^How fortunate I am - a black male - to be given an equal chance to succeed in life. Coincidentally, I had to write a report on discrimination and of course I had to mention Dr. King's accomplishments.
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">^How fortunate I am - a black male - to be given an equal chance to succeed in life. Coincidentally, I had to write a report on discrimination and of course I had to mention Dr. King's accomplishments.</div> I remember last year you posted the MLK Day thread in the Members Union, MrJ.
<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I remember last year you posted the MLK Day thread in the Members Union, MrJ.</div> Yup, that was me. deception beat me to it this year though.
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yup, that was me. deception beat me to it this year though.</div> i have an idea. its mlk day but everybody knows about mlk, lets honour other civil rights leaders as well. to that end, i encourage everyone to honour a different civil rights leaders of their choice in their posts. i'll start with Eldridge Cleaver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver -he was more militant than pacifist but a great leader nonetheless -easily one of the coolest dudes of the era as well let me add W.E.B Du Bois: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._Du_Bois -he wrote the "souls of black folks" where he demarcated "the colour line" that pervades america -he's personally one of my intellectual heroes -fyi- there is actually an indian-american book in response to his called, "the karma of brown folks -another fyi- recently after natalie portman spent a late night reading Du Bois, she proclaimed she felt connected with black folks in an interview the day after
All I reflect on is how thankfull I am of Dr. King, not for having today off, but for everything he has done for African-American's in this country.
That i have the day off. Jk, i dont know, i reflect on his acclomplishments and what he did for the black community along with the rest of the world. I was gonna make a MLK thread too, and put his I have a Dream speach up too. Looks like deception beat me to it.
I am thankful for MLK being he not only affected the African-Americans lives but for every minority race. He was a great man who changed this whole country.
