jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on 15 January 1929. As the grandson of the Rev. A.D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church. After attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, King went on to study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and Boston University, where he deepened his understanding of theological scholarship and explored Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent strategy for social change. King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and the following year he accepted the pastorate at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King received his Ph.D. in systematic theology in 1955.On 5 December 1955, after civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to comply with Montgomery's segregation policy on buses, black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association. The boycott continued throughout 1956 and King gained national prominence for his role in the campaign. In December 1956 the United States Supreme Court declared Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional and Montgomery buses were desegregated.Seeking to build upon the success in Montgomery, King and other southern black ministers founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. In 1959, King toured India and further developed his understanding of Gandhian nonviolent strategies. Later that year, King resigned from Dexter and returned to Atlanta to become co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father.In 1960, black college students initiated a wave of sit-in protests that led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). King supported the student movement and expressed an interest in creating a youth arm of the SCLC. Student activists admired King, but they were critical of his top-down leadership style and were determined to maintain their autonomy. As an advisor to SNCC, Ella Baker, who had previously served as associate director of SCLC, made clear to representatives from other civil rights organizations that SNCC was to remain a student-led organization. The 1961 "Freedom Rides" heightened tensions between King and younger activists, as he faced criticism for his decision not to participate in the rides. Conflicts between SCLC and SNCC continued during the Albany Movement of 1961 and 1962. In the spring of 1963, King and SCLC lead mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where local white police officials were known for their violent opposition to integration. Clashes between unarmed black demonstrators and police armed with dogs and fire hoses generated newspaper headlines throughout the world. President Kennedy responded to the Birmingham protests by submitting broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Subsequent mass demonstrations culminated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28 August 1963, in which more than 250,000 protesters gathered in Washington, D. C. It was on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.King's renown continued to grow as he became Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1963 and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. However, along with the fame and accolades came conflict within the movement's leadership. Malcolm X's message of self-defense and black nationalism resonated with northern, urban blacks more effectively than King's call for nonviolence; King also faced public criticism from "Black Power" proponent, Stokely Carmichael.King's efficacy was not only hindered by divisions among black leadership, but also by the increasing resistance he encountered from national political leaders. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's extensive efforts to undermine King's leadership were intensified during 1967 as urban racial violence escalated, and King's public criticism of U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War led to strained relations with Lyndon Johnson's administration.In late 1967, King initiated a Poor People's Campaign designed to confront economic problems that had not been addressed by earlier civil rights reforms. The following year, while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, he delivered his final address "I've Been to the Mountaintop." The next day, 4 April 1968, King was assassinated.To this day, King remains a controversial symbol of the African American civil rights struggle, revered by many for his martyrdom on behalf of nonviolence and condemned by others for his militancy and insurgent views.**************************************Related articlesBush not welcome at King Center memorial sitePlanned Bush Trip to MLK Site Upsets Some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 may i ask what this post is for???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Originally posted by pattbateman may i ask what this post is for???? In case you didn't know, today is Dr. King's birthday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 o i thought it was monday cause i dont start school till the day after it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Originally posted by pattbateman o i thought it was monday cause i dont start school till the day after it Read the first sentence of my original post and you'll see that today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr birthday. The federal holiday is Monday, the 19th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 hahahaha now i know everyone has skeletons but please this is pretty bad.BUSTED: Caught on an FBI Surveillance Tape Discussing a Cocaine DealThe television show HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel showed a 1983 FBI videotape in which Al Sharpton is seen talking about laundering drug money with former mobster Michael Franzese, a Mafioso-turned-undercover-FBI informant posing as a cocaine dealer. Now you might think something like this might be bad news for a presidential candidate, but to hear Sharpton talk about it, there's nothing unseemly about it. Now, to be fair, no indictments were issued and the sting operation was never completed. But those are pretty thin excuses for a president of the United States. (At least he didn't blame a DUII on his political enemies.) Sharpton got into this mess through his friendship with boxing promoter Don King, a longtime friend of his. Franzese, a former Colombo family captain, alleges that a South American drug dealer looking to launder money through boxing promotions approached him. According to Franzese,Sharpton was going to arrange a meeting between the dealer and King. But the drug dealer was really an undercover FBI agent in a probe of boxing corruption. Sharpton claimed the tape was a "total attempt to set up and criminalize people," that it was leaked to scuttle his possible presidential bid, and that HBO distorted the evidence by showing only selected portions of the tape. He also clamed that a second tape existed that exonerated him. Sharpton sued HBO for defamation and asked for $1 billion in damages. (As if he had a billion dollar reputation before the tape aired.) HBO Sports spokesman Ray Stallone described the suit as "so silly that it is unworthy of comment." Nothing has come of it since it was filed. Click here