Honoring MLK: Your race is irrelevant!

[Gracie]

Well I am black and would never go to a interview scheduled for me because Im Black

You want to be hired for your own merits, right? Good on you, fbj. Can you be cloned?

 

[Esmeralda]

1. I am a woman and I'd go to an interview scheduled for me because I am female. As the playing field is not naturally level, we need to take advantage of any legal guidelines that help level it. (I don't know why that 1 is there, but I can't get rid of it.)

 

[Asclepias]

Well I am black and would never go to a interview scheduled for me because Im Black

You want to be hired for your own merits, right? Good on you, fbj. Can you be cloned?

There are already some clones like him. He has bought into the shame white people want him to feel for accepting restitution for economic and academic injury.

 

[fbj]

Well I am black and would never go to a interview scheduled for me because Im Black

I would. Why not?

"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro."
-MLK

Because I am not interested in ARRANGED INTERVIEWS. I want someone to be intrigued by experience and cover letter

 

[Marvin Zinn]

Happy MLK day!

Im honoring his dream by saying your race is irrelevant. Your blackness or whiteness or whatever...doesnt matter. You are no different or more special than anyone.

You should never get a job preference because of your silly skin color. Or be denied one because someone else had more preferred pigment.

You should never be nominated for an award because of your race. And if a few nominees happen to not be of your skin tone..your pigments exclusion shouldnt even be noticed...much less protested.

Only the content of your character and your actions matter. You shouldnt need a special category of a normal event with an extra racial label to separate it, like a White Basketball Players Awards or a Black Mayonnaise Lovers Association.


Nope. Thats not the dream.

Your skin is irrelevant. Your race...I just dont give a damn about your race. Hell...your mom probably mixed it up and you're likely a half breed anyway.

You are a human. You are a citizen of your country. You may be rich or poor. Smart or dumb. A success or failure.

But your race???? It matters about as much as the color of your coffee cup to me.

Thank you MLK.

 

[Asclepias]

Well I am black and would never go to a interview scheduled for me because Im Black

I would. Why not?

"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro."
-MLK

Because I am not interested in ARRANGED INTERVIEWS. I want someone to be intrigued by experience and cover letter

Who cares if they are intrigued by experience and cover? They dont have to like or be intrigued by me. I just want access to the job. If everyone had the same attitude as you did Blacks would still be predominantly servants and manual laborers due to lack of experience.

 

[Marvin Zinn]

Happy MLK day!

Im honoring his dream by saying your race is irrelevant. Your blackness or whiteness or whatever...doesnt matter. You are no different or more special than anyone.

You should never get a job preference because of your silly skin color. Or be denied one because someone else had more preferred pigment.

You should never be nominated for an award because of your race. And if a few nominees happen to not be of your skin tone..your pigments exclusion shouldnt even be noticed...much less protested.

Only the content of your character and your actions matter. You shouldnt need a special category of a normal event with an extra racial label to separate it, like a White Basketball Players Awards or a Black Mayonnaise Lovers Association.


Nope. Thats not the dream.

Your skin is irrelevant. Your race...I just dont give a damn about your race. Hell...your mom probably mixed it up and you're likely a half breed anyway.

You are a human. You are a citizen of your country. You may be rich or poor. Smart or dumb. A success or failure.

But your race???? It matters about as much as the color of your coffee cup to me.

Thank you MLK.

I certainly agree. We are all shades of brown and pink. Calling anyone black or white is total nonsense, and the change in words came from people I knew in the south were either members or friends of KKK. It just stretches different appearance to the greatest extreme.

 

[Marvin Zinn]

MLK is an example of someone who fought for what is right. The idiots who believed in segregation were clueless ignorant people.

Unfortunately , many of the Southern Blacks supported segregation - so long as it was equal . George Wallace for instance in his last race for governor of Alabama he took 60 percent of the vote and well over 90 percent of the black vote

Yes, I lived in Alabama and this vote puzzled me.

 

[Asclepias]

MLK is an example of someone who fought for what is right. The idiots who believed in segregation were clueless ignorant people.

Unfortunately , many of the Southern Blacks supported segregation - so long as it was equal . George Wallace for instance in his last race for governor of Alabama he took 60 percent of the vote and well over 90 percent of the black vote

Yes, I lived in Alabama and this vote puzzled me.

I wouldnt want to be integrated with white people if I had of grown up in Alabama or Mississippi or any of those other redneck feral racist states either. My mom grew up in MS and she still battles with hate for white people to this day.

 

[Mertex]

Martin Luther King.....an honorable man who fought for what he believed in. Discrimination is only something that is practiced by the weak and fearful, MLK was not one of those.

 

[Esmeralda]

Happy MLK day!

Im honoring his dream by saying your race is irrelevant. Your blackness or whiteness or whatever...doesnt matter. You are no different or more special than anyone.

You should never get a job preference because of your silly skin color. Or be denied one because someone else had more preferred pigment.

You should never be nominated for an award because of your race. And if a few nominees happen to not be of your skin tone..your pigments exclusion shouldnt even be noticed...much less protested.

