So, let me interrupt the recordings of those still-relevant speeches to tell you what MLK really meant to say. I mean, he’d still be coming to terms with the recent two term president, right? And he’d be all victim blamey, and perpetuate all of those bizarre ancient stereotypes. Jokes about shoe shining and melons are totally what MLK would be doing if he hadn’t been assassinated.
Really, this is what a prominent Canadian media host just wrote:
“Those of us growing up in the Martin Luther King era couldn’t imagine that 50 years later, a man with a black face and a black wife and children could sit in the Oval Office in the big chair. Shine the shoes of the man sitting in the big chair in the Oval Office? Yes. But to be the man in the big chair in the Oval Office? No.But the greatest threat to the American black man comes from his black brothers. I don’t want to pummel your melon with statistics. But I can tell you that a black man today is 10 times more likely to be brutalized by someone who is black than he is by someone who is white. …Today I think Martin Luther King would be demanding that many of his fellow black brothers stop blowing that cheque on bullets, booze and bling. He would demand they start doing a better job of supporting their sons and daughters. And he might demand they stop blaming the white man for every single problem faced by black communities and black families.”
from http://www.winnipegsun.com/2013/08/29/dr-king-would-be-appalled-at-todays-truth
So once someone has been dead awhile, I guess it’s OK to just use their name for anything you want, hey?
Something about being a radio call-in talk show host must cause some sort of brain rot.
What makes this even worse is that the conversation going on in other circles these days has debunked even the trope of black-on black crime as a myth.
Short version – white people are also killed by members of their own race, 86% of the time.
“.. crime, in general, is driven by opportunism and proximity; If African-Americans are more likely to be robbed, or injured, or killed by other African-Americans, it’s because they tend to live in the same neighborhoods as each other. Residential statistics bear this out; blacks are still more likely to live near each other or other minority groups than they are to whites. And of course, the reverse holds as well—whites are much more likely to live near other whites than they are to minorities and African-Americans in particular.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/15/the-trayvon-martin-killing-and-the-myth-of-black-on-black-crime.html.
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