I am asking you this to give you credit but in my opinion, you do not.

Please look up King's

“The Other America” speech and look at what he was tackling after 1965….the years that the media blocked out.

You also make a big mistake:

“I have heard the whispers that Black people need to be on their guard because of the surge in White supremacy, but in my mind, you have a greater chance being hurt or killed by another Black person–not a Klan member. So why don't we focus on that? “

Why do you equate the term white supremacy with the KKK, do you not understand how this ideology manifests itself on a global scale?

What a nice “memory!” :>) :>)

YES IT IS!! :>) :>)

No, it hasn't hit me completely yet.

The one thing that has changed is that the tide is in our favor. Hatred and Intolerance are taught behaviors easily reinforced my the behavior outside the home. Much of that behavior is pure ignorance. Ignorance is about to become very much out of vogue(and after 8 years ….). We have already seen it's comeuppance as everyone couldn't wait to tell what Rev Lowery's statement really meant(But please keep your ass out he barber and beauty shop{:-)).

This is for those whom might despair

Mother to Son

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps.
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now—
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Langston Hughes

If people are so outraged, stop going to the bakery. Like the one man that said, the baker spews this on a daily basis … “I thought, why the fuck do you still go there?”

You know, one of the things about our history is that Jim Crow era segregation/discrimination was widely accepted both both Blacks and Whites in this country. And I don't say that to say that Blacks during that era enjoyed the hardships they faced, but if we are honest with ourselves, for the greater first portion of the 20th century, both Blacks and Whites accepted it as the “way things were.”

Now when the movement ignited, and many of our unsung hereos in the Civil Rights movement began to rally and challenge the “accepted ” way of life of segregation had created, only then did we get the legislation we needed to ban the symbols of discrimination like “colored” water fountains, segregated schools, and

But the attitudes of many still did not change….Dr. King himself was assassinated AFTER LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act.

Discrimination was just not “sanctioned” or accepted by the US anymore after the Civil Rights movement. But it sure the hell ain't disappear. And even today the lines of discrimination/racism can be blurred, especailly when we are dealing with it in our courts.

Even now Obama's critics do not understand “why” he would want to close Gitmo…many saying he is too hasty. This is the beginning of another movement, a restoration. No longer can we allow leaders who claim we stand for “freedom”, yet take away our civil liberties or stomp on the Constitution in an effort to go after others who could care less. None of us can predict the future….but I have to say I am so happy to have a President who knows the Consitution and laws tha govern us.

I was always taught that when you have to become something else outside what is pure and good about you, in order to fight the enemy, you have then handed the enemy a victory.