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Happy Martin Luther King Day!
Happy Martin Luther King Day from all of us at Phil's Stock World. - Ilene
Courtesy of Phil at Phil's Stock World
It's Martin Luther King day so the markets are closed.
I was reading his "I Have a Dream" speech and it really is amazing when you think of the great social change in this nation that was set in motion by one man with a vision. Here's a great video of the actual event.
It is a testament to the power and effectiveness of Dr. King's movement that, even to those of us who were alive at the time, it seems like it must have been another world where a man had to speak out against such injustice as if it wasn't obvious to the majority of people that segragation, whether by law or by practice, was an outrage.
Sadly, many of the lessons he taught us have already been forgotten, some great quotes:
- Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
- We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
- A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
- One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- The time is always right to do what is right.
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Dr. King also had a sense of humor:
- I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
It is very important to remember that people do, in fact, have power. Just this past week, Tunisia has ousted their government for not listening to the will of the people - something I have pointed out has been brewing (on a global scale) since last spring as poverty and inflation begin to draw the battle lines, not between black and white - but between rich and poor and not just in isolated parts of the World but in India, Italy, Greece, France, Malaysia and even China where protests are quickly becoming common-place events.
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Simply Pitiful.
---COLONEL COOPER---------------------------------
What I emailed JWR was a bit different than what I wrote here. I have not had a reply. It was a very respectful letter.
I wrote HWR that King may have had woman problems, as had many other great men including Jefferson, but the method worked. Gandhi, King, and Mandela led a type of revolution that we need to pay attention to. I suggested to JWR that method was important in these times. I did not suggest to JWR that he was a racist in that the comment about King was woman related and not race related.
Colonel cooper--- didn’t he do 45 auto or was he the wildcat loader. Cant remember
you like mandela and diaperhead too?
Man, you're an IDIOT.
What is clear CURRENLTlY is that MLK's dream has been turned upside down within the black community. EVERYTHING is about color and race. The content of ones character doesn't mean shit. Maybe if they weren't so fucking focused on race, the rest of us would forget about it as well. I personally couldn't care less what color you are, but if you are going to try do use race as a hammer and set up "teams", I'm gonna make sure my team wins.
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The interesting part of the civil rights movement is pre-MLK with the Black Pullman porters who were organizing for equal rights long before MLK. The Pullman Porters were encouraged in their movement by the rich whites they served on the Pullman trains. Whether the whites were all Jewish I sincerely doubt it.
BTW - Enough of the jew bashing, it is making ZH a less respectable site. Thxs.
If you hate the message, attack the messenger. Ad hominem attacks are the oldest trick in the book. The work of petty little minds that subtract value. Well at least they're almost always stupid enough to have their pockets filched. They serve some purpose
The negative response to MLK is also seen at Survival Blog. So after a written response to them yesterday, I am surprised that I also must respond on my beloved ZH.
I am an old man that was a white child and young adult in the old Democrat South. My great grandfather was a wounded Rebel. I hated Yankees because all the other kids did. Slavery and the local blacks were never in the discussion, Sherman was.
Some how I guess I didn’t pay enough attention to black hatred, most of my friends were the same. WE were too busy at play, fighting the Japs, helping John Wayne win WW2. Little did I know that the Japanese would become one of my favorite people. In my teens I got the message about race relations black/white.
Anyhow, I may/may not understand some of you that are filled with hate and bigotry. I do feel compelled to support MLK accomplishments. There was a separate World that was not equal or fair. It was WRONG. He was not alone, there were many white faces, and he may have been given too much credit. But, it would have not happened when it did, without him.
Thanks for sharing Onlooker.
Sounds like we need a new kind of MLK to free us from the oppression we face at the hands of the oppressors today? Go ahead and junk me trolls, too many similarities in that statement for me to NOT point it out.
Mac and Onlooker, seems to me oppression can take many different forms and that in spite of incremental improvements in one area or form or another, the mentality that keeps it alive persists - some of the comments here are reminders.
Is anybody who doesn't necessarily gush with granola and petula oil over MLK an oppressor? Are the people who pointed out that he stole a fair amount of his writings rascist? I wasn't even alive when he was shot. I understand the importance of the civil rights movement. But looking at it from an outside perspective, I see a man whose martyrdom has vaulted him to a larger than life status. The evidence that supports his plagiarism tends to (in my eyes) perhaps put him more in the self serving, community organizer, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton camp. I'm not disparaging the mission, more just disguted with the drool fawning over a man who was less than perfect.
JWR's comments about MLK weren't racially based, they were based on evidence that the man was a plagiarist. I was not only NOT offended by them, I found them to be honest, and frankly it took a set of balls to say what he said.
