Friday, April 4th, 2008
A True Legend
Posted by Bossip Staff
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 40 years ago today. He is being remembered not only as a historical figure but a dynamic human being that forever changed the landscape of American society, unfortunately the full scope of his views have been widely ignored since his passing.
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RIP DR. KING…
FINALLY!
I was waiting for your to acknowledge his p*****ing.
*you (Bossip)
He was a beautiful man. You will not be forgotten Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was DEEP and had wisdom, intelligence, comp*****ion, and VISION beyond his years and this world. His influence on our country and the world lives on – a true legacy. I don’t really have any personal heroes, but the more I read about him and study his speeches and writings, the deeper my respect and admiration for him grows. Rest in PEACE, Martin.
I was listening to WHUR 96.3 and they were playing one of his speeches. I must say that until a few years ago I didn’t really understand the impact he and his words had/have on not just black people but people of all races.
He was very eloquent in how he delivered all of his speeches. His words have a way of making you not just listen but also HEAR what he is saying. He was way before his time. He spoke of not using violence as a way to make your opinions, thoughts and feelings known. If he was still alive I believe he would have an even greater impact on society as a whole.
RIP DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DID FOR CIVIL RIGHTS!
He’s the greatest guy in american history. We will remember him for ever. Just a moment ago, I’ve also seen some topics at the celeb club seekwealthy.com. He is also the most important guy for our topics.
Justme833…
That is some B*tcha$$ness on the MLK thread…Bossip yall are wrong for that. If you take that down (which I know you can) take this down as well…
The Today Show did an excellent show in tribute to him this morning. It was a great piece in rememberance of this truly historic man.
Hopefully our country has learned a lot from Dr. King and we will not have to go down that road again. Many believe that Barack Obama will be *****asinated (like Dr. King was) if he becomes president but my prayers are that America has will accept and move on, something Dr. King would have wanted if he were still here. Good man.
BOSSIP BLOCK THOSE DAMN DATING SITE ALREADY!
Martin, you have truly inspired the people of this WORLD!..i thank you for using your voice for the advancement of ALL people..RIP!
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For the sake of Dr. King can we reframe from disrepecting each other today. Can we have peace on Bossip today? For the real King Dr. Martin Luther King R.I.P
**ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGURE IN WRITTEN HISTORY**
He displayed what a real man is. . .not these BET gun-toting “get money” clowns, and he wasn’t on Forbes list either. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for our people and died for a cause.
Thank you Dr. King, you will NEVER be forgotten!
@ JSABP
I watched it too and I agree! I was truly appreciative to the show bringing the awarness to such a wonderful man! RIP Dr. King, as well as his beautiful wife Sis Coretta!!
RIP Dr. King!! Truly an amazing figure in our history!!!
I LOVE YOU DR. KING!!!!!!!YOU’RE STILL THE GREATEST!!!
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AND FOR ALL OF YOU YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP THE LIKES OF BEYONCE, JAYZ, PARIS, KIM K AND OTHERS THIS IS WHAT TRUE GREATNESS IS BECAUSE THEY ANI’T GOT ***** ON MARTIN LUTHER KING I DON’T CARE HOW MANY RECORDS THEY SELL OR HOW MUCH MONEY THEY MAKE, THEY DON’T EVEN COUNT COMPARED TO MLK!!
I was just reading his biography two days ago. I cannot believe that he was killed at only 39 years old. I just sat back and wondered what the state of black life would be if he was still here today to scold all of these ignorant jack*****es.
No Messy Jackson or Perm Sharpton to speak on the plight of black people, just to get face time for the cameras.
He’d have spoken his mind and had some of these kids and parents lowering their heads in shame because of their behavior.
If that bullet hadn’t killed him, our current state would have definitely caused him to suc*****b due to heartache.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAS AN HONOR MAN WHEN HE LIVE ON EARTH BUT HE IS IN AN BEST PLACE AND THAT IS HEAVEN SO ONE DAY I WILL LIKE TO MET MARTIN LUTHER KING JR IN HEAVEN ONE DAY.
The good die young :_(
I’m really mad I didn’t take this day off…but I’mma sit here and do absolutely nothing but surf the net.
Praises to the King…the real King.
Martin can rest well now…we have Obama taking the helm!
Just imagine if he was alive today. He may have been president of this country, or even inspired other minorities to run. Rap music probably wouldnt have the same lyrics as today. Its seem that black people lost their way when Malcolm and Martin were killed and it is sad. We call each other the N word now more than ever and most of black fathers dont take care of their families. Its sad, but we must change our ways people. Stop living for today, and preserve for your childrens future. that would be a good start
RIP MLK. I think America would be different if both he and Malcolm were still alive.
@Serafina…I feel you!
@ Serefina, I totally agree 100%. If only we had someone of his standard here with us today, all these imposters wouldn’t stand a chance.
Rev. Dr. King is greatly missed, but his influence is everywhere. I was born years after his death, but I grew up learning about his legacy. If I had been alive during the movement, I surely would have joined him and thousands of others in the struggle. We owe him a great debt.
Martin Luther King Speeches
I Have a Dream – Address at March on Washington
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let 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!”
We got MLK haters yall. We need to be taking up for him on these other blogs i.e USA Today. This is what one person said:
SilverSpur wrote- “King is not my hero and never will be. I grew up during the sixties and well remember his marches and the riots that always seemed to follow. I had friends who were taken out of their neighbourhood schools and bussed across the county all for the sake of King’s “Dream”. I am deepely offended by streets, buildings and schools named in honor of that man. King was a comunist who did nothing but start riots everywhere he went and should be remembered as such.
WE NEED TO TAKE OUR VOICES TO THE STREETS!!!!!!
@Afiya…I am an Obama supporter, but they’re not exactly alike.
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RIP DR KING
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of course not @JRiddles…no two people are alike…but Obama is as p*****ionate as Martin.
Seeing his picture gives me chills in a good way-you know you are looking at a legend, it’s powerful and very hard to explain the emotion that comes over you-knowing everything he’s done and that he sacrificed his life for racial justice-specifically to improve the lives of black people-moreso me-reminds me of Jesus.
May he rest in peace…….
@Earth Sign…for change to happen, there almost will alwys be riots. It’s funny that someone would *****ociate King with violence, b/c he was against that.
I repsect both MLK and X for their efforts to better quality of life for Blacks, but MLK was by far more p*****ive in his ideas, so that person on USA TODAY needs to sit down.
I’m mad if he/she is Black.
@Afiya, I do agree with you in saying that we have Obama, who can change things.
But, their agendas are somewhat different, but two people can be alike. I said exactly, and two people cannot be exactly alike.
They both are p*****ionate, bold, and articulate.
Martin expressed his love for all people, as does Obama. But, the way MLK wanted to better the Black community, was deeper than Obama, because he’s trying to become POTUS, so he’s focused on all issues.
But, they’re both incredible men. I wish MLK was still here today.
Dr. King was despised by many, including some blacks who saw him as a controversial rabble-rouser. But the truth is if he hadn’t stood up for what he thought was right, along with Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and scores of others,we would not be where we are today with greater access to education, jobs, and opportunities of which our ancestors could only dream. It takes courage and vision to move against the status quo – Dr. King had that gift, and I believe Sen. Obama does, too.
RIP Dr Martin Luther King Jr. You are deeply missed and always remembered
@Sydney…in addition to our next president, Sen. Barack Obama, I would like to see more Black leaders whose specific agenda is the advancement of Black Americans and Blacks worldwide, b/c there’s a definite need for those types of voices.
As president, Obama owes all Americans, I need someone who can work for me and not be judged and not make other people jealous.
You know what I mean?
RIP MLK hopefully america will fulfill your dream……one day
He Just wanted to do God’s will and God allowed him to go up to the mountain top.And he looked over. And seen the promised land.He did not get there with US!but he want US to know that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. Dr. King thank you for hope and letting us know before God took you home with him you told us about the promised land and if we work hard and stand together as a people we will get to promised. we really wish you was with us! Thanks for everything!
my pastor brought up the interesting fact that 40 yrs ago MLK said he had seen the promise land, and how ironic it is that 40 yrs later a black man would be running for pres. almost as though he knew he knew he wouldnt make it but knew that someone would! marrinate on that…..
Although I don’t agree with everything he said and his prior approach to conflict before his **********ination, I overstand where it’s coming from. His message has been lost in the commercials about him being a dreamer.
Although I don’t agree with everything he said and his prior approach to conflict before his **********ination, I overstand where it’s coming from. His message has been lost in the commercials about him being a dreamer.
Dr. King was more than just a dreamer, he had a vision that he worked towards and he should be remembered for that effort not for being a dreamer.
His legacy should be preserved as good man who died for his beliefs.
RIP Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
@ JRiddles
I know what you mean, but, unfortunately, I don’t think the equivalent of Dr. King exists today. However, I think we as individuals have the power to organize, address injustices, and create opportunities for blacks here and across the diaspora. We all can be leaders and role models in our communities.
What do you think?
I hope Barack becomes president. But as soon as he shows public interest in uplifting black folks as a whole, the majority in this county (caucasians) will be calling hime a racist. Our voices need to be heard in some way. It starts with us, not just Barack Obama.
I Love this man.
@ Earth Sign
I agree. We don’t have to wait for someone to lead us or speak for us. We can create and implement our own vision for change. Start a non-profit. Be a mentor to a child. Volunteer at a school. Educate others on issues important to you. I think that’s what Dr. King would want for us — to take action, just as he did.
@Syd, I totally agree. No one will ever be MLK, but we can all be Rosas, MLKs, Xs, and more all mixed into our individual selves. We need to be leaders in our homes, then our communities.
There are a lot of reasons for us to organize and address, b/c injustices exist all over, we just need to step to the plate.
@Miss J, that’s not coincidental. That’s real!
RIP to A GREAT MAN!!
I really wish this man was still alive. Because maybe we would be further than what we are now, but it’s still up to us to keep the dream alive as well as his legacy.
@ JRiddles
Exactly — we’ve already been shown the way by our ancestors who struggled before us through centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, lynchings, and blatant racism. Now it’s our turn to continue their legacy.
@Syd and Earth Sign, I agree, but when King spoke to large groups, he inspired them. He motivated them. Some people won’t mentor a child, won’t take action, and need motivation.
King guided people and some people today need guidance.
And, if he does take special interest in Blacks, you’re right, he will be called racist, but White presidents have always taken special interest in their own people.
But, we need special attention, so I see nothing wrong (as president) with focusing on those who need attention the most.
Kanye said Bush doesn’t love Black people, but Barack loves all people…just as MLK did, so he’s always good in my book.
@Syd, yup!
@Sydney
That exactly what im doing, mentoring, being a great father to my children, teaching them to think for themselves, and setting an example You know the small things. Our voice need to be heard, not only on Bossip, but other national news mediums.
agree @JRiddle
@ Earth Sign
That’s wonderful. I definitely want to mentor more kids and serve as a resource in my community. And, in addition to Bossip, which I mostly visit for celeb gossip and fun, I visit plenty of news websites. When I have time, I’ll post my thoughts on Dr. King’s legacy on other sites as well.
RIP MLK. Here is to a life lived with purpose and for fighting the good fight!!
MLK I see you WuT UP!!!
Thank You Dr. Martin Luther King….Thank you
@bossip (clapping). he had some kind of brilliant mind. that last speach the night before oooooooooooh. utube that yall. he said a whole lot. Bush Sr. took King Jr. out. course i don’t have facts, just a hunch. the w very devilish.
why hil-liar did that black women like that at her rally yesterday? even had the feds arrest her so now the black lady is really effed. y,y,y,y,y, Hilary you ***** liar.
Erase this rusty Negro From the over-mind of the black race, he was a stooge, a *****got and he was funded by dirty kikes. Bun Martin Luther, im glad your dead
his eyes..I wonder what he was thinking..
Why are there more comments on Camel and Beyonce than on MLK. Lets get it together people I will later post one of his speeches.
“Where we are now”
Now, in order to answer the question, “Where do we go from here?” which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now. When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was 60 percent of a person. Today another curious formula seems to declare he is 50 percent of a person. Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites. When we view the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share. There are twice as many unemployed. The rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of whites and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as whites in proportion to their size in the population.
In other spheres, the figures are equally alarming. In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind whites, and their segregated schools receive substantially less money per student than the white schools. One twentieth as many Negroes as whites attend college. Of employed Negroes, 75 percent hold menial jobs.
This is where we are. Where do we go from here? First, we must m*****ively *****ert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an un*****ailable and majestic sense of values. We must no longer be ashamed of being black. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are *****ody is not easy.
“Depiction of Blackness and Negro Contributions”
Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget’s Thesaurus there are 120 synonyms for blackness and at least 60 of them are offensive, as for example, blot, soot, grim, devil and foul. And there are some 134 synonyms for whiteness and all are favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity and innocence. A white lie is better than a black lie. The most degenerate member of a family is a “black sheep.” Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the English language should be reconstructed so that teachers will not be forced to teach the Negro child 60 ways to despise himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of inferiority, and the white child 134 ways to adore himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of superiority.
The tendency to ignore the Negro’s contribution to American life and to strip him of his personhood, is as old as the earliest history hooks and as contemporary as the morning’s newspaper. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood. Any movement for the Negro’s freedom that overlooks this necessity is only waiting to be buried. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. No Lincolnian Eman*****tion Proclamation or Johnsonian Civil Rights Bill can totally bring this kind of freedom. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of *****ertive manhood his own Eman*****tion Proclamation. And, with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, “I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and *****le history. How painful and exploited that history has been. Yes, I was a slave through my foreparents and I am not ashamed of that. I’m ashamed of the people who were so sinful to make me a slave.” Yes, we must stand up and say, “I’m black and I’m beautiful,” and this self-affirmation is the black man’s need, made compelling by the white man’s crimes against him.
“Basic Challenges”
Another basic challenge is to discover how to organize our strength in terms of economic and political power. No one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power. Indeed, one of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From old plantations of the South to newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. Stripped of the right to make decisions concerning his life and destiny he has been subject to the authoritarian and sometimes whimsical decisions of this white power structure. The plantation and ghetto were created by those who had power. both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness. The problem of transforming the ghetto, therefore, is a problem of power-confrontation of the forces of power demanding change and the forces of power dedicated to the preserving of the status quo. Now power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. Walter Reuther defined power one day. He said, “Power is the ability of a labor union like the U.A.W. to make the most powerful corporation in the world, General Motors, say ‘Yes’ when it wants to say ‘No.’ That’s power.”
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar oppositesÑso that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we’ve got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
“Developing a Program”?
We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income. Now, early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents. And, in the thinking of that day, the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. We’ve come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operations of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. Today the poor are less often dismissed, I hope, from our consciences by being branded as inferior or incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.
The problem indicates that our emphasis must be twofold. We must create full employment or we must create incomes. People must be made consumers by one method or the other. Once they are placed in this position we need to be concerned that the potential of the individual is not wasted. New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available. In I879 Henry George anti*****ted this state of affairs when he wrote in Progress and Poverty:
The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by anirnal (sic) necessity. It is the work of men who somehow find a form of work that brings a security for its own sake and a state of society where want is abolished.
Work of this sort could be enormously increased, and we are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes who have a double disability will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.
Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated .
Now our country can do this. John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth.
“Commitment To Nonviolence”
Now, let me say briefly that we must reaffirm our commitment to nonviolence. I want to stress this. The futility of violence in the struggle for racial justice has been tragically etched in all the recent Negro riots. Yesterday, I tried to *****yze the riots and deal with their causes. Today I want to give the other side. There is certainly something painfully sad about a riot. One sees screaming youngsters and angry adults fighting hopelessly and aimlessly against impossible odds. And deep down within them, you can even see a desire for self-destruction, a kind of suicidal longing.
Occasionally Negroes contend that the 1965 Watts riot and the other riots in various cities represented effective civil rights action. But those who express this view always end up with stumbling words when asked what concrete gains have been won as a result. At best, the riots have produced a little additional antipoverty money allotted by frightened government officials, and a few water-sprinklers to cool the children of the ghettos. It is something like improving the food in the prison while the people remain securely incarcerated behind bars. Nowhere have the riots won any concrete improvement such as have the organized protest demonstrations. When one tries to pin down advocates of violence as to what acts would be effective, the answers are blatantly illogical. Sometimes they talk of overthrowing racist state and local governments and they talk about guerrilla warfare. They fail to see that no internal revolution has ever succeeded in overthrowing a government by violence unless the government had already lost the allegiance and effective control of its armed forces. Anyone in his right mind knows that this will not happen in the United States. In a violent racial situation, the power structure has the local police, the state troopers, the National Guard and, finally, the Army to call onÑall of which are predominantly white. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority. Castro may have had only a few Cubans actually fighting with him up in the hills, but he could never have overthrown the Batista regime unless he had the sympathy of the vast majority of Cuban people.
It is perfectly clear that a violent revolution on the part of American blacks would find no sympathy and support from the white population and very little from the majority of the Negroes themselves. This is no time for romantic illusions and empty philosophical debates about freedom. This is a time for action. What is needed is a strategy for change, a tactical program that will bring the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible. So far, this has only been offered by the nonviolent movement. Without recognizing this we will end up with solutions that don’t solve, answers that don’t answer and explanations that don’t explain.
And so I say to you today that I still stand by nonviolence. And I am still convinced that it is the most potent weapon available to the Negro in his struggle for justice in this country. And the other thing is that I am concerned about a better world. I’m concerned about justice. I’m concerned about brotherhood. I’m concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can’t murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.
And I say to you, I have also decided to stick to love. For I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate. I’ve seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I’ve seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about “Where do we go from here,” that we honestly face the fact that the Movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here. 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. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask the question, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?” These are questions that must be asked.
“About Communism”
Now, don’t think that you have me in a “bind” today. I’m not talking about Communism.
What I’m saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. 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. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
If you will let me be a preacher just a little bit – One night, a juror came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do to be saved. Jesus didn’t get bogged down in the kind of isolated approach of what he shouldn’t do. Jesus didn’t say, “Now Nicodemus, you must stop lying.” HE didn’t say, “Nicodemus, you must stop cheating if you are doing that.” He didn’t say, “Nicodemus, you must not commit adultery.” He didn’t say, “Nicodemus, now you must stop drinking liquor if you are doing that excessively.” He said something altogether different, because Jesus realized something basic – that if a man will lie, he will steal. And if a man will steal, he will kill. So instead of just getting bogged down in one thing, Jesus looked at him and said, “Nicodemus, you must be born again.”
He said, in other words, “Your whole structure must be changed.” A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will “thingify” them – make them things. Therefore they will exploit them, and poor people generally, economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I am saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, “America, you must be born again!”
