Special to El Rrun-Rrun
On the Reverend Martin Luther King's birthday.
There he was leading protests using a middle-aged and diminutive Rosa Parks fighting to simply sit in front of a bus, seeing blacks getting beaten by Bull Connor's deputies and chewed up by police dogs and assaulted with water cannons just for asking for the right to seat at a lunch counter or to register to vote.
And then there was the backlash from the status quo with jailings, beatings, drummed up charges and FBI harassment and surveillance. Little black girls died in the bombing of Baptist churches. Supporters of the civil rights movement were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in dark, back country roads of the South by hoodlums of the KKK.
King's answer to that violence against his people was unbelievable.
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." –Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” –Strength to Love
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” –Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” –Letter from Birmingham Jail
“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” –Letter from Birmingham Jail
“I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.” –Detroit
“We have been repeatedly faced with a cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same school room.” –Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam
For this, he was shot April 4, 1968 in Memphis by a sniper who no one believed was acting alone.
Happy Birthday, Martin.
26 comments:
Blacks carried the Civil Rights fight, first and foremost. Mexicans, who also got those rights, were not teargassed, had no dogs sicced on them or were lynched, as were the Blacks.
It is a fine day for Civil Rights.
Too bad today's Mexicans know little of the history.
Dallas Cowboys playing at Tampa Bay tonight in NFL Wild Card game -
Final score:
Tampa Bay 27
Dallas 14
bank it.
Oh Look, Republicans Suddenly Care About Classified Documents!
Conservatives used to be outraged over the Dept. Of Justice cracking down on errant sensitive material. They've now changed their tune...for some reason.
ha ha ha
losers.
The struggle continues, Monty.
Blacks have suffered and bled. You may chime in with Mexicans being whipped silly and shot by Texas Rangers, but those pale against the onslaught of hate and terror thrown at blacks by Southern Whites.
I wonder how you'd feel if, while seated at a taqueria, some Whitey would throw a fajita taco at you and call you "Beaner, Wetback and Illegal."
Civil Rights came to Brownsville free of charge, ese.
fact.
Today, Americans believe that blacks are the most racist. Blacks are responsible for most hate crimes. Blacks also commit half of all homicides in the USA.
“America should not celebrate our father’s legacy until it reinstates the sections of the civil rights act that Republicans repealed under Trump” - MLK’s family
it is beginning to look like we'll never be one as a country.
too many racists and bigots, like Donald Trump.
The human race is not perfect. The thing is that as long as we try and follow through with what is "justice" for everyone;we have progressed.
You don't tire of celebrating MLK Day, but what else are you doing?
slamming the sheriff.
THINK THE SUPER BOWL IS ON THE LEVEL? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpeKAkTyvfU
It's rigged.
all the banks are closed WHY? just like the teachers they only work 4 months and WANT MORE PAY... BS
Nothing really changes, Monty. Whitey still has it over Blacks and Browns. Sad, but true. You can have a thousand MLK Days, but Whitey is only toying with you, bro.
Check out what this pile of monkey shit is proposing...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/radical-democrat-congresswoman-sheila-jackson-lee-introduces-bill-make-white-people-criticizing-minorities-federal-offense/
No way the SCOTUS would support her proposal. She is probably the stupidest person in Congress.
Radical Republican Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces Bill To Make White People Criticizing Minorities A Federal Offense
The voters that elected esta estupida are similar to he voters we have here.
Sheila Jackson Lee is a DEMOCRAT. Get your facts straight.
January 17, 2023 at 11:51 AM
votes racist republcan all the time,
a true oreo cookie straight facts.
You are incredibly stupid if you think Sheila Jackson Lee is a Republican or votes Republican. Google it. The internet isn't just for porn or communicating with your stupid chicano friends.
The Civil Rights have not helped the blacks. Through the numerous years they have yet to progress. The great majority still remain uneducated and unemployed. They hold the trophy on crime. Losers who feel the world owes them. What race hasn't suffered at one point in time. The majority of blacks were forced to this country. Which was wrong! But my question is now that they have a choice why don't they return to their mother land? They have a lot offer.
January 16, 2023 at 10:12 AM
los cocos don't want to know, like the ones that post here at the start of every story posted by the owner. "SON PUROS VENDIDOS" lambiscones they get payback from LAS RATAS to post negative shit on this blog and try to stop its publication of LAS RATAS in this corrupt city.
LAMBISCONES VENDIDOS
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!!! trust me on that on!!!
Coco hillbilly poster can't handle the truth and doesn't understand the concept of free expression. As dumb as Sheila Jackson Lee. Black equivalent.
January 16, 2023 at 10:12 AM
and you do pinche mamon y lambiscon!
January 16, 2023 at 10:12 AM
GRINGOS Y COCOS KNOW LESS bunch of pendejos forget the hillbillys worst idiotas
January 16, 2023 at 3:54 PM
eres un pendjo ese bro Hahahahaha
estupido.
January 16, 2023 at 10:12 AM January 16, 2023 at 10:24 AM January 16, 2023 at 10:57 AM and on and on
pinche rata vendida
ese dumb troll IDIOTA
January 17, 2023 at 7:35 PM
a true turn coat a Radical Republican Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. As long as pendejetes like yourself which there are many, she will continue to poke your ass. Remarkably and spectacularly STUPID and UNBLIEVEABLE THAT IN THIS DAY IN AGE THERE CONTINUES TO BE PENDEJOS LIKE YOURSELF.
Keep her in office you pendejos deserve it.
Cannot comprehend someone saying that Mexicans (Mexican Americans) were not lynched, tear-gassed, beaten, etc. by Whites as were Blacks. Have you not heard of the dreaded Texas Rangers in early Texas? Have you not also heard of the Mexicans (Mexican Americans) in California in the 40's and 50's that were persecuted by Whitey? Or the Mexicans (Mexican Americans) in our own Texas cities by cops? Where in the hell have you been, my friend? Ignorance is not in-bred, you cause it yourself.
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