The same people who LOVE whitesplaining Dr. King to us HATE when we protest like him

[EffieBlack]

[sharedvalues]

1. Effie. Let's do this. Sporting event. Kneel together

If you pick a sporting event and organize a few people, I will come with you. We will kneel right next to each other during the anthem.

You choose time and place.


(Subject to my ability to get there. Can’t travel as easily as I used to.)


DU meetup????

[sharedvalues]

30. Effie?

@EffieBlack ?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. K&R yes of course but excuse me HOW have I never seen this photo before. HOW.

The woman with her hands on her purse. Chills. So much power throughout.

[Wwcd]

3. K & R to Effie

Thank you

[ck4829]

4. When MLK was alive: "MLK is a communist, a radical, a terrorist" After MLK dies: "Be like MLK"

That should be a telling statement in and of itself.

[Iggo]

5. Yep, they hate hate HATED him when he was alive.

[EffieBlack]

7. We saw the same thing with Muhammad Ali

When he refused to be inducted into the Army, he was a traitor, a militant, hated America, etc. By the time he died, everyone loved him for being a hero even though they couldn’t remember why he was a hero.

And then, weeks after he died, they went right back to viciously attacking Colin Kaepernack.

But we know that, in 30 years, the people behaving so disgracefully now will all be pretending to have been on the right side of history today.

[treestar]

11. Yes. And then claim he was a Republican!

Deplorables do not have consistent arguments. They shift as the occasion requires.

[uponit7771]

29. +1

[MrScorpio]

6. It's not going to fare well for the NFL on this bullshit

Not well at all.

Yep, trample all over the 1st Amendment in order to coddle racists... That is some fucked up shit.

[Me.]

8. True

[RandomAccess]

9. Yes!! And then there's this ---

[alwaysinasnit]

10. Thanks for sharing.

[Heartstrings]

12. Yes, and add this.....

[ProudLib72]

13. Is this an OP somewhere?

If not, why not?

Needs visibility!

[Heartstrings]

14. I sure could turn it into an op....

Watch for it!

[EffieBlack]

15. This is everything

[Heartstrings]

16. Posted.....

[saidsimplesimon]

20. You think?

Hypocrite is such a polite word and there is not a single "might be" among rumpublicans.

[Starry Messenger]

17. k&r

[Azathoth]

18. Oh give it a rest. No white people who believe in MLK are screaming about NFL players kneeling

Trump and his white nationalist base aren't "whitesplaining" anything -- they openly despise MLK, despite any perfunctory lip service to the contrary.

[EffieBlack]

22. You obviously haven't been paying attention

And FYI, pretty much everybody “believes in Dr. King - after all, he isn’t Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or Jesus Christ. The issue is that plenty of white people who claim to love and revere Dr. King feel entitled to lecture black people about how we’re protesting all wrong and then turn around and defy everything he stood for. And they aren’t all white nationalists. Some of them, in fact, are right here on DU.

So, no, I’m not going to “give it a rest.” If you have a problem with anything I have to say, you’re certainly free to put me on “Ignore.”

[sharedvalues]

23. Let's organize a kneel-in. Baseball game? Outside NFL stadium?

I’m in. All kinds of people - of all races - together. DU event.

[Azathoth]

24. And once again, no white person who believes in MLK is onboard with the Trump nonsense

You're free to deliberately misinterpret "believe" in the literal sense, but I think it's pretty clear to everyone that I meant it as shorthand for "those who genuinely believe in what MLK advocated and stood for." It's true that some people sincerely argue that radical and divisive protests (e.g. some of the BLM protests) aren't consistent with Dr. King's message, but kneeling at a freaking NFL game doesn't fall into that category. The only people who are worked up about NFL protests are people who are obviously opposed to what MLK stood for, despite any perfunctory lip service they pay to him.

[cyclonefence]

27. The non-violent protests advocated by MLK

were considered "radical and divisive" in their day. That's why peaceful marches were met with attack dogs and firehoses.

I think a great many people, including many people who would say they believe in MLK's message, consider kneeling during the national anthem as radical and divisive because they honestly believe that the gesture is meant as disrespect to veterans and mom's apple pie, not as a peaceful, MLK-endorsed demonstration against injustice. The gesture has been demonized by the RW and to some extent in MSM when they give air time to people who do not understand what the gesture means.

And at least part of why they do not understand what the gesture means--aside from being told lies by the likes of Fox News--is that they are not "woke" (god I hope I'm using that term properly) to the fact of police murder of black men. It is my belief that they do not want to acknowledge this fact because it upsets their white-privileged view of the cops as the good guys you turn to for help when a black person appears somewhere you don't think she belongs.

[EffieBlack]

28. You're right

And that sentiment is prevalent among many right here on DU, regardless how “woke” they think they may be.

[spicysista]

19. Yes!

+1000

[kwassa]

21. I actually saw this billboard when I was a kid ...

or one exactly like it. We were on a trip to Florida on spring vacation, and it was next to I 75 in the South.

[Mountain Mule]

25. That photo brought tears to my eyes

The racism still so prevalent and embraced by the Orange horror of a president* is heart breaking.

[flibbitygiblets]

26. Thought-provoking post!

Thanks for the insights, yet again. I feel like every time I read one of your posts, I "get it" a little more.