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Apparently MLK freed the slaves and gave us Freedom of Speech

Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 8 months ago to Education
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US Department of Education at its finest.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 10 years, 8 months ago
    In all fairness, young people, unless the topic particularly interests them, have always had trouble with history. When you are in your teens, all you care about is what is happening now and is likely to happen in the future. I remember double dating with my buddy and two girls probably around 1960 or so. We were going to a WW II movie and we were discussing it. Something the girls said motivated us to ask "Do you know who Adolph Hitler was?" They both agreed that he was the Tsar of Russia and these girls were Honor Society members. I laughed but apparently was not too offensive because I am married to one of those girls today.
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    • Posted by dansail 10 years, 8 months ago
      So, what I am hearing from you, coaldigger, is that the newspaper simply exposed the ignorance of children that age. I agree with you, that age is still a little naive to be world-news savvy. I'd be a little more worried if they were 18 and answering the same.
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      • Posted by coaldigger 10 years, 8 months ago
        That pretty much sums it up. It is like the Mark Twain saying about when he was 15 his father was so dumb that he was embarrassed to be around him. Then, when he became 21 he started to wonder how the old man got so smart in only 6 years. The history kids learn in school is what they have to memorize for the quiz on Friday. After the Saturday night dance, it is all forgotten. It takes a while to see that the past is the key to understanding the present and avoiding some terrible mistakes in the future. Actually most that know the names, dates and events never make the full association of cause and effect leading to more of the same.
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  • Posted by mminnick 10 years, 8 months ago
    The third person, Melody Mulroney, at least had an idea of what he did is I have a dream speech was superb and he did want peace. She got that right not sure what else you might have missed the at least she understood what the man was about.
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    • Posted by strugatsky 10 years, 8 months ago
      Yes, the speech was superb... the practice, not so much. Results - most black families do not exist anymore. The mothers are married to the State and the fathers provide drugs and sperm. Real education for blacks is abysmal (even worse than the abysmal education for whites) and their future, for the most part, is to be a state supported parasite. So much for a dream...
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      • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago
        And any of them that try to break free of the mold are called Oreo's or worse. Peer pressure to drag them back down when they try to lift themselves up.
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        • Posted by strugatsky 10 years, 8 months ago
          Instead of empowering individuals to rise above their lot in life, no matter how unfair it may be, he sought a faster and an easier solution through government dictate. With LBJ and hoard of other feel-gooders, they created an industry that has one goal - to keep the serfs on the plantation, thus perpetuating itself. It doesn't take a prophet to predict the results.
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          • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago
            You're mistaking MLK with those that followed.
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            • Posted by strugatsky 10 years, 8 months ago
              Please explain.
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              • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago
                MLK advocated a strong family, work and education, and earning your way, not the single-mother welfare state that the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, et. al. advocate.
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                • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 8 months ago
                  And to judge based on the content of character... I thought that's what we were doing.
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                  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago
                    This started with a comment by strugatsky that "he sought a faster and an easier solution through government dictate." That wasn't MLK, but those who followed. All MLK wanted was for those laws that dictated difference be removed. He fully embraced content of character and advocated that the black community use such character as the basis for their improvement. Unfortunately blacks are much worse off today than they were in the '60's because of the likes of Johnson, Jackson, Sharpton, etc.
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                    • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 8 months ago
                      Yes...MLK's dream got hijacked by some thugs who clamor to stay relevant at the cost of those they pretend to be helping. Heck..we could say that about the state of the present day American Dream, as far as that goes. I do believe we are screwed.
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                • Posted by strugatsky 10 years, 8 months ago
                  From an interview with the journalist David Halberstam in April 1967: “Now I feel quite differently. I think you’ve got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values.” Such a reconstruction, he explained, entailed many of the characteristics long associated with Socialism, such as a “multibillion dollar Marshall Plan” for the cities, a guaranteed national income for the poor and government control of major industries.

                  Great Dream, Great Society, and the inevitable results... No, his dream was not hijacked; it was carried out to it's logical conclusion.
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      • Posted by $ jdg 10 years, 8 months ago
        That's not a result of Rev. King's speeches or actions. It's just too bad that the successor to his pulpit, Jesse Jackson, wasn't worthy of it. That might well have been different if the government hadn't murdered King at the age of 40.
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  • Posted by Aliona 10 years, 8 months ago
    MILl's message was positive but the race boaters and our liberal education system has basterdized it. The Al Sharptens and Jessie Jackson's have risen on the backs of the people they claim to help. Keep them suppressed and angry and Sharpten gets invites to the white house.
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  • Posted by norman1 10 years, 8 months ago
    but why are they doing everything they can to stay in slavery. with freedom you are supposed to do for yourself after all with slavery you can't. so now that they are free they don't like it so they opt for a slavery state of being.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 10 years, 8 months ago
    I ask kids "What's 6 x 9?" and I get roughly the same degree of correct answers. Indeed, the only ones who seem to get it right are the ones who are over 50.
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  • Posted by Turfprint 10 years, 8 months ago
    Instead of cancelling school for MLK Day, looks like they better do the opposite. Add more hours to school day and add more days to the school year.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 10 years, 8 months ago
    I remember my neighbor, back in the early 70's; she would say; "Hey, lets go to the bank." Or, "what did the mailman leave?" Then she would follow it up with, " Oh, heck, it is Martian King day"

    And she would roll her eyes and be all disgusted.

    It is not that no one liked him, or respected what he said; it is just that back then, we all heard it before, and, he said nothing new,
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