Oldstyle
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This quote from Malcolm comes to mind when you say that. It goes something like this...Youre a recessive monkey that smells like a wet dog. None of you losers have anything I need to observe. Thats like saying I can learn something from the local monkey insane asylum.You are an angry, fatherless 15 year old black kid whose been fed enough bullshit to get you killed. You have a chance to observe here people who have made something of their lives which might save your life.Who told you I do double speak? You dont define what I believe in and then ask me questions about it. You ask what I believe in then you form your opinions after that. Youre a silly white boy. You dont have permission or intellect to do what you are trying to do.So, you agreed with those stupid white liberals?
And yet, here we see that Colin indeed, does hate America, just like you do.
So, why the double speak? Why are you afraid to be open in your hate?
Are you afraid of losing your stupid white liberal allies?
Are you afraid that telling the truth might get the rest of White America to wake up to the danger represented by your vile racist lefties (lumping you and your stupid white allies together there)?
Or are you afraid of losing more mainstream black people, who are not consumed by racism and hate like you are?
What's laughable about Kaepernick pulling that Frederick Douglas quote is that it totally disregards Douglas's optimism that the country was changing. I believe if Frederick Douglas could have seen a United States that had a black President...and black athletes making hundreds of millions of dollars...he would have given young Kaepernick a smack in the head and told him to stop whining about how "oppressed" he was!
You cant stick a 9 inch knife in the back of a man, pull it out 3 inches and call it progress.
"Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery. “The arm of the Lord is not shortened,” and the doom of slavery is certain. I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated. Thoughts expressed on one side of the Atlantic, are distinctly heard on the other. The far off and almost fabulous Pacific rolls in grandeur at our feet. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved. The fiat of the Almighty, “Let there be Light,” has not yet spent its force. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light."
That was Frederick Douglas in closing that day. It's quite obvious that he was cognizant of the immense changes that were about to take place in a nation that had only been in existence about three quarters of a century...a mere heartbeat of time. To be blunt...I think Douglas would find you tedious, Milkweed.