What exactly does this have to do with martin luther king. Other than he was black a leader of civil rights.
Have you ever actually listened to a MLK speech?
In a sense, the greatest tragedy of this other America is what it does to little children. Little children in this other America are forced to grow up with clouds of inferiority forming every day in their little mental skies. As we look at this other America, we see it as an arena of blasted hopes and shattered dreams. Many people of various backgrounds live in this other America. Some are Mexican Americans, some are Puerto Ricans, some are Indians, some happen to be from other groups. Millions of them are Appalachian whites. But probably the largest group in this other America in proportion to its size in the population is the American Negro.
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But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.
And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I'm still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve. That in a real sense it is impracticable for the Negro to even think of mounting a violent revolution in the United States. So I will continue to condemn riots, and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. And continue to affirm that there is another way.
With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discourse of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to speed up the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and live together as brothers and sisters, all over this great nation.
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“I’ve seen my dream shattered as I’ve walked the streets of Chicago and see Negroes, young men and women, with a sense of utter hopelessness because they can’t find any jobs. … I’ve seen my dream shattered as I’ve been through Appalachia, and I’ve seen my white brothers along with Negroes living in poverty. And I’m concerned about white poverty as much as I’m concerned about Negro poverty.”
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Now the problem is not only unemployment. Do you know that most of the poor people in our country are working every day? And they are making wages so low that they cannot begin to function in the mainstream of the economic life of our nation. These are facts which must be seen, and it is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income.
As a white descendant, again of people like Asa Wing.
Shortly afterward, on March 8, 1854, Wing died of unknown causes. Frederick Douglass, a former slave and well-known abolitionist who was a close friend, delivered the eulogy at his funeral.
"He poured out his life for the perishing slave, pleading for him with an eloquence and earnestness which could scarcely have been more direct, pathetic and touching, had his own wife and children been on the auction block, " Douglass said at the time of Wing's death.
It makes me very upset and irritated when I see articles like this.
Some argue that, in fact, the U.S. was founded on these malignancies, and they currently insulate the country and the subjugation of the poor, the marginalized, the Black. But because many white Americans and conservatives view racism as an individual sin or moral failure of ethos, rather than a cancerous system that requires community and governmental reform, Dr. King’s writings and teachings on love and patience make for convenient fodder for warm-and-fuzzy quotes.
Which ultimately allows racists to feel better about being racist, some whites to feel more comfortable unapologetically wallowing in their racial privilege, and outwardly condemns any responses to experiences with racism that do not reflect patience and kindness
Ahh yes some poor uneducated broken redneck schmuck whos family has been living in the woods with the indians for hundreds of years could not possibly understand the intricacies of racism. What a hoot, really. This is why appalachians hate city slickers.
If martin luther king had preached hate and violence, they wouldnt have put a bullet in his brain.
What exactly does this have to do with martin luther king. Other than he was black a leader of civil rights.
Have you ever actually listened to a MLK speech?
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As a white descendant, again of people like Asa Wing.
It makes me very upset and irritated when I see articles like this.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maiahoskin/2022/01/17/how-martin-luther-king-jrs-legacy-has-been-used--to-insulate-white-supremacy/
Ahh yes some poor uneducated broken redneck schmuck whos family has been living in the woods with the indians for hundreds of years could not possibly understand the intricacies of racism. What a hoot, really. This is why appalachians hate city slickers.
If martin luther king had preached hate and violence, they wouldnt have put a bullet in his brain.