Resource for the next time someone says MLK was "color blind"

[gollygee]

Or posts some horribly whitewashed MLK post.

http://drewdellinger.org/pages/blog/947/58-tweetable-mlk-quotes-to-reclaim-king’s-legacy

Four of the quotes, as an example:


"The first thing that must be on the agenda of our nation is to get rid of racism.” --MLK Jr. (1968)

“The thing wrong with America is white racism.” --Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) #ReclaimMLK

“Large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility & the status quo than about justice & humanity.” MLK

“However difficult it is to hear, however shocking it is to hear, we’ve got to face the fact that America is a racist country.” MLK (1968)

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. What strikes me about those comments, especially the last one, is nothing has changed

More awareness? Yes

More outspoken white folks on the non racist side? Sure

But overall, these comments are not just true but still applicable.

[northernsouthern]

2. I am a bit lost...

By color blind you mean "not influenced by racial prejudice"?

As much as it is true we are all prejudice, that is how our mind works (grouping things together based on likeness...also how many computer programs work for object identification I believe)...I don't see how this is examples of not being colorblind? He is in a society that is full of white racists in power...they were in control. so the fact that he only said what he said is amazing.

If I was not colorblind and I was him I would have said:

“However difficult it is to hear, however shocking it is to hear, we’ve got to face the fact that America is a mother f@cking cesspool of inbreed, greedy, close-minded, self-righteous, overly repressed, self-indulgent, pethetic, overtly racist sh@thole of a country. F@ck your white @ss country, I am the f@ck out...btw I ain't doing another f@cking march your racist rednecks are probably going to try and shoot me” ME (back in time in 1968)

[wildeyed]

3. People who say that have never paid attention

to anything that man wrote. Letter from a Birmingham Jail, anyone? He did work for economic justice and wanted to create common cause between oppressed blacks and poor whites. But his primary focus was always the race issue, and he never said that economic justice would cure racial inequality that I ever read or heard about.

[lovemydog]

4. +1

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. The the vast majority of his work on economic justice was ...

INTRA-CLASS injustices. Memphis, anyone?