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MLK is rolling in his grave fast enough to generate free power for all of North America.
Everyone on Lemmy who wants change, wants it from their couch with no effort. You guys complain about poor democratic candidates, but do you ever take part in the primaries, are you a registered voting member of the party? Have you contributed money and time to the campaign of your preferred candidate? Have you gonna door to door for them?
Or did you just sit back watching Netflix till the party put forward their candidate without your input, and at that point you decided to complain? At the finish line? Americans are the least politically involved people in terms of actually putting in the work. But they do love to tell the rest of the world how to live.
That’s the best part. I don’t really do a lot here in Canasa but I a) actually vote for who aligns with my beliefs and b) stay out the fucking way when positive change is mildly uncomfortable for me but someone’s doing the hard work to make it happen. Meanwhile there are people all over the internet who will actively try to dissuade people from doing thing A because it’s scary for them.
The general population barely has to do anything, and for being so conflict avoident they sure like to allow things to get so bad that much worse conflict becomes inevitable.
This is the reason why he was assassinated folks. Same reason why Malcom X was assassinated too.
And Fred Hampton
“Martin, I’da shot ya myself but white folk got better aim.” -Uncle Ruckus
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
– Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
The only stupid thing I’m aware of him ever saying.
I’ll take a thousand apathetic cowards over a thousand raging bigots any day.
Apathy let’s people strong arm the weak. Apathy is what got you Donald Dumbass Trump. Apathy is the bane of a successful society. Evil grows on the shadows and apathy let’s it fester until it boils over.
You are very wrong Lemming, very wrong indeed. Apathy let’s your neighbours be dragged from their homes while you turn a blind eye.
I never said apathy wasn’t a problem.
I like this one more.
What a way with words.
These are the same people blaming non-voters because they had a conscience.
Democrats were fine with throwing Palestinians under the bus but people who said “no, we don’t want to be a part of it” are the “problem”.
They don’t want peace, they just don’t want to be bothered by the actions of their system they created.
Reprehensible people.
Then vote third party! Not voting just says “I don’t care”.
I would go even further, by not voting the message those in power get from you is “the current situation/trajectory of society is fine with me”. Whether or not that’s what you intended.
Agreed. Abstaining from democratic participation doesn’t absolve from democratic responsibility. If both parties on offer are shit, at least make a point of showing that on the ballot rather than just silently accepting whatever comes your way.
Oh, cause Palestinians are doing so much better under trump, right? He just gave Israel $3.3 billion for their military…
But anyone saying “Kamala Harris would be much better than trump” is reprehensible?
People making your argument have no sense ofrealpolitik.
that wasn’t the only issue harris had. but that was the issue everyone looked to her at that moment to rally her base, only for her to not only dash that but to parrot the same neo liberal bull shit. and that’s when everyone knew that there would be no escape. if victory was the plan then the democrats should have known better
It’s also tragic what they did to Helen Keller.
The woman was a brilliant, opinionated socialist who fought capitalism publicly and vehemently - bravely and without any deference to those she didn’t respect…
…and history remembers her for learning to say the word “water”, completely making her seem like a simpleton who barely learned to function. It’s insulting and horrible.
I love the sentiment, but I always shy away from this particular quote, simply because it is unsubstantiated:
You should actually read that article beyond the “unsubstantiated” tag.
It’s very likely he did say either exactly those words or something very close to them. It’s just that no one recorded or transcribed him saying those because it was a private conversation between him and another individual who only wrote down the encounter 40 years after it happened.
I do love the apt ‘rich beyond conscience’, whoever wrote the quote
Then the Billionaire LeBron James decided to sell a pair of sneakers with MLK Jr’s name on it 🤦♂️
https://www.si.com/fannation/sneakers/news/nike-lebron-james-criticized-over-mlk-shoes
I think would be proud to see how far a man like LeBron has gotten in America, at the same time i think he’d be disappointed to see him become a disconnected billionaire with no clue about his roots or desire to spread the wealth to his community.
Who’s the genius to sanitized American history, I think Goebbels could learn a few things from them. Modern American education even though college makes modern American history seem like a bunch of helpless minorities decided to protest until the benevolent white people gave them rights, and modern political activism shows it. The history of labor is barely even mentioned.
All national projects sanitize their history and make myths about themselves.
Here’s Lenin describing recuperation of revolutionsaries after their deaths in 1917