“Conclusion”
So, I conclude by saying again today that we have a task and let us go out with a “divine dissatisfaction.” Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice. [,et us be dissatisfied until those that live on the outskirts of hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security. Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family is living in a decent sanitary home. Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be transformed into bright tomorrows of quality, integrated education. Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to parti*****te in the beauty of diversity. Let us be dissatisfied until men and women, however black they may be, will be judged on the basis of the content of their character and not on the basis of the color of their skin. Let us be dissatisfied. Let us be dissatisfied until every state capitol houses a governor who will do justly, who will love mercy and who will walk humbly with his God. Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together. and every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid. Let us be dissatisfied. And men will recognize that out of one blood God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when *****ody will shout “White Power!” – when *****ody will shout “Black Power!” – but everybody will talk about God’s power and human power.
I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will still be rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. We may again with tear-drenched eyes have to stand before the bier of some courageous civil-rights worker whose life will be snuffed out by the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. And as we continue our charted course, we may gain consolation in the words so *****ly left by that great black bard who was also a great freedom fighter of yesterday, James Weldon Johnson:
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days
When hope unborn had died.
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place
For which our fathers sighed?
We have come over the way
That with tears hath been watered.
We have come treading our paths
Through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the bright gleam
Of our bright star is cast.
Let this affirmation be our ringing cry. It will give us the courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
Let us realize that William Cullen Bryant is right: “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” Let us go out realizing that the Bible is right: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” This is our hope for the future, and with this faith we will be able to sing in some not too distant tomorrow with a cosmic past tense, “We have overcome, we have overcome, deep in my heart, I did believe we would overcome.”
RIP MLK…. and thank you.
I find it AMAZING that there are only 63 comments posted for MLK but hundreds for jay and beyonce’s “wedding”…..People really need to get their ***** together, 4 real.
R.I.P MLK…
@ The_Truth
**ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGURE IN WRITTEN HISTORY**
He displayed what a real man is. . .not these BET gun-toting “get money” clowns, and he wasn’t on Forbes list either. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for our people and died for a cause.
Thank you Dr. King, you will NEVER be forgotten!
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SHO YOU RIGHT!!!!!!!
@ DOC
YOU BEAT ME TOO IT!!!!!!!
PEOPLE PUT UP 500.., 700.., EVEN 1,000 POSTS ON TRIVIAL MESS AND THIS ONE MAY NOT EVEN BREAK 100 WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE POSTING MULTIPLE TIMES!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…
AND I LIVE IT EVERY DAY!!!
WAKE UP!!!!!!!
negroes are so stupid. they booed john mccain today. at least, went to memphis to honor dr. king unlike that wanna be white man barack obama…why wasn’t he in memphis honoring dr. king?
MLK, MLK, MLK, MLK
@Sydney
@ Earth Sign
@JRiddles
Preach!!!!!!! Don’t know who I’m quoting, but we must “be the change”…
Why do we (Black People) always have to have a leader or wait for a leader? We can SEE what needs to be done all around us and we need to do it and stop waiting for someone to tell us what or how.
@CJ
Thank you for posting those excerpts – EDUCATION truly is the key.
If he were alive today I think he would be absolutely sick to see how we are drinking and smoking ourself retarded. Just to see the break down of the black family alone is enough to kill him. Black men not leading. Black women trying to raise men. Black women having different seeds laid in them every 10 months by different men. Choosing jail over college. The list goes on and on.
@crazy black lady
John Mccain voted not to have a holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, maybe the people felt that his appearance was based more on him running for president than him actually paying tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.
but he was there honoring dr. king. obama once again dissed a black event. kiss my *****!
@R I P…. MLK… Just thought i would come on and show Dr, King some love instead of debating about kim k s fake booty implant .. rest in peace MLK!!!!!
Obama is NOT black! I’m tired of hearing it! What is wrong with you kneegroes?
I love that man! Thank you for fighting for us all. You were truly a blessing to this world. Thank you!
RIP DR. KING. You definitely were a blessing.
What an amazing man he was. I love him! I have no doubt he’s resting in peace. God bless him and his family.
Barack Obama is helping live out the dream!
A debt of gratitude i owe this man, if it werent for mlk and X SACRIFICING themselves , neglecting their families and marriages for US. abandoning their families to selflessly defend us, to fight for us to stand up for us , when we couldnt do i for ourselves.
its no doubt in my mind both KING AND X could have been presidential contenders but they fought tooth and nail that WE might be able too, because the times wouldnt allow it.
we are living in history right now !!! had the sacrifices of both men not been made then and made in 84 94 04 instead of 64, barack wouldnt have the chance he has today.
this moment in time means that those marches, the speaches , the anger , the outrage, the suffering, the abuse , and more , were not in vain.
its a shame we had to loose them , i wish they could see this. lets continue the fight no matter how slow veig or oblique it seems to be.
Finally, someone worth talkin about. this man has done so much to help the blind ***** world to recognize that black people are people too. White people used to be goin around actin all frightened and what not, treating us like animals. Like they were so dumb (some still are)that they didn’t see that it was the same blood that ran through our veins and the same tears that fell from our eyes. The same screams and cries that came from our souls.They thought they were smarter than us, but here was a black man, who could see, what they couldn’t see, and understand what they couldn’t understand.
And here was a black man who wasn’t a self hating dumb*****, who loved himself and his race so much, that he gave his life for it.. just so that one day, we wouldn’t actually conquer the *****es, but we would finally open their eyes, and make them just a tad bit smarter by letting them know that.. WE’RE HERE. LOVE YOU KING. RIP.
@Cj
Man that was deep. I feel u man.
@Doc………I totally agree! its quite disgraceful that ‘celebrities’ are being celebrated more then this great man.
MLK — RIP
I’M BACK! TRYIN’ TO GET BROTHA MARTIN TO 100!!!
THIS ITEM SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE TOP OF THE BOSSIP PAGE FIRST THING.., ALL DAY., AND ALL WEEKEND!!!
I KNOW BOSSIP IS “BLACK GOSSIP” BUT YOU CAN TAKE AT LEAST 10 DAYS OUT THE YEAR TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
@ Da Truff Hurtz!!!
Are you still there? I can help you get this up to 100 posts. Perhaps we can take turns posting facts about Dr. King’s contributions.
King’s leading of the Selma to Montgomery March
In the name of African-American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators, led by Martin Luther King Jr., begin a historic march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol at Montgomery. Federalized Alabama National Guardsmen and FBI agents were on hand to provide safe p*****age for the march, which twice had been turned back by Alabama state police at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.
In 1965, King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) decided to make the small town of Selma the focus of their drive to win voting rights for African Americans in the South. Organizers chose Selma because, in spite of repeated registration campaigns, only 2% of eligible blacks were on the voter rolls; furthermore, the local sheriff was notoriously brutal and so would be sure to do something so galling that it would attract national attention.
Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, was a vocal opponent of the African-American civil rights movement, and local authorities in Selma had consistently thwarted efforts by the Dallas County Voters League and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to register local blacks. King had won the 1964 *****el Prize for Peace, and the world’s eyes turned to Selma after his arrival there in January 1965. He launched a series of peaceful protests, and by mid-February thousands of protesters in the Selma area had spent time in jail, including King himself.
@ Sydney, I dont know you well. But i read what u said and i agree with you guys that he deserves at least 100 posts. so lets all try.
@ Sexyy
Hey, how are you? I’m going to do what I can before I leave for the weekend.
Here’s more:
King’s Dreams: His Beliefs and Philosophy
Martin Luther King Jr. surprised and captured the attention of a nation during the civil rights movement with his creed of non-violent resistance. As King emerged as a leader in the movement, he put his belief into action and proved that this was an effective method to combat racial segregation.
Son and grandson of black preachers in Atlanta, young Martin studied at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University, where he received a Ph.D in systematic theology.
During his years of study, King began to concentrate on discovering a solution to end social ills. He read up on the writings of Henry David T*****au and Walter Rauschenbusch,becoming “fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system.”
But perhaps the most important sources of his developing philosophy were the Bible and the writings of Mahatma Gandhi.
The March on Washington, August 28, 1963
On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the African American civil rights movement reaches its high-water mark when Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrators–black and white, poor and rich–came together in the nation’s capital to demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination.
@Sydney
Hey girl, I’m doing great, and i thank u so much for sharing this with me and everyone else cause honestly, it seems like nowadays, all we black people care about is naked women, crack, and making babies.
I think this will be my last post I irritate someone:
Dr. King’s **********ination
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was *****ounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
In the months before his **********ination, Martin Luther King became increasingly concerned with the problem of economic inequality in America. He planned an interracial “Poor People’s March” on Washington and in March 1968 had traveled to Memphis in support of poorly treated African-American sanitation workers. On March 28, a workers’ protest march led by King ended in violence and the death of an African-American teenager. King left the city but vowed to return in early April to lead another demonstration.
*before I irritate someone*
@ Sexyy
Sad, but so true, girl. I think if Dr. King were still alive today to witness how far many of us have fallen, it would kill his spirit. Some of us are truly lost. It’s so important that we know where we come from and what sacrifices were made on our behalf — Dr. King put his life on the line, and was brutally killed, because he wanted to make a difference, he wanted to make a change. We owe it to him and the thousands of others who also marched beside him — a number of whom were also jailed, abused, and, yes, murdered.
Its a damn shame!!! People be on here all day postin ***** about people on drugs and all sorts of nonsense, and wouldn’t ever consider contributing something to the memory of this great man who did so much for us? I aint pretendin when i say this, but when i came home and saw this mess, it made me really cry.
@Sydney
Girl, I’m beggin you not to stop posting. Its not irritating,its educating, do your thing girl.
@ Sexyy
OK, girl, please shield me if someone attacks — I don’t do cyber-beefs, lol.
Dr. King’s Legacy:
Integrated schools and public transportation, a nation in which all citizens have the right to vote, serve on juries, hold elected office and own a home. These things are a fundamental part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Many younger Americans take such freedoms for granted and believe that government-sanctioned discrimination is ancient history. In fact, the civil rights movement and the changes brought about by Dr. King and other activists occurred less than 50 years ago, within the lifetime of many living Americans.
Thanks to Dr. King’s activism and vision, America in 2008 looks far different than it did five decades ago. Before the civil rights movement of the mid-1950s and 1960s, education, employment and housing opportunities for most African Americans were limited and segregation–from drinking fountains to diners to schools to entire neighborhoods–was a way of life for many. Today, blacks hold positions of power and prominence in virtually every aspect of American society, including politics, business, academics, medicine, sports and entertainment. One of the current leading candidates for the U.S. presidency, Barack Obama, is African-American, and one of the most successful and influential–if not the most influential–women in the nation is Oprah Winfrey, who grew up poor in the American South. The U.S. has an African-American Supreme Court justice–Clarence Thomas–and a black secretary of state–Condoleeza Rice. The list of black CEOs includes Kenneth Chenault, head of American Express, and Clarence Otis, who leads Darden Restaurants, which operates over 1,700 restaurants, including Red Lobster and Olive Garden. A black woman, Dr. Ruth Simmons, is president of Brown University and the world’s highest-paid professional athlete is golfer Tiger Woods.
@Kitty Katt, Sydney, sexyy
this guy has done so much for us that i dont know what to say. I think the reason no one is really commenting is because they dont understand the depth of what went down. Sexyy I love what you posted about him showing the world that black people are here. It was well written.
@ Kitty Katt
Don’t cry, girl, post!! We’re almost there — let’s band together and do this.
Thoughts around the King murder conspiracy:
As the strike dragged on, King returned to Memphis a third time on the stormy night of April 3. King arrived late at Mason Temple, where 2,000 people were waiting to hear him speak. He had been delayed due to a bomb threat against his plane, a threat he referred to as he closed what would be his final speech.
“And then I got to Memphis,” King said. “And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?”
“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”
More information on King’s murder
The next day, King stepped out onto the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis to depart for dinner with local minister Billy Kyles. Suddenly, at 6:01 p.m., shots rang out. King was hit in the right check by a .30-06 caliber rifle bullet, which traveled through his neck and severed his spinal cord before resting in his shoulder blade.
Within 15 minutes, King was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital with an oxygen mask on. Doctors performed emergency surgery, but his wound was too serious. King was *****ounced dead at 7:05 p.m. He was 39 years old.
Police quickly determined the shots had come from a bathroom window at 418 ½ South Main. The FBI used fingerprints to identify James Earl Ray, an escapee from Missouri State Penitentiary, as the suspect on April 19. Ray was captured June 8, 1968, at London’s Heathrow Airport while trying to flee the United Kingdom on a false Canadian p*****port.
Ray was extradited and returned to Memphis on July 19. On the advice of his attorney, Percy Foreman, Ray plead guilty plea to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to a 99-year-prison term on March 10, 1969.
@sydney
wow girl, I didn’t know so much about Mr King. How do you know so much?
@D BRATT
Thankyou, it came from my heart.
@ Sexyy
Girl, I’m getting this from the History Channel website — there’s a big do*****entary on Dr. King airing on Sunday night at 8 EST. I believe Chuck D will appear in it, as well as John Legend and others.
@ Sexxy and everyone else
We did it! We have reached 100 posts.
@Sydney
I feel so much better now thankyou.
@ Sexyy
So do I, girl. I know we’ve never met, but I’m giving you a sisterly cyber-hug.
@sydney
I’m huggin back:)
@ Sexyy
I saw your post on the Jay Z-Beyonce thread. Good for you!!
I’m so happy!!!
sydney but do you know where james earl ray really was?
do you know that the fbi KNEW king would be there?and that they were the closest in proximity to king ? did u know what was in the room that the bullet ALLEDGEDLY came from.
wire tapping and sound amplifiers. to pick up conversations. Earl is innocent thats why the king family helped to ezxhonerate him on the OPRAH show. the murderer is the fbi they had help from the local police.
the car that was speeding away was 1 of the fbi vehicles.
this aint checkers its chess.
they gave ray 99 years hoping he would die in jail , a scapegoat, or a nut job. and the files are still sealed. or blacked out. for at least another 20yrs because they are trying to make sure the people of that time and thier kin will become removed from the sentiment of what happened then. look it up.
@Sydney
Thankyou. I just had to get it all out. Those people are unbelievable.
@ Sexyy
So am I
I thought about posting Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, which he wrote in 1963, but it’s much too long. Maybe people will look it up on their own, if they haven’t read it already.
@ umjusssayin’s back
Yes, I watched a special on CNN last night which detailed everything you just said. Do you think we’ll ever know the truth?
Here’s more on Ray’s claims:
Ray claimed he had been framed by a shadowy figure with the alias Raoul. Ray said he met Raoul in Montreal three months after escaping from prison in April 1967 and that Raoul gave him money for a car and rifle. Ray said that although he did not “personally shoot King, “he may have been “partially responsible without knowing it.”
Other stories of conspiracy popped up over the years. In 1993, Lloyd Jowers, whose bar, Jim’s Grill, opened onto the dense bushes across from the Lorraine Motel back in 68, made a startling claim. He said Mafia-connected produce dealer Frank Liberto had offered him $100,000 to hire a hit man to murder King. Jowers, who said he was told there’d be a decoy in the plot and that the police “wouldn’t be there that night,” said the killer he hired was not Ray.
The King family sued Jowers for wrongful death. In December 1999, a civil court jury in Memphis concluded that Jowers and unidentified people and government agencies had conspired to **********inate King.
@Um justsayin’s back
I dont think any of us knew that but its great that your enlightening everyone about it though. I’m certainly learning.
@umjusayin’s back,and Sydney
Do you think they would have taken this long to solve a mystery if it had to do with some useless celebrity? I don’t think so.As I said.. no one cares about the good things anymore. If it dont have to do wit sex or drugs, then no one wants to hear about it.
We cant trust tv we cant watch the news and beleive it 100% of the time. escpecially when it comes the truth.
for example king studied sociology = soci (people) ology (study) its greek. another way to say it is social studies.
to study is to research . research your own information.
discovery channel and history channels are a good place to start BUT those networks have to answer to the fcc right???
the fcc is federal right ??? the fbi is federal too.
now what in the hell makes you think they are going to give you 100% percent truth. they can edit that anyway they want. but if you research you WILL find so much more. stop letting tv feed you facts, and STUDY PEOPLE. that ***** they spewin on history channel is ***** i know from grade school. ask the tuff questions. not who killed king. but who could have progressed from him being out the way????
@ Sexyy
I think it may even run deeper than that — are you familiar with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s relentless surveillance of Dr. King? There’s a long-standing belief, which umjussayin’s detailed, that King’s murder was the work of a government plot. If the FBI or some other federal agency was involved, I doubt that we will ever uncover the truth.
if you live in north carolina and you are black, do not vote for barack obama. he decided to “diss” dr. king today because he didn’t want to be perceived as being black. well, he can kiss my black *****. i wish that i had not voted for that beige darn *****.
pastor manning is right. he’s mack daddy who is pimping black folks.
@umjussayin
WE can study all we want, but that aint gone make em fess up. The best we can do is educate ourselves so no one can sell us any *****.
@ umjussayin’s back
You’re right about not trusting news sources — I believe that a number of people have taken time to investigate the facts surrounding the murder. Have you read any books on the conspiracy theory?
@sydney
Actually yes. I’m aware of this fbi ***** and not if they are responsible, but BECAUSE they are responsible, we will never know THE TRUTH.
sexxy as long as their is someone who poses a threat to the way things opperate then their murders will always go unsolved.
an example of this is pac and big. yeah ok theyre just rappers. BUT pac had the ability to move you , he said thug life eveybody said it and so forth and so on.. who knows what he could have been . BIg too. the impact of words is always a threat . and if you can motivate enough people to actually change things then theres no room for you.
i dont want to get into it too deeply so to simplify it , if you have the FIRE to become the next X or KING ,and you fan those flames with the truth of hate and hurt that blacks have suffered then they will remove you and say oh some gang banger did. or a gang of muslims did it, or a bullet from a patsys gun from a balcony did it.
@everyone.
By now the whole world knows that its a conspiracy to keep us forever in the dark. But i’m happy he’s dead cause he would of gotten a heartattack already if were alive to see us enslaving ourselves like this.It would of killed him!
@umjussayin
WE can study all we want, but that aint gone make em fess up. The best we can do is educate ourselves so no one can sell us any *****.
that was any oxy moron and a contradictions
baby gurl all im saying dont let em spoon feed u pick up ya own damn spoon. and if you study and research for your self you wont need anyone to fessup. you sought the truth yourself.
@umjussayin
YES. THOSE ARE OTHER GREAT EXAMPLES!!!BUT… I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT DIDDY IS APART OF BIGGIE’S DEATH BUT, WHATEVER. THE MOST WE CAN DO NOW FOR ALL THREE OF THOSE MEN, IS HONOR THEIR MEMORY.
