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If you think he was (5.00 / 2) (#106)
by Abdul Abulbul Amir on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 08:34:26 PM EST

you are welcome to that conclusion.  I don't agree.

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MLK specifically picked on white people (1.00 / 1) (#110)
by RLMcCauley on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 08:38:51 PM EST
not just the white power structure. In fact, he thought moderate whites were a greater barrier to equality than the KKK or other racist whites.

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail (none / 0) (#115)
by RalphB on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 08:46:23 PM EST
is a great example of MLK not being the least bit racist.  He got on his fellow clergy, and moderate whites and blacks, for being willing to go along to get along.  That's not exactly what you're saying, I don't believe.  The letter is profound and is real inspiration.  Too bad we don't have another like him today.

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That's a profound letter (none / 0) (#125)
by ghost2 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 08:54:44 PM EST
and everyone should read it often and take its lessons to heart.  

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Right but it's more pointedly at white individuals (none / 0) (#133)
by RLMcCauley on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 09:01:35 PM EST
than anything Wright was saying and he's been labeled a racist for his attack on the white power structure - by Democrats!

Reading it again, I see that he talked about the clergy, white moderates and various forces in the African-American community but he specifically said white moderates were doing more harm than white supremacists.

Interestingly he talks of something else, which people were outraged when Obama said it in a different context, a typical white reaction or, in this case, inaction with regards to African-Americans.

 

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When you attack (none / 0) (#202)
by Raheem on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 10:39:53 PM EST
The white power structure in this country... its considered racism... if MLK was alive today, and their wasn't a Malcolm X, he would be considered a racist also... its what's sad

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At least (5.00 / 1) (#207)
by Abdul Abulbul Amir on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 10:56:16 PM EST

At least when you accuse that structure of releasing the AIDS virus for the purpose of killing people of color.  Shameful.

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Who said he is right there? (none / 0) (#210)
by Raheem on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 11:13:35 PM EST
He isn't... but its understanding the thinking. Why would he say that? because stuff like this was not so far fetched in his generation

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MLK isnt racists, and neither is Rev. Wright (none / 0) (#198)
by Raheem on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 10:33:02 PM EST
In fact, Bernice King is an elder at New Birth Cathedral in Atlanta, Eddie Long's church, and last Sunday she said that MLK jr was going to deliver a sermon called "America may go to hell" at his church... unfortunately, he was assassinated that week before he was to deliver that Sermon... she said that MLK jr's sermon was spoken through Rev. Wright...

as were a lot of his great sermon's and speeches... u all need some perspective

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