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Pulitzer prize winner teaches her audience a few things on MLK Day
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Nothing like opening misinformed white people's eyes to the reality that MLK had more than one quote to his name.
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
"Today Negroes want above all else to abolish poverty in their lives and in the lives of the white poor. This is the heart of their program. To end the humiliation was a start, but to end poverty is a bigger task. It is natural for Negroes to turn to the labor movement because it was the first and pioneer anti-poverty program."
"Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated."
"Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice."
"This man talked like he could build the barns by himself, like he could till the soil by himself. And he failed to realize that wealth is always a result of the commonwealth."
"The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them but do not make them any more than a prisoner makes a prison."
"In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear?"
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The reasons for white backlash:
White backlash has been a legitimate response to the five years of black ghetto rioting that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the War on Poverty declared the same year.
White backlash remains a legitimate response to the more enduring increases in black crime and illegitimacy since 1964. Black academic performance has improved little, despite expensive government spending like Head Start and No Child Left Behind. Blacks are no longer discriminated against. They are discriminated in favor of with affirmative action programs.
The black response to the opportunities that have been opened to them substantiates the arguments presented by segregationists against the civil right movement.
White backlash has been a legitimate response to the five years of black ghetto rioting that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the War on Poverty declared the same year.
White backlash remains a legitimate response to the more enduring increases in black crime and illegitimacy since 1964. Black academic performance has improved little, despite expensive government spending like Head Start and No Child Left Behind. Blacks are no longer discriminated against. They are discriminated in favor of with affirmative action programs.
The black response to the opportunities that have been opened to them substantiates the arguments presented by segregationists against the civil right movement.
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Nice....the white backlash is coming here soon
One day, Democrats are going to figure out it's not 1960 anymore.
This conversation would have been incomprehensible in 1960, even to people like King.
