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I HAVE A DREAM (SLIGHT RETURN)

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CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE

 

Last year, on the occasion of Martin Luther King Day, I was asked
by several readers to re-write Dr Martin Luther King's famous speech
in a parody attack on Wall Street. I declined for a number of
important reasons, reverence for Dr King being one, the risk of hyperbole being the
other.

Now, following the events of the past year, I no longer feel it is hyperbole to update
his speech to match the current state of national/economic affairs.

I do not mean to trivialize the original goals of the civil rights movement.
However, I believe that the problem of racial injustice in the United
States has further morphed into something different yet similar but equally nefarious: corruption driven economic injustice.

Moreover, I don't think I need remind everyone that
Americans of color happen to be bearing the full brunt of the current
economic crisis, what is now being called by many the "Great Depression II."

The measure of any epic historic document or speech is its timelessness, its ability to remain relevant and meaningful through the tides of time.

It is in this spirit that I have
modified the speech and would urge you to first relisten to Dr King's
original speech as I have, and
consider what has changed and how the speech remains relevant as
ever to each and every one of us.

It is remarkable how little needed to be changed.

 

I HAVE DREAM (SLIGHT RETURN)

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as
the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

In 1776, the founding fathers, in whose symbolic shadows we stand
today, signed the Declaration of Independence. This momentous decree
came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Americans who had
been seared in the flames of withering political and economic
injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their
political and economic captivity.

But almost 250 years later, ordinary Americans are still not
free. Two hundred and fifty years later, the life of ordinary Americans is sadly
crippled by the manacles a government that is operating under the credo "by the corporation
for the corporation",  rather than "by the people for the people." 

Two hundred  and fifty years later, countless
Americans are living in a lonely island of poverty, struggling to
get by on government handouts, in the midst of a vast ocean of obscene prosperity in many instances subsidized by their government.

Two hundred  and fifty years later, Men women and
children of all color are languishing in the corners of a
privileged society controlled by the few and find themselves an economic exile
in their own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a
shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When
the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the
Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a
promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note
was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would
be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted
on this promissory note. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,
Washington DC together with it's financial enablers on Wall Street,

have given the American people a bad
check, a check which has come back marked "Too Big To Fail."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We
refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great
vaults of economic opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this
check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of opportunity and the security of economic justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the
fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of
cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is
the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to
rise from the dark and desolate valley of "moral hazard" to the sunlit
path of creative capitalism. Now is the time to save our nation from the
quicksands of chronic bailouts and "Too Big to Fail" to the time
proven solid rock of
creative destruction and economic opportunity. Now is the time to make
economic justice a
reality for all of our children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the
moment. This sweltering summer of economic discontent will not pass
until there is an invigorating autumn of transparent economic growth
and opportunity. Nineteen sixty-three was not an end, but a beginning. And
those who hope that it was just the Negro who needed to blow off steam
and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation
continues to allow Wall Street and much of corporate America to operate "business as usual."

And there
will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until Americans are
returned their citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will
continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day
of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the
warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process
of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful
deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking
from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our
struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not
allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again
and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical
force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which is engulfing America
must not lead us to a distrust of all wealth, for many of our successful brothers in business, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come
to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they
have come to realize that their economic success is inextricably bound to our success.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking, "When
will you be satisfied?"

We can never be satisfied as long as outspoken Americans
are the victims of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

We can
never be satisfied as long as our country continues to be pillaged by greed and corruption.

We cannot be satisfied as long as Americans individually and as a people are
forced to struggle under the chains of unsustainable debt.

We can
never be satisfied
as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of
their dignity by pepper spraying goons protecting signs stating: "Keep
off the Grass."

Not only can we not be satisfied as long as a Negro in
Mississippi cannot vote but equally as long as an ordinary person on Main
Street USA is forced to accept that his worth less than those in the
privileged club of Wall Street billionaires.

No, no, we are not
satisfied, and we
will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and
righteousness like a mighty stream."

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials
and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.
And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for
economic freedom and opportunity left you battered by the storms of
persecution and staggered
by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of
creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned
suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama,
go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana,
go back to downtown New York City, Oakland, Boston, Detroit and LA and
the rotting housing tracts of California, Ohio, Massachusetts, Nevada, Florida and Arizona, knowing
that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I
still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the
true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men, not corporations or banks but men, are created equal."

