Martin or Malcolm?

[AKA_Monet]

DoggyStyle82:

I only wish I had your bluntness... Your explanations were very eloquent and clear. Maybe my angle of teaching was too reserved and conservative. I chose to teach and redirect thinking. And I really did not want to involve myself in a moot ideology and battle. Save that for the Cartoon Network's Justice League...

At any rate, most of these posters have never seen a "colored" or "whites" only sign! They've never seen a bus organized FOR segregation, whereas I was still riding those kinds of buses as a preschooler... Moreover, many of these poster's grandparents--OUR parents were actively involved in the Civil Rights struggle. I just found out my mother was sprayed down with water hoses on a MLK led march when she was in college

And, like you said, there are huge differences between MLK and Malcolm X, but toward the end of both their lives, they came together long enough to be photographed indicating some sort of level of unity within their practices and ideologies...

I must say though, in defense of Librasoul22 and others, I think their unresearched question or issue with these leaders is not which leader was more effective at civil rights, I think their issue is, if I understand them correctly, through all these struggles, sufferings and death for Civil Rights made by numerous figures in both "camps", whose ideology was far reaching for the liberation of Afrikan minds? Because the word on the street is just like (Uncle) Jesse's several mistakes and concessions, just like the money grab to suppress MLK center in ATL by The Family, and just like the marketization and "kinder and gentler" Malcolm X, is the only way to defeat racism is to take up arms and fight???--Of course an more spiritually guided person would refuse to make that suggestion, 'cuz violence begets more violence... And our pea-shooters are of little match to "their" nuclear weapons...

The word on the LA street is there will be another LA riot in 5 years... Folks have NOT learned their lessons by fire baptisms!!! So how does ONE defeat the NATURE of white supremacy and evil???

Personally, MLK's tactic was the best... And we must understand if we are for Afrikan liberation of the mind, then one cannot fight the beast with physical weapons... This battle is an Ethereal one...