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Pence compares Trump to MLK.

Top Cat said:
He's suggesting that Trump's temper tantrum is somehow equivelant to MLK's unification of the American people.





You can't make this **** up.
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It certainly is your right to despise MLK Jr.
 
Once again we are reading how furious so many Democrats are that black unemployment is at record lows. Don't black people know they are all oppressed and dependent upon their begging to rich white liberals for survival? It been all down hill for Democrats since the end of slavery and how adding reduced dependency on white people? I don't know how much more of this rich white liberals can take.
 
Bucky said:
Mlk was a conservative. The man was a god fearing abortion hating reverend.
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Well that is a new one. Being religious and hating abortion automatically makes you a conservative!! :lamo

I assume you've never heard of Philip K. Dick? :lamo

Here's a reality check for you, Bucko:

MLK:

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”

“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. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society…”

“Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.”

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”

“We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.”

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”

“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.”

“[W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”

“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ober...alism-of-martin-luther-king-jr_b_4629609.html
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/where-do-we-go-from-here
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/where-do-we-go-from-here
https://truthout.org/articles/martin-luther-king-was-a-radical-not-a-saint/
https://kairoscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/King-quotes-2-page.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=H...ils of militarism and evils of racism&f=false
https://www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/wherewearegoing.htm
https://books.google.com/books?id=F...lums without first saying profit must&f=false
 
Geoist said:
Well that is a new one. Being religious and hating abortion automatically makes you a conservative!! :lamo

I assume you've never heard of Philip K. Dick? :lamo

Here's a reality check for you, Bucko:

MLK:

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”

“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. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society…”

“Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.”

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”

“We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.”

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”

“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.”

“[W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”

“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ober...alism-of-martin-luther-king-jr_b_4629609.html
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/where-do-we-go-from-here
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/where-do-we-go-from-here
https://truthout.org/articles/martin-luther-king-was-a-radical-not-a-saint/
https://kairoscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/King-quotes-2-page.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=H...ils of militarism and evils of racism&f=false
https://www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/wherewearegoing.htm
https://books.google.com/books?id=F...lums without first saying profit must&f=false
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Please don't confuse Bucky with facts.
 
Trump reminds me more of Bernie Madoff.
 
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