@ umjussayin’s back
No disrespect, but I wouldn’t put Biggie and Pac’s names in the same sentence with Dr. King. They had the fire to make millions off selling records, but, honestly, did they really do anything that made life better for you or me?
If I’m misinterpreting your point, please let me know. Again, no disrespect intended.
@umjussayin
I know what you were sayin, but i was just makin my point that they aren’t ever going to admit it even though we already know that they did it and if we remain ignorant then they will say what they want us to believe and we will suck it up.
@Sydney
You know u do have a point there.
no ive i just read regular ***** books like malcom x , thers a book called BEHOLD A PLAE HORSE , ive seen the discovery programs of discovery which have the disclaimer ( destroy after 6 years because this will no longer be valid). question. why destroy it ??? does it hold facts or fiction.
example
bout 3 years ago isaw on discovery sumtin bout
david koresh , the waco texas incedent , religions freedom is a right , what ever he was doing in his compound was his right by the constitution.
the fbi got ther and when they got there they fired first which caused the DAVIDIANS to fire back HEAVILY.
during this first shot koresh was on the phone with police trying to understand why the fbi where ther gun shots can be heard in the audio between the dispatch and koresh. the shots fired were from 9 mil issued to fbi . koresh had all semi autos.
when questioned the news and fthe fbi stated that the davidians fired first.
now discovery has another program playing about what “happened” and everything is different.
but they wanted me to discard the previous info because ?????? well because david has to be villanized so that his murder could be justified.
Rest In Peace Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not in vain!
Not in vain!
Not in vain!
Your dream is realizing with each breath of people of all colors who are coming together, inspired by your legacy, to live and work for CHANGE.
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@ JRiddles
King guided people and some people today need guidance.
And, if he does take special interest in Blacks, you’re right, he will be called racist, but White presidents have always taken special interest in their own people.
But, we need special attention, so I see nothing wrong (as president) with focusing on those who need attention the most.
Kanye said Bush doesn’t love Black people, but Barack loves all people…just as MLK did, so he’s always good in my book.
****
Co-sign.
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Obama 2008!
Yes We Can!
umjusayin’s back,and Sydney
Do you think they would have taken this long to solve a mystery if it had to do with some useless celebrity?
sexxy as long as their is someone who poses a threat to the way things opperate then their murders will always go unsolved.
an example
@EVERYONE
ITS JUST A DAMN SHAME.
like i said yeah they are just rappers
but what did they RAP about??? big pac didnt do anything personaly to affect me BUT they both had the POTENTIAL TO AFFECT all of us. not comparing these two to king or x.
but if malcom LITTLE was killed at 25 malcom x would have never realized his full POTENTIAL.
pac and big died at 25 and never had that chance who knows what transitions would have those two.
had king died at 25 we would all still be on the back of the buss. its my lunch break i b back.
Living his dream…is to set an example…true story:
I lived in the projects…one of my neighbors son came home with a failing report card…his mother p*****ed it back to him and said ‘oh well’…I looked at it and laid his ***** out…”how dare you come home with something that looks like this…”
unbeknowith to me…he was quietly improving.
I moved outta the neighborhood/state…but I had heard he finished school and went into the service.
He looked me up over 30 years later (he was stationed here and stood in my dining room)…and told me “if it wasn’t for you…I would be dead or in jail”…I was shocked.
He called last night…him and his family are moving back here.
I’ve had that effect on alot of kids…you know why? Because I respect myself and they respect me too…the kids in the hood will hurt somebody over me…when I get a chance to see them they appear to be good respectable people…I’m very proud of them…and I tell them…they try to impress me and I make sure I impress them too.
So thanks to family…I’m living Martin’s dream.
@ Afiya
Thank you for that! How inspiring
@Aifiya
Good for you:)
@Sydney
We need more stories like this huh?
@ Afiya
Living his dream…is to set an example…true story:
I lived in the projects…one of my neighbors son came home with a failing report card…his mother p*****ed it back to him and said ‘oh well’…I looked at it and laid his ***** out…”how dare you come home with something that looks like this…”
unbeknowith to me…he was quietly improving.
I moved outta the neighborhood/state…but I had heard he finished school and went into the service.
He looked me up over 30 years later (he was stationed here and stood in my dining room)…and told me “if it wasn’t for you…I would be dead or in jail”…I was shocked.
He called last night…him and his family are moving back here.
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Moved to tears. Thank you for being and sharing this triumphant story.
@ Sexyy
Yes, we do! It only takes a minute — the same amount of time it would take to post about Jay and Bey.
i was driving down mlk in la and thought about him, not realizing he’d been *****asinated on this day 40 years ago. i saw the pic of him jsut now and it hit me! He still demands respect and your attention, need I say more! Where have all ouur modern black leaders gone?
@Sydney
DAMN GIRl!!It look like we about to start oprah up in here! lol.
@ SoNo 2 NoHo
I believe WE are our modern black leaders. We don’t need anyone to “lead” us — we know what to do. The example has been set for us.
By the way, thousands marched in Memphis today:
White-haired veterans of the sanitation workers strike that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in 1968 marked the 40th anniversary Friday of King’s **********ination by marching to the motel where he was cut down by a sniper’s bullet.
”Dr. King was like Moses,” said Leslie Moore, 61, who was a sanitation worker in 1968 and is still on the job more than a generation later. ”God gave Moses the *****ignment to lead the children of Israel across the Red Sea. He sent Dr. King here to lead us to a better way.”
@SONO2
GOOD QUESTION. Where are our young black leaders?
@ Sexyy
LOL! I love it! I know this is just a gossip site, but this feels great
@Sydney
Maybe we are the leaders but where are we leading ourselves to?
DESTRUCTION?
Instead of thanking Martin and the other leaders, why don’t we thank God for blessing these leaders with the gift of not backing down from a cause. If it wasn’t for God, Martin and the others would have never been able to do the wonderful things they accomplished. The Civil Rights Movement was not about Martin, or the others it was about God’s grace and mercy. Let’s not forget that. I don’t mean to sound disrespectful, but we as a people need to realize that.
And it’s amazing how noone mentions the minister before Martin who tried to start a civil rights movement, but was ignored.
When remembering King, let’s not forget the unsung heroes.
@Sydney
I KNOW!!!!!!!!It feels great to me too. its the least we can do.
@Bohe
Good point.
Let’s not ridicule our young black people all the time, you have many young black people who are doing something positive for the country as a whole, and for their immediate community. Just because we don’t hear about their work, does not mean that they don’t exist.
HEY I SEE YOU GUYS HAVE MADE IT P***** YOUR 100 GOAL. GOOD JOB. :}
@ Sexyy
Sadly, I think some of us are heading down that route — the black family structure has largely dissolved, our high school graduation rates in some cities are dismally low, and violence takes lives of men and women every day. Even with this depressing reality, I believe there is still hope. I feel that this is a time of great change — we have a black man running for president (and, God willing, he will secure the Democratic nomination) and there are people already making changes in their communities. The positives can outweigh the negatives if each one of us does his or her part to ameliorate the living conditions of their sisters and brothers.
That’s one of the many lessons I’ve taken from Dr. King’s life — I’ve still amazed at the change one man, one individual was able to create, with the help of thousands.
@ Kitty Katt
Yes, we did. Do you feel better?
@Sydney and Sexyy
YES. IT SEEMS LIKE WE ARE HEADING DOWN A HILL AND PATH OF NOTHING BUT UNPLEEASANTNESS, BUT WE NEED TO BE POSITIVE. THAT WAS THE MESSAGE MARTIN LUTHER KING SPREAD. A POSITIVE MESSAGE. SO LETS TRY CONFIDENCE FIRST :/
@sydney
yes i feel much better now. thanks for asking.
@Sydney
I couldn’t have said t better myself
@ Kitty Katt
Sure — I try to remember that back during the Civil Rights Movement, while there are many people who parti*****ted, there were many others who sat on the sidelines. We shouldn’t be discouraged in facing the challenges of today — those who have the inclination to do so must keep pushing forward.
@ Sexyy, Kitty Katt, and everyone else
I have to get up early tomorrow, so I think I’m going to take it easy the rest of the evening. Have a good night, all
@ Bohwe
A moment of silence today for our unsung heroes is also defintely in order. I could not even begin to imagine how this minister lived in obscurity. He mattered. He should be honored.
Bless you for your thoughtfulness.
A vote for John McCain, is a vote for racial equality. A vote for John McCain, is a vote for an annual $100.00 complimentary E.B.T. Card for fried chicken and malt liquor during The Negroe Appreciation Month of February. A vote for John McCain, is a vote to carry on the legacy Martin Luther X!
Vote John McCain/Snoop Dogg in 2008!
God Bless!
pa is the next state to vote john mc ol ***** cain ur goin down !!!
but i can say bossip has more of a concious base then mto has. the conversations in here … well some of them are intreging
Y’all fools better WAKE UP! Our neighborhoods and lives were a lot better before de-segregation. Dr. King was out of line with The MOST HIGHS plans for us as a people. His death and any others with his philosophies it as follows.
Deut 13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
Deut 13:2 And the sign or the wonder come to p*****, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods(The White aka:The Evil, and his desires), which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
Deut 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
I am saddened by the negative posts against MLK. Anyone who does not recognize his accomplishments and his contributions to people…all people.
Also, Barack Obama, who’s very busy would not miss an event just to come off as not Black. That’s just bogus. These attemps to discredit Obama and to measure his Blackness are absolutely ridiculous.
What makes someone Black?
@Stoney,
If you consider the lives of Blacks better before de-segregation, your standards must be low. While some things were better then and we are still not treated equally, I surely would not have wanted to have to give up my seat on a bus, let somebody steal my land b/c I couldn’t go to court b/c I was Black, be denied service at a restaurant or not be able to send my children to school.
WTF are you talking about?
RIP MLK,I wish the youth of today would read about you more, all these black on black crimes are out of hand we need more people
@Mizz Pimpin…we do need to strengthen our race as far as numbers. We are all human beings, but gee, I’d like to see Blacks stop killing each other.
If it had not been for this courageous man, none of us would be where we are today. Thank you MLK for dying for what you believed in and that you beleived in us to shine for furture generations. II”m sorry that some of us don’t appreciate all the sacrifices our forefathers made just so we wouldn’t have to struggle anymore. The struggle contineus……….
@JRiddles
If this is really your picture with your post then I can see you are to young to even have a clue. To show how low my standards are, I remember our doctors, lawyers and other professionals lived in the same neighborhoods as our janitors, street sweepers, housemaids etc… we all lived together and actually kept much higher standards. That all changed with de-segregation. We can go to court now and they still steel our land, keep that seat on the bus, but still can’t command equal pay as the white person standing next to you on that bus. Why would you want to eat somewhere that you’re not wanted? Think about that extra special saliva seasoning they add to your food, yum. Send your children to their schools to be exposed to The Evil.
Jeremiah 17:4
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
There’s no other people on the planet that has been totally stripped of their heritage but us. C’mon girl put the puzzle together.
If Dr King was alive today and could see what you ignorant ***** deep south *****s/niggettes are doing in the same towns and the same streets he Marched down 40 years ago he’d probably commit suicide!
Do me a favor, listen to his “I have a dream” speech, then put on any deep south *****ed up rap CD right after that then see if you arent ashamed of yourselves!
You havent advanced your cause, anything he’s done to give you non-educated *****s a voice you’ve *****ed it up over the last 10 years! I swear when i see those videos and see the way you Bama ***** *****s/niggettes speak and act, he’s gotta be rolling over in his grave……………….
The Honest truth from 6am
Whats more ignorant than drinking cough syrup to get high?
@ SYDNEY !!!
@ SEXYY !!!
YOU TWO ARE MY NEW WEB POSTING HERO’S!!!
I HAD TO STEP OUT BUT YOU STEPPED IN!
THIS THING MY HIT 200!!!
THAT’S HOW WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
ONE MAN PROVIDES HOPE…
ONE WOMAN SITS ON A BUS…
ONE WOMAN SNEAKS SLAVES NORTH…
ONE MAN REFUSES TO BACK DOWN…
TWO WOMEN BLOW UP BOSSIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE DREAM LIVES ON
@ JRiddles
Do you realize before Desegregation, there was vibrant working black economic base? Black owned banks, hotels, restaurants, etc, etc, etc. Recycling black dollars back then was reality as opposed to some pseudo-afrocentric metaphor.
The effects of desegregation on the black economic base was devestating. Once blacks were allowed to patronize businesses other than black owned establishments, it drove all but a few out of business.
Don’t take this as a slam on MLK, but his vision, though *****le, failed to look at the big picture in regards to how it would affect the very community that he was trying to save.
In trying to keep up with the whites, we have inadvertently perpetuated an improverished ghetto that MLK was trying to eradicate.
i love you MLK you will be missed and i do still thin k about all the good you had done for us. rest in peace.
this not the place in time to start drama i mean give it a damn break ***** have cl***** and show respect!
i miss you Mlk and may god bless you and your family your wife. love ya
hey y’all this is a time for brothas and sistas to share a time for. not to fight right?? a time for black men and black women to just stop and think what we doing in life’s right now and get it right. peace out.
You all are a bunch of hypocrites! You claim you want diversity, but the truth is everything has to be black this, black that. All you care about are blacks! Racists!
Another good for nothing brotha. SMDH
That night King retired to his room at the Willard Hotel. There FBI bugs reportedly picked up 14 hours of party chatter, the clinking of gl*****es and the sounds of illicit sex–including King’s cries of “I’m f–ing for God” and “I’m not a Negro tonight!”
Note: What is not mentioned in this article is that Martin Luther King was having sex with three White women, one of whom he brutally beat while screaming the above mentioned quotes. Much of the public information on King’s use of church money to hire prostitutes and his beating them came from King’s close personal friend, Rev. Ralph Abernathy (pictured above), in his 1989 book, “And the walls came tumbling down.”
Sources:
Newsweek Magazine 1-19-1998, page 62
“And the walls came tumbling down,” by Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1989)
@ JRiddles
@ Stoney
@ John Shaft
_____________________________________________
JRiddles wrote:
@Stoney,
If you consider the lives of Blacks better before de-segregation, your standards must be low. While some things were better then and we are still not treated equally, I surely would not have wanted to have to give up my seat on a bus, let somebody steal my land b/c I couldn’t go to court b/c I was Black, be denied service at a restaurant or not be able to send my children to school.
WTF are you talking about?
****
Co-sign.
The Civil Rights Movement forged by our living and late elders for the equal treatment of our people was absolutely neccesary for the advocacy of black rights and liberty in America.
______________________________________________
Stoney wrote:
@JRiddles
If this is really your picture with your post then I can see you are to young to even have a clue. To show how low my standards are, I remember our doctors, lawyers and other professionals lived in the same neighborhoods as our janitors, street sweepers, housemaids etc… we all lived together and actually kept much higher standards. That all changed with de-segregation. We can go to court now and they still steel our land, keep that seat on the bus, but still can’t command equal pay as the white person standing next to you on that bus. Why would you want to eat somewhere that you’re not wanted? Think about that extra special saliva seasoning they add to your food, yum. Send your children to their schools to be exposed to The Evil.
Jeremiah 17:4
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
There’s no other people on the planet that has been totally stripped of their heritage but us. C’mon girl put the puzzle together.
****
Co-sign, with one respectful exception…
At first white Americans resisted desegration but then used desegregation to further control and profit off us by manipulatiing our fight for equality into our desparation for white approval and white acceptance. Our people bit the bait and are still biting this bait today. Unfortunately, our vision of desegregation went from being the bootstraps to pull ourselves up to being a bigger heel on our neck.
Sir, with all due respect, if I may remind you. Jesus was young. Dr. King was a young. Malcom X was young. And they all most certainly had a clue.
______________________________________________
John Shaft wrote:
@ JRiddles
Do you realize before Desegregation, there was vibrant working black economic base? Black owned banks, hotels, restaurants, etc, etc, etc. Recycling black dollars back then was reality as opposed to some pseudo-afrocentric metaphor. [SPEAK!!]
The effects of desegregation on the black economic base was devestating. Once blacks were allowed to patronize businesses other than black owned establishments, it drove all but a few out of business.
Don’t take this as a slam on MLK, but his vision, though *****le, failed to look at the big picture in regards to how it would affect the very community that he was trying to save.
In trying to keep up with the whites, we have inadvertently perpetuated an improverished ghetto that MLK was trying to eradicate.
****
Co-sign.
Black communities were stronger morally and economically during segregation.
Post-desegregation, we abandoned our communities and businesses for white American ideals of moral, power, and prestige.
Post-desegration our people embraced tokenism and individualism and lost our sense of community. We are still crabs in a barrel kiling eachother to get to the top to this very day.
______________________________________________
Thank you JRiddles, Stoney, and John Shaft for sharing your commonground and shared vision for the empowerment of our people.
What appeared to be disagreement is actually a powerful blueprint for us to look back to look forward.
Obama 2008!
Yes We Can!
I love Dr. King, and I thank him with everything that is in me for his sacrifice and the sacrifices made by his family in his effort to give Black people a sense of self-respect and equality in America. Sadly I think most black men and women are not trying to live up to Dr. Kings example or expectations. Just my opinion.
I’m up early posting because I’m restless on the topic of Dr. King and many of our other slain heroes.
Dr. King once remarked to Jesse Jackson and I must paraphrase “I wonder if I am leading my people into the fire” meaning his non-violent turn the other check approach and integration of backs with whites would cause blacks a greater deal of suffering.
Fast forward 40 years later and Dr. King understood his approach needed to change and his message of “acceptance” into the white world could not be further from what he envisioned.
As “minority” we can’t simply want acceptance, we must want equality, we must want the same freedoms of those who enjoyed the fruits of our ancestors(black and brown)We must seek to remove all traces of ignorance and racism by first rebuilding our selves back to the Kings and Queens that we are.
We have allowed ourselves to be prostituted on television, our misery and ignorance has helped to water the seed of racism, we must pull the weed of racism from the Earth by reclaiming the knowledge of self and refusing to stand for the nonsense that we see today.
Men, we must live up to our title as men, we can no longer sit back and watch our women suffer and our babies grow in a world where ignorance reigns. Kings reclaim the thrown that has vacant for too long.
Women, stop answering to the call of ***** and hoe and be the strong, nurturing Queen that you are. Our youth are suffering because we lead them astray by the bs we put out on television and radio. Queens rule side by side with us so we can build a foundation that will last an eternity.
The world of today is not what Dr. King, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Fred Hampton, John Africa, and many others have died for. Obama 2008 Yes We Can, of course we can but do not look to others for help, look in the mirror, look at your children, this is where it starts. We have a voice that must be heard!!!