I have a dream today!

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city,
we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black
men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will
be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

SOYLENT ROMNEY

 

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Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:58 | 2070030 Arkadaba
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Doubee - sorry

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:54 | 2070029 Arkadaba
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Grew up in Canada close to the border with Saturday morning cartoons - Fat Albert, etc. As a young adult visited LA, SF and NYC. I really thoght America had dealt with the issues.

Nothing prepared me for living in upstate NY - sorry guys - economic segregation. It was so in my face. Teenage white boy running the cleaning crew in the building when others were more capable of running the crew. Noticed when I was workingl late. And economics equaled different neigbourhoods. I was kind of in the middle as I chose to live in a becoming gentrified neibourhood.

America has a lot to deal with - not sure how they are going to especially when combinedwith sovereign debt issues, etc. I kind of see the States breaking up - probably after my time.

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:36 | 2069863 hivekiller
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In the course of the Senate debate on the King holiday, the East office received a letter from a retired FBI official, Charles D. Brennan. Mr. Brennan, who had served as Assistant Director of the FBI, stated that he had personally been involved in the FBI surveillance of King and knew from first-hand observation the truth about King’s sexual conduct — conduct that Mr. Brennan characterized as “orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women.” He also stated that “King frequently drank to excess and at times exhibited extreme emotional instability as when he once threatened to jump from his hotel room window.” In a study that he prepared, Mr. Brennan described King’s “sexual activities and his excessive drinking” that FBI surveillance discovered. It was this kind of conduct, he wrote, that led FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to describe King as “a tom cat with obsessive degenerate sexual urges” and President Lyndon Johnson to call King a “hypocrite preacher.” Mr. Brennan also acknowledged:

One instance from King’s life that perhaps illuminates his character was provided by historian David Garrow in his study of the FBI’s surveillance of King. Garrow recounts what the FBI gathered during a 48-hour surveillance of King between February 22 and 24, 1964 in the Hyatt House Motel in Los Angeles.

“In that forty-eight hours the Bureau acquired what in retrospect would be its most prized recordings of Dr. King. The treasured highlight was a long and extremely funny storytelling session during which King (a) bestowed supposedly honorific titles or appointments of an explicitly sexual nature on some of his friends, (b) engaged in an extended dialogue of double-entendre phrases that had sexual as well as religious connotations, and (c) told an explicit joke about the rumored sexual practices of recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, with reference to both Mrs. Kennedy, and the President’s funeral.”

Garrow’s characterization of the episode as “extremely funny” is one way of describing the incident; another is that during the session in Los Angeles, King, a Christian minister, made obscene jokes with his own followers (several of them also ministers), made sexual and sacrilegious jokes, and made obscene and insulting remarks intended to be funny about the late President Kennedy and his sex life with Mrs. Kennedy. It should be recalled that these jokes were made by King about a man who had supported his controversial cause, had lost political support because of his support for King and the civil rights movement, and had been dead for less than three months at the time King engaged in obscene humor about him and his wife. In February 1964, the nation was still in a state of shock over Kennedy’s death, but King apparently found his death a suitable occasion for dirty jokes.

More recently still, in addition to disclosures about King’s bizarre sex life and his close connections with communists, it has come to light that King’s record of deliberate deception in his own personal interests reaches as far back as his years in college and graduate school, when he plagiarized significant portions of his research papers and even his doctoral dissertation, an act that would cause the immediate professional ruin of any academic figure. Evidence of King’s plagiarism, which was almost certainly known to his academic sponsors at Boston University and was indisputably known to other academics at the King Papers Project at Stanford University, was deliberately suppressed and denied. It finally came to light in reports published by theWall Street Journal in 1990 and was later exhaustively documented in articles and a monograph by Theodore Pappas of the Rockford Institute.

 

http://amren.com/features/2012/01/the-king-holiday-and-its-meaning/

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:00 | 2069937 Money 4 Nothing
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And to top it all off, Jessi Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton led MLK to his death. They were FBI informants, turn coats if you will. Go search that.

