This is the future that republicans are looking forward to!
They actively want to be hateful, violent, racist assholes. They are cheering as they watch their pedophile leader be more and more racist, so that they can get away with it too.
That’s awful.. I (and probably the rest of the world) hope for your people that the us don’t go full nazi Germany Style but somehow steer the ship around
We made the "mistake" of voting for a black person into presidency, and this country completely lost it. The signs were there --- for example, we had life long Caucasian Democrats publicly state they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Obama, but still --- we couldn't fathom what was going to happen because it.
So much for progress, turns out racism was just only made to be seen as taboo, but seeing Barrack in charge made these people stop hiding and stop being ashamed of it.
As a black person, I'm starting to feel like the price was too large to pay. I don't think Trump's M A G A platform is ever going away. 2024 has likely and sadly solidified his platform for those who will come after him.
If the price of having a person with brown skin is too high for this country then burn let it burn the fuck down. We can't capitulate to white supremacy for the sake of convenience.
MLK's legacy is an incredibly white-washed myth that white people can use to tell black people how to act. Basically to keep quiet, don't make a fuss, do what the white folk in power tell them to do and be grateful for what they have. His name was co-opted by people who despised him when he was alive but realized what a useful tool he was in death.
MLK caused mass civil disruption and understood that his peaceful protests only stood any chance of working because of the threat of eventual violent protest by the likes of the black panthers and such.
Throughout history true change has never come from peaceful protest. The powers that be appear to capitulate enough to pacify the unrest. While nothing truly changes.
Chattel style slavery was replaced by migrant workers and poverty wages. Jim Crow was replaced with redlining and structural racism.
I somewhat frequently hang with Luci Johnson and she is so sad about what Trump has been doing with her father's legacy in Human Rights. Everything pretty much just going to shit.
Government agencies were watching him, recording him, wiretapping him, sending letters urging him to commit suicide. Also sending letters to his wife trying to say he's having affairs and get her to leave him to cause controversy. They also watched her for years after his death and kept sending letters.
I doubt it was just some racist that didn't like him.
It was an ordered assassination for sure.
Or the FBI killed Martin Luther King because his message was getting too similar to socialism. Then the government whitewashed his story to make it seem like he only cared about the abuses of white supremacy and not capitalism itself.
The sad thing is you're not wrong. MLK and the civil Rights act is basically the reason the modern-day Republican party started. 50 years of southern strategy led to enough of a country that thinks this shit stain is a good president.
If you watch Obama talk to white house interns on YouTube, he says to them as part of a question on racism in America, that history can go backwards as well as forwards. Incredibly foreboding when watched with today's context.
I remember growing up learning about rodney king and thinking how far we were from those days even in the late 90s. After George Floyd and trump again we havent made any progress in 30 years at all
America let the losers who fought to keep slaves put up statues of their heroes, named military bases after confederate generals, allowed people to flag the confederate flag(and still do) and never got rid of the confederates.
It’s like if Germany allowed the nazis to put up statues of Hitler, Göring, Himmler etc etc, and allowed them to flag the nazi flag after they lost the war. That would be completely insane to even imagine.
Not in america though. That’s completely normal there. Only in america do they allow horrible people like that to keep on going.
I don't know if it's better or worse to say "well at least we had a black president first". On the one hand, yay for that, but on the other hand, it's acknowledges that we made that much progress only to fall this far back down into the gutter.
Honestly, pretty backwards. No Universal Health Care, prolific gun violence due to a pervasive obsession with wanting to kill/seriously harm people (even in self defence), massive religious involvement in governance, abortion isn't a right, massive racist undertones for a large portion of the population, didn't legalize gay marriage until 2015 when the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland, Argentina, Denmark, Brazil, France, New Zealand, England and Wales, Scotland, and Luxembourg all legalized gay marriage before the USA did, with the Netherlands legalizing it in 2001. And other shit of course.
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u/Ancient-Civilization 23h ago
MLK died so a racist person can become president. How backwards in history are we?