That night King retired to his room at the Willard Hotel. There FBI bugs reportedly picked up 14 hours of party chatter, the clinking of gl*****es and the sounds of illicit sex–including King’s cries of “I’m f–ing for God” and “I’m not a Negro tonight!”
Note: What is not mentioned in this article is that Martin Luther King was having sex with three White women, one of whom he brutally beat while screaming the above mentioned quotes. Much of the public information on King’s use of church money to hire prostitutes and his beating them came from King’s close personal friend, Rev. Ralph Abernathy (pictured above), in his 1989 book, “And the walls came tumbling down.”
Sources:
Newsweek Magazine 1-19-1998, page 62
“And the walls came tumbling down,” by Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1989)
Black to tha Booty AKA The Something New Queen,
So your citing sources? Your a fool to go based on FBI. Do you know how well they can create false do*****ents? The government was upset because one of the most influential speakers at the time spoke against the war. After that he was no longer allowed at the white house, received threatening calls, and his wife received threatening calls about how they were gonna frame this man and kill him. This is nothing new. The government has killed off lawyers, friends, agents, reporters who knew about Watergate, INSLAW, BCCI, and October SUrprise. Check your sources and see if they report anything about those conspiracies. Also I believe Abernathy was lookin for a payoff as well as offered the sake of his life to print this book. MAlcolm closest people turned on him so I’m not surprised. Jesus closest friend who he saved gave him away also.
Anyways RIP MLK
Lady A
You name me a black man and I’ll tell you why he’s no damned good! MLK also faked essays and stole credit.
Spending his churches funds on white hookers is so typical of our fake black preachers!
it’s clear that you just don’t like black man for your own personal means. Don’t try to say that all are no good. Maybe the problem is that you yourself is just no good which would explain your problems with them.
THE ONLY PERFECT MAN TO WALK THIS EARTH WAS JESUS!!!
AND EVEN HE DIED IN THE FLESH!!!
*****ODY ELSE COMES CLOSE…
ALSO NO BLACK MAN WAS GOING TO GET AWAY WITH LIVIN LIKE SNOOP, ICE-T, OR FLAVA IN 1968 WITHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWING ABOUT IT!!!
THE FBI, MEDIA, AND KKK WOULD HAVE PUT THAT ON BLAST!!!
NOT KEEP IT HIDDEN…….
THERE IS GOOD IN ALL OF US!
IT IS UP TO US TO LET IT SHINE,
AND TO HELP OTHERS DO THE SAME!
I WILL BE BACK EVERYDAY, AS LONG AS BOSSIP LEAVES UP THIS POST, TO LEAVE A POSITVE COMMENT.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL
@JRiddles you right about alot of things you say I wish our people would get it together.My son was shot twice the first time he got shot he was hit 7 times the second time he was getting chased down.My son has nothing to do with whats going on in the streets but they dont care about that, he is a mentor to the youth and has been working since he was 13yrs.old and he loves working with the kids they look up to him, he also attends church every Sunday. We had three funerals this week and one was a straight A student this has to stop it is getting out of hand.These kids have no respect for life. Their are so many programs out here all they have to do is go, they give them jobs, etc thats how my son stays working
I forget to mention the police is out of hand to my brother was killed by them in 2004 so what are we to do, how can we win. as a black man these days you have to watch your back from other black men then you have to also do they same with the people who are hired to protect you.I seen what the police can do up close and in person when they beat my son in my face they tryed to kill my baby, and where I live their are mostly whites, my son dont want to come out here no more and I am moving. my son is 6′1 and 155 pounds they tasered him 3 times and he still did not fall, they say he was resisting but I was right there and so was his white freind that they did nothing to he even said it was wrong what they were doing and he will be in court. most of my neighbors are white and they saw everything but they are scared to come to court.I am writing this to show you what a black man has to go through these days and all of this happened within 2yrs. I tell my son he is a strong black man and dont let know one tell you different because after all of this you are still standing on your two feet God has a plan for you that why you are still here. God bless all of us
Mizz Pimpin,
God Bless you sister, your beautiful son, and your family.
This hatred of black youth and potential frightens me to death to the point sometimes I can’t sleep or eat. Living in a state of concern or worry b***** under the surface is just hard.
But for mothers to be living in a state of grief is a sin on this country hands and conscience. What child is an idustrialized wealthy country supposed to be getting shot at on the regular?!!!
And its just not in the hood. I read this article how this near white biracial young man in Milwaukee got brutally beaten by a gang of white boys, some cops, outside a house party in a residential so called good neighborhod. That blew my mind because if you see this brother’s picture he looks white, a little ethnic. When I read that I was like they beat him?!!!
It’s open season and Mizz Pimpin you are inspiration because WE PARENTS OF BLACK CHILDREN HAVE TO BE ADVOCATES FOR OUR CHILDREN!!!
My kids are small (both under 5) but it terrifies me how white people in public feel at liberty commenting on how even our 1, 2,3, 4, 5 years old black baby boys are SO BIG SO STRONG SO TALL with that animated aghast fear look. They are labeling and targeting them as babies.
That’s why we are seriuosly considering not raising our children in this country.
Stay Strong. You and yours are in my prayers. Your son is going to make a big big big difference in this world. YES HE CAN!
I’ve been meaning to ask JRiddles about life in the Virgin Islands.
@ DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!
Thank you for your messages! Yes, the dream lives on
Also, the History Channel will air a special on Dr. King tomorrow night at 8EST/7C. A description is below:
Forty years after the **********ination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at age 39, a new History™ special, KING, with newsman Tom Brokaw, takes viewers on an unprecedented journey back in time and forward to today. KING goes beyond the legend to delve into the man, the questions, the myths and, most importantly, the relevance of Dr. King’s message in today’s world.
Among those interviewed in the special are Andrew Young, Former President Bill Clinton, Harry Belafonte, Chuck D, Forest Whitaker, Rep. John Lewis and many others.
Apr 5, 2008 – 7:16 am lovely and amazing
@ JRiddles
@ Stoney
@ John Shaft
_____________________________________________
JRiddles wrote:
@Stoney,
If you consider the lives of Blacks better before de-segregation, your standards must be low. While some things were better then and we are still not treated equally, I surely would not have wanted to have to give up my seat on a bus, let somebody steal my land b/c I couldn’t go to court b/c I was Black, be denied service at a restaurant or not be able to send my children to school.
WTF are you talking about?
****
Co-sign.
The Civil Rights Movement forged by our living and late elders for the equal treatment of our people was absolutely neccesary for the advocacy of black rights and liberty in America.
______________________________________________
Stoney wrote:
@JRiddles
If this is really your picture with your post then I can see you are to young to even have a clue. To show how low my standards are, I remember our doctors, lawyers and other professionals lived in the same neighborhoods as our janitors, street sweepers, housemaids etc… we all lived together and actually kept much higher standards. That all changed with de-segregation. We can go to court now and they still steel our land, keep that seat on the bus, but still can’t command equal pay as the white person standing next to you on that bus. Why would you want to eat somewhere that you’re not wanted? Think about that extra special saliva seasoning they add to your food, yum. Send your children to their schools to be exposed to The Evil.
Jeremiah 17:4
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
There’s no other people on the planet that has been totally stripped of their heritage but us. C’mon girl put the puzzle together.
****
Co-sign, with one respectful exception…
At first white Americans resisted desegration but then used desegregation to further control and profit off us by manipulatiing our fight for equality into our desparation for white approval and white acceptance. Our people bit the bait and are still biting this bait today. Unfortunately, our vision of desegregation went from being the bootstraps to pull ourselves up to being a bigger heel on our neck.
Sir, with all due respect, if I may remind you. Jesus was young. Dr. King was a young. Malcom X was young. And they all most certainly had a clue.
______________________________________________
John Shaft wrote:
@ JRiddles
Do you realize before Desegregation, there was vibrant working black economic base? Black owned banks, hotels, restaurants, etc, etc, etc. Recycling black dollars back then was reality as opposed to some pseudo-afrocentric metaphor. [SPEAK!!]
The effects of desegregation on the black economic base was devestating. Once blacks were allowed to patronize businesses other than black owned establishments, it drove all but a few out of business.
Don’t take this as a slam on MLK, but his vision, though *****le, failed to look at the big picture in regards to how it would affect the very community that he was trying to save.
In trying to keep up with the whites, we have inadvertently perpetuated an improverished ghetto that MLK was trying to eradicate.
****
Co-sign.
Black communities were stronger morally and economically during segregation.
Post-desegregation, we abandoned our communities and businesses for white American ideals of moral, power, and prestige.
Post-desegration our people embraced tokenism and individualism and lost our sense of community. We are still crabs in a barrel kiling eachother to get to the top to this very day.
______________________________________________
Thank you JRiddles, Stoney, and John Shaft for sharing your commonground and shared vision for the empowerment of our people.
What appeared to be disagreement is actually a powerful blueprint for us to look back to look forward.
Obama 2008!
Yes We Can!
__________________________________________________
@Shaft and Stoney, thank you for your comments. I respect your opinions and like I mentioned originally, there were many things that were better back then.
@Lovely, thanks once again…I am young, but being “old” does not guarantee you full knowledge of history. I can speak to people, read the -right-books and educate myself if I want to get a “clue.”
@Mizz Pimpin’, I get pumped up about these posts all the time, but you actually brought tears to my eyes, b/c I have had very similar experiences with the police. I try not to get too personal on Bossip (b/c some people abuse your vulnerability), but let’s just say that violence has affected my family and I know just how you feel.
We are our own enemies and sometimes looking to those who are paid to protect us is just pointless. I don’t have too much faith in the justice system either, but I wish you and your family the best.
@Lovely, honestly, things aren’t perfect here. I was just speaking to a family friend who moved here in the 80’s from NC and ATL. He said one advantage of raising his children in the VI is that they were allowed to grow up in a predominantly Black community. We have “suburbs,” but 84-square miles does not give you the similar social cl***** by neighborhood breakdown of the states, but it does exist.
You can worry less about your shildren being abducted, but it is not non-existent. I feel safe here b/c I’m from here and everyone knows each other, but like any other place, there are some effed up front page stories.
I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It’s *****ious, quiet, beautiful and I’d raise my children here…but I love the states too.
I am just SCARED to be BLACK in AmeriKKKa. So if you ever decide to relocate here, I’d be happy to set you up.
@Lovely, btw…I phone banked today! YIPPEY! People are rude though…sheesh! I got hung up on quite a few times. I don’t think one Black person answered any of those numbers. Whites and Hispanics with language barriers took over today. It was difficult…and I speak some Spanish. I will try again tomorrow…Apr. 7 is the last day to register for Indiana’s primary.
TTYL
Thank you, Bossip, for remembering Dr. King. Next year, let’s remember Malcolm in February as well. I firmly believe you cannot have one without the other. Dr. King and Malcolm had to be separated by the powers that be — can you imagine what a beautiful world we’d have if they’d been allowed to truly unite, merge forces and philosophies?
And thank you to everyone who has posted the positivity in this thread.
@lovely and amazing and JRiddles thank you, it’s people like you two that keep me strong it shows me that there are still some good people on this earth and another one of my favorites on here is 1TruDiva. God bless
2:02am in Lost Angels, CA!!!
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR FUTURE IS???????
DON’T FORGET WHERE WE CAME FROM, SO YOU CAN REMEMBER WHERE WE ARE GOING!!!
EACH ONE, TEACH ONE…….
@ JRiddles
Thank you for VI inforamtion. Really appreciated friend. It’s ironic that at this time of being so inspired by Obama is when we are considering leaving. I have a friend who moved out of the country and said she’s not coming back unless Obama is in office. The US is in a serious crisis. Michelle Obama is 100% right, this country should not be ok with so many disappointed souls.
Did you get the e-mail invitation the other day to the national conference call? It was easier to get through in the past. This time I held the line for 45 minutes and didn’t get through!
I too have found some people taken back by calls (like they are unaware we are in an election year), and I have been hung up on. I think some people don’t like the script, even though IMO the scripts are respectful and very informative.
One lady interrupted me and said just talk to me. She was a HRC supporter and was mostly concerned about healthcare. She was under the impression that Obama didn’t want all children to have healthcare. At this late stage people are STILL this misinformed about Obama’s policies!
When we call we are up against misinformation from powerful sources. You really get to see how voters are completely affected by perception and misinformation. CNN, FOX, BCN (BILL Clinton Network) they are masterful mind-f***ers.
Obama is telling the truth when he says it is the everyday people working on his behalf that are putting him ahead.
Have you considered interviewing a member of Obama’s campaign team for your University paper? Or tell the stories of how people in VI are inspired by him? Or an article on these Bossip forums. JRiddles, as a journalist, your powerful writing IS your phone banking and door to door cav*****ing.
Obama 2008!
Yes We Can!
MLK
When they took you they took a supreme strategist and visionary for America. You are as much an American forefather as Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington, Adams, Franklin etc. Your contribution was holding America to it’s vision when everyone else had all but given up. What is so amazing is you did it as the common man, however a spiritually centered one from Atlanta, Georgia.
You held the blueprint for a more effective and efficient America. One not distracted by race, cl***** and violence. To keep control they sacrificed you and your dream for the flimsy tissue paper image of change. You also exposed America for the vicious step parent it was with a strategy that was inarguable genius. One of god’s essence, love, comp*****ion and fearlessness.
However the implementation of your plan didn’t fail, it never saw daylight. Civil rights failed, the institution’s plan that used you as it’s martyr. A plan undoubtedly sabotaged by your adversaries who pretended to abandon the racism that is soaked into there very bones. Your death allowed them to go from overt to covert.
The programs government used to paint the image that progress was being attempted but was ineffective. An intentional effort to distract the world while they continued their scientific brand of population control. Today we know many of the programs were designed to create mental chains to replace the actual ones previously preventing progress.
Dependency on a system that gave you and incentive for not working is the way they stripped everyday American’s of a right to have grievance in communities where joblessness was still prevalent. But we took it despite your teachings some for survival others for misuse. It was a contract to hire a farmer instead of the 40 acres and a mule they promised.
I know you would not be angry with the way things are if you were alive. Because if you were alive things would be completely different. Unlike those that soil your name, you knew this was worth dying for. I wish that I had a chance to live in your time. I hope in my heart that I would be strong enough to March with you to the brink.
@Lovely and Amazing
I just read that you may not remain in the states. It’s unfortunate to hear although I know if I was a parent and thought my children’s future would be limited here I would do the same thing. If you do leave I believe that you and your husband will be a great additions to any new environment.
As for the states it will be of great loss to have some one working so hard for betterment though change to move elsewhere. This is why it’s so important that America’s lets go of beefing up our imagery and truly works to make things better.
To foreign s*****s we are losing beautiful Americans who believe in the ideas our country was founded on if not the actual implementation of them.
I hope there never comes a day where the hopeless have no one to criticize for trying to make changes. I know in my logical heart that will be the day that America’s dream truly dies. The common man will be in chains and there will be no true morality in tact to bring us back.
We will just be the dysfunctional country with all the weapons in between Mexico and Canada.
But I hope things are well for you otherwise and I can’t wait to get PA on the Obama team.
@JRiddles
Hello new friend, I saw that you are doing the phone banking. Please know that no one has reached out to me yet. I have made donations and received and invitation for a dinner. Is it possible that I missed the sign up for additional campaign help? If either you or Lovely could tell me what I should be doing or looking for I greatly appreciate it.
Best Regards,
Mono
god bless MLK jr. R.I.P.. if only he could have lived awhile longer. atleast SOME of his dreams came to p*****. i dont think he’d take to kindly to the state of the black community today, it’s a slap in the face to a wonderful legend like him. we really do need to do better and we need more positive black role models and leaders.
#199!!!
@ THE HATERZ OF PEACE & LOVE…
YOU CAN NEVER STOP US. WE WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL. THE REVOLUTION WILL CONTINUE UNTIL ALL FORMS OF PREJUDICE, HATE, RACISM, INTOLERANCE, POVERTY, EXPLOITATION, & DISCRIMINATION ARE WIPED FROM THE FACE OF THE GLOBE.
WE SHALL OVERCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TWO HUNDRED POSTS IN MEMORY OF…….
THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.!!!!!!!
HOW ABOUT 200 MORE???
@ Mono
Thank you for your loving dedication to Dr. King.
{if you have a minute check out Ladt Architecht’s comments on Dr. King. I think you will appreciate them)
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Thank you for your kind post to my family. We’d love to stay, especially at this time of emerging change. This country needs HOPE. America so needs Obama. The sense of hopelessness spans cl***** color race language. People are tired of being devalued and taken for granted. This is a unique time in America where people are just not ok with turning a blind eye to the have nots. This is a time of emerging consciousness and we are really ready for real change.
Even if one lives in a safe place, bubbles to hide and insulate are illusionary because no one lives in a bubble and children don’t stay in bubbles.
Michelle Obama speaks eloquently about this hopelessness, especially in regard to parenting.
What does working hard and giving our children everything mean if the dynamics of this country are set up that whether they have or have not our children cannot self-actualize?
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As for phone banking, the other day I could not get through to the national call team conference call. I waited 45 miniutes for access and could not get through. Is it possible there are “too many” phone bank volunteers?
I would call the national campaign office and inquire as to why you haven’t recieved your phone bank information and access code and if they are still seeking volunteers to phone bank from home.
Mono, you are a truly beautiful spirit. Take very good care.- L&A
Obama 2008!
Yes We Can!
MLK was murdered by a jealous husband, due to his philandering. Abernathy and Jackson was complicit in the fabrication that led to the whole James Earl Ray lone gunman nut theory, because they felt the actual truth would be too tawdry and damaging to not only MLK’s image and memory, but the whole civil rights’ movement as a whole. With the faux *****asination by the patsy James Earl Ray, it allowed the conspirators to turn the murder of MLK into a martyr, thus shaming the country into signing the Civil Rights Bill, which in turn, led to the desegregation of america. GAME, SET AND MATCH!
@Lovely and Amazing
I have often contemplated the state of our educational system and whether it’s fit to bring kids up in. In some places it seems you have to give kids a bit of disfunction just so they will survive. Here in my city high school kids have been killing each other left and right this year.
Growing up I lost so many of my friends to guns for a long time I thought that I may be the grim reaper him self. But having a strong family, finding an appreciation for positive people and and my refocus on God cures everything. Now it’s like I have lived two lives.
It is truly a shame… But you are right you can’t put kids in a bubble but it’s beautiful you can still find a reality where they can openly walk with a communities faith bound support. Bravo to you for standing up for your children. I wish more of us weren’t so willing to settle when protecting our future. Self actualization is tough to reach in a world that tries to strip you of your security.
Please also know that I read the Lady Architect’s post and I did appreciate her defense and others of Martin Luther King Jr. When I came to this post I thought surely there wouldn’t be any one ignorant enough to attack Martin King Jr?