Remember: JWR has denounced TIME AND TIME AGAIN, racism and bigotry in many forms. He is a very religious man who simply does not have a high level of respect for a man who he believes to have stolen intellectual property. If you found his comment to be racist, you haven't paid much attention to him for very long.
I expect many others will have jumped to the same conclusion you did; it will be interesting to see if he responds.
So everyone is wrong but you?
Old and Dumb.
Ilene,
Thanks for this. Something positive, about a man who was such a positive force.
I awakened today to realize how few holidays there are that don't sanctify the raping and pillaging of the world by our business/military/political leadership.
Many of the comments on this thread speak for themselves: wallow in your own negative shit, despite a chance for a breath of fresh air, both in MLK's legacy and in this post.
Thank you, Sufi, I agree.
ilene, thanks for continuously putting out slop like this. In a world waiting for a black swan event, your consistency is welcomed.
Beavis, he said SLOP, huh huh....
This comment thread is making me rethink spending any more time at zero hedge.
the great irony in all this is how the half-wits don't realize that they are just blindly following. you know, like the space monkeys in Fight Club. Life imitates art. They are just the other side of the sheeple coin they so despise.
Are you against learning new truths.
That should teach these bigots a lesson...
No, it just gets me the fuck away from them. There's no lesson you can give them that they are going to understand.
I hear you. But I actually like to be reminded about the damaged goods in our midst. ZH is very critical of our Federal Goverment that is controlled by the Global Financial System. That premise is going to attract a lot of bottom-feeding losers, by definition. I love the fact that ZH thrives despite them. The vast majority of people are good, but the bad ones really stick out!
I've been coming here for a long time and the quality of discussion has deteriorated completely.
Just a bunch of hobbits raving about hoarding silver and baked beans. Counting bullets for the Big Day. Fucking losers.
head on over to huffpo where your contributions will be more readily accepted.
I make a comment about losers and you respond. Hmm....
Bigots are people too......<S>__</S>
I think MLK would the appreciate the "nuanced humanity" of the individuals that spew their bile on this forum.
I however, have a long way to go.
note to self: PU another case of 12ga slugs. The clear and present danger might be more numerous than I thought.
Point I would make: MLK was focused on "civil rights" which are rights you are given by government ; not natural rights, which are inalienable and given by the Creator. Important distinction, and not one complimentary to MLK.
Profound, yet who gave the right to his killer to take those rights away from him? (i.e., breathing, thinking, farting).
There's sorrow, but not outrage, even 43 years later. You people suck.
He'd be the first to distance himself from this idea.
He was at the front because somebody needed to be, but he wasn't acting alone.
He did about as much to ruin this country as Lincoln did...fuck him...
We're NOT all equal...
Mom, is that you?
LOL
"King even spent the night before his assassination copulating with and beating White prostitutes. On the FBI surveillance tapes the "Reverend King" can be heard during intercourse to say, " I'm f---ing for God!" and "I'm not a Negro tonight!" The King records are so damning that the tapes and other FBI documents were sealed for 50 years. Despite these facts, King's Jewish handlers and their allies in the media were steadfast in their laudatory portrayal of King.
...How ironic that the civil-rights movement had its roots in racism, that it was simply a weapon wielded by the most ethnocentric people on Earth against their ancient enemies. Blacks were simply pawns in a much larger political game. Most of the non-Jewish Whites who were enlisted in the cause never realized that the struggle was not really about civil rights. These participants, like the Blacks themselves, were being manipulated in the much bigger contest of the Jewish struggle for power.
...The alien oppression would be bad enough by itself, but our masters clearly planned the extermination of our kind. Once I understood that, I could no longer remain silent about the realities of Jewish power in the West. Their continued dominance would sweep away our folk in a rising tide of immigration, miscegenation, non-White fecundity, and White self-sterilization. "
http://www.martinlutherking.org/ma-chapter18.html
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Yeah sure, like there were camcorders in 1968? iPhones? Why is "JEW" even mentioned, Dr. MLK was not Jewish? Perhaps another diversion, lame-ass bullshit twisted version of history. Are you people human? American? Its doubtful.
Well said
He was a communist bag of shit backed by nation wrecking jews.
End of story.
+1
Who really wrote the "I have a Dream" speech?
levinson, his communist jew handler plagiarized it from a 1953 speech by archibald carey.
Romans 8:8 you sick little man...
Matthew 23:27-33
bitch
Romans 12:17-21
1 Peter 5:8-9
As for me, go fuck youself Sparky...
But enough about Obama ... tell me what you think of MLK?
Classic! I laughed MFAO!!!
He was Muslim, but your right about the rest.