Some days urg makes me proud to be his friend. Then there are the days that he steals my beer and fucks my woman. Somedays he gets that backwards.-Lothar
"Those were good days. Sitting around the campfires, eating dinosaur meat, and clubbing our wimmens in the head. I dream of those days sometimes. When Urg would make speeches and lead us to victory over the neighboring tribes. Good days, man. Good days." -Grimm
Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"
Words to heed even now. Especially now.
This not only seemed appropriate because of it's being his birthday weekend, but also because what he has to say will sound sadly familiar.
Dr. King talks about "those who would equate dissent with disloyalty," and about dark times "when high level authorities will use every method to silence dissent."
You will sadly hear much more ring true in what Dr. King had to say, as we have not progressed since his time but actually regressed, or at best, remained in roughly the same place.
Which may be why we now find ourselves in exactly the same situation as we did when feeble-minded conservatives in both parties spoke of "victory" without definition in that last fool's errand abroad, and a different yet equally idiotic generation of Kristols and Podoretzs predicted world chaos if we let those darn Commies rule in Vietnam--you know the country we now openly trade with.
Letter From a Birmingham jail unfortunately is not a YouTube video but it's both stirring and damning at the same time.
Thank God for men like King who had the courage to stand and say NO.
And thank God for an era that started with Kennedy and continued on with King, Bobby, Malcom, Ali, and Lennon, and may God forgive those who cut these visionaries and noble men down.
There will always be those who fear and hate change, fear and hate dissent, fear and hate equality. Those lives though won't be celebrated though. Rather, those people will be almost forgotten. Just remembered as being the one holding the firehose, the attack dog, wearing the sheet, spitting on the person wanting to be treated as a human being. Those who stood at the schoolhouse door. We only remember those people as the ugly face of intolerance, ignorance, and bigotry. Those people we do not celebrate. Rather, we celebrate those who came into this world and left it a better place for all mankind.
Don't worry. I'm sure Wonder Boy will set things right with some quip about how he cheated on his wife therefore he's a fraud or that he was a communist agent and hated America, and then all will be right with the world.
Don't worry. I'm sure Wonder Boy will set things right with some quip about how he cheated on his wife therefore he's a fraud or that he was a communist agent and hated America, and then all will be right with the world.
Don't forget how you just slandered him and his right to believe that black people are inferior unless they act white and are in small numbers.
In my reading about MLK I saw mentions that Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, Mitch McConnell, John McCain and Dick Cheney, all voted against there being a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. I woudn't call their actions compassionate conservatism.
And Donald Rumsfeld was there in the Ford Administration in the 1970's, drafting recommendations for CIA chief Colby not to testify about US intelligence agencies, including the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI, running a clandestine and highly illegal surveillance operation called Project MINARET that used “watch lists” to electronically and physically spy on “subversive” activities by civil rights and antiwar leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Jane Fonda, Malcolm X, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and Joan Baez—all members of Richard Nixon’s infamous “enemies list.”
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck
Once you recognize who you're dealing with, it really wasn't that hard to figure out...
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History is a vast early warning system. ~Norman Cousins
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
A demonstration of utmost honesty. He's still a logical, truthful, absolutely polarizing individual. And while he retains his ideals as an activist fighting racial inequality, he still amends his core philosophical beliefs. Obviously, he wasn't about to go all gay and regurgitate MLK cliches; he still knew how to handle American culture as an individual who could see the obvious juxtaposition that developed between the two races. Just because he realized that the rivers ran deeper, he wasn't gonna succumb to Lutherellian tendencies.
He first calls out the 'can't we all get along' liberals, both black and white, on their philosophical hypocrisy and then goes after whites. Correct or incorrect, he still knew the score at the time and knew that-that was the inherent but unspoken emphasis of other race activists. We all heard them talking about equality and integration, but at the same time we all knew that these were superficial gestures and that the differences were too paramount for anyone to really believe these ideals to be true. He was the only one of them who knew the logical conclusion of such fundamental views that other activists kept. He saw right through all those bullshit "I have a dream speeches" and decided to keep a sub-cultural independence so everyone remained honest. His integrity was truly admirable.
Halo, I know you have a learning disability and that it's very difficult for you to process information--Especially off the computer screen, but that's no reason to try and undermine Malcolm X's contribution to American culture.
I know everyone on this board could care less about Conpunk--I'm not exactly a huge fan of them either, but this always stood out for me when they said it:
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Punk rock has promoted fighting against oppressors. We were critical of the hippies' idea of sitting around bitching about the problem and not doing shit about fixing it – just blame the government. It was Malcolm X who said he despised peaceful activists. His motto was 'by any means necessary.' If he were alive today, I'd want him to be my president, even more than G.W. Malcolm knew Islam – he studied it for most of his life – and followed its teachings. He was murdered by Muslims because he was beginning to expose their 'beautiful lie.' I'd think he would just state that either Muslims take responsibility for what is being done in the name of Islam or he'd promise to drop a M O A B on Mecca.
Halo, I know you have a learning disability and that it's very difficult for you to process information--Especially off the computer screen, but that's no reason to try and undermine Malcolm X's contribution to American culture.
I hate Malcolm X and deny he made any contributions to American culture simply because I hate Pariah. I realize that this is an unreasonable and petty view, but I'll get a pass on it anyway since I'm mentally handicapped.
I hate Malcolm X and deny he made any contributions to American culture simply because I hate Pariah. I realize that this is an unreasonable and petty view, but I'll get a pass on it anyway since I'm mentally handicapped.
I hate Malcolm X and deny he made any contributions to American culture simply because I hate Pariah. I realize that this is an unreasonable and petty view, but I'll get a pass on it anyway since I'm mentally handicapped.
It's a good thing I'm not being victimized or Halo's OCD behavior might be confused as something other than hatred towards Malcolm X. So not even Halo's processing disability was able to confuse the issue this time around.
I hate Malcolm X and deny he made any contributions to American culture simply because I hate Pariah. I realize that this is an unreasonable and petty view, but I'll get a pass on it anyway since I'm mentally handicapped.
It's a good thing I'm not being victimized or Halo's OCD behavior might be confused as something other than hatred towards Malcolm X. So not even Halo's processing disability was able to confuse the issue this time around.
I hate Malcolm X and deny he made any contributions to American culture simply because I hate Pariah. I realize that this is an unreasonable and petty view, but I'll get a pass on it anyway since I'm mentally handicapped.
It's a good thing I'm not being victimized or Halo's OCD behavior might be confused as something other than hatred towards Malcolm X. So not even Halo's processing disability was able to confuse the issue this time around.
I hate Malcolm X and deny he made any contributions to American culture simply because I hate Pariah. I realize that this is an unreasonable and petty view, but I'll get a pass on it anyway since I'm mentally handicapped.
It's a good thing I'm not being victimized or Halo's OCD behavior might be confused as something other than hatred towards Malcolm X. So not even Halo's processing disability was able to confuse the issue this time around.
Anyone else think it's funny how Pariah never takes issue to me calling him a Pedophile? Use the word rationalization he starts trembling in his high heels.
