Happy MLK Jr. Day

I marched with MLK in Boston back in April of 1965 when I was a freshman in college.
I'm more of an economic liberal than a social crusader,
but I do have that on my resumé and certainly don't regret it.

The housing discrimination was definitely wrong, but breaking up the neighborhood school system
for racial diversity turned out to be a big mistake. They should have put a lot more and better resources into
the black neighborhood schools instead. Learning math and grammar with white kids didn't make
black kids any smarter. It just stuck white hockey players and black basketball players into the same schools where
neither wanted to be.

Good teachers and education resources make any ethnicity smarter.
Ethnicity isn't a factor in learning. Effort by teachers and students is.

[ I was just out of high school by then, but I do admit to liking Ray Charles and James Brown a lot more than I liked the Beach Boys.]
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I marched with MLK in Boston back in April of 1965 when I was a freshman in college.
I'm more of an economic liberal than a social crusader,
but I do have that on my resumé and certainly don't regret it.

The housing discrimination was definitely wrong, but breaking up the neighborhood school system
for racial diversity turned out to be a big mistake. They should have put a lot more and better resources into
the black neighborhood schools instead. Learning math and grammar with white kids didn't make
black kids any smarter. It just stuck white hockey players and black basketball players into the same schools where
neither wanted to be.

Good teachers and education resources make any ethnicity smarter.
Ethnicity isn't a factor in learning. Effort by teachers and students is.

[ I was just out of high school by then, but I do admit to liking Ray Charles and James Brown a lot more than I liked the Beach Boys.]
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Obama trashed all that within 2 years. Effectively and long-lastingly somehow.
I thought we were better than that. :(
From The Civil Rights movement until Obama was OK, though. :dunno:
40 years, maybe?
Even before the movement, things weren't that bad in many places.
GA and AL, notsomuch.
King was from GA, no?
 
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evince said:
How could the Republican Party throw this magnificent human under the bus so they could cheat black Americans out of their rights to vote

To merely retain power in our government

I’ll tell you why

Because the Republican Party has hated Democracy for my whole life
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I don't know about that exactly, but I do think that MAGA is the most destructive and dangerous force in the US since the Confederacy.
 
Matt Dillon said:
How do you feel about the way Obama tore down everything MLK Jr. and all The Civil Rights movement people fought, bled, sweated, and even died for in just under 2 years, goober?
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Well, that never happened, but by all means, keep proving to everyone what a fucking moron you are.
 
Diesel said:
I don't know about that exactly, but I do think that MAGA is the most destructive and dangerous force in the US since the Confederacy.
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Go read up about a thing called The Southern Strategy

Wiki is good enough

Lots of people were not taught about some old political history

It’s really interesting too
 
evince said:
Go read up about a thing called The Southern Strategy

Wiki is good enough

Lots of people were not taught about some old political history

It’s really interesting too
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The Southern Strategy was not anti-democratic.
 
Diesel said:
The Southern Strategy was not anti-democratic.
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www.britannica.com

Southern strategy | Definition, The South, History, Republican Party, Democratic Party, & Facts | Britannica

The Southern strategy is a campaign strategy pursued by the U.S. Republican Party and initially aimed at increasing support from white voters in the South by subtly endorsing racial segregation, racial discrimination, and the disenfranchisement of Black voters.
www.britannica.com www.britannica.com


It was pure racism and the republicans began election cheating very soon after
 
That is the exact Moment the Republican Party turned evil

They gerrymandered, slandered and terrorized hundereds of thousands American citizens out of their rights to vote so they could undemocratically put their grubby cheating fingers on the levels of power

The Republicans gave up on Democracy decades go
 
I marched in a Civil Rights rally in Detroit. MLK was the speaker. He gave the first "I Have a Dream Speech" in Cobo Hall. I did not know he was such a big deal. I was about 6 feet away from him and wondered why he was being treated so specially. Major ass kisssing was going on.
 
evince said:
www.britannica.com

Southern strategy | Definition, The South, History, Republican Party, Democratic Party, & Facts | Britannica

The Southern strategy is a campaign strategy pursued by the U.S. Republican Party and initially aimed at increasing support from white voters in the South by subtly endorsing racial segregation, racial discrimination, and the disenfranchisement of Black voters.
www.britannica.com www.britannica.com


It was pure racism and the republicans began election cheating very soon after
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Ok
 
Nordberg said:
I marched in a Civil Rights rally in Detroit. MLK was the speaker. He gave the first "I Have a Dream Speech" in Cobo Hall. I did not know he was such a big deal. I was about 6 feet away from him and wondered why he was being treated so specially. Major ass kisssing was going on.
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Wow

I knew from watching him on TV in a conservative house hold at five why he was such a big deal
 
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