Their careers seem to turn out fine. Raninbow push coilition = card carrying ACLU / SPLC leftey hit men. and Al Sharpton with MSNBC with a multi million dollar contract to bash the right and promote "spreading the wealth around" White House agenda..

MLK is a National err world wide hero for civil rights and his friends sold him out.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 16:07 | 2069292 OutLookingIn
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wb7

An interesting aside;

Bain [bane] as defined from old engish means "destroyer'. As in 'Wolfsbain' (Monkshood) which is a highly poisonous plant, used by shepards to poison preying wolves, that were preying upon their flocks. Since only the very wealthy could afford firearms.

Mitt Zombey really rubs it in with this name of his company, after he takes over and 'destroys' other companies. All in the name of profit.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 16:43 | 2069360 williambanzai7
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This guy is our worst nightmare.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 20:22 | 2069723 Don Birnam
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WB7 -- as the Illustrator and Chronicler of Record for Election 2012, the voting public needs to know:

Does Mitt wear Magic Mormon Underwear ?

http://1857massacre.com/MMM/Images/undrwrmo-couple.jpg

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 20:45 | 2069755 williambanzai7
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I have that image in my Mitt tool box ;-)

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 18:02 | 2069511 Money 4 Nothing
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Romney / Christie ticket for 2012, I said that last November before Romney even threw his hat in the ring. I am plugged into NJ Politics very well and it is planned for him to become the inevitable Nominee. Possibly to lose to Obama, let that settle in a bit.

Best case? He get's elected President, what a nightmare.

God Bless MLK, A true Humanitarian.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 17:28 | 2069436 OutLookingIn
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Whole heartedly agree.

The least worse of the entire bunch is Ron Paul. Unfortunately if (a big "if") he shows a win, the moneyed elite would arrange some type of unfortunate 'accident' to befall him. Read JFK, RJK, MLK, etc.

Either way its sliced or diced the country is beyond FUBAR! 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 15:50 | 2069261 Colonial Intent
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wow, nearly 20 comment before the racism kicked in......now if ZH can make it 21 comments tomorrow there may be hope....

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 15:56 | 2069255 andyupnorth
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Getting hopes and dreams crushed by Obama was successful in waking up young people from their coma of consumerism and materialism, and to begin researching and fighting the realities of corporatism and crony capitalism.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 15:30 | 2069212 onlooker
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Well done William. It is difficult to verbalize the appreciation for your contribution to our lives.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:47 | 2069091 Nachdenken
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Thank you William. Your work and view lift one from the daily sludge.  Thank you for sharing your time and talent through ZH.

When measures like IQ, crime and laziness are used it is usually to put someone down. 

Simple hard working people cleared forests, laid iron tracks, built roads, dug up coal and minerals, ran the assembly lines, farmed food, with enterprise brought the USA to where it is - as a nation. 

When greed replaced return on innovation and greed is fostered and protected, and simple honest labour is exploited we have our problem. Our situation is a reflection of our powerlessness against the economic and financial institutions now at work.  The brilliant contributions from commenters here notwithstanding.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:26 | 2069011 ThirdCoastSurfer
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Corporations are not People, Corporations are Sociopaths

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 15:29 | 2069205 blindman
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if corporations are people then any group is a person.
contracts themselves are people. so why can't taxpayers
claim more deductions for more than just one person or two
in the case of a married couple. a married couple should be
at least 3 persons due to the contractual union. maybe more?
and money is speech. that is another fiction of the land.
if we have free speech there should be no limit to the credit
of any citizen, that would be a denial of their free speech.
fictions we agree to live by?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 15:28 | 2069203 Dirtt
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I've never seen a corporation file documents and pay filing fees.  I've never seen a corporation answer a phone or open a bank account or staff a human resources department.  I've never seen a corporation develop and execute a business plan.  Or distribute proceeds.  Or build factories.

Has anyone ever thought of vilifying Limited Liability Partnerships?

Corporations are not evil.  The people who run the evil corporations are evil.  The people are the ones who bribe Congress.  The people are the ones who hire lobbyists to bribe Congress.

If Congress could not be bought then evil corporations could not buy Congress.  And we wouldn't have evil corporations and corporations.  We would just have corporations.  And LLPs and LLCs. And sole propritorships. All are run by people.