Only the content of your character and your actions matter. You shouldnt need a special category of a normal event with an extra racial label to separate it, like a White Basketball Players Awards or a Black Mayonnaise Lovers Association.


Nope. Thats not the dream.

Your skin is irrelevant. Your race...I just dont give a damn about your race. Hell...your mom probably mixed it up and you're likely a half breed anyway.

You are a human. You are a citizen of your country. You may be rich or poor. Smart or dumb. A success or failure.

But your race???? It matters about as much as the color of your coffee cup to me.

Thank you MLK.

I certainly agree. We are all shades of brown and pink. Calling anyone black or white is total nonsense, and the change in words came from people I knew in the south were either members or friends of KKK. It just stretches different appearance to the greatest extreme.

I have nephews who have one black parent and one white parent. In the US they are always labeled as 'black.' Everyone in the US identifies them as black, thinks of them as black. That is what the race focused American culture does. We need to get rid of the racial labels and all be just people, not white, not red, not Asian or black or anything else, just people.

You absolutely cannot say in your thread title that race is irrelevant and then discuss race. It's totally illogical.

 

[Steinlight]

Why does the American right wing today support Martin Luther King? I understand why left wingers would for sure. But I don't quite understand this for so called "right wingers". He was a socialist who supported affirmative action and openly associated with communists. Not only that, like many famous American preachers, he was an immoral hypocrite who was an adulterer and a plagiarizer. There is an unhealthy cult obsession around this charlatan. I think one of the main reasons the "anti-racist" movement hasn't gained as much steam in Europe is because there isn't a figure to deify like King, thank God.

The fact is, the man who killed him ironically deified him and gave him a level of respect an importance he wouldn't have had if he lived to older age. He would have become a side show and a race hustling pimp like Sharpton and Jackson.

 

[Steinlight]

But maybe I am overestimating the cult worship. Perhaps American schools and media hype it up more than it is. I was just looking and American Sniper made 90 million in 1 weekend vs 10 million for Selma. So maybe Americans are becoming tired of the political correctness and seek positive patriotic messages as opposed to white guilt

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I love it when racists whites try to tell people what MLK's dream was. Some of the comments on this thread have to be from illiterates.

Only racist blacks understand the code, eh?

 

[GreenBean]

MLK is an example of someone who fought for what is right. The idiots who believed in segregation were clueless ignorant people.

Unfortunately , many of the Southern Blacks supported segregation - so long as it was equal . George Wallace for instance in his last race for governor of Alabama he took 60 percent of the vote and well over 90 percent of the black vote

Yes, I lived in Alabama and this vote puzzled me.

He is remembered for his statement ''Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.'' and standing in a school doorway to keep 2 black kids from entering ... but he took cues from LBJ in woo-ing the blacks -LBJs philosophy summed up with his quote ..." I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years" - Lyndon Johnson

 

[Asclepias]

MLK is an example of someone who fought for what is right. The idiots who believed in segregation were clueless ignorant people.

Unfortunately , many of the Southern Blacks supported segregation - so long as it was equal . George Wallace for instance in his last race for governor of Alabama he took 60 percent of the vote and well over 90 percent of the black vote

Yes, I lived in Alabama and this vote puzzled me.

He is remembered for his statement ''Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.'' and standing in a school doorway to keep 2 black kids from entering ... but he took cues from LBJ in woo-ing the blacks -LBJs philosophy summed up with his quote ..." I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years" - Lyndon Johnson

When did Lyndon Johnson say that? No one has ever been able to prove it.

 

[GreenBean]

But maybe I am overestimating the cult worship. Perhaps American schools and media hype it up more than it is. I was just looking and American Sniper made 90 million in 1 weekend vs 10 million for Selma. So maybe Americans are becoming tired of the political correctness and seek positive patriotic messages as opposed to white guilt

American Sniper is Now -Selma is Then . I think people are more interested in something they in many cases have first hand experiences with -So far as "tired of the political correctness" - you're probably right - People are waking up to the lunacy and oxymoronic nature of Liberal mandated Political correctness

 

[GreenBean]

I love it when racists whites try to tell people what MLK's dream was. Some of the comments on this thread have to be from illiterates.

Only racist blacks understand the code, eh?

Right - like the guy in your avatar image .

 

[ClosedCaption]

To get back to the original point by bucs90 I totally agree. To me race is a characteristic as important or unimportant as eye color, hair or lack thereof, being fat skinny or buff etc. Racial "purity" or "ambiguity" Black, white, who cares? What does that have to do with your character? Your talents? Your intelligence? Your work ethic? Your compassion? That is what defines you, not how your parents chromosomes slammed together to create the hue of your epidermis.

Is your heritage unimportant as well or is that different somehow that you wont ever reveal the reason?

 

[ClosedCaption]

But maybe I am overestimating the cult worship. Perhaps American schools and media hype it up more than it is. I was just looking and American Sniper made 90 million in 1 weekend vs 10 million for Selma. So maybe Americans are becoming tired of the political correctness and seek positive patriotic messages as opposed to white guilt

Why does every discussion about race tries to get derailed by someone claiming white guilt about something?