Oh well the subspecies of lost, angry and hateful never rest. But any idiot can read between the historical lines. It’s simple, make comments that strip power from any violent and unethical organization and we all know what happens to you. Why is it so hard for the slower of us to understand if an organization is violent enough to endorse a ***** war then it is violent to take a man’s life for speaking out against it. Ask Colin Powell his life was taken.
Martin knew what speaking against the Vietnam War would mean for him, they were threatening him for less. He gave his life for truth. He gave his life to save soldiers lives. This is the same war we admit today to be and American loss and a mistake. How many tens of thousands of lives were lost in vietnam?
Is it okay to believe the FBI is flawless or maybe it’s Abernathy who was perfect. If he cared so much about the movement why sacrifice it to disgrace King when leadership was already changing hands and King had been **********inated? Where is the motive in his sudden King confessions?
My hunch is he was a cowardly snake trying to save his own life. Behind every good martyr there is a Judas. If King was getting the threatening calls at 3:00 AM so was the rest of his team. Every loyal leader of the era said Ralph always had a great deal of jealousy towards Martin anyway.
What I am beginning to realize is you have to live by the truth to recognize it. When you live by lies you think the world does the same. You question anything that doesn’t fulfill your own dark outlook.
Even if the accusations made on this site had any credible sources you would think it would be a dribble of bad in a ocean of good that this man has done for all races of people in America.
But giving his life to change our lives and expand our rights isn’t even enough to believe him over a government agency. An agency that history has shown to support American Racism. An agency that has even been implicated in not just King’s death but others who fought for truth. As Lady Architect says why would they hold that juicy information? Especially at a time when J Edgar was outing any one who didn’t have a squeaky clean record on some bull.
I get so disappointed with so many of these so called brothers and sisters and there ignorance run amuck. They always use their tired hearsay evidence to prove a black man or woman is not worthy of our praise. But the government’s word is golden even at a time when they were turning hoses on us and murdering the outspoken.
No none of is God but does that mean we should not praise those who for even a moment of time acted in a way that is fitting of his beautiful image? After all we all hold a bit of God in us if we choose to use it. It’s called love the perfect emotion.
You have to be a miserable human being to look for flaws in the good to justify your own inability to p***** a gaseous effort in life. I saw a do*****entary on how dogs were bread in western culture for loyalty. Well it appears the same practice was a staple for successful slave owners.
Some of us need to check our ancestry, I have a hunch that I know whose great grand parents were begging for the whipping post after the eman*****tion. Precious God, my belief in you first is what truly makes me free…
Lovely know you are precious to us all. Meeting people like your self and others I know that I am not alone in a lack of acceptance for this n!ggeri$h situation.
We will all persevere with gods love. Thank you for your sincerity, your intelligence and your ability to speak ever so candidly about a life that can be better. Here’s to the audacity of our hope!!! It comes with God’s protection.
Mono
IGNORANCE IS BLI$$!!!
THAT’$ WHY $O MANY PEOPLE HIDE BEHIND IT…
IT I$ FAR EA$IER TO GIVE IN TO EVIL, THAN TO MAN OR WOMAN UP AND DO WHAT I$ RIGHT.
$ATAN HA$ HI$ DEMON$ AT WORK ON HERE…
$TAY $TRONG AND RE$I$T THE TEMPTATION$!!!
FOR THEY WILL FALL INTO THE PIT$ OF HELL…….
Dear Monotheistic Proof and JRiddles,
Good morning friends.
I have perhaps a silly question. When friends on Bossip exchange information to talk off Bossip, how are you sure it is the same person? Do you post an e-mail right here on the board?
Pardon me, for not being hip to how this works. Bossip is the first message board I’ve posted to and I’ve read to be cautious of the internet.
It would be nice to talk to you too.
Blessed day,
L&A
BOSSIP!!!
I HAVE A DREAM! JUST LIKE MLK!
I WANT MY OWN GRAVATAR!!! HOW DO YOU GET IT???????
@ DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!
Go to Gravatar.com
@Lovely, I’d like to know how to also. When yo find a safe way, let me know. I’ve been turned off by Bossip…I just came back to comment on MLK.
THANK YOU JAMES EARL RAY.
I FORGIVE YOU AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL.
MARTIN LUTHER KING IS FREE AT LAST!!!!!!!
Hi Lovely,
I’m not sure either I remember facing the same dilemma when I requested information from J Riddles on helping my friend get started in her journalism career. My apologies J Riddles it was only my intention to get general tips but it struck me later that this is a very dangerous way to exchange even general information.
@Lovely and Amazing
I am sure I don’t have to tell you NOT to post anything here that is even indirectly connected to your real information or identity. It was my thought that people set up dummy email accounts with fake addresses etc.
Then maybe they respond back and forth till they feel comfortable that the person is trustworthy and consistent. However I too am a amateur when it comes to this message board culture, so do think we need to think about this thoroughly.
Lastly I agree with J, outside of the election I may not be coming back here too often either. Bossip has helped me begin something we talked about while ago Lovely. But now that my creativity has moved in a different direction its time to put my words where they count.
That being said I feel guilty for putting any time into something that has grown into a distraction. But there are some very good people here so I will keep an eye out parti*****te from time to time on the meaningful stories.
Lovely let me know how you want to move forward it would be a shame to lose contact altogether. However in the interim I will research a system that protects us.
I will continue to check in on this page.
Regards,
Mono
@Da Truth Hurts!!!
I hope hell isn’t waiting for any of us, I know half the time these are just fools playing games. But every now and then you run into the ones that just feel cold.
It seems as long as one person pays attention we have those that will set their own bed a blaze and sleep in it to be recognized for the feet.
This is some real darkness we have found on this site an the world has access to it. Or maybe on the contrary it’s some real westernized lightness?
LOL! Y’all take this ***** way the ***** too serious. Now if you *****s want to keep in touch without any prying eyes, may i suggest one of you open up a My*****e Page and only open it up to the people you trust. There you can exchange personal information and set up private avenues of communication. Remember, in My*****e, you can pick and choose your friends and who can have access to your page and after you’ve exchanged your personal e-mails, you can close your my*****e account and move on with your lives.
@ JRiddles
@ Monotheistic Proof
Sorry to repost. Bossip didn’t post actual link.
httpcolonfowardslashforwardslashwwwdotmy*****edotcomforwardslashlovelyandamazinguniverse
L&A
@Charles Manson
I appreciate the information I will do some research on how my *****e protects itself. You do seem very intelligent despite the focus, I have always said that.
As for the seriousness of it all… 20% of our kids are graduating high school in some major city’s like Detroit. This is at a time when a masters is needed to make a decent living.
From your living room this isn’t a big deal. But this sight authenticates itself as black ideas and then opens it’s door to the world. Some of the nonsense on this site will continue to justify our position to the world despite its origins. We reached genocide levels long ago and who cares? Apparently not even us?
American Government will only step in when they have to. The way they have been running America I am not sure it will take us in the right direction if they did. White America has many of the same problems if you take away the thousands of do overs they receive in a lifetime. Besides you see where there help has taken us so far.
This is about us. Yes we have free speech but I hope that includes calling out ignorance and not dumbing ourselves down, a cultural phenomena that I am disgusted to say I once parti*****ted in.
I have been there where it’s easier to laugh and take our mind of the truth. but in your life when nothing else happens but laughing to escape the situation when has that ever truly saved your life or paid your bills.
I have seen enough young death in a life time to cancel all future orders. We are on the brink of irreversible extermination and each of us has a part to play through are actions. We have to paint a new picture of black success. And there are no coffee breaks.
The imagery has to force new expectations of excellence. The imagery we create is the one that will carry our children forward who do not understand the significance of the road not taken, One that is not limited to Music, Sports and Entertainment.
I don’t know what this world has in store for us but maybe this is a tragic cleansing process, I just feel like for every one person trying to change the rules there are 50 who choose to play the game as is. But the brilliant people I do meet amongst us are comparable and sometimes superior to any I have witnessed in any other culture. We have a black man who has built the prototype for a Time Machine for god sake.
Oh well off to do my part in the real world change is needed.
Mono
@ Mono
I don’t know how we can convince each other. I hope you check this again. It really is me lovely and amazing that set up the My *****e account. It took me quite some time to figure out. You can set up accounts private. Honestly, my *****e ahs aways frightened me. The things I’ve read. But I gave it a try for I’d be gratful to exhange writing with you and JRiddles off Bossip.
Very sincerely,
L&A
Lovely,
Thank you, I got the link. It didn’t show up earlier.
however I will reach out to you once I have set up my account.
@ MONOTHEISTIC PROOF; LOVELY AND AMAZING & JRIDDLES
YOU DO REALIZE THAT IF YOU LEAVE BOSSIP, WHO WILL YOU HAVE TO GANG UP ON, THUS GIVING YOU ALL THAT FALSE SENSE OF MORAL SUPERIORITY? YOU’LL BE BACK.
@ $HERMAN…
$HERMAN! $HERMAN!! $HERMAN!!! HERCULE$! HERCULE$!!!
OOOP$… $ORRY ABOUT THAT…
YOU DO REALIZE THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER PLACE$ THO$E HEROE$ CAN GO TO $TAND UP TO IGNORANCE OTHER THAN HERE…
AL$O IF THEY DO LEAVE, NEVER TO RETURN, THERE ARE OTHER$ WILLING AND ABLE TO $TEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE…
THE $AME WAY MARTIN LUTHER KING $TEPPED UP TO THE CHALLENGE AND IN$PIRED MILLION$ TO DO THE $AME!!!
LET FREEDOM RING!!!
@ Monotheistic Proof
I FEEL YOU…
BUTTON PUSHERS… YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW IF IT’S A JOKE OR IF IT’S PURE EVIL…
BETTER TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
I WONDER WHAT MLK WOULD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE STATE OF BLACK AMERICA???
I WONDER IF HE WOULD AGREE THAT WE HAVE REPLACED WHITE PEOPLE AND BECOME OUR OWN WORST ENEMIES???
I WONDER IF HE’D REALIZE THAT HE WOULD BE 10 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY A BLACK “man” THAN A WHITE ONE???
I WONDER…….
SEEMS LIKE THERE IS ANOTHER **********INATION OF BARAK OBAMA’S WORDS GOING ON…….
THEY WILL STOP AT NOTHING AND MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING TO STOP HIM FROM WINNING!!!!!!!
MARTIN LUTHER KING FOUGHT FOR US, WE NEED TO FIGHT FOR OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER!!!
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY…
IT’S APRIL 14TH…
ONE DAY UNTIL YOU GOTTA FILE THOSE TAXES…
THEY SHOULD GIVES BLACKS A BREAK FOR ALL WE WENT THRU IN SLAVERY AND SEGREGATION!!!
WE NEVER GOT OUR REPARATIONS AND STILL DEAL WITH RACISM, BIGOTRY, PREDGUDICE, AND INJUSTICE.
THE WORK OF MARTIN LUTHER KING IS FAR FROM OVER…
I HAVE A DREAM…….
I REALLY THINK TODAY SHOULD ACTUALLY BE “BLACK PEOPLES” APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!
THINK ABOUT!!!
WHAT HAVE WE GOTTEN FOR OUR TAXATION WITHOUT REPARATION???
THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. KNEW…….
I HAVE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP…….
RIP MLK. JR.
AMEN
Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior
THANKS TO MLK & THOUSANDS LIKE HIM I WENT OUT LAST NIGHT HAD A WILD & CRAZY NIGHT!!! AND, I WAS ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT HAVEING WATER HOSES & DOGS SET UPON ME!!!
THANK YOU!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
HAPPY MONDAY IN MEMORY OF MLK!!!!!!!
I WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD LOOK TO MARTIN LUTHER KING AS A ROLE MODEL INSTEAD OF SO MANY OF THESE OTHERS WHO ARE CRIMINALS AND BAD MEMBERS OF SOCIETY…
LET FRREDON RING…….
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA!
YOU SHOULD TOO!!!!!!!
VOTE!!!
FREE AT LAST…….
@ Da Truff I see you are still coming back, it is a shame this post did not get more comments and look at Kim K, Stacey Dash etc their post gets more comment SMH
@ MIZZ PIMPIN
YES!!! AND I WILL KEEP COMMING BACK AS LONG AS THEY LEAVE THIS POST UP!!!
SHAME IS NOT THE PROPER TERM, MORE LIKE DISGRACE…
RIP! MLK!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
WHY DID I PUT @ MIZ PIMPIN???
LIKE ALL THE “OTHER” POSTERS ON HERE WOULD GET CONFUSED!!! LOL!
OH WELL…
BTW..
NOT SURE ABOUT THE COP VERDICT IN NYC…
KIND OF SUSPECT…….
IT’S SATURDAY MORNING IN LOS ANGELES!!!
SUNSHINE! 80 DEGREES!! I’M OUT!!!
HAPPY MLK DAY ALL YEAR!!!!!!!
IT’S MONDAY…
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIVING LEGACY OF…….
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.!!!!!!!
It’s Humpday!!!
Gotta get over that hump!!!
Just like MLK got over that hump long, but not so long, ago!!!!!!!
WOW!!!
IT’S BEEN A FEW DAYS!!!
HARD WORK WILL DO THAT!!!
JUST LIKE THE HARD WORK DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING DID FOR ALL OF US WHO ARE WILLING TO DO IT TOO!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
GOD BLESS MARTIN LUTHER KING!
GOD BLESS YOU!
GOD BLESS US ALL!!!
MLK ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!
IF YOU ARE IN INDIANA OR NORTH CAROLINA TODAY..,
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO VOTE FOR BARAK OBAMA!!!!!!!
LET FREEDOM RING…….
IT’S WEDNESDAY!!!
HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!
ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
Thursday night is “LOST” night for me!!!
If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today.., I wonder what his favorite TV show would be???
Interesting thought…….
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRIENDS…
BE A FRIEND, TAKE THE TIME TO CARE…
JUST LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING CARED…….
HAPPY SATURDAY MR. MLK!!!!!!!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOTHERS IN THE WORLD!
WEST VIRGINIA VOTES FOR BARAK OBAMA TODAY!!!
I WONDER IF MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ANY VOTES FOR PRESIDENT???
I HAVE A DREAM…….
REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.!!!
THANK YOU!!!
WOULD LOVE TO DEDICATE THIS BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA DAY TO YOU!!!
MLK RIP 4-EVER!!!!!!!
GOD BLESS ALL WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US!!!
AMEN
HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GREAT WEEKEND!
BE KIND TO OTHERS & BE TRUE TO YOURSELVES!!!
WAKE UP FROM THE NIGHTMARE…
LIVE THE DREAM!!!!!!!
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CAN SAVE BLACK AMERICA…
ARE BLACK AMERICANS…
GANG BANGIN, PIMPIN, HOEIN, DRUG DEALIN, & ALL OTHER CRIMINAL/IMMORAL ACTIVITIES ARE FINE FOR ENTERTAINMENT…
BUT THEY ARE NOT LIFESTYLE CHOICES!!!!!!!
MLK DAY EVERYDAY UPDATE…….
OREGON & KENTUCKY TAKE THIER TURN TODAY…
WE ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO LIVING HISTORY!!!
OBAMA 08
DON’T BELIEVE THE LIES…
FIND OUT THE TRUTH FOR YOURSELF…
JUSTICE IS NOT BLIND…
EVERYONE MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE…
BE TRUTHFUL TO OTHERS…
BE HONEST WITH YOURSELVES…
LIVE LIFE…
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!!!
REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US AND CELEBRATE THIER MEMORY!!!
LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST AND APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE!!!
BE SAFE, BE SURE, BE…….
YESTERDAY WAS MEMORIAL DAY…
THE DAY SET ASIDE TO REMEMBER & HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US AND MADE THE SCRIFICE TO MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER.
GOD THANK YOU FOR THEM AND WHAT THEY DID…
GOD THANK FOR US AND WHAT WE CAN AND WILL DO…
AMEN!!!
HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!
IT’S EVERYDAY IN CASE YOU DID’NT KNOW…….
“I HAVE A DREAM”
MLK
REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
HAPPY JUNE!!!
IT’S MARTIN LUTHER KING MONTH!!!
AT LEAST IT SHOULD BE!!!
BARACK OBAMA IS ONE STEP HIGHER ON HISTORY’S LADDER!!!
THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.!!!
THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE US!!!!!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
GOD BLESS US ALL!!!!!!!
FATHERS DAY IS HERE!!!
WE NEED MORE FATHERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES LIKE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. TO RAISE UP OUR STANDARDS AND BE EXAMPLES OR LIVING THE RIGHT WAY!!!
WE SHALL OVERCOME…
HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!!!!!
WE NEED A NEW DAY…
SELF LOVE, HONOR, & RESPECT DAY!!!
I BELIEVE IF PEOPLE CARED MORE ABOUT THEMSELVES, IT WOULD HELP THEM CARE MORE ABOUT OTHERS…
MARTIN LUTHER KING HAD THE SAME IDEA.
HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!
ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!!!
BLACK HISTORY MONTH??? YEAR???????
NO!!! BLACK HISTORY LIFETIME!!!!!!!!!!
LIVE YOUR HISTORY!
NEVER FORGET!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
HAPPY SUMMER!!!
IT’S 100 DEGREES IN LA!!!
THANK YOU LORD!!!
DEAR DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING,
THAT GUY IMUS IS AT IT AGAIN…
WHY DO SOME PEOPLE STILL INSIST ON MAKING AFRICAN-AMERICANS THE BUTT OF A JOKE INSTEAD OF PEOPLE TO BE RESPECTED?
I GET THAT IF AN INDIVIDUAL DOES SOMETHING, THEN “GET ‘EM”!!!
BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ATTACH RACE TO THE INSULT.
I HAVE A DREAM…….
HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!
ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!!!
LET FREEDOM RING…
CELEBRATE BLACK LOVE & BLACK LIFE!
TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN!
LOOK OUT FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR!
STOP COMMITTING CRIMES & GET A JOB/EDUCATION!
BE A SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM AND NOT THE CASUE OF ONE!
HOPE, PRAY, AND TAKE ACTION!!!
THIS IS NOT MINE, BUT I LIKE IT, SO HERE IT IS!!!
“Where we are now”
Now, in order to answer the question, “Where do we go from here?” which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now. When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was 60 percent of a person. Today another curious formula seems to declare he is 50 percent of a person. Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites. When we view the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share. There are twice as many unemployed. The rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of whites and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as whites in proportion to their size in the population.
In other spheres, the figures are equally alarming. In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind whites, and their segregated schools receive substantially less money per student than the white schools. One twentieth as many Negroes as whites attend college. Of employed Negroes, 75 percent hold menial jobs.