for sources Known Associate of Michael JacksonAny leader needs to build coalitions among diverse groups and individuals. And no individual is more diverse than Sharpton's recent ally, Michael Jackson. They appeared together at a news conference where Jackson complained that his recent crappy album "Invincible" sold poorly because of a "racist conspiracy" by Sony Music to "turn the public against me." Yeah, we were all with you Michael until Sony told us to drop you like a hot potato. Jackson went on to say "When you fight for me, you're fighting for all black people, dead and alive." When pressed about his color, Jackson (who reportedly has had numerous skin whitening treatments and nose jobs to appear more Caucasian) said "I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black." Click here for sources Reckless BlowhardSharpton made his name and his fame as the one to lead a protest movement after every racially charged incident in New York over the last 30 years (and many elsewhere in the U.S.) Especially early in his career, he seemed content and even eager to inflame racial hatreds at the risk of violence, as long as it gave him publicity and power. Several of these protests escalated to the point of violence, in several cases by those who Sharpton championed. Examples include the Crown Heights riot of 1991, and a 1995 arson attack on a Jewish Harlem jeweler that resulted in 8 deaths. That attack came months after Sharpton made remarks about the "white interloper". (He later apologized, saying that he wouldn't use the word white again in that context.) Two incidents however appear to have caused him to tone down his excesses and refine his image. First, in 1987, black teenager Tawana Brawley claimed that six white law enforcement officers -- including then-assistant district attorney Steven Pagones -- had abducted and raped her, scrawled racial insults on her body and smeared her with feces. Miss Brawley refused to speak with authorities or the media, but Sharpton and her two other advisers were soon making wild claims. Sharpton compared then-state Attorney General Robert Abrams, a Jew, to Adolf Hitler. All three linked then-Gov. Mario Cuomo to organized crime and the Ku Klux Klan. Within a year, a grand jury announced the story was a hoax and specifically cleared a Fishkill police officer and Pagones. Pagones sued Sharpton and the other 2 advisers for more than $150 million for defamation. At this point, Sharpton's involvements is similar to George Bush and the Iraqi uranium purchase forgeries -- it's unclear if he was actively involved in fraud, or just recklessly willing to use information he knew was very shaky to make his political point. The other turning point came in 1991 when Sharpton was stabbed by a drunk white man during a protest march in Bensonhurst; after that he began to mellow. "There are times [since the stabbing] when I've found him remarkable and responsible," says critic Stanley Crouch. He recalls that after the murder of Yusuf Hawkins, a young black man from Brooklyn, Sharpton brought together Hawkins' stepfather with one of the group of white boys that had killed his son. "This would have been more recognized had it been someone like Giuliani," says Crouch. "After the Diallo verdict, he discouraged people from being violent," warning locals in New York that violence would not only put them in harm's way, but it would reduce them to the low level from which the unjust verdict originated," he notes. "So you have these great moments. He's also taken a more mature vision of the police and moved to differentiate those good white cops, who enforce the law properly in tough and often dangerous environments, and bad cops)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Old news. He's an old crackhead and wanna be pimp. Don't jack my thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 fuck your thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Originally posted by pattbateman fuck your thread! Typical racist response. You've got no respect for the man. Shameful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 no it was directed to you not mlkyour thread is old news as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Originally posted by pattbateman no it was directed to you not mlkyour thread is old news as well You directed it at my thread. My thread is regarding MLK. Another typical racist response. Martin Luther King's Biography on the man's birthday is not old news. You're a disgrace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 why didn you post mine for my b'day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kramadas Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 hehe...surprised certain extreme righties on here didn't come out and say MLK was a pussy and tree-hugger for preaching non-violence! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 there is nothing wrong with tree huggers i just dont like themhe had a worthy cause to fight unlikesome of these hippies now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Originally posted by pattbateman why didn you post mine for my b'day Because you are fucking clown ass piece of shit and when you die no one will remember you, dickhead!! Originally posted by raver_mania hehe...surprised certain extreme righties on here didn't come out and say MLK was a pussy and tree-hugger for preaching non-violence! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 its funny how you peaceniks get so wound upand by the way you hit the nail on the head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Originally posted by pattbateman its funny how you peaceniks get so wound upand by the way you hit the nail on the head I'm all for non-violence but when someone tries to insult me I'll fucking kick your ass all over the place, verbally of course.Here's a newsflash for you... Peacenik doesn't mean pussy, beotch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 whoa!!! i never called you names man you need to relax hippy boy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Originally posted by pattbateman whoa!!! i never called you names man you need to relax hippy boy!! Kiss my ass, mr fucking nice guy. You've said "fuck you" numerous times so you get zero respect in my book. Maybe if you weren't such an asshole all the time, I'd actually think you were a half way decent human being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattbateman Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 whoa i say "fuck you" like all your liberal friends who cares i didnt know you are the vocabulary police!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 15 Author Report Share Posted January 15 Originally posted by pattbateman whoa i say "fuck you" like all your liberal friends who cares i didnt know you are the vocabulary police!! You do have a point there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardstone Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 I pitty the fool that doesn't celebrate MLK jr. day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normalnoises Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 Wow. Bateman has very unique kkkonservative thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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