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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
That is what President Obama is asking people like us to do.
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OBAMA is asking that of us or he's just building off of what many of us have been taught all of our lives regarding ignorance?
The latter.
The same goes for MLK's "teachings." Black folks had been turning the other cheek and silently protesting decades before MLK was relevant. He was simply able to mobilize blacks and the rest of the nation toward peaceful change, which is different from believing he actually taught us about the power and meaning of words.
And this isn't about being a Christian or even about hate or hateful people. It's simply about what humans do when they feel threatened for whatever reasons. That's what the racist structure is about.