somewhere along the way" narrative of yours is bogus.
It also bears mention that though Goldwater lost, "Mr. Conservative" was largely responsible for the resurgence in US conservativism and the modern Republican Party. Something of a parallel could be drawn to another famous "loser" — William Jennings Bryan — and the effect he had on Democrats at the turn of the century. People latch on to these out of context factoids like the bit about the vote on the Civil Rights act or "Lincoln was a Republican!" as though it some how makes the modern GOP look better.
Perhaps a bit of reading on the "Dixiecrats" and Strom Thurmond is in order?
It is about the message and how it has been bastardized by people for their own, personal gain and often to keep us all separated.
Newsflash...
MLK Day has nothing to do with ending racism.
It's a national day of service.