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Originally posted by Gods Ivy
I would like to see the outcomes of his speeches and how it directly impacted us as a race and if it starts a movement because Malcolm and Martin did speak the truth but they also got in there and marched and walked and advocated. I still think these speeches are more insults to the black community and less can dos or we dos. It's more telling us what wrong instead of lets change this together. I really do not see a movement coming out of these speeches. His intensions are great but what will the outcome be? Us knowing what the media and society as already beat over our heads, ok then what. What now? We already knew what the problems are, how should we go about fixing them? Telling women on welfare to put more into their kids because the father's are not going to is motivation? Malcolm and Martin motivated and did not tear down.
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Soror Gods Ivy,
I agree with you wholeheartedly and I think that in the current environment of "thangs" that OUR government does with the "wiretapping" and "terrorists threat warnings", that the kinds of "lengths" that MLK and Malcolm did back in "their day and time" would be dangerous if done today...
The question is, how much are we willing to risk? If losing my house, my job, my livelihood for something I think MIGHT happen or equally and moreso that it might likely NOT happen, then why would I be willing to risk it all for one day marching? That is the way some folks think nowadays...
Po' folks ain't into in to those kinna thangs lak dat dere... They will be there for the day, but for the rest of the time, they are tryin' to make a dolla outta 15 cents... So the kinds of changes that actually need to be done requires something short of martyrdom... "Negroes" ain't into that no mo'... Unfortunately...
Ironically, they willin' to die for some chit in a bag that makes you high for ~10-15 minutes, if that... Go figure?
But, I think we will see changes made when our troops come back from Iraq. That happened during the last Gulf War in 1991... And it seems like history will repeat itself with our current administration... Then again, maybe not...