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"Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
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Nvm guys MLK has lost me again 😔

MLK genuinely just went 3 for 3 with that speech! Like 3 pages of straight BARS

“In short, over the last ten years the Negro decided to straighten his back up, realizing that a man cannot ride your back unless it is bent.” Ngl that’s a bar

On top of this, I genuinely do not believe George Wallace actually believe the shit that was coming out of his mouth and he said they strictly to antagonize and while up the kool kids klub

After he got shot, he could no longer walk and he had to live his life as a cripple. I think he realized just how bad it was to be a minority in his country and that’s when he started this apology to her, but at this point it was already too late because the lives have already been lost in. The blood had already been shed.

In my mind, George Wallace and his apology towards the black community was just his own conscience finally eating at him, but why I say this I don’t even think that’s true. I actually think he was forced to reckon with her progress came with him or without him and he was bound to live his life in a wheelchair and he was now a minority.

For the governor of Alabama to say in order for integration to happen in this state that is going to be some first class funerals, and then three months later for innocent children die… and then he had the nerve to beg for a redemption arc after this

I genuinely do not understand why nobody else has an issue with Martin Luther King Jr. using other people’s kids as ponds and furthermore, I do not respect the fact that they had to use children to win this battle.

All four of his children were sitting at home with their mother while other people‘s children were sitting in hog cages in the Birmingham fairgrounds. Their children are laying on the ground and they’ve been locked up for two weeks. They’re starving. They’re cold and parents are forced to watch from the outside in Martin Luther King Jr.’s kids are at home in Georgia.

I’m generally starting to get irritated with Martin Luther King here because once again he’s telling people oh don’t worry about your children. They’re doing this for free freedom. He felt way too comfortable using other people’s children as pawns for this game.

Something I’m kind of wondering is did Carolyn ever talk to Cynthia about what it was like going to the very first March in Birmingham? Like did she ever talk to her about what that traumatizing experience was to be among the first two experience bull Connor in his dogs like did they ever talk about that and if so, what did she feel about that?

They are so prejudice in the south they genuinely separate the chickens too. Only an act of true divinity can save whatever the hell is wrong with the southern hemisphere of our country.

Mind you, Europeans came into African countries andSTOLE these people. Racism is a disease in people who believe these ideologies must be put to death.

On top of that, it did not help that in their ear was George Wallace encouraging all of this madness.

Especially the resident in Birmingham genuinely feeling like not only was there a racial division and intimidation tactics completely acceptable. They fought anyone who came in and tried to hold up a mirror to what they were doing.

I’m playing the US government for allowing Alabama to believe that they are bigger than the program. Furthermore, this is exactly what I’m talking about. When I say the confederacy should have been punished after the Civil War because if you would’ve effectively punish the south for treason, then Alabama residence never would’ve felt comfortable enough to do anything like this.

It’s very easy to hear stories about people who lost their family due to hate crimes and say you’re sorry and move on and it’s very easy to say the words if you’re making a bigger deal out of this then you should win every day you’re seeing people die.

The black community has been so desensitized to seeing our people, beaten, bloodied and murdered that a child stated these words to another grieving child. And this is not something that only existed in 1960 Alabama. We’re still seeing today. He felt so comfortable to tell her she’s making a bigger deal out of this thing she should because nobody ever explained to them that when bombs go off people die.

I believe, sometimes that the only form of justice can be served through vigilante and through the public. I’m not saying that the congregation of the 16th St., Baptist Church should’ve went on a manhunt, but I am saying I would completely understand if they did.