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(Originally posted on: 08-28-10 07:58:52 AM)
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So Glenn Beck has been invoking the spirit and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King recently. Although he claims that this has nothing to do with the upcoming midterm elections, he is striving to win over black America.
Here are some quotes from Beck to set the mood.
"We are on the right side of history. We are on the side of individual freedoms and liberties and damn it, we will reclaim the civil rights moment. We will take that movement because we were the people that did it in the first place."
"As we create history together, your children will be able to say, 'I remember. I was there.' As we -- as we pick up Martin Luther King's dream that has been distorted and lost, and we say 'we bought it when he first said it. It's time to restore and to finish it. Restoring honor: 8-28."
"I have to tell you something: I believe in divine providence. I believe there's a reason. Because whites don't own the founding fathers. Whites don't own Abraham Lincoln. Blacks don't own Martin Luther King."
Here we have an exchange between Al Sharpton and Glenn Beck...
"King's "dream" was "not to put one black family in the White House. The dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house." - Sharpton
"That is not the dream. That is a perversion of the dream. We are the people of the civil rights movement. We are the ones that must stand for civil and equal rights. Equal rights. Justice. Equal justice. Not special justice, not social justice, but equal justice. We are the inheritors and the protectors of the civil rights movement. They are perverting it." - Beck in response to the above Sharpton quote.
This made me think about quite a few things...
If Martin Luther King was resurrected tomorrow, what would he think about the current state of African Americans?
Do you think what Glenn Beck is doing is offensive? Personally, I think it's a double edged sword. While he is right by saying that white people need to step it so we can finally move past it once and for all, I think he is going about it the wrong way. He has been extremely derogatory towards established black civil rights leaders by implying that "their struggle is meaningless because blacks aren't the ones that need to change." I think he seriously believes that he is going to undo 200 years of hatred and animosity with one rally.
I don't really think he realizes how offended some people are going to be if he continues to trivialize the plight of the civil rights movement's veterans.
In response to this rally, Al Sharpton has organized his own rally one hour later than Glenn Beck's at the site of the future Martin Luther King monument in Washington. Unlike Beck, Sharpton will have Martin Luther King III standing by in support. Fear not though, for Glenn Beck has a secret weapon of his own - Sarah Palin.
My only hope - this doesn't erupt into violence and rioting. Glenn Beck's crowd of rabid rifle toting bible thumpers vs. pissed off angry black people. Can you imagine a fucking riot on the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" between two groups arguing for the same thing. Think about that for a minute...
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP!!!
If this erupts into violence, it will taint the day forever. People are so fucking stupid.
I hope no one gets shot.
The next president of the United States of America.
This reply was last edited on 08-28-10 08:30:19 AM by Nickolati.
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