Inconvenient Fact: MLK Believed In PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY And MORAL STANDARDS
Apr 4, 2018 22:21:36 #
But modern civil rights fighters, known as social justice warriors, see things entirely differently.
Social justice warriors, particularly those who specialize in racial grievance mongering, loathe respectability, i.e., the notion that practicing personal responsibility, adhering to strict moral standards and conducting oneself with dignity and integrity precipitate a better life.
The notion of respectability basically says that if you behave yourself, others will probably treat you better. Duh, right? And yet SJWs h**e this idea.
“The belief in good behavior and proper jobs as protection from r****m is often an easier pill to swallow than the reality of indiscriminate w***e s*******y,” an i***t wrote last year at BGD, some blog that amplifies the voices of delusional, indoctrinated SJWs.
“In the context of social movements, respectability politics typically functions to ensure that group members assimilate into mainstream society and remain uncombative in order to protect the credibility of an organization and their objectives.”
In other words, when goons like Mike Brown wind up dead because of their own thuggish behavior, the blame lies with white people for creating a system wherein thuggish behavior is treated harshly.
But according to renowned journalist, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author Jason L. Riley, Martin Luther King, Jr., would have fervently disagreed with them.
In an eye-opening post for The Wall Street Journal this week, Riley revealed that King and other black leaders often “spoke openly about the need for more-responsible behavior in poor black communities”:
While speaking at a church in St. Louis, for instance, MLK told the congregation that “we’ve got to do something about our moral standards.”
“We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.”
*round of applause*
Riley further rightly noted that King’s successors — including the armies of SJWs that now stalk the streets in search of offending prey — mostly ignore this advice, preferring instead to keep the onus on w****s”:
Where King tried to instill in young people the importance of personal responsibility and self-determination notwithstanding racial barriers, his counterparts today spend more time making excuses for counterproductive behavior and dismissing criticism of it as r****t. Activists who long ago abandoned King’s colorblind standard, which was the basis for the landmark civil-rights laws enacted in the 1960s, tell black youths today that they are victims, first and foremost.
A generation of b****s who have more opportunity that any previous generation are being taught that America offers them little more than trigger-happy cops, bigoted teachers and biased employers. It’s not only incorrect, but as King and a previous generation of black leaders understood, it’s also unhelpful.
Black activists and liberal politicians stress r****m because it serves their own interests, not because it serves the interests of the black underclass. But neglecting or playing down the role that b****s must play in addressing racial disparities can only exacerbate them. Fifty years after King’s death, plenty of people are paying him lip service. Far too few are following his example.
Buoyed by a mainstream media and academic establishment that have both been corrupted by Marxist thinking (which MLK opposed), SJWs have successfully created an environment where minorities are now actively encouraged to play the victim, even as they employ Orwellian tactics to act like oppressors.
The irony is, as I’ve stated many times before, that minorities who engage in this behavior have become virtually indistinguishable from the bigots and brutes who oppressed their ancestors.
They are one and the same, and the fact that the mainstream media, the academic establishment and those who purport to be modern civil rights activists have all failed to realize this is a sad reminder of just how far society has fallen (yes, fallen) since MLK’s days.
Yeah, people are more free and tolerant (thanks in part to MLK’s efforts, I might add), but given the direction we happen to be headed, it seems clear that another cycle of oppression lies just around the next corner.
Social justice warriors, particularly those who specialize in racial grievance mongering, loathe respectability, i.e., the notion that practicing personal responsibility, adhering to strict moral standards and conducting oneself with dignity and integrity precipitate a better life.
The notion of respectability basically says that if you behave yourself, others will probably treat you better. Duh, right? And yet SJWs h**e this idea.
“The belief in good behavior and proper jobs as protection from r****m is often an easier pill to swallow than the reality of indiscriminate w***e s*******y,” an i***t wrote last year at BGD, some blog that amplifies the voices of delusional, indoctrinated SJWs.
“In the context of social movements, respectability politics typically functions to ensure that group members assimilate into mainstream society and remain uncombative in order to protect the credibility of an organization and their objectives.”
In other words, when goons like Mike Brown wind up dead because of their own thuggish behavior, the blame lies with white people for creating a system wherein thuggish behavior is treated harshly.
But according to renowned journalist, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author Jason L. Riley, Martin Luther King, Jr., would have fervently disagreed with them.
In an eye-opening post for The Wall Street Journal this week, Riley revealed that King and other black leaders often “spoke openly about the need for more-responsible behavior in poor black communities”:
While speaking at a church in St. Louis, for instance, MLK told the congregation that “we’ve got to do something about our moral standards.”
“We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.”
*round of applause*
Riley further rightly noted that King’s successors — including the armies of SJWs that now stalk the streets in search of offending prey — mostly ignore this advice, preferring instead to keep the onus on w****s”:
Where King tried to instill in young people the importance of personal responsibility and self-determination notwithstanding racial barriers, his counterparts today spend more time making excuses for counterproductive behavior and dismissing criticism of it as r****t. Activists who long ago abandoned King’s colorblind standard, which was the basis for the landmark civil-rights laws enacted in the 1960s, tell black youths today that they are victims, first and foremost.
A generation of b****s who have more opportunity that any previous generation are being taught that America offers them little more than trigger-happy cops, bigoted teachers and biased employers. It’s not only incorrect, but as King and a previous generation of black leaders understood, it’s also unhelpful.
Black activists and liberal politicians stress r****m because it serves their own interests, not because it serves the interests of the black underclass. But neglecting or playing down the role that b****s must play in addressing racial disparities can only exacerbate them. Fifty years after King’s death, plenty of people are paying him lip service. Far too few are following his example.
Buoyed by a mainstream media and academic establishment that have both been corrupted by Marxist thinking (which MLK opposed), SJWs have successfully created an environment where minorities are now actively encouraged to play the victim, even as they employ Orwellian tactics to act like oppressors.
The irony is, as I’ve stated many times before, that minorities who engage in this behavior have become virtually indistinguishable from the bigots and brutes who oppressed their ancestors.
They are one and the same, and the fact that the mainstream media, the academic establishment and those who purport to be modern civil rights activists have all failed to realize this is a sad reminder of just how far society has fallen (yes, fallen) since MLK’s days.
Yeah, people are more free and tolerant (thanks in part to MLK’s efforts, I might add), but given the direction we happen to be headed, it seems clear that another cycle of oppression lies just around the next corner.
Apr 5, 2018 10:37:41 #
Do a little research on MLK : The Beast s Saint -MLK
It has always amazed me how our leaders pick our heros! I actually worked for a Navy Retired Captain on the Nevada Test Site who completed a special duty assignment with the FBI during MLK's "Hay Day" and rolling in the Hay was one of his specialities, not to mention his close ties with the C*******t Party and Stanley Levison who essentially wrote all of his speeches!!!
It has always amazed me how our leaders pick our heros! I actually worked for a Navy Retired Captain on the Nevada Test Site who completed a special duty assignment with the FBI during MLK's "Hay Day" and rolling in the Hay was one of his specialities, not to mention his close ties with the C*******t Party and Stanley Levison who essentially wrote all of his speeches!!!
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