Originally Posted By: britneyspearsatemyshorts
 Originally Posted By: whomod
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When Obama was campaigning in the South, he invoked the name of MArtin Luther King daily, MLK would not have stood for such talk in a church.


This moron has obviously never heard Martin Luther King's speeches then. specifically his speeches in regards to the Vietnam war.

Listen to what King said about the Vietnam War at his own Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Feb. 4, 1968:

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"God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war. . . . And we are criminals in that war. We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place." King then predicted this response from the Almighty: "And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power."


If today's technology had existed then, I would imagine the media playing quotations of that sort over and over. Right-wing commentators would use the material to argue that King was anti-American and to discredit his call for racial and class justice. King certainly angered a lot of people at the time.



hmmm Martin Luther King opposed a war he found unjust. at the time there was severe racial injustice, and King called for change.






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U.N. Committee to Review Racial Injustice in U.S.


Dear Friends:

Beginning today, the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will hold hearings in Geneva, Switzerland, to review racial inequities in the United States, including disparities in criminal sentencing.

The Sentencing Project submitted a report to the Committee in December in preparation for this week's hearings. The national criminal justice reform organization called upon the Committee to hold the U.S. government accountable for failing to ensure equality before the law. Notably, its report argues that the racially disparate impact of federal cocaine sentencing laws violate requirements of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), to which the U.S. is a signatory......


Racial Disparities in Criminal Court Processing in the United States

Yeah, persistent black anger and Reverend Wright must come out of some vacuum to you since after all, Bill O'Rielley probably told you racial inequality is a thing of the past. Not to say that white anger is completely unjustified either. That is the point. There does need to be some more accountability and personal responsibility in the black community. The problem comes in the fact the the people usually proposing this, are the same people who are amazed when they find out black people actually use silverware in restaurants. There is where you reach this racial impasse. One that Obama addressed quite forcefully and honestly.