On this monumentally tragic anniversary, I feel compelled to list the following statements. Can you guess who spoke them?
"There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism."
"I am sorry to have to say that the vast majority of white Americans are racist, either consciously or unconsciously."
"And you know what, a nation that put as many Japanese in a concentration camp as they did in the '40s ... will put black people in a concentration camp. And I'm not interested in being in any concentration camp. I been on the reservation too long now."
"America was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race."
Hint: it wasn't Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, or Jeremiah Wright.
4/5/2008 10:40 AM
Aaron wrote:
I truly wish more Americans were acquainted with this side of MLK. I respect that people admire his devotion to nonviolent resistance; but doesn't that devotion take on an even deeper resonance when one contemplates his anger, his outrage, and his sadness over the often-brutal nature of American history and culture? Instead his image has been appropriated and made into something harmless, a commercial product with the slogan "I have a dream." Reply to this
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