Keep your eye on the ball people.  CONGRESS is to blame.  And since we keep putting the same people in Congress then  WE ARE TO BLAME.  

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 13:37 | 2068906 eaglefalcon
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I have a dream: gold standard (better even, gold), no central bank, market determined interest rate which will be 20% paid in gold, no fractional reserve, no consumer credit, no social security, no medicare no medicaid, no unemployment.  Everyone decides what he does as long as it doesn't harm others, everyone takes 100% responsibility for his action

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 20:55 | 2069774 Jay Gould Esq.
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Someone else also had that dream:

Ayn Rand; viz. "Galt's Gulch."

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 17:35 | 2069459 trav7777
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idiotic

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 13:21 | 2068857 davebrik99
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It might be irony or some kind of poetic "justice" that many of the groups who supported Obama the most, are now the ones suffering the most. Those who have never taken the time to study history, are short-sighted, or are just selfish or in need tend to believe the "hope and change' rhetoric. It may be that the present administration finds it "convenient" to have a poorer, less attentive electorate who will fall for obama's next slogan!  It will get deep this summer..........I wonder deep in "what"!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 13:36 | 2068902 williambanzai7
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It is ironic. However, a vote for McChange would not have served them any better.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:13 | 2068964 Dr. Engali
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I disagree. Not that McCain was a better choice, but with your statement. At least with McCain people knew they were getting more of the same. The hopes and dreams of a lot of the populous where put in one man. They gave him a Demigod status  He and his crew of creeps helped to foster that illusion.. Now the hope and change people are dealing with reality. If there is one way to keep a beat down populous beat down you crush their dreams.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:24 | 2068992 williambanzai7
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I see your point.

OBAMNEY ROGER I

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:26 | 2069010 Dr. Engali
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That's a great piece. You put a smile on my face. I'd wear that hat.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 16:46 | 2069365 Howard_Beale
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 16:54 | 2069377 williambanzai7
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Voila ;-)

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:45 | 2069081 williambanzai7
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I'll let Howard know.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 13:30 | 2068887 economics1996
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Brown and black people vote on skin color.  Alvin Green.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 17:35 | 2069461 trav7777
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that is "progress."

when white people do it, it is racism

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 13:09 | 2068831 blindman
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that was a good catch.
Interview with Martin Luther King Jr. on Meet the Press
The Legacy of MLK: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Calls for Public Opposition to Vietnam War on Meet the Press
http://www.mlkonline.net/video-meet-the-press.html
.
Coverage by Press “Kabuki Bunk” and Little More
by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Weekly Intel Report, January 14, 2012
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/14/weekly-intel-report-january-14-2...
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IRAN, THE TRUTH
...
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Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:54 | 2068790 blindman
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http://www.mlkonline.net/
Martin Luther King Online
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Domain Resource Site

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:42 | 2068750 williambanzai7
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A NATION OF CORPORATIONS

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 18:12 | 2069535 blindfaith
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now YOU are scaring me!

So how do we get the corporations to eat each other?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 20:42 | 2069749 williambanzai7
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Patience, that's part of the show.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:47 | 2069090 ebworthen
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That is a great one.

The Supine Court has done more to take away individual rights in the past 10 years than 100 years of CONgressional stupidity.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:32 | 2068709 razorthin
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Battle on William and Zero Hedge!

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:27 | 2068700 Steve in Greensboro
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"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances..."

What part of "congress shall make no law" don't you statist-leftist-fascists understand?

The whole point of the First Amendment was to protect political speech. "Citizens United" is fully in line with the Founders intent.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:00 | 2068965 killedbyshortvol
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"What part of "congress shall make no law" don't you statist-leftist-fascists understand?"

I don't know what statist-leftist-fascists do or do not understand.  You'll have to ask them (if you can find them).

I, however, understand that corporations are not people.  And I'm pretty sure the following Founding Father felt a similar way:

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

-Thomas Jefferson, Nov 12, 1816

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 18:04 | 2069523 blindfaith
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give poor steve a break...I mean HE IS from Greensboro, what would you expect?

