Black History Month Still Relevant?

Well then let me paraphrase what I meant, that Oprah is there just so that her face is  there!!! She could care less, she just wants to put her name there just as much as Jesse Jackson and Al "the village idiot" Sharpton

[clips]

i really don\'t have a problem with oprah..her show caters to "WOMEN"..period!....regardless of race....*i had to edit this post*..i want this thread to remain to have some sense of integrity within it,..and what i wrote earlier would\'ve brought it down a bit. as far as coretta king is concerned, she couldn\'t have passed away at a better time. i mean i knew she was very ill, but what better way than to pass away during bhm?...:fro:


I thought it was good to see bush, clinton and others come to show their respects. well you knew that they would do it anyway (what president wouldn\'t?)....speeches made by them were run of the mill type,..but still i thought it was a good look for them..

I just can\'t stand Oprah, but I\'m glad Ms. King was honored as she should have been, but they should have let everyone except Oprah, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton speak at her funeral and it would have been much better, people that are better role models than Jackson and Sharpton should have spoke at her funeral.

Dude dont blow it out of proportion. Sharpton and Jackson had to be there, they values a black mans life more than a whites in their own mind probably.

[CHIZZY]

SAY WHAT?

Go figure, Mrs. King\'s funeral turned political. :rolleyes:

KING FUNERAL TURNS POLITICAL: BUSH BASHED BY FORMER PRESIDENT, REVEREND
Tue Feb 07 2006 15:49:48 ET

Today\'s memorial service for civil rights activist Coretta Scott King -- billed as a "celebration" of her life -- turned suddenly political as one former president took a swipe at the current president, who was also lashed by an outspoken black pastor!

The outspoken Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, ripped into President Bush during his short speech, ostensibly about the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.

"She extended Martin\'s message against poverty, racism and war. She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there," Lowery said.

The mostly black crowd applauded, then rose to its feet and cheered in a two-minute-long standing ovation.

A closed-circuit television in the mega-church outside Atlanta showed the president smiling uncomfortably.

"But Coretta knew, and we know," Lowery continued, "That there are weapons of misdirection right down here," he said, nodding his head toward the row of presidents past and present. "For war, billions more, but no more for the poor!" The crowd again cheered wildly.

Former President Jimmy Carter later swung at Bush as well, not once but twice. As he talked about the Kings, he said: "It was difficult for them then personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretaps." The crowd cheered as Bush, under fire for a secret wiretapping program he ordered after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, again smiled weakly.

Later, Carter said Hurricane Katrina showed that all are not yet equal in America.

"This commerative cermony this morning, this afternoon, is not only to acknowledge the great contributions of Coretta and Martin, but to remind us that the struggle for equal rights is not over. We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi," Carter said, the rest of his sentence drowned out by loud applause. "Those who were most devastated by [Hurricane] Katrina know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans. It is our responsibility to continue their crusade."

Developing...

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Race card anyone?

Carter seemed pretty tame and didn\'t really attack Bush with either comment. The pastor was pretty aggressive though.

Too bad Kanye West didn\'t speak. Remember him? ;]

-Dan

They should of had people speak that didn\'t get up there to self promote themselves, just stupid.

[clips]

i don\'t think it was that bad,...i mean everything that pastor stated was true..but i don\'t think this was the forum for it. This was supposed to be a time for acknowledgements and accomplishments of her life...not talkin about the iraq war or wmd\'s. i guess some felt that this was one of those rare occasions where the pres comes to town and they could give him a piece of their mind.

i mean because of what both martin and coretta stood for, you knew race relations in america would be brought up...and while i feel that race did play a part in that katrina aftermath, i feel the mayor should be held responsible to some extent as well. 400 buses at his disposal and not one used. Still in the same token, there\'s no way it should\'ve taken the gov\'t six days to get over there...especially since they KNEW this thing was comin\'....so i can see certain speakers talkin about race relations because of martin and coretta,...but i do think that the war shouldn\'t have been talked about at all....

[Titan]

Hypothetical question. Do you think MLK would be as famous today if he wasn\'t assassinated?

[Viper_Fujax]

I think so. Rosa Parks is famous and noone killed her.

We learned about what he did then they just mentioned that he was assassinated..not like they taught us because he was assassinated.

unlike JFK who i know/learned nothing about besides the fact he was assassinated

[CHIZZY]

I dunno about the race/katrina thing. I mean, if you lived several feet under sea level and they told you to GTFU, would you sit there and say, "where are the people to come and get me?" I know they were poor, but I bet they can walk. If I didn\'t have a car, and that shit was headed at me, you can damn well bet I\'d be taking the heel-toe express. I think it all boils down to a class of people who are used to government handouts to survive. Why should they be expected to get themselves out of the way of a category 5 hurricane? They\'re not expected to even feed themselves or their families, they just wait on a check from the gubment.

BTW not totally directed at black folks, I\'m well aware that there are poor white poeple too. I was one of them. Somehow I managed to stay employed since I was 14. I showed up everyday, I worked & I got paid. I saw ways to make myself more valuable to a company and they rewarded it.

 My brother\'s plumbing company had 3 brothers whose uncle had been a contractor for 20 years. They were hired \'cos the uncle always did what he was hired to do. They were paid the same and got the same benefits as everyone else. Guess who didn\'t show up for work on MLK day this year without even calling in. Yep. Guess whose asses got fired. Now it\'s a "race issue", and they\'re trying to sue for discrimination. I don\'t know, but I\'m pretty sure if I pulled that shit on like, Columbus Day or something, I\'d get fired too. It\'s just common sense. But it seems there\'s a general feeling in the black community that they are owed special consideration by our goernment. Like that the rules everyone else lives by do not apply to them. Clips, you\'re a bright dude. What\'s the deal, bro? How do we get past this? Is there any real interest for a black person to play by the rules here in america? Or does the fact that some white people still see blacks as inferior make it not worth it? I try to understand, and yes I throw around some racial humor, but I\'m not a racist. I hate the fact that sometimes I get pissed off at black folks in general, \'cos my car gets broken into by one, or my wife gets mugged by one, or my brother\'s garage gets broken into by one. But how else am I supposed to feel?

Sorry about the rant, I just had to chase 3 black kids from our parking lot at 3:00 AM (they were breaking into cars) and I couldn\'t get back to sleep. Maybe it\'s the government\'s fault.

[videoholic]

seeing your sig makes me say, "I miss kopking..."

[CHIZZY]

no shit, bro. king of the english langyuge slyers.

[videoholic]

Someone needs to do a thread where we have to search for good kopking quotes of the past.

I bet it would be pretty tough since he never spelled anything correctly.