besides the day off it is a holiday everyone can celebrate. it is about a man who wanted equality and stood up for it in a peaceful way instead of taking a violent turn, with all race aside.
2007-01-15 05:41:32 · 9 answers · asked by Cloud Nine--Sez YAHH 2 tha hatas 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I don't. Dr. King, changed a lot of things for everybody. when I was a kid, growing up in the '60's, white kids and, black kids, couldn't even play with each other although,m We lived in the same neighborhood (POOR). by the time that I got to Jr. high school, We went to school, played sports and, hung out together. the older people were set in their ways and, nobody, black or, white was going to change on their own, Dr. King did this.
2007-01-15 05:55:52 · answer #1 · answered by ny21tb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
truly, being White I oftentimes talk about variety and interaction between a variety of of backgrounds. there's a lot more suitable Whites than you are able to recognize who do this. the reason you do not listen about us as a lot is because the media would not provide us our quarter-hour of repute. As for White people no longer speaking up about MLK day (like going around the rustic and giving fashionable speeches) is maximum in all probability because some Black Fundamentalists will say "What did you recognize of Dr. King? you're not any further Black!"
2016-10-31 04:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have much use for MLK. The real MLK was a lot different from the image that politicians and mainstream media have created over the last, almost forty years. I remember the day he was shot. He really wasn't very popular, except among liberals and the media.
MLK was known to have been involved with women across the country. Even Ralph Abernathy acknowledged that in his book. MLK received training at the Highlander Folk School, in Monteagle, TN in the 1950's. The school was started by two Communists, Myles Horton and Don West. King employed Communists in his staff, including Bayard Rustin and Jack O'Dell. He went around the country provoking rednecks into confrontations. It is sort of like a redneck going into a black neighborhoos and directing racial insults at the locals.
What I most dislike about MLK is his comments about Americans, who were dying in Viet Nam. He compared them to the Nazis. And this is the man we honor with a national holiday!
I have much more respect for men like George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington. These men gained respect by their accomplishments. They demonstrated superior achievment. They weren't looking for confrontation. Just imagine how much faster acceptance of balck people as equals would have been had it not been for agitators like W.E.B.DuBoise and MLK.
Today, the mainstream media has created the new black stereotype: the rapper. You know the image, pants falling down, foul mouth, violent and threatening. This is what is perpetuating racism. So what has MLK accomplished?
The majority of blacks are hardworking, decent people. They are not looking for confrontation. They want the same thing white people want. And they are entitled to it. Why do they allow a small number of blacks to parade around with speakers blaring obscenities? They are creating the negative image that some whites have of black people.
2007-01-15 06:37:49 · answer #3 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Great question! I'm so glad you asked it.
During the very early 60's I had just moved to Illinois. One morning I went to pick up my friend Jackie for school. I was only in 2nd grade. That morning his mom was watching the news
about the the riots in Birmingham Al. It showed the police sicking dogs on the blacks and making the disperse by hosing down the street with a fire hose.
As I was watching this I said out loud "God! Look at all those *******! Jackie's mom politely told me that they were colored people. I told her, oh no. Those are *******. It was at that moment that she, a white women believed in something better. From that moment, she changed my entire understanding. Praise God for Jackie's mother.
We still have a very long way to go. Do your part and promote peace and equality
Thank you for asking!
2007-01-15 05:55:16 · answer #4 · answered by JOHN 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a black mam said:
"Whites don't think that MLK did anything for them."
Probably because he didn't. Name one thing Martin Luther King did to help whites. Read your history. At the time blacks were rioting and burning the cities. The holiday was created to pacify blacks and stop the violence. Nothing more, nothing less.
And 'a black man's remark', "Smack a white person for MLK today!" only makes my argument for me by reinforcing my point about black people's propensity for violence.
2007-01-15 06:25:51 · answer #5 · answered by cheetah 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it isn't just for African Americans. It was for all the Children of God.
2007-01-15 05:45:40 · answer #6 · answered by whatotherway 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
because no else else really gives a flying fück really, we dont celebrate milk day (England,) or any of the other made up holidays you celebrate,
2007-01-15 05:52:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All people don't think like that.
Please don't think for me.
I RESPECT for what MLK stlld for.
2007-01-15 05:53:15 · answer #8 · answered by bettyboop 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who said it was only for AA's? I thought it was for everybody
2007-01-15 05:49:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