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 13:09 | 2068829 williambanzai7
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Perhaps the "Keep off the grass" and American Chamber of Commerce guys whould meet with the OWS guys and hammer all the issue out for our perusal.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:23 | 2068558 MonkeySmoke
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Suggestions for Mittnolopy: change "Chance" to "Change" while leaving the quesiton mark. Obvious one: change "go to jail" to "Don't go to jail". New York Avenue with with picture of McMansion, address 40 Wall Street. Mediterranean Avenue picture of Greek islands with for sale signs. Baltic Avenue changed to Baltic Dry Index Avenue with picture of empty cargo ships at San Diego/LA/Seattle docks.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:18 | 2068679 williambanzai7
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Good ideas ;-)

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:18 | 2068548 hivekiller
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Like everything else, the civil rights movement was a fraud. It was not about ensuring equal rights under the law to blacks. It was about destroying the concept of individual rights for tribal rights. Blacks were elevated in status and given special rights which they retain to this day. The same with women rights, gay rights, animal rights etc. The whole 'rights' infrastructure was built so that the government could manage privileges to select group that were paid for by white Americans who never had a slave and never benefited from slavery. Martin Luther King was a communist and a fraud. His doctoral thesis was plagarized as were many of his speeches. He was a serial adulterer who stole money from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to pay for his hookers who he also liked to beat. He wanted equality so he could get some white pussy.

As I've said before, Americans are the victims of a false consciousness. This false sense of guilt about the past and about blacks is a control mechanism. If blacks continue to fail to achieve it's for one reason - they aren't very smart. The different races have different mean IQs and no amount of govt. spending will change that.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 12:11 | 2068665 Strike Back
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Source for your claims on MLK beating white prostitutes?  I traced it back to an anonymous email on Snopes, which referenced Ralph Abernathy's book, but I have yet to find a quote or other reliable reference to that book stating as much.

Funny how much defense Hitler receives on this site, but no one steps up to defend MLK. 

Your focus on escalting affirmative action measures ignores the fact that the Civil Rights movement targetted state-enforced segregation of people.  Your focus on racial differences in mean IQs ignores the fact that even under Rushton's questionable model, there is a significant overlap between all races in IQ levels.  A society where segregation is enforced through state-sanctioned violence impedes the intermingling of this overlap and thus impedes human evolution.  Maybe the federally enforced end to Jim Crow led to a power grab by that same federal government which we labor under today.  But to denounce the entire Civil Rights movement on that ground is an extremely flawed argument.

Red arrows?  Somehow I feel I'm going to receive more than hive.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 18:00 | 2069513 The Big Ching-aso
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I think Strike's view is supported by the movie, Trading Places.

 

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 17:51 | 2069498 trav7777
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Rushton isn't the one who did the IQ studies.  It's not his model.

EVERY SINGLE IQ STUDY of ANY KIND has shown the same thing.

Evolution?  LOL...so you breed your thoroughbreds with regular plow horses, eh?

As far as segregation, take a look at Detroit in 1900 versus Detroit now.  Ask yourself the hard questions.  DWLs like you vote with their feet.

it's not socialism that did it.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 15:58 | 2069274 hivekiller
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Either you're a paid shill or an ignoramus. I don't care which. Either do some reading or shut the fuck up - all of you. I'm tired of your posturing in order to earn moral brownie points. You want to feel good about yourself at someone else's expense. Fuck you. Blacks need to get off the plantation and so do women, spics, queers, and the rest of the 'diversity'. Can't make it without the government holding somebody else back? Tough shit. Life ain't fair.

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 20:08 | 2069719 taxpayer102
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@hivekiller

After the Civil War Black Americans got off the plantation and up until 1877 bought farmland, built towns and cities and were elected to political offices.  MLK's attorney, Fred Grey, has a cultural center in Tuskegee, Alabama with photos showing 1870's Alabama state and local legislatures composed of nearly equal numbers of White and Black representatives.  Study the Compromise of 1877 to find out how and why it put Black Americans back on the plantations and enacted Jim Crow laws to remove all the gains Blacks made during Reconstruction.  Jim Crow had not ended by 1963.

MLK's speech at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom still applies today, especially to Black Americans, but as anyone can see from the economic, social and financial condition of our country today compared to 1963, his speech applies to us all.

 

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