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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GCBill on August 12, 2011, 09:46:28 AM
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Her virtual seance (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1707829)
Sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Aug-10-11 06:23 AM
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Martin Luther King: "But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." Updated at 6:26 AM
Are the London rioters thugs or freedom fighters? It seems to depend on who you ask.
Over 45 years ago, on August 11, 1965 riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of LA. They lasted for 6 days and resulted in 34 deaths, over 1,000 injuries and resulted in over $40 million dollars worth of damage.
To some the rioters were nothing more than thugs, but to others they were a rebellion against inequality, poverty and oppression.
The similarities between what is happening in London now and what happened in Watts then are remarkable.
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So I wanted to see if Martin Luther King had spoken about the Watts riots, knowing he was against violence, I wondered what he might have said. And I'm glad I did:
"Oh great spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, speak to us, speak to us from beyond the grave and give us a sign that we can use to justify our riot lust"
"But at the same time, it is as necessary for me to be as vigorous in condemning the conditions which cause persons to feel that they must engage in riotous activities as it is for me to condemn riots. I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard."
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I am glad I read his thoughts on these issues. I think he answers the question perfectly.
Sabrina The DU Bitch has ESP - an Extra Stupid Personality
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I wonder if Sabrina realizes MLK was a republican? That would make her head spin faster than Linda Blair's in The Exorcist.
If MLK were alive today, he'd probably tell the democrats to quit acting like such fools.
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To channel George Carlin... "Fire fighters fight fires, crime fighters fight crime... so what do freedom fighters fight?"
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Further proof that even bright people can say stupid shit, DUmmies.
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There is no reason, absolutely none, for a sixteen or eighteen year old kid of sound mind and body in a modern western society to feel so "oppressed" or "hopeless" that they see their only solution is to run around looting, breaking and burning shit. You can't tell me that level of despair has accumulated to that point in someone of that age. Every teenager suffers a certain degree of angst, but nothing that condones this behavior or even explains it.
Someone of that age, with their entire lives in front of them and that sense of immortality and excitement common to the young, and all the possibilities that entails? These aren't people who are starving. They're not living in alleyways. They haven't spent years of their life in a political prison. They're not old enough to have been knocked down repeatedly by life's misfortunes. They haven't spent decades working only to lose it all to some catastrophe or other. The vast majority of them don't have the slightest inkling about politics beyond some spray-painted grafitti they've seen on a wall.
No. You can wax poetic and quote the freedom fighters and philosophers of the past all you want. These are not hopeless, beaten down urchins, nobly rising up against their oppressors. They're a bunch of spoiled little entitlement-minded pissants, much like the typical DUer him- or herself, who saw an opportunity to snatch a handful of something that belongs to someone else and crap on what was left behind out of pure spite and wanton lust for chaos. **** them and **** anyone at DU who tries to legitimize this as some kind of cry for help.
DUers just like to see shit busted up. They're antisocial and anti-society that way, and since they're too gutless to take it upon themselves to act on it, they like to applaud and live vicariously through the acts of nimrods like the ones they're now "empathizing with" in England.
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I wonder if Sabrina realizes MLK was a republican? That would make her head spin faster than Linda Blair's in The Exorcist.
If MLK were alive today, he'd probably tell the democrats to quit acting like such fools.
If MLK were alive today, he'd probably tell the democrats to get off of their lazy ass and go to work.
The entitlement class are perpetual two year olds. Incapable of doing anything for themselves.
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If MLK were alive today, he'd probably tell the democrats to get off of their lazy ass and go to work.
If he were alive today, he'd be a socialist race hustler just like Sharpton and The Reverend Jackson.
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If MLK were alive today, he'd probably tell the democrats to get off of their lazy ass and go to work.
The entitlement class are perpetual two year olds. Incapable of doing anything for themselves.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E[/youtube]
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The Youth Ambassador to the 2012 Olympics (presumably) speaks about the riots (https://www.facebook.com/people/Chelsea-Chinksz-Ives/776392700?sk=wall)
(http://edaht.com/images/Chelsea_Ives_Mad_Riot.jