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Racist or not Racist.

Which of these pictures are Racist?


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Malcolm X did not support Affirmative Action. He was a religious conservative. He called it a 'trick' of the white power structure used to dissuade the masses via the employment of upper middle class Negroes who would convince the masses to 'slow down'. He categorically dismissed integration as an avenue towards freedom. He saw irreconcilable differences and characterized the black masses as on the verge of explosion, something he said would 'break the furniture' in the house of the white power structure.

He actually openly stood against supreme court justice Hugo Black, who was made a justice by FDR and was member of KKK.

In 1964, Democrat Senators organized the landmark filibuster of the Civil Rights Act. Those involved included Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Sen. J. William Fulbright (Bill Clinton's mentor), Albert Gore Sr., Sen. Sam Ervin, and Senator Richard Russell.

Malcolm X really hated democrats, and said MLK was doing deals with the devil when he came to Kennedy for ammending africans rights.
 
King was a radical, a socialist, a pacifist and a lot of other things that the establishment found and would still find repugnant. This gets glossed over by those who would like to pretend that A)the dream is realized or B)King was a conservative. In either case the result of this pretense is the same: an attempt to limit, censor and ignore the inconvenient parts of King’s message.
To consider whether there is any validity to the claims recently arising in the thread that conservatives today would follow King, let’s consider what King was involved in and planning before he was assassinated. First of all, King had come to reject capitalism, recognizing that we needed to move towards a more socialistic form of government and economics, recognizing that capitalism was harmful to the black community and intertwined with racism and militarism. King had become a radical demanding fundamental change from the root:
“And one day we must ask the question, Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy… We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” (August 1967)
Let’s not forget the aim of the poor people’s campaign that King was working on when he was assassinated: “In 1968, King and the SCLC organized the "Poor People's Campaign" to address issues of economic justice. The campaign culminated in a march on Washington, D.C. demanding economic aid to the poorest communities of the United States. King traveled the country to assemble "a multiracial army of the poor" that would march on Washington to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol until Congress created a bill of rights for poor Americans.”
So that’s the message. Capitalism is tied to the racism, poverty and militarism and these are the great evils of our time. Are we ready to challenge capitalism? To view poverty as unacceptable and to march on Washington to demand its abolition? To demand massive economic aid for all disadvantaged groups? I’m down for that. But is this really the sort of message American conservatives can stomach?
 
Maybe I missed it, but has anyone spoke up for the poor primate who is outrageously slandered by being compared to a politician?

Where's PETA on this?
 
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