Would I have stood with MLK?

[Hoosier Daddy]

MLK said he hoped there would be a day when blacks were judged by the content of their character. What does Colin Kaepernicks behavior tell us about his character? He was paid millions of dollars to play a children's game but all the while referring to the people he would call if he was in danger, pigs.

when did he do that, lying cracker boy? got a source?

[CFM]

So, voting Republican would magically transform American Blacks!?
Oh really!?

Blacks have been voting for Democrats in overwhelming numbers for over 50 years. The government has taken the place of the father as shown by a 75% bastard birth rate. Blacks live in poverty at a percentage 2 1/2 x that of whites. The dropout rate for blacks is higher. And the list goes on. So, continuing to vote Democrat is going to solve those things?

[CFM]

when did he do that, lying cracker boy? got a source?

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/k...bs-and-freedom

[Underdog]

Comparing kapernick to king shows a grows non-understanding of King's good works.

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

In honor of MLK, I wanted to share this quote from Untamed by Glennon Doyle. “I imagined myself to be the kind of white person who would have stood with Dr. King because I respect him now. Close to 90 percent of white Americans approve of Dr. King today. Yet while he was alive and demanding change, only about 30 percent approved of him—the same rate of white Americans who approve of Colin Kaepernick today. So, if I want to know how I’d have felt about Dr. King back then, I can’t ask myself how I feel about him now; instead I have to ask myself: How do I feel about Kaepernick now? If I want to know how I’d have felt about the Freedom Riders back then, I can’t ask myself how I feel about them now; instead, I have to ask myself: How do I feel about Black Lives Matter now? If I want to know how I’d have shown up in the last civil rights era, I have to ask myself: How am I showing up today, in this civil rights era?”

do you stand with him now?

how about judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin?

[Hoosier Daddy]

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/k...bs-and-freedom

i quoted the idiot that said kapaernick called all the police pigs. and asked for a source. what does that have to do with what you posted?

[anatta]

So, voting Republican would magically transform American Blacks!?
Oh really!?

where do you get magically? No but it would get rid of the corrupt Democratic big city machine politics
that have been proven beyond a doubt to utterly fail the black community.
That would at least bring in some accountability for city officials

I swear I used to laugh at "plantation mentality" - but there isnt any other way to look at it
since urban blacks (at least in the north) keep voting the same way

[BattleofHodow]

Blacks have been voting for Democrats in overwhelming numbers for over 50 years. The government has taken the place of the father as shown by a 75% bastard birth rate. Blacks live in poverty at a percentage 2 1/2 x that of whites. The dropout rate for blacks is higher. And the list goes on. So, continuing to vote Democrat is going to solve those things?

After Clinton's welfare reform nearly 28 years ago. Most Blacks aren't sitting around doing nothing & getting TANF.
In fact TANF is almost exclusively given to single mothers & really poor families to prevent homelessness of children.
It's also temporary only 5 years & I believe requires volunteer work.

The truth is post welfare reform nothing changed for Blacks.

The truth is the massive drop in racism didn't change Blacks.

It couldn't possibly be just Democrat policies.

Jamaica has even more out of wedlock births & higher murder rates than even African Americans.

Jamaica has very little if any social programs.

Jamaica makes East Saint Louis look rich.

[CFM]

i quoted the idiot that said kapaernick called all the police pigs. and asked for a source. what does that have to do with what you posted?

Maybe you didn't see his socks then his lies about what he meant.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Comparing kapernick to king shows a grows non-understanding of King's good works.

you make a good point...but you are glossing over WHILE MLK WAS BEING ARRESTED, PROTESTING, LEADING MARCHES, opinion polls of him and his protests were incredibly negative among white folks...but now, those same kind of overtly racist pigs act like MLK was right on, like the hypocritical bastards they are.

Most Americans Didn't Approve of Martin Luther King Jr ...www.newsweek.com › U.S. › MLK Day › Civil rights
Jan 15, 2018 — There was a time when Martin Luther King Jr. was not so popular with the American people. A Gallup poll from 1966 found that 66 percent of ...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Revered More After Death ... - Gallup Pollnews.gallup.com › poll › martin-luther-king-jr-revered-m...
Jan 16, 2006 — Martin Luther King Jr. was among the most admired people of the 20th century ... King had a more negative than positive rating in 1966, and did not appear as one of ... King appeared on this list only two times, in 1965 and 1964: ... Gallup measured the public's perception of King in a different fashion in the ...

[anatta]

Government policies do matter. They are important. But ultimately change is going to come from within, not via the government. (And that comment isn't directed just at black people). Take white people, why do certain subsets of white people do better than others? What's emphasized in the community? What's emphasized in the home? Those things matter as much, or more, than government policy.

of course. poverty is largely a matter of circumstance however that breeds the mindset we are unable to change

Throw off the mental restricts -but the circumstances still need to be "changed"

[CFM]

After Clinton's welfare reform nearly 28 years ago. Most Blacks aren't sitting around doing nothing & getting TANF.
In fact TANF is almost exclusively given to single mothers & really poor families to prevent homelessness of children.
It's also temporary only 5 years & I believe requires volunteer work.

The truth is post welfare reform nothing changed for Blacks.

The truth is the massive drop in racism didn't change Blacks.

It couldn't possibly be just Democrat policies.

Jamaica has even more out of wedlock births & higher murder rates than even African Americans.

Jamaica has very little if any social programs.

Jamaica makes East Saint Louis look rich.

Clinton didn't have welfare reform. The Republicans in Congress did.

Don't expect blacks to do any better when they support a party that enables them to do worse.

[BattleofHodow]

where do you get magically? No but it would get rid of the corrupt Democratic big city machine politics
that have been proven beyond a doubt to utterly fail the black community.
That would at least bring in some accountability for city officials

I swear I used to laugh at "plantation mentality" - but there isnt any other way to look at it
since urban blacks (at least in the north) keep voting the same way

I suspect Southern cities are no better with " Blacks"

I was surprised by the much higher criminality in Sarasota vs New York.
I do believe Sarasota is run by Republicans.

Sarasota was worse than Poughkeepsie for crime.

Poughkeepsie around here has a bad reputation.

[BattleofHodow]

Clinton didn't have welfare reform. The Republicans in Congress did.

Don't expect blacks to do any better when they support a party that enables them to do worse.

Tell me the welfare programs in Africa, Haiti & Jamaica keeping them behind!?

Racial equality is a fantasy.

[CFM]

Tell me the welfare programs in Africa, Haiti & Jamaica keeping them behind!?

Racial equality is a fantasy.

They're already so far behind they didn't need any help.