This is where we are. Where do we go from here? First, we must m*****ively *****ert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an un*****ailable and majestic sense of values. We must no longer be ashamed of being black. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are *****ody is not easy.
“Depiction of Blackness and Negro Contributions”
Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget’s Thesaurus there are 120 synonyms for blackness and at least 60 of them are offensive, as for example, blot, soot, grim, devil and foul. And there are some 134 synonyms for whiteness and all are favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity and innocence. A white lie is better than a black lie. The most degenerate member of a family is a “black sheep.” Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the English language should be reconstructed so that teachers will not be forced to teach the Negro child 60 ways to despise himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of inferiority, and the white child 134 ways to adore himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of superiority.
The tendency to ignore the Negro’s contribution to American life and to strip him of his personhood, is as old as the earliest history hooks and as contemporary as the morning’s newspaper. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood. Any movement for the Negro’s freedom that overlooks this necessity is only waiting to be buried. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. No Lincolnian Eman*****tion Proclamation or Johnsonian Civil Rights Bill can totally bring this kind of freedom. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of *****ertive manhood his own Eman*****tion Proclamation. And, with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, “I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and *****le history. How painful and exploited that history has been. Yes, I was a slave through my foreparents and I am not ashamed of that. I’m ashamed of the people who were so sinful to make me a slave.” Yes, we must stand up and say, “I’m black and I’m beautiful,” and this self-affirmation is the black man’s need, made compelling by the white man’s crimes against him.
“Basic Challenges”
Another basic challenge is to discover how to organize our strength in terms of economic and political power. No one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power. Indeed, one of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From old plantations of the South to newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. Stripped of the right to make decisions concerning his life and destiny he has been subject to the authoritarian and sometimes whimsical decisions of this white power structure. The plantation and ghetto were created by those who had power. both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness. The problem of transforming the ghetto, therefore, is a problem of power-confrontation of the forces of power demanding change and the forces of power dedicated to the preserving of the status quo. Now power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. Walter Reuther defined power one day. He said, “Power is the ability of a labor union like the U.A.W. to make the most powerful corporation in the world, General Motors, say ‘Yes’ when it wants to say ‘No.’ That’s power.”
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar oppositesÑso that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we’ve got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
“Developing a Program”?
We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income. Now, early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents. And, in the thinking of that day, the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. We’ve come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operations of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. Today the poor are less often dismissed, I hope, from our consciences by being branded as inferior or incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.
The problem indicates that our emphasis must be twofold. We must create full employment or we must create incomes. People must be made consumers by one method or the other. Once they are placed in this position we need to be concerned that the potential of the individual is not wasted. New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available. In I879 Henry George anti*****ted this state of affairs when he wrote in Progress and Poverty:
The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by anirnal (sic) necessity. It is the work of men who somehow find a form of work that brings a security for its own sake and a state of society where want is abolished.
Work of this sort could be enormously increased, and we are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes who have a double disability will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.
Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated .
Now our country can do this. John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth.
“Commitment To Nonviolence”
Now, let me say briefly that we must reaffirm our commitment to nonviolence. I want to stress this. The futility of violence in the struggle for racial justice has been tragically etched in all the recent Negro riots. Yesterday, I tried to *****yze the riots and deal with their causes. Today I want to give the other side. There is certainly something painfully sad about a riot. One sees screaming youngsters and angry adults fighting hopelessly and aimlessly against impossible odds. And deep down within them, you can even see a desire for self-destruction, a kind of suicidal longing.
Occasionally Negroes contend that the 1965 Watts riot and the other riots in various cities represented effective civil rights action. But those who express this view always end up with stumbling words when asked what concrete gains have been won as a result. At best, the riots have produced a little additional antipoverty money allotted by frightened government officials, and a few water-sprinklers to cool the children of the ghettos. It is something like improving the food in the prison while the people remain securely incarcerated behind bars. Nowhere have the riots won any concrete improvement such as have the organized protest demonstrations. When one tries to pin down advocates of violence as to what acts would be effective, the answers are blatantly illogical. Sometimes they talk of overthrowing racist state and local governments and they talk about guerrilla warfare. They fail to see that no internal revolution has ever succeeded in overthrowing a government by violence unless the government had already lost the allegiance and effective control of its armed forces. Anyone in his right mind knows that this will not happen in the United States. In a violent racial situation, the power structure has the local police, the state troopers, the National Guard and, finally, the Army to call onÑall of which are predominantly white. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority. Castro may have had only a few Cubans actually fighting with him up in the hills, but he could never have overthrown the Batista regime unless he had the sympathy of the vast majority of Cuban people.
It is perfectly clear that a violent revolution on the part of American blacks would find no sympathy and support from the white population and very little from the majority of the Negroes themselves. This is no time for romantic illusions and empty philosophical debates about freedom. This is a time for action. What is needed is a strategy for change, a tactical program that will bring the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible. So far, this has only been offered by the nonviolent movement. Without recognizing this we will end up with solutions that don’t solve, answers that don’t answer and explanations that don’t explain.
And so I say to you today that I still stand by nonviolence. And I am still convinced that it is the most potent weapon available to the Negro in his struggle for justice in this country. And the other thing is that I am concerned about a better world. I’m concerned about justice. I’m concerned about brotherhood. I’m concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can’t murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.
And I say to you, I have also decided to stick to love. For I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate. I’ve seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I’ve seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about “Where do we go from here,” that we honestly face the fact that the Movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here. 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. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask the question, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?” These are questions that must be asked.
“About Communism”
Now, don’t think that you have me in a “bind” today. I’m not talking about Communism.
What I’m saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. 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. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
If you will let me be a preacher just a little bit – One night, a juror came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do to be saved. Jesus didn’t get bogged down in the kind of isolated approach of what he shouldn’t do. Jesus didn’t say, “Now Nicodemus, you must stop lying.” HE didn’t say, “Nicodemus, you must stop cheating if you are doing that.” He didn’t say, “Nicodemus, you must not commit adultery.” He didn’t say, “Nicodemus, now you must stop drinking liquor if you are doing that excessively.” He said something altogether different, because Jesus realized something basic – that if a man will lie, he will steal. And if a man will steal, he will kill. So instead of just getting bogged down in one thing, Jesus looked at him and said, “Nicodemus, you must be born again.”
He said, in other words, “Your whole structure must be changed.” A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will “thingify” them – make them things. Therefore they will exploit them, and poor people generally, economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I am saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, “America, you must be born again!”
“Conclusion”
So, I conclude by saying again today that we have a task and let us go out with a “divine dissatisfaction.” Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice. [,et us be dissatisfied until those that live on the outskirts of hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security. Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family is living in a decent sanitary home. Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be transformed into bright tomorrows of quality, integrated education. Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to parti*****te in the beauty of diversity. Let us be dissatisfied until men and women, however black they may be, will be judged on the basis of the content of their character and not on the basis of the color of their skin. Let us be dissatisfied. Let us be dissatisfied until every state capitol houses a governor who will do justly, who will love mercy and who will walk humbly with his God. Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together. and every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid. Let us be dissatisfied. And men will recognize that out of one blood God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when *****ody will shout “White Power!” – when *****ody will shout “Black Power!” – but everybody will talk about God’s power and human power.
I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will still be rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. We may again with tear-drenched eyes have to stand before the bier of some courageous civil-rights worker whose life will be snuffed out by the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. And as we continue our charted course, we may gain consolation in the words so *****ly left by that great black bard who was also a great freedom fighter of yesterday, James Weldon Johnson:
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days
When hope unborn had died.
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place
For which our fathers sighed?
We have come over the way
That with tears hath been watered.
We have come treading our paths
Through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the bright gleam
Of our bright star is cast.
Let this affirmation be our ringing cry. It will give us the courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
Let us realize that William Cullen Bryant is right: “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” Let us go out realizing that the Bible is right: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” This is our hope for the future, and with this faith we will be able to sing in some not too distant tomorrow with a cosmic past tense, “We have overcome, we have overcome, deep in my heart, I did believe we would overcome.”
THE LAST DAY OF JUNE…
THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR…
HOW WILL YOU LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE???
AS A SLAVE…
OR FREE AT LAST!!!!!!!
HAPPY JULY 1st!!!!!!!
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!
BLACK HISTORY DAY!!!
ALL DAY! EVERY DAY!
PEACE
july 2nd is 1 day closer to july 4th
that’s american independence day
but it was not independence day for all the black people who were being held captive as slaves
our independence day was a long time comming after that
IN 1776 “AMERICA” GAINED IT’S INDEPENDENCE
(BLACKS WERE SLAVES)
100 YEARS LATER BLACKS WERE STILL SLAVES…
130 YEARS AFTER THAT WE ARE FINALLY REAPING THE SPOILS OF OUR “FREE” SOCIETY!
(ALWAYS REMEMBER – NEVER FORGET)
LET FREEDOM RING…….
HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!
ENJOY YOUR DAY OFF!!!
CELEBRATE SAFELY!!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!
BLACK HISTORY HAPPENS EVERY DAY!
CELEBRATE IT EVERY DAY!
LIVE THE DREAM!
I’M BACK!
WENT HOME ON VACATION.., LOVED IT!
THANK GOD FOR MY LOVED ONES, FAMILY, FRIENDS, & FELLOW CHRISTIANS!!!
I ENJOYED CNN’s “BLACK IN AMERICA” PROGRAM.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, LONGER, MORE CONTENT, ETC…
AT LEAST THEY PUT IT ON.
HOW MANY OTHER STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE COURAGE TO AIR SUCH A PROGRAM???
NOT EVEN “BET” HAS DONE IT…….
THE EARTHQUAKE YESTERDAY WAS SO BIZARRE!!!
NOT COOL FOR AN EAST COAST NATIVE!!!
EARTH BE STILL!!!
IT WOULD BE NICE IF THIS SITE POSTED MORE BLOGS LIKE THIS ONE ON A DAILY BASIS!!!
BUT IT IS A GOSSIP SITE THO…
I’M JUST IN THE WRONG PLACE…
KINDA LIKE A LIGHT IN THE DARK…
AT LEAST THATS WHAT I TELL MYSELF…….
JUST GOT THRU WITH A MARATHON POST SESSION ON THE BILL COSBY BLOG!!!
WHEW!!!
IGNORANCE IS A FORMIDABLE FOE!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY!!!
HAPPY FIRST SUNDAY OF AUGUST!!!!!!!
WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND IT HAS BEEN!!!
HOPE IT HAS BEEN FOR ALL OTHERS TOO!
ONE DAY THIS BLOG WILL HAVE HE MOST POSTS OUT OF ALL THE POSTS!
IT IS NOW MY UNDERCOVER MISSION!!!
AS LONG AS I’M NOT FOUND OUT!
MOST OF MY POSTS WILL NO LONGER MAKE SENSE…
PEACE 2 MLK & PEOPLE LIKE HIM!!!
I LOVE GABRIELLE UNION!!!!!!!
I ALSO LOVE…….
JILL MARIE JONES
KENYA MOORE
NIA LONG
SANAA LATHAN
ALICIA KEYS
TONI BRAXTON
KELLY ROLAND
HALLE BERRY
MARSHA TOMMASON
SHARON LEAL
AND SOOOOOOO MANY OTHERS!!!!!!!
OH! BY THE WAY..,
DA TRUFF ALSO; HOPES, HELPS & HEALS!!!
I’VE STARTED BOYCOTTING MOST OF THE OTHER BLOGS ON HERE…
I ONLY POST NOW IN THE ONES THAT ARE SOCIALLY RELAVENT TO BLACK LIFE…
I REALLY LIKE TO BLAST THE IGNORANT POSTER’S WHO TRY AND STIR UP TROUBLE BY DISRESPECTING GOOD BLACK MEN & WOMEN!!!
I LOVE & RESPECT GOOD BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!!!
GO OBAMA
THE BEST THING FOR BLACKS IN AMERICA TO DO IS…
IS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND CHANGE THIER OWN LIVES FOR THE BETTER!!!
i decided to amend my name!
& 2 type in lower case sometimes…
Remember…
murder, rape, drug dealing, gang members, thugging, pimping, prostitution, and other criminal acts…….
ARE NOT LIFESTYLES!!!
ARE NOT COOL!!!
ARE NOT GOOD!!!
TAKE CARE OF OUR CHILDREN
TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
DO THEY MAKE A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS SITE LIKE THIS???
have i wasted enough time doing this???
is it really a waste of time if it does me or someone else some good???
can you actually, really WASTE time???
THIS IS FUN!!!
IT’S GOOD TO HAVE THIS WHOLE THING TO MYSELF!!!
MAYBE I WILL START MY OWN BLOG SPOT!!!
OH! #300 SNITCHES!!!!!!!
Good Morning Sunshine!!!
I’M TRYIN A NEW THING…
I’M GONNA POST & REPLY TO THE BLOGS ON HERE!
WHY???
I WANT TO!!! THAT’S WHY!!!!!!!
SMH @ ASKING MY WHY…….
OK! HERE WE GO!!!
For The Stans
August 6th, 2008
Beyonce is barely recognizable in this L’Oreal ad. With her pointy nose and pale complexion, it look’s like she’s had a touch of the “Michael Jackson special.”
On the brighter side, peep Jay-Z the Camel and Bey (rockin the Barack Obama tee no less) all cozied up together on the streets of NYC yesterday.
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GOOD FOR HER, GOOD FOR HIM, SO WHAT???
NEXT!!!
Quote of the Day
August 6th, 2008
As we reported yesterday, Tyra Banks attempts to portray Michelle Obama in the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. She makes a statement in her interview that pretty much sums up where her head is at these days:
“Barack and Michelle, you might be going to the White House.” She flashes a dazzling, supermodular smile. “But I’m going to White Castle.”
Touché Tyra.
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GOOD FOR HER, SO WHAT???
THIS SITE “ATTEMPTS” TO TEAR PEOPLE DOWN EVERYDAY! THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP WHERE “YOUR HEADS” ARE THESE DAYS!!!
NEXT!!!
Some Morning Swirl
August 6th, 2008
The Rock, A.K.A. Dwayne Johnson was spotted in Hawaii over the weekend with this drab jawn named Lauren Hashian – an alleged reality hussy (Vh1’s “Rock Of Love”). On the real though, his body is truly a work of art.
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DOES IT REALLY COUNT AS “SWIRL” IF ONE OF THE PEOPLE “IS” SWIRL???
ANYWAY, HE COULD PULL BETTER CHICKS…….
C-List Throwdown
August 6th, 2008
Hog-like actress Nikki Blonsky, and her dad Carl, got arrested for getting into an altercation with ANTM flunky Bianca Golden at an airport in Turks & Caicos last week.
Click HERE to get the full scoop and a new development: Guess what nasty little term may have sparked the fracas in the first place?
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“HOG-LIKE”???
SHE IS NOT ATTRACTIVE TO ME, BUT THAT IS A LIL’ HARSH…
“FLUNKY”???
SHE DID’NT WIN BUT, WHAT DID YOU DO ON (ANTM)???
THOUGHT SO…….
ANYWAY, WHY WOULD ANYBODY NOT LIKE BLACK PEOPLE & THEN VACATION ON AN ISLAND FULL OF THEM???
BRILLIANT!!!
Seen on the Scene
August 6th, 2008
Happy couple Michael Strahan and Nicole Murphy went to a special screening of “Pineapple Express” at the AMC theatre NYC last night. We wonder when, or if, these two plan to make it official.
View pics of a Marlon Wayans leaving a medical clinic (hmmm) and LL Cool J outside of the Ivy restaurant right about now. Continue »
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GOOD FOR HER, HIM, HIM & HIM!!! SO WHAT???
IF THEY TOGETHER.., THEN THEY TOGETHER!!!
WAS IT A WEED OR AIDS CLINIC??? (HMMM) DUMB*****ES!
WHAT??? NO NEGATIVITY ABOUT LL???
NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back on the Stage
August 6th, 2008
Apparently Toni Braxton has recovered from the heart ailment that caused her to cancel her Las Vegas show. She’ll be joining Kim Kardashian and more in the new cast of “Dancing With the Stars.” Got to bring home that cheddar.
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GREAT NEWS FOR TONI B & ALL THOSE WHO LOVE & SUPPORT HER!!!
SHE HAS A SERIOUS RECURRING CONDITION AND WE HOPE SHE DOES WELL ON THE SHOW!!!
HER VEGAS SHOW WAS VERY LONG & SHE WAS DOING SIX SHOWS A WEEK!!!
SHE WILL BE DOING ABOUT 10% OF WHAT SHE WAS DOING BEFORE!
GOD BLESS YOU TONI!!!!!!!
OH BTW…
It seem this site is “apparently” taking a swipe at another good Black person.
OH WELL!!! “Got to bring home that cheddar.”
Who Looked More Bangin?
August 6th, 2008
Zoe Kravitz and Jurnee Smollett attended The Cinema Society and Glamour screening of “Elegy” last night. So we must ask, between these two chicks: Which One Looked More Bangin??
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I WISH THE BEST OF ALL THINGS FOR THEM BOTH!!!
I WOULD PICK JURNEE…
THIS IS FUN!!!
THANK YOU MARTIN LUTHER KING!!!
WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DO THIS!!!
J Lo May Be Off the Hook
August 6th, 2008
Jennifer Lopez may be able to finally wash her hands of the night-club shooting fiasco of 1999:
A woman who blames Diddy for being shot in the face during a nightclub incident almost ten years ago has finally let the rappers big-*****ed girlfriend at the time off the hook — for now.
Yesterday was supposed to be D-day — as in deposition — for Jennifer Lopez in Natania Reuben’s $120 million suit against Puffy — for a 1999 incident in which he was already acquitted of any wrongdoing. The deposition has taken months and months to schedule, but sources tell us Lo has “nothing to contribute” to the case, which is why her depo was finally KO’d. We’re also told that there’s no new date in sight — meaning Lopez may have dodged the bullet for good.
J Lo must be pretty relieved at this point. She’s probably sick and tired of being *****ociated with Puffy’s suspect bullshyte.
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I WONDER HOW MUCH SHE PAID TO HAVE THAT MESS HUSHED UP???
ANYWAY.., GOOD FOR HER???
I WONDER WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE POSTS DON’T SHOW???
YOU GET THIS MESSAGE…
Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!
BUT NOTHING IS POSTED???
This Could Be More Than Just a Little Puppy Love
August 6th, 2008
Rihanna got the rumor mill workin’ overtime when folks got a hold of this pic. Apparently, Rih Rih was wearing this rock while shopping with C-Breezy the other day. Now, word is that these two are engaged (again).
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GOOD FOR HER & HIM!!!
THAT’S WHAT WE NEED, MORE BLACK LOVE & MARRIAGE!!!
