Should I memo Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and tell them tht the civil rights movement?
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You may not be a racist at all, just ignorant of the fact that people still experience discrimination. Sharpton, btw, is amusing, if you like political debate and appreciate snappy answers. You should listen to him sometime on a show like Hardball.
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Hey dude calm down this is 2006. All the slaves are dead. And who the hell are you to throw off your beliefs on someone else? Get a life.  I am black as hell and I don't ever think about what they did 100 years ago. Not even during Black History month.
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YES. I have been tired of those people for years and im sick of people like Jesse jackson, Al sharpton, anyone else like them that throw the race card at everything they possibly can just to get their slimy hands in on the deal and make themselves more famous. It sickens me and i wish it would stop but it never will.
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You might enjoy this......\n\nAndy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:\n\nI don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the UnitedCaucasianCollege Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.\n\nGuns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.\n\nI believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?\n\nI think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.\n\nI have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.\n\nWhen 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.\n\nI believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!\n\nMy father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.\n\nI think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.\n\nI don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.\n\nWe did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.\n\nI don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor.\n\nI know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.\n\nI think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.\n\nIt doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"\n\nI think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!\n\nI am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else\n\nAnd if you don't like my point of view, tough...
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Wow you have posted this 3 times huh?  But I am in agreement... when middle class America ceases to exist and you only have Poor and Rich..... Then Poor America will have to have a Civil Right Movement.... would serve them right for being so greedy
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If it had not been for slavery, the civil rights movement would not have been necessary. \n\nThe purpose of the civil rights movement was to correct the damage done by slavery and 100 years of oppression that followed.
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If it's a civil rights issue, seek a referral from your local ACLU chapter...other matters, I'd need at least a vague idea of the issue before I could point you in any useful direction.
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I Have a Dream\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm\n\nVoices for Freedom\n\nThe Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and 1970's has produced some the most passionate and moving speeches in American History. The list below will give you a good insight into how Activists got their messages out, and what they were fighting for. \n\nhttp://www.albany.edu/dept/sisp/jjpowers/WebCollabS05/civilrights/products.html\n\nThe Civil Rights Movement (1954-1969)\n\nhttp://www.uwm.edu/~jnelsen/ushist/contents.html\n\nMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WEBSITES\n\nA comprehensive site with lots of links.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Martin_Luther_King.htm\n\nMartin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)\n\nhttp://www.thekingcenter.org/\n\nhttp://www.extension.umn.edu/units/diversity/mlk/mlk.html\n\nhttp://who2.com/martinlutherkingjr.html\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml\n\nA Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHistory is indeed made up of significant events which shape our future and outstanding leaders who influence our destiny.\n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/mlking.htm\n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/aaslvwww.htm\n\nMartin Luther King © \n\nKing was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was pastor of a Baptist church, his mother a schoolteacher. Originally named Michael, he was renamed Martin when he was about six years old. \n\nHe entered Morehouse College in 1944, and here he met Dr Benjamin Mays, a scholar who encouraged him to enter the ministry. After graduating in 1948, King went to Crozer Religious Seminary to undertake post-graduate study. He received his doctorate in 1955.\n\nhttp://www.stanford.edu/group/King/\n\nMartin Luther King, Jr.: A Biographical Sketch\n\nhttp://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html\n\nA Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHistory is indeed made up of significant events which shape our future and outstanding leaders who influence our destiny. \n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm\n\nIntroduction:\n\nThe following lesson encourages students to reflect on nonviolence as an instrument to change unjust laws by studying the Birmingham Campaign of 1963. \n\nhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/index.html\n\nDr. Martin Luther King Jr. establishes himself as the national leader of the civil rights movement, leading boycotts and staging protests against segregation in the South.\n\nhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/photogallery.html\n\nHe touched the heart and spirit of this white man, his message transcends time and resonates in the lessons I teach to my two young sons, a message of equality, peace, understanding and a celebration of difference rather than a fear of difference. He was taken from us by a spiteful and ignorant man, a man who personified the evil of a society that feared a man of peace and solidarity. We miss you Martin, I miss you Martin..!!!\n\n"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their tired bodies, education and culture for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and non-violent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land 'and the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid.' I still believe that we shall overcome." \n\nMartin Luther King, Jr.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Yes, they compare themselves to the fight for civil rights from the blacks, and that got bad comments from alot of them, as they fought to live under the same constitution, and were citizens, these people are not.\n\nSome of the leaders of the illegals are calling up to and for Armed Conflict with America!\n\nhttp://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13002\n\nTHANK YOU TED KENNEDY!!!  COMPARE YOUR LEGACY TO YOUR BROTHERS NOW!!!
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Lyndon Johnson has been credited with being one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement. Johnson does have some distracters who believe that he was merely an unprincipled politician who used the civil rights issue when he realised the worth of the "Black Vote". However Johnson himself claimed to be an idealist who dreamed of making America a "Great Society". It was Johnson who put the presidential signature to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Current leaders or at any time?  \n\nBecause if you can have at any time in history, do a Yahoo image search for the "black panthers".
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http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs216.html\n\nlsu list no pledges.
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This is what I once told a retired, racial, state trooper from Alabama, who stopped talking to me after he found out my daugher was black/white. I told him to go to any library and find me a time in history when American's fled from America to go elsewhere to live; to find me a time in history when any other race went to a country, stole the people from their homes, brought them to a country where they were treated less than dogs; women and girls raped brutally while their husbands, or fathers, or brothers were forced to watch; where men and boys were auctioned off like cattle. I asked him how he would feel if I sent someone to his house to do this to him and his family. He couldn't or wouldn't answer me, he has not to this day gone to the library to do  any research. So until people can do some research about what they hate, they need to stop hating it. And, this retired, racial state trooped from Alabama started talking to me again after a few weeks. And his racial jokes all but stopped. He still can't help but tell a few, but they are not in the same tone as they were before. I feel I must also tell you I was born and raised in Louisiana, I am 42, white female taught to believe that niggers are niggers and feed the dogs better. When I joined the Army, I was brought to the realization that everything I was taught to believe about the black people I grew up with was a lie. I was so humilliated and sick of myself when i realized what i had been part of that I wanted to die, but was too scared to die because how could I stand in front of God on judgement day? Anyway, I am glad to know that what I was taught was not the truth. Anyone seeking the truth should go do some research at any library. Its free. Be you any color of skin.
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Without knowing who you are and what exactly your purposes are, I am afraid(literally!) that I cannot comply with your request.\nNot in the current political climate, under the present so-called "homeland" security lockdown on formerly protected civil rights.\nSorry.
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Probably won't happen.  A first big step is to get rid of the activists like Jesse Jackson since they are always focusing on the differences and every perceived injustice.  It seems to be their goal to prove that they are perpetual victims.  Too many people are voluntarily segregating themselves and this leads to distrust and fear of other groups because they don't understand each other.\n\nTo Sgtsnafu2: That quote isn't even about race.  Seems like you go through life looking only at race.  That makes you the ignorant racist.
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Tell me what would their apologies mean? Would it bring back the pride of the blackman that he was stripped off so long ago? Would destroying those buildings erase the memories? Please what has happened has happened and we are all trying to move on from there.The blackman was made to feel less of a human, now we are trying to get our pride and our place in the society.Let us leave the past where it belongs and concentrate on making a better place for us all lo live in.
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In popular history, no one around has ever heard of the "Poor Peoples' March on Washington" which MLK, Jr. started.  It is just quietly swept under the rug, so to speak.  MLK, Jr. wasn't just fighting for the rights of black Americans, he was fighting for the rights of all poor Americans!