MLK Day Plans
 

Anybody doing anything special?

I'm going to find a black person and comfort them to coffee

Driving back from Chicago.

sleeping and eating. that's all my people do anyways.



actually, i'm going to walk around campus hoping to eavesdrop on someone bitching about why MLK has a holiday and not david duke or george w. bush or some shit. then i'm gonna pull out my huge ass boom box and play public enemy's "fight the power" until their ears bleed...then go home and sleep and eat.

the parade in town to watch the middle school band kick some ass, movies, work on my projects.

Careful man, you might get killed by the police...

It'll be my birthday.

im gonna have a dream........................

i'm going to hug you for catching that. radio raheem is my hero.

Play 'When I Get To Arizona', not 'Fight The Power'.

haha oh god i had to laugh.

Nothing.I don't think he was an organized person enough to look after the interests of black people,let alone those of ethnic minorities in general.For that there are people who are little more methodical and to the point and they certainly don't need celebration days.

why do you have to rain on the parade? jeez louise macaroni and cheese.

not that i completely disagree, though.

Homework. Sweet, huh?

I'm going to listen to Vaginal Jesus.

im going to drive through an ice storm. it's going to be fun!

I'll probably tediously go through my daily routine, as per usual.

but porkie, you forget several important trains in this man:
1) a pacifist ideology which promoted social change without major bloodshed
2) genius eloquence
and perhaps more importantly
3) balls of steel
you don't get to do what he did without a major risk in personal health & safety. which is clearly demonstrated with his assassination. need we expound?

All true things.I'm not saying that he didn't have all the best intentions . What i'm trying to say is that his tactics proved wrong on the short and the long term.This is not my opinion but a visible fact,innit?

wrong? how??

some parkour maybe?

Sorry,i've edited my post and i'm typing from my bed.Well,ask most balck people if his ideals of equality(which are totally right,by the way) have emancipated them in this society that much more.We don't want to start making examples now or do we?Also,pacifists generally resort to the most simplistic political tactics and never get the job done like it should be done.

well we're certainly not in paradise, and i don't know how this operates within england's more rigid class sytem, but in the united states, while it's certainly no utopia, things have changed a lot since the 50's-60's. check out for example john cassavetes "shadows" and compare to present day life. interracial couples are now our daily bread. this wasn't so a few decades ago.

the civil rights movement won important legislative victories which, while they did not eliminate racism, at least made it illegal. that's not 100% utopia, but it's made a huge difference in the everyday life of a lot of people who now have jobs, education, housing and political opportunities that were quite inaccessible 40 years ago.