I WISH THEM ALL THE BEST!!!
THEY WONT LET ME POST ABOUT THE EVA PIC
I DO NOT APPROVE OF THE PIC & NOT BEING ABLE TO POST ABOUT IT
IT’S OK THO…
NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SPEAKING OF NEXT…
WHEN WILL THE NEXT SOCIALLY CONSIOUS POST BE PLACE UP ON THIS SITE???
THERE SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE A DAY!!!
Random Ridiculousness
Peep this hilarious spoof of Lil Wayne and the Hov. Weezy is such an easy target. SMH.
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RANDOM RIDICULOUSNESS IS RIGHT!!!!!!!
MORE WASTED *****E AND TIME FOR LIVE SLEEZ…….
LIL’ GREEZY & OVA???????
SMH
I HAVE A DREAM…
THAT ONE DAY.., BLACK PEOPLE WILL LIVE UP TO THIER POTENTIAL!
THAT ONE DAY.., CRIME WILL BE LEFT BEHIND AND WE WILL PROSPER AS A PEOPLE!
THAT ONE DAY.., WE WILL BE TRUELY FREE!!!
MAY GOD BLESS US ALL
When It Rains, It Pours
Days after he was involved in a serious car wreck, it appears that Morgan Freeman and his wife are divorcing:
Freeman and his wife of 24-years, costumer Myrna Colley-Lee, “are involved in a divorce action,” the actor’s Mississippi-based attorney and business partner Bill Luckett told Access Hollywood. “And for legal and practical purposes, [Freeman and Colley-Lee] have been separated since December of 2007.”
Freeman was involved in an accident over the weekend, which saw the car he was driving flip. The actor and his female p*****enger, identified as Demaris Meyer, were driving on Mississippi Highway 32 in a rural area of Tallahatchie County at 11:30 PM on Sunday evening, when Freeman’s car went off the right side of the road and flipped over.
Freeman and Meyer, who has been described as the actor’s friend, were on the way to Freeman’s home when the accident occurred.
Damn, he had the accident while he was creepin’ out with his side jawn. Trife.
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SO SAD…….
BLACK LOVE TAKES A SERIOUS HIT…
24YRS & NOW THIS…
WE GOTTA DO BETTER PEOPLE!!!!!!!
I think I have changed my mind…….
I might be quitting this site all together!!!
I don’t have fun doing this anymore…
Tommorrow is 08-08-08…
That may be my lasy day…….
OK?
i wonder how much i can post???
DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
AMEN
Apr 18, 2008 – 2:30 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior
Apr 19, 2008 – 8:01 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
THANKS TO MLK & THOUSANDS LIKE HIM I WENT OUT LAST NIGHT HAD A WILD & CRAZY NIGHT!!! AND, I WAS ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT HAVEING WATER HOSES & DOGS SET UPON ME!!!
THANK YOU!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
Apr 21, 2008 – 11:23 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY MONDAY IN MEMORY OF MLK!!!!!!!
Apr 22, 2008 – 3:50 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
I WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD LOOK TO MARTIN LUTHER KING AS A ROLE MODEL INSTEAD OF SO MANY OF THESE OTHERS WHO ARE CRIMINALS AND BAD MEMBERS OF SOCIETY…
LET FRREDON RING…….
Apr 23, 2008 – 4:53 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA!
YOU SHOULD TOO!!!!!!!
VOTE!!!
FREE AT LAST…….
Apr 25, 2008 – 3:15 am Mizz Pimpin(Check me out!)
@ Da Truff I see you are still coming back, it is a shame this post did not get more comments and look at Kim K, Stacey Dash etc their post gets more comment SMH
Apr 25, 2008 – 5:28 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
@ MIZZ PIMPIN
YES!!! AND I WILL KEEP COMMING BACK AS LONG AS THEY LEAVE THIS POST UP!!!
SHAME IS NOT THE PROPER TERM, MORE LIKE DISGRACE…
RIP! MLK!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
Apr 25, 2008 – 5:29 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
WHY DID I PUT @ MIZ PIMPIN???
LIKE ALL THE “OTHER” POSTERS ON HERE WOULD GET CONFUSED!!! LOL!
OH WELL…
Apr 25, 2008 – 5:30 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
BTW..
NOT SURE ABOUT THE COP VERDICT IN NYC…
KIND OF SUSPECT…….
Apr 26, 2008 – 2:49 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
IT’S SATURDAY MORNING IN LOS ANGELES!!!
SUNSHINE! 80 DEGREES!! I’M OUT!!!
HAPPY MLK DAY ALL YEAR!!!!!!!
Apr 28, 2008 – 8:34 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
IT’S MONDAY…
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIVING LEGACY OF…….
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.!!!!!!!
Apr 30, 2008 – 10:35 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
It’s Humpday!!!
Gotta get over that hump!!!
Just like MLK got over that hump long, but not so long, ago!!!!!!!
May 5, 2008 – 4:57 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
WOW!!!
IT’S BEEN A FEW DAYS!!!
HARD WORK WILL DO THAT!!!
JUST LIKE THE HARD WORK DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING DID FOR ALL OF US WHO ARE WILLING TO DO IT TOO!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
May 5, 2008 – 4:58 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
GOD BLESS MARTIN LUTHER KING!
GOD BLESS YOU!
GOD BLESS US ALL!!!
May 6, 2008 – 3:13 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
MLK ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!
May 6, 2008 – 3:14 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
IF YOU ARE IN INDIANA OR NORTH CAROLINA TODAY..,
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO VOTE FOR BARAK OBAMA!!!!!!!
LET FREEDOM RING…….
May 7, 2008 – 3:37 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
IT’S WEDNESDAY!!!
HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!
ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
May 8, 2008 – 4:37 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
Thursday night is “LOST” night for me!!!
If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today.., I wonder what his favorite TV show would be???
Interesting thought…….
May 9, 2008 – 3:00 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRIENDS…
BE A FRIEND, TAKE THE TIME TO CARE…
JUST LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING CARED…….
May 10, 2008 – 3:27 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY SATURDAY MR. MLK!!!!!!!
May 12, 2008 – 7:00 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOTHERS IN THE WORLD!
May 13, 2008 – 4:25 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
WEST VIRGINIA VOTES FOR BARAK OBAMA TODAY!!!
I WONDER IF MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ANY VOTES FOR PRESIDENT???
I HAVE A DREAM…….
May 16, 2008 – 3:03 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.!!!
THANK YOU!!!
WOULD LOVE TO DEDICATE THIS BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA DAY TO YOU!!!
May 17, 2008 – 3:04 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
MLK RIP 4-EVER!!!!!!!
GOD BLESS ALL WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US!!!
AMEN
May 19, 2008 – 2:19 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GREAT WEEKEND!
BE KIND TO OTHERS & BE TRUE TO YOURSELVES!!!
WAKE UP FROM THE NIGHTMARE…
LIVE THE DREAM!!!!!!!
May 19, 2008 – 6:07 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CAN SAVE BLACK AMERICA…
ARE BLACK AMERICANS…
GANG BANGIN, PIMPIN, HOEIN, DRUG DEALIN, & ALL OTHER CRIMINAL/IMMORAL ACTIVITIES ARE FINE FOR ENTERTAINMENT…
BUT THEY ARE NOT LIFESTYLE CHOICES!!!!!!!
May 20, 2008 – 5:29 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
MLK DAY EVERYDAY UPDATE…….
OREGON & KENTUCKY TAKE THIER TURN TODAY…
WE ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO LIVING HISTORY!!!
OBAMA 08
May 23, 2008 – 3:27 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
DON’T BELIEVE THE LIES…
FIND OUT THE TRUTH FOR YOURSELF…
JUSTICE IS NOT BLIND…
EVERYONE MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE…
BE TRUTHFUL TO OTHERS…
BE HONEST WITH YOURSELVES…
LIVE LIFE…
May 23, 2008 – 4:50 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!!!
REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US AND CELEBRATE THIER MEMORY!!!
LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST AND APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE!!!
BE SAFE, BE SURE, BE…….
May 27, 2008 – 5:49 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
YESTERDAY WAS MEMORIAL DAY…
THE DAY SET ASIDE TO REMEMBER & HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US AND MADE THE SCRIFICE TO MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER.
GOD THANK YOU FOR THEM AND WHAT THEY DID…
GOD THANK FOR US AND WHAT WE CAN AND WILL DO…
AMEN!!!
May 28, 2008 – 4:38 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!
IT’S EVERYDAY IN CASE YOU DID’NT KNOW…….
“I HAVE A DREAM”
May 29, 2008 – 5:25 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
MLK
May 30, 2008 – 9:32 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Jun 2, 2008 – 8:47 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY JUNE!!!
IT’S MARTIN LUTHER KING MONTH!!!
AT LEAST IT SHOULD BE!!!
Jun 7, 2008 – 5:01 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
BARACK OBAMA IS ONE STEP HIGHER ON HISTORY’S LADDER!!!
THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.!!!
THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE US!!!!!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
Jun 10, 2008 – 12:18 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
GOD BLESS US ALL!!!!!!!
Jun 14, 2008 – 5:18 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
FATHERS DAY IS HERE!!!
WE NEED MORE FATHERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES LIKE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. TO RAISE UP OUR STANDARDS AND BE EXAMPLES OR LIVING THE RIGHT WAY!!!
WE SHALL OVERCOME…
Jun 16, 2008 – 12:36 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!!!!!
Jun 18, 2008 – 2:48 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
WE NEED A NEW DAY…
SELF LOVE, HONOR, & RESPECT DAY!!!
I BELIEVE IF PEOPLE CARED MORE ABOUT THEMSELVES, IT WOULD HELP THEM CARE MORE ABOUT OTHERS…
MARTIN LUTHER KING HAD THE SAME IDEA.
Jun 20, 2008 – 3:36 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!
ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!!!
BLACK HISTORY MONTH??? YEAR???????
NO!!! BLACK HISTORY LIFETIME!!!!!!!!!!
LIVE YOUR HISTORY!
NEVER FORGET!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
Jun 22, 2008 – 6:51 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY SUMMER!!!
IT’S 100 DEGREES IN LA!!!
THANK YOU LORD!!!
Jun 24, 2008 – 4:39 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
DEAR DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING,
THAT GUY IMUS IS AT IT AGAIN…
WHY DO SOME PEOPLE STILL INSIST ON MAKING AFRICAN-AMERICANS THE BUTT OF A JOKE INSTEAD OF PEOPLE TO BE RESPECTED?
I GET THAT IF AN INDIVIDUAL DOES SOMETHING, THEN “GET ‘EM”!!!
BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ATTACH RACE TO THE INSULT.
I HAVE A DREAM…….
Jun 26, 2008 – 4:12 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!
ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!!!
LET FREEDOM RING…
Jun 28, 2008 – 5:38 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
CELEBRATE BLACK LOVE & BLACK LIFE!
TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN!
LOOK OUT FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR!
STOP COMMITTING CRIMES & GET A JOB/EDUCATION!
BE A SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM AND NOT THE CASUE OF ONE!
HOPE, PRAY, AND TAKE ACTION!!!
Jun 30, 2008 – 9:54 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
THIS IS NOT MINE, BUT I LIKE IT, SO HERE IT IS!!!
“Where we are now”
Now, in order to answer the question, “Where do we go from here?” which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now. When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was 60 percent of a person. Today another curious formula seems to declare he is 50 percent of a person. Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites. When we view the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share. There are twice as many unemployed. The rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of whites and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as whites in proportion to their size in the population.
In other spheres, the figures are equally alarming. In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind whites, and their segregated schools receive substantially less money per student than the white schools. One twentieth as many Negroes as whites attend college. Of employed Negroes, 75 percent hold menial jobs.
This is where we are. Where do we go from here? First, we must m*****ively *****ert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an un*****ailable and majestic sense of values. We must no longer be ashamed of being black. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are *****ody is not easy.
“Depiction of Blackness and Negro Contributions”
Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget’s Thesaurus there are 120 synonyms for blackness and at least 60 of them are offensive, as for example, blot, soot, grim, devil and foul. And there are some 134 synonyms for whiteness and all are favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity and innocence. A white lie is better than a black lie. The most degenerate member of a family is a “black sheep.” Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the English language should be reconstructed so that teachers will not be forced to teach the Negro child 60 ways to despise himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of inferiority, and the white child 134 ways to adore himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of superiority.
The tendency to ignore the Negro’s contribution to American life and to strip him of his personhood, is as old as the earliest history hooks and as contemporary as the morning’s newspaper. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood. Any movement for the Negro’s freedom that overlooks this necessity is only waiting to be buried. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. No Lincolnian Eman*****tion Proclamation or Johnsonian Civil Rights Bill can totally bring this kind of freedom. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of *****ertive manhood his own Eman*****tion Proclamation. And, with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, “I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and *****le history. How painful and exploited that history has been. Yes, I was a slave through my foreparents and I am not ashamed of that. I’m ashamed of the people who were so sinful to make me a slave.” Yes, we must stand up and say, “I’m black and I’m beautiful,” and this self-affirmation is the black man’s need, made compelling by the white man’s crimes against him.
“Basic Challenges”
Another basic challenge is to discover how to organize our strength in terms of economic and political power. No one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power. Indeed, one of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From old plantations of the South to newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. Stripped of the right to make decisions concerning his life and destiny he has been subject to the authoritarian and sometimes whimsical decisions of this white power structure. The plantation and ghetto were created by those who had power. both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness. The problem of transforming the ghetto, therefore, is a problem of power-confrontation of the forces of power demanding change and the forces of power dedicated to the preserving of the status quo. Now power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. Walter Reuther defined power one day. He said, “Power is the ability of a labor union like the U.A.W. to make the most powerful corporation in the world, General Motors, say ‘Yes’ when it wants to say ‘No.’ That’s power.”
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar oppositesÑso that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we’ve got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
“Developing a Program”?
We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income. Now, early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents. And, in the thinking of that day, the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. We’ve come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operations of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. Today the poor are less often dismissed, I hope, from our consciences by being branded as inferior or incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.
The problem indicates that our emphasis must be twofold. We must create full employment or we must create incomes. People must be made consumers by one method or the other. Once they are placed in this position we need to be concerned that the potential of the individual is not wasted. New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available. In I879 Henry George anti*****ted this state of affairs when he wrote in Progress and Poverty:
The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by anirnal (sic) necessity. It is the work of men who somehow find a form of work that brings a security for its own sake and a state of society where want is abolished.
Work of this sort could be enormously increased, and we are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes who have a double disability will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.
Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated .
Now our country can do this. John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth.
“Commitment To Nonviolence”
Now, let me say briefly that we must reaffirm our commitment to nonviolence. I want to stress this. The futility of violence in the struggle for racial justice has been tragically etched in all the recent Negro riots. Yesterday, I tried to *****yze the riots and deal with their causes. Today I want to give the other side. There is certainly something painfully sad about a riot. One sees screaming youngsters and angry adults fighting hopelessly and aimlessly against impossible odds. And deep down within them, you can even see a desire for self-destruction, a kind of suicidal longing.
Occasionally Negroes contend that the 1965 Watts riot and the other riots in various cities represented effective civil rights action. But those who express this view always end up with stumbling words when asked what concrete gains have been won as a result. At best, the riots have produced a little additional antipoverty money allotted by frightened government officials, and a few water-sprinklers to cool the children of the ghettos. It is something like improving the food in the prison while the people remain securely incarcerated behind bars. Nowhere have the riots won any concrete improvement such as have the organized protest demonstrations. When one tries to pin down advocates of violence as to what acts would be effective, the answers are blatantly illogical. Sometimes they talk of overthrowing racist state and local governments and they talk about guerrilla warfare. They fail to see that no internal revolution has ever succeeded in overthrowing a government by violence unless the government had already lost the allegiance and effective control of its armed forces. Anyone in his right mind knows that this will not happen in the United States. In a violent racial situation, the power structure has the local police, the state troopers, the National Guard and, finally, the Army to call onÑall of which are predominantly white. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority. Castro may have had only a few Cubans actually fighting with him up in the hills, but he could never have overthrown the Batista regime unless he had the sympathy of the vast majority of Cuban people.
It is perfectly clear that a violent revolution on the part of American blacks would find no sympathy and support from the white population and very little from the majority of the Negroes themselves. This is no time for romantic illusions and empty philosophical debates about freedom. This is a time for action. What is needed is a strategy for change, a tactical program that will bring the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible. So far, this has only been offered by the nonviolent movement. Without recognizing this we will end up with solutions that don’t solve, answers that don’t answer and explanations that don’t explain.
And so I say to you today that I still stand by nonviolence. And I am still convinced that it is the most potent weapon available to the Negro in his struggle for justice in this country. And the other thing is that I am concerned about a better world. I’m concerned about justice. I’m concerned about brotherhood. I’m concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can’t murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.
And I say to you, I have also decided to stick to love. For I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate. I’ve seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I’ve seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about “Where do we go from here,” that we honestly face the fact that the Movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here. 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. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask the question, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?” These are questions that must be asked.
“About Communism”
Now, don’t think that you have me in a “bind” today. I’m not talking about Communism.
What I’m saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. 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. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
If you will let me be a preacher just a little bit – One night, a juror came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do to be saved. Jesus didn’t get bogged down in the kind of isolated approach of what he shouldn’t do. Jesus didn’t say, “Now Nicodemus, you must stop lying.” HE didn’t say, “Nicodemus, you must stop cheating if you are doing that.” He didn’t say, “Nicodemus, you must not commit adultery.” He didn’t say, “Nicodemus, now you must stop drinking liquor if you are doing that excessively.” He said something altogether different, because Jesus realized something basic – that if a man will lie, he will steal. And if a man will steal, he will kill. So instead of just getting bogged down in one thing, Jesus looked at him and said, “Nicodemus, you must be born again.”
He said, in other words, “Your whole structure must be changed.” A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will “thingify” them – make them things. Therefore they will exploit them, and poor people generally, economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I am saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, “America, you must be born again!”
“Conclusion”
So, I conclude by saying again today that we have a task and let us go out with a “divine dissatisfaction.” Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice. [,et us be dissatisfied until those that live on the outskirts of hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security. Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family is living in a decent sanitary home. Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be transformed into bright tomorrows of quality, integrated education. Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to parti*****te in the beauty of diversity. Let us be dissatisfied until men and women, however black they may be, will be judged on the basis of the content of their character and not on the basis of the color of their skin. Let us be dissatisfied. Let us be dissatisfied until every state capitol houses a governor who will do justly, who will love mercy and who will walk humbly with his God. Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together. and every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid. Let us be dissatisfied. And men will recognize that out of one blood God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when *****ody will shout “White Power!” - when *****ody will shout “Black Power!” - but everybody will talk about God’s power and human power.
