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Sally StrangeHappy Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Here's how newspapers portrayed him at the time. If you see a fellow white person sneering at #BLM, know that they'd have said the same about MLK.
goddamn. I kinda wanna mute this but I'm afraid of white ppl shenanigans in the replies
For the record, my MLK post was directed at white ppl because that's who I've always felt the "holiday" is for. And voilà evidence supporting my vague impression is here: https://journa.host/@juddlegum/109701698156115796
Judd Legum (@[email protected])
1. Did you know that Republicans have purposely used MLK Day to distort the reality of MLK's legacy since the inception of the national holiday in 1983? It started with Reagan. 🧵
John Caveney woke is me🛠️@SallyStrange serious question, why does the US vote for people like Reagan and Trump to become president? I can understand, just, JFK, but a film cowboy and a money grubbing charlatan?
@jaycee "The American people" didn't do that. Roughly 30-40% of eligible voters did that. The reason a minority of white supremacists are able to direct the rest of the country so easily is because slavers who feared democracy wrote the Constitution.
@SallyStrange that’s the trouble with ‘democracy’ we have it in the U.K. too and return the fascist Tory party who have been in power for nearly 13 years! 😱😱 it’s time for proportional representation!!
@jaycee There are lots of troubles with democracy, but being feared by slavers isn't one of them lol. I wouldn't say it's particularly extant in either the US or the UK right now. But please, tell me about proportional representation?
@SallyStrange PR is where every vote counts. If you have 10 candidates with first past the post, only the ‘winner’ gets to represent the people who voted for them, meaning those who voted for the other 9 have no representation. In PR seats are allocated on a percentage basis of the total number of votes cast. So if there are 100 seats and one candidate gets say 30% another 20% another 20% another 15% and another 15% the seats are allocated that way so everyone is represented.
@SallyStrange that way the candidate with only 30% of the vote doesn’t ‘win’ to the detriment of the other 70%
@SallyStrange obviously that can’t work with a presidential election
@jaycee Ah well as long as we're thinking big, perhaps we don't need presidents at all!
Rasta™ OLDI remember those events, while I didn't know the significance at the time.
t harvey@SallyStrange wow - relevant also to the new anti protest and anti strike laws in the UK https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/police-to-get-new-powers-to-shut-down-protests-before-disruption-begins
MinuteLRM@SallyStrange
This. This. This.
This. This. This.
Bioalchemy13 🇺🇸🇺🇦@SallyStrange The Birmingham, Alabama newspaper wasn’t too far from the popular perception of the civil rights movement at the time, from what I’ve heard.
@Bioalchemy13 The cartoonist was solidly moderate, perhaps a touch progressive ~for white people of the time~
@SallyStrange Wow! Thanks.
Bc Clarity Carlton-Martin@SallyStrange Ignore then shame them beat down repeat. Plantation games.
Mercury@SallyStrange yes there were riots but they were because the KKK literally bombed churches
RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur@SallyStrange Unbelievable. Also unbelievable that we are still not in a better space.
MARGARET D@SallyStrange and they still would be hostile to MLK if they studied his work instead of the whitewashed, watered-down ‘I have a dream’ version.
@MargaretD Plenty of them, yes
Bouriquet@SallyStrange No matter how you address it, they regarded any black activists seeking their rights as something to be feared. Using fear to perpetuate and spread racism.
It is amazing that he now has a memorial in Washington DC.
We’ve come so far but not all of us
It is amazing that he now has a memorial in Washington DC.
We’ve come so far but not all of us
к⃝ и⃝ н⃝ у⃝ 奇⃝ 诺⃝@kino Not really
potatomilk4me@SallyStrange Thank you for sharing this,
unconed"Judge people by the content of their character, not their skin." was his message.
And here you are, generalizing white people while fashioning yourself as morally superior.
This is why people who pay attention realize that BLM actually stands for "Black lives matter... more".
@unconed And here you are proving that I was correct to generalize. Perhaps if you weren't so defensive you'd have realized that it's perfectly possible for people of color to sneer at BLM as well, and they'd be just as incorrect to do so
Oli@SallyStrange that is so true, it happens every time
Nelson Mandela was condemned by Thatcher (UK prime-minister) as a terrorist in the 1980s
Nelson Mandela was condemned by Thatcher (UK prime-minister) as a terrorist in the 1980s
@OliverNoble @SallyStrange Thatcher wanted the death penalty for Mandela, the U.K. no longer had it but South Africa still did! NEVER trust a Tory ANY Tory!