Discussion for article #235782
She doesn’t need to make sense, or quote history in context, She’s there to make my TV set show beautiful blond women, that’s half of what Fox News is all about. The other half is to make sure only angry white men decide who gets elected to make sure only angry white men get richer.
Oh please! If MLK were alive today you (and the rest of Fox) would be bemoaning him as a “community organizer” and “race hustler” who’s “stirring up hatred in minority neighborhoods”.
P.S. really enjoying Fox taking out of context quotes of King. Someone who understood that a “riot is a language of the unheard”, but who denounced it as it gave oppressors an excuse to continue their oppression.
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Concern troll says what?
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“Oh, how we need Martin Luther King Jr. today, as we wait for another day, and night, in Baltimore,” she said.
I call BS – you people would literally shit your effing pant(ie)s if you had to contend with Martin Luther King, Jr., today (so would that “reverend” Alveeda King, but that’s another story).
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How quaint. Using select quotes by MLK to support her position.
Curious about the other quotes of his - particularly with regard to income inequality and redistribution of wealth. Did she get a chance to read those on air???
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Reminds me of the “Drunk History” MLK episode where Rob Riggle plays J. Edgar Hoover who, after listening to an MLK speech, exclaims “This is pure Communist stuff!”
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“Oh, how we need Martin Luther King Jr. today, as we wait for another day, and night, in Baltimore,” she said.
Remember how the conservatives spoke so highly of MLK when he was alive?
Neither do I.
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I think I’ll just leave this right here:
I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve. That in a real sense it is impractical for the Negro to even think of mounting a violent revolution in the United States. So I will continue to condemn riots, and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. And continue to affirm that there is another way.
But at the same time, it is as necessary for me to be as vigorous in condemning the conditions which cause persons to feel that they must engage in riotous activities as it is for me to condemn riots. I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard.
Ya know, since MLK is being thrown in the conversation and all
PS This is what Obama was expressing today as well.
Damn Obama. Why arent you saying what MLK said!!!11!!!
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Dr. King also said:
You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being. I am sure that each of you would want to go beyond the superficial social analyst who looks merely at effects, and does not grapple with underlying causes. I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.
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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself.
So she was using this quote to condemn violent police officers and the effect they have on the community and society as a whole?
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Dayum! Gritchen…
If MLK,Jr. hadn’t been gunned down by white trash we might not have this problem.
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Surely you don’t disagree with MLK’s words that she did choose to quote on-air? If you’re thirsty, you wouldn’t reject a sip of water because you’re not offered the whole bottle, would you?
They only become interested in what MLK had to say when it’s about telling the blahs to behave.
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Don’t forget the part where you’re also supposed to gratefully tongue the asshole of the guy who is offering you the drippings of condensation from his gold thermos. And if you don’t do it well enough, well shit, you didn’t want that water badly enough.
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What I object to is the fact that the right wing FOX news only run to Mr. King when they can use it against Obama or when there seems to be a situation when Black people are involved. It’s disingenuous considering the OTHER issues MLK was concerned with and talked about - i.e. inequality and oppression - yet strangely they never seem to bring up. That is what I disagree with.
If you’re so concerned with a child being thirsty yet cheer when SNAP benefits are gutted so you can pay .01% less in taxes, it just comes across as fake. In the context of that, I’d rather have the whole bottle, rather than a spurt here and there when it’s convenient.
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In a recent interview with UK Guardian, Jon Stewart spoke about how depressing it is for he and his staff watching Fox News all day for snippets. He equated it to being a “turd miner”, having to get up every day and put on his turd mining helmet and go mine for turds, hoping they don’t end up with turd black lung disease. I can only imagine that the TPM staff can relate.
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You know, white people often like to lecture black people with “violence begets violence.” My response is usually “I’ve always understood that, it’s you that seems to have trouble understanding it.”
Dr. King did not give his life so that 50 years later you could use his message, that you don’t understand, to people you don’t care about. Shut the fuck up.
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It’s like MLK is Santa Claus or something. They don’t actually know anything about him, they just bring him up when they want to silence people.
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Oh brother…Piggysnout McEyebrowhorror is the last person on the planet I want to have a discussion about, particularly if the subject matter is “ridiculous dyed-blonde rich white woman chastises the minority community by quoting MLK out of context.” God, she skeeves me out.
And of course the MSM and the GOP/Teatrolls are going to play this as being all about the “violence of the black community.” They were handed their excuse to make this about everything EXCEPT the “violence of the police community towards the black community” the second the first brick got thrown.
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