RIP DR. KING…

FINALLY!

I was waiting for your to acknowledge his passing.

He was a beautiful man. You will not be forgotten Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

He was DEEP and had wisdom, intelligence, compassion, 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.

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 assasinated (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.

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@ 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!!

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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of course not @JRiddles…no two people are alike…but Obama is as passionate 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 associate 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 passive 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 passionate, 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 assassination, 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 assassination, 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!

agree @JRiddle

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

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 smut liar.

Erase this rusty Negro From the over-mind of the black race, he was a stooge, a faggot 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 massively assert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an unassailable 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 nobody 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 Emancipation 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 assertive manhood his own Emancipation 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 noble 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 anticipated 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 analyze 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 participate 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 nobody will shout “White Power!” – when nobody 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 nobly 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.

@ 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 ass!

@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!

@Doc………I totally agree! its quite disgraceful that ‘celebrities’ are being celebrated more then this great man.

@ 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 passage 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 Nobel 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.

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.

I think this will be my last post I irritate someone:

Dr. King’s assassination

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 pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.

In the months before his assassination, 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.

@ 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 pronounced 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 passport.

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.

@ Sexxy and everyone else

We did it! We have reached 100 posts.

@ 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 assassinate King.

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 ass. i wish that i had not voted for that beige darn bastard.

pastor manning is right. he’s mack daddy who is pimping black folks.

@ 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?

@ 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.

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!

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 passed it back to him and said ‘oh well’…I looked at it and laid his ass 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

@ 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 passed it back to him and said ‘oh well’…I looked at it and laid his ass 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.

i was driving down mlk in la and thought about him, not realizing he’d been assasinated 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?

@ 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 assassination 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 assignment to lead the children of Israel across the Red Sea. He sent Dr. King here to lead us to a better way.”

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.

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 PASS YOUR 100 GOAL. GOOD JOB. :}

@ Kitty Katt

Yes, we did. Do you feel better?

@sydney

yes i feel much better now. thanks for asking.

@ Kitty Katt

Sure — I try to remember that back during the Civil Rights Movement, while there are many people who participated, 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.

@ 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!

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 pass, 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?

@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.

Whats more ignorant than drinking cough syrup to get high?

@ 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 noble, 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.

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 glasses 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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 noble, 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.

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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.

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 glasses 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)

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.

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 brimming 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 assassination 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.

@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

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…….

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, class 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, compassion 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 shores 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 pass. 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 class 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 assasination 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!

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…….

@ DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!

Go to Gravatar.com

THANK YOU JAMES EARL RAY.

I FORGIVE YOU AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL.

MARTIN LUTHER KING IS FREE AT LAST!!!!!!!

@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?

@Charles Manson

I appreciate the information I will do some research on how my space 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 participated 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

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.

@ $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 ASSASSINATION 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…….

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…….

@ 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 massively assert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an unassailable 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 nobody 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 Emancipation 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 assertive manhood his own Emancipation 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 noble 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 anticipated 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 analyze 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 participate 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 nobody will shout “White Power!” – when nobody 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 nobly 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) DUMBASSES!

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-assed 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 associated 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 SPACE 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 passenger, 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 massively assert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an unassailable 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 nobody 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 Emancipation 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 assertive manhood his own Emancipation 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 noble 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 anticipated 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 analyze 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 participate 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 nobody will shout “White Power!” - when nobody 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 nobly 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!!!

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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) DUMBASSES!

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-assed 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 associated 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.

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RANDOM RIDICULOUSNESS IS RIGHT!!!!!!!

MORE WASTED SPACE 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 passenger, 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.

Comments (19)

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…

…nobody 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 ASS!!!!!!!

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!!!

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 trespasses,

As we forgive those who trespass 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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VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I know you can see it!!!

Thank you!