I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will still be rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. We may again with tear-drenched eyes have to stand before the bier of some courageous civil-rights worker whose life will be snuffed out by the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. And as we continue our charted course, we may gain consolation in the words so *****ly left by that great black bard who was also a great freedom fighter of yesterday, James Weldon Johnson:
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days
When hope unborn had died.
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place
For which our fathers sighed?
We have come over the way
That with tears hath been watered.
We have come treading our paths
Through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the bright gleam
Of our bright star is cast.
Let this affirmation be our ringing cry. It will give us the courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
Let us realize that William Cullen Bryant is right: “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” Let us go out realizing that the Bible is right: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” This is our hope for the future, and with this faith we will be able to sing in some not too distant tomorrow with a cosmic past tense, “We have overcome, we have overcome, deep in my heart, I did believe we would overcome.”
Jun 30, 2008 - 9:58 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
THE LAST DAY OF JUNE…
THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR…
HOW WILL YOU LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE???
AS A SLAVE…
OR FREE AT LAST!!!!!!!
Jul 1, 2008 - 12:48 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY JULY 1st!!!!!!!
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!!!
BLACK HISTORY DAY!!!
ALL DAY! EVERY DAY!
PEACE
Jul 2, 2008 - 7:12 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
july 2nd is 1 day closer to july 4th
that’s american independence day
but it was not independence day for all the black people who were being held captive as slaves
our independence day was a long time comming after that
Jul 4, 2008 - 1:36 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
IN 1776 “AMERICA” GAINED IT’S INDEPENDENCE
(BLACKS WERE SLAVES)
100 YEARS LATER BLACKS WERE STILL SLAVES…
130 YEARS AFTER THAT WE ARE FINALLY REAPING THE SPOILS OF OUR “FREE” SOCIETY!
(ALWAYS REMEMBER - NEVER FORGET)
LET FREEDOM RING…….
Jul 4, 2008 - 1:42 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!
ENJOY YOUR DAY OFF!!!
CELEBRATE SAFELY!!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!
Jul 6, 2008 - 7:08 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
BLACK HISTORY HAPPENS EVERY DAY!
CELEBRATE IT EVERY DAY!
LIVE THE DREAM!
Jul 28, 2008 - 4:43 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
I’M BACK!
WENT HOME ON VACATION.., LOVED IT!
THANK GOD FOR MY LOVED ONES, FAMILY, FRIENDS, & FELLOW CHRISTIANS!!!
Jul 28, 2008 - 4:52 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
I ENJOYED CNN’s “BLACK IN AMERICA” PROGRAM.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, LONGER, MORE CONTENT, ETC…
AT LEAST THEY PUT IT ON.
HOW MANY OTHER STATIONS WOULD HAVE THE COURAGE TO AIR SUCH A PROGRAM???
NOT EVEN “BET” HAS DONE IT…….
Jul 30, 2008 - 6:09 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
THE EARTHQUAKE YESTERDAY WAS SO BIZARRE!!!
NOT COOL FOR AN EAST COAST NATIVE!!!
EARTH BE STILL!!!
Jul 30, 2008 - 6:11 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
IT WOULD BE NICE IF THIS SITE POSTED MORE BLOGS LIKE THIS ONE ON A DAILY BASIS!!!
BUT IT IS A GOSSIP SITE THO…
I’M JUST IN THE WRONG PLACE…
KINDA LIKE A LIGHT IN THE DARK…
AT LEAST THATS WHAT I TELL MYSELF…….
Aug 1, 2008 - 8:19 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
JUST GOT THRU WITH A MARATHON POST SESSION ON THE BILL COSBY BLOG!!!
WHEW!!!
IGNORANCE IS A FORMIDABLE FOE!!!
I HAVE A DREAM…….
Aug 1, 2008 - 8:19 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY!!!
Aug 3, 2008 - 5:38 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
HAPPY FIRST SUNDAY OF AUGUST!!!!!!!
WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND IT HAS BEEN!!!
HOPE IT HAS BEEN FOR ALL OTHERS TOO!
Aug 5, 2008 - 3:49 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
ONE DAY THIS BLOG WILL HAVE HE MOST POSTS OUT OF ALL THE POSTS!
IT IS NOW MY UNDERCOVER MISSION!!!
AS LONG AS I’M NOT FOUND OUT!
Aug 5, 2008 - 3:50 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
MOST OF MY POSTS WILL NO LONGER MAKE SENSE…
Aug 5, 2008 - 3:50 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
PEACE 2 MLK & PEOPLE LIKE HIM!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 3:51 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
I LOVE GABRIELLE UNION!!!!!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 3:57 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
I ALSO LOVE…….
JILL MARIE JONES
KENYA MOORE
NIA LONG
SANAA LATHAN
ALICIA KEYS
TONI BRAXTON
KELLY ROLAND
HALLE BERRY
MARSHA TOMMASON
SHARON LEAL
AND SOOOOOOO MANY OTHERS!!!!!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:01 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
OH! BY THE WAY..,
DA TRUFF ALSO; HOPES, HELPS & HEALS!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:07 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
I’VE STARTED BOYCOTTING MOST OF THE OTHER BLOGS ON HERE…
I ONLY POST NOW IN THE ONES THAT ARE SOCIALLY RELAVENT TO BLACK LIFE…
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:12 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
I REALLY LIKE TO BLAST THE IGNORANT POSTER’S WHO TRY AND STIR UP TROUBLE BY DISRESPECTING GOOD BLACK MEN & WOMEN!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:14 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
I LOVE & RESPECT GOOD BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:15 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
GO OBAMA
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:19 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!(Check me out!)
THE BEST THING FOR BLACKS IN AMERICA TO DO IS…
IS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND CHANGE THIER OWN LIVES FOR THE BETTER!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:21 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
i decided to amend my name!
& 2 type in lower case sometimes…
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:25 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
Remember…
murder, rape, drug dealing, gang members, thugging, pimping, prostitution, and other criminal acts…….
ARE NOT LIFESTYLES!!!
ARE NOT COOL!!!
ARE NOT GOOD!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:27 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
TAKE CARE OF OUR CHILDREN
TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:29 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
DO THEY MAKE A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS SITE LIKE THIS???
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:29 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
have i wasted enough time doing this???
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:30 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
is it really a waste of time if it does me or someone else some good???
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:31 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
can you actually, really WASTE time???
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:32 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
THIS IS FUN!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:32 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
IT’S GOOD TO HAVE THIS WHOLE THING TO MYSELF!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:33 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
MAYBE I WILL START MY OWN BLOG SPOT!!!
Aug 5, 2008 - 4:35 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
OH! #300 SNITCHES!!!!!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:05 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
Good Morning Sunshine!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:27 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
I’M TRYIN A NEW THING…
I’M GONNA POST & REPLY TO THE BLOGS ON HERE!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:28 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
WHY???
I WANT TO!!! THAT’S WHY!!!!!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:29 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
SMH @ ASKING MY WHY…….
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:30 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
OK! HERE WE GO!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:31 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
For The Stans
August 6th, 2008
Beyonce is barely recognizable in this L’Oreal ad. With her pointy nose and pale complexion, it look’s like she’s had a touch of the “Michael Jackson special.”
On the brighter side, peep Jay-Z the Camel and Bey (rockin the Barack Obama tee no less) all cozied up together on the streets of NYC yesterday.
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GOOD FOR HER, GOOD FOR HIM, SO WHAT???
NEXT!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:36 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
Quote of the Day
August 6th, 2008
As we reported yesterday, Tyra Banks attempts to portray Michelle Obama in the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. She makes a statement in her interview that pretty much sums up where her head is at these days:
“Barack and Michelle, you might be going to the White House.” She flashes a dazzling, supermodular smile. “But I’m going to White Castle.”
Touché Tyra.
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GOOD FOR HER, SO WHAT???
THIS SITE “ATTEMPTS” TO TEAR PEOPLE DOWN EVERYDAY! THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP WHERE “YOUR HEADS” ARE THESE DAYS!!!
NEXT!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:45 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
Some Morning Swirl
August 6th, 2008
The Rock, A.K.A. Dwayne Johnson was spotted in Hawaii over the weekend with this drab jawn named Lauren Hashian - an alleged reality hussy (Vh1’s “Rock Of Love”). On the real though, his body is truly a work of art.
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DOES IT REALLY COUNT AS “SWIRL” IF ONE OF THE PEOPLE “IS” SWIRL???
ANYWAY, HE COULD PULL BETTER CHICKS…….
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:49 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
C-List Throwdown
August 6th, 2008
Hog-like actress Nikki Blonsky, and her dad Carl, got arrested for getting into an altercation with ANTM flunky Bianca Golden at an airport in Turks & Caicos last week.
Click HERE to get the full scoop and a new development: Guess what nasty little term may have sparked the fracas in the first place?
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“HOG-LIKE”???
SHE IS NOT ATTRACTIVE TO ME, BUT THAT IS A LIL’ HARSH…
“FLUNKY”???
SHE DID’NT WIN BUT, WHAT DID YOU DO ON (ANTM)???
THOUGHT SO…….
ANYWAY, WHY WOULD ANYBODY NOT LIKE BLACK PEOPLE & THEN VACATION ON AN ISLAND FULL OF THEM???
BRILLIANT!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:53 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
Seen on the Scene
August 6th, 2008
Happy couple Michael Strahan and Nicole Murphy went to a special screening of “Pineapple Express” at the AMC theatre NYC last night. We wonder when, or if, these two plan to make it official.
View pics of a Marlon Wayans leaving a medical clinic (hmmm) and LL Cool J outside of the Ivy restaurant right about now. Continue »
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GOOD FOR HER, HIM, HIM & HIM!!! SO WHAT???
IF THEY TOGETHER.., THEN THEY TOGETHER!!!
WAS IT A WEED OR AIDS CLINIC??? (HMMM) DUMB*****ES!
WHAT??? NO NEGATIVITY ABOUT LL???
NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 11:57 am DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
Back on the Stage
August 6th, 2008
Apparently Toni Braxton has recovered from the heart ailment that caused her to cancel her Las Vegas show. She’ll be joining Kim Kardashian and more in the new cast of “Dancing With the Stars.” Got to bring home that cheddar.
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GREAT NEWS FOR TONI B & ALL THOSE WHO LOVE & SUPPORT HER!!!
SHE HAS A SERIOUS RECURRING CONDITION AND WE HOPE SHE DOES WELL ON THE SHOW!!!
HER VEGAS SHOW WAS VERY LONG & SHE WAS DOING SIX SHOWS A WEEK!!!
SHE WILL BE DOING ABOUT 10% OF WHAT SHE WAS DOING BEFORE!
GOD BLESS YOU TONI!!!!!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:00 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
OH BTW…
It seem this site is “apparently” taking a swipe at another good Black person.
OH WELL!!! “Got to bring home that cheddar.”
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:03 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
Who Looked More Bangin?
August 6th, 2008
Zoe Kravitz and Jurnee Smollett attended The Cinema Society and Glamour screening of “Elegy” last night. So we must ask, between these two chicks: Which One Looked More Bangin??
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I WISH THE BEST OF ALL THINGS FOR THEM BOTH!!!
I WOULD PICK JURNEE…
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:11 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
THIS IS FUN!!!
THANK YOU MARTIN LUTHER KING!!!
WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DO THIS!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:14 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
J Lo May Be Off the Hook
August 6th, 2008
Jennifer Lopez may be able to finally wash her hands of the night-club shooting fiasco of 1999:
A woman who blames Diddy for being shot in the face during a nightclub incident almost ten years ago has finally let the rappers big-*****ed girlfriend at the time off the hook — for now.
Yesterday was supposed to be D-day — as in deposition — for Jennifer Lopez in Natania Reuben’s $120 million suit against Puffy — for a 1999 incident in which he was already acquitted of any wrongdoing. The deposition has taken months and months to schedule, but sources tell us Lo has “nothing to contribute” to the case, which is why her depo was finally KO’d. We’re also told that there’s no new date in sight — meaning Lopez may have dodged the bullet for good.
J Lo must be pretty relieved at this point. She’s probably sick and tired of being *****ociated with Puffy’s suspect bullshyte.
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I WONDER HOW MUCH SHE PAID TO HAVE THAT MESS HUSHED UP???
ANYWAY.., GOOD FOR HER???
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:23 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
I WONDER WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE POSTS DON’T SHOW???
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:29 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
YOU GET THIS MESSAGE…
Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!
BUT NOTHING IS POSTED???
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:51 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
This Could Be More Than Just a Little Puppy Love
August 6th, 2008
Rihanna got the rumor mill workin’ overtime when folks got a hold of this pic. Apparently, Rih Rih was wearing this rock while shopping with C-Breezy the other day. Now, word is that these two are engaged (again).
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GOOD FOR HER & HIM!!!
THAT’S WHAT WE NEED, MORE BLACK LOVE & MARRIAGE!!!
I WISH THEM ALL THE BEST!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:56 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
THEY WONT LET ME POST ABOUT THE EVA PIC
Aug 6, 2008 - 12:59 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
I DO NOT APPROVE OF THE PIC & NOT BEING ABLE TO POST ABOUT IT
Aug 6, 2008 - 1:02 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
IT’S OK THO…
NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 1:04 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
SPEAKING OF NEXT…
WHEN WILL THE NEXT SOCIALLY CONSIOUS POST BE PLACE UP ON THIS SITE???
THERE SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE A DAY!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 2:49 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
Random Ridiculousness
Peep this hilarious spoof of Lil Wayne and the Hov. Weezy is such an easy target. SMH.
Comments (6)
RANDOM RIDICULOUSNESS IS RIGHT!!!!!!!
MORE WASTED *****E AND TIME FOR LIVE SLEEZ…….
LIL’ GREEZY & OVA???????
SMH
Aug 6, 2008 - 2:51 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
I HAVE A DREAM…
THAT ONE DAY.., BLACK PEOPLE WILL LIVE UP TO THIER POTENTIAL!
THAT ONE DAY.., CRIME WILL BE LEFT BEHIND AND WE WILL PROSPER AS A PEOPLE!
THAT ONE DAY.., WE WILL BE TRUELY FREE!!!
Aug 6, 2008 - 2:53 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
MAY GOD BLESS US ALL
Aug 6, 2008 - 3:06 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes...)(Check me out!)
When It Rains, It Pours
Days after he was involved in a serious car wreck, it appears that Morgan Freeman and his wife are divorcing:
Freeman and his wife of 24-years, costumer Myrna Colley-Lee, “are involved in a divorce action,” the actor’s Mississippi-based attorney and business partner Bill Luckett told Access Hollywood. “And for legal and practical purposes, [Freeman and Colley-Lee] have been separated since December of 2007.”
Freeman was involved in an accident over the weekend, which saw the car he was driving flip. The actor and his female p*****enger, identified as Demaris Meyer, were driving on Mississippi Highway 32 in a rural area of Tallahatchie County at 11:30 PM on Sunday evening, when Freeman’s car went off the right side of the road and flipped over.
Freeman and Meyer, who has been described as the actor’s friend, were on the way to Freeman’s home when the accident occurred.
Damn, he had the accident while he was creepin’ out with his side jawn. Trife.
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SO SAD…….
BLACK LOVE TAKES A SERIOUS HIT…
24YRS & NOW THIS…
WE GOTTA DO BETTER PEOPLE!!!!!!!
Aug 7, 2008 – 3:33 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes…)(Check me out!)
I think I have changed my mind…….
Aug 7, 2008 – 3:33 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes…)(Check me out!)
I might be quitting this site all together!!!
Aug 7, 2008 – 3:34 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes…)(Check me out!)
I don’t have fun doing this anymore…
Aug 7, 2008 – 3:35 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes…)(Check me out!)
Tommorrow is 08-08-08…
Aug 7, 2008 – 3:36 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes…)(Check me out!)
That may be my lasy day…….
Aug 7, 2008 – 3:36 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes…)(Check me out!)
OK?
Aug 7, 2008 – 3:38 pm DA TRUFF HURTZ!!! ( The Truth also Helps, Heals, & Hopes…)(Check me out!)
i wonder how much i can post???
WOW!!!
Some people who post on this site are very ignorant…
AS IN STUPID, DUMB, CLEULESS!!!!!!!
They think that if the change thier screen name…
…*****ody will know what they posted in the past!!!
As long as you use the same E-mail addy..,
THAT “Check me out!” WILL FOLLOW YO *****!!!!!!!
WAKE UP!
DO BETTER!
LIVE THE DREAM!!!
Free at last… Free at last…
Thank GOD ALMIGHTY.., we’re free at last!!!
Well.., at least I am!
Ooops I missed 08/08/08
HAPPY SUNDAY!
GOD BLESS EVERYONE!!!
AMEN!
RIP
MLK
BERNIE MAC
ISAAC HAYES
Happy Monday
@Da truff…
I read all 353 comments on here. Some of them made me cry. A lot of them made me think. But you made me laugh. Take care and I hope you come back.
@ GinaM
THANK YOU MISS!!!
I’m surprised somebody else came back to this blog!
I was kind of using it as my own little sounding board on this site…
But I always love to share!!! Take care and I hope you come back too!
PS: NEXT TIME LEAVE A SHOUT OUT TO MLK & ANYONE ELSE YOU NEED…
THE USA IS DOING OK IN THE OLYMPICS…
A BLACK MAN HAS ALREADY WON GOLD!
IN SWIMMING!!!
WE CAN DO ANYTHING & EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE!!!
I don’t have a problem with spending too much time on bossip…
But I do have a problem with some of the indiviuals who spread venomous mess on here…
Actually I have no problems with anything!
It’s not that serious!!!
I THINK BARAK OBAMA “WON” THE FORUM THE OTHER NIGHT!
A BLACK DUDE HELPED THE U.S. WIN SILVER IN FENCING!!!
THANK YOU DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.!!!
THANK YOU OUR LORD IN HEAVEN!!!
I LOVE GABRIELLE MONIQUE “NIKKI” UNION!!!!!!!
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our tresp*****es,
As we forgive those who tresp***** against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
[For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.]
THANK YOU JESUS
GOD BLESS US ALL!!!
PEACE ON EARTH & GOODWILL TOWARDS ALL!!!
ONE MORE VOTE FOR BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA!!!
ONE MORE VOTE FOR CHANGE
ONE MORE VOTE FOR HOPE
ONE MORE VOTE FOR PEACE
ONE MORE VOTE FOR LOVE
ONE MORE VOTE FOR PROSPERITY
ONE MORE VOTE FOR THE FUTURE
ONE MORE VOTE FOR ME
YES WE CAN
YES WE ARE
YES WE WILL
DA TRUFF!!!
The Truth Will Set You Free!!!
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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I know you can see it!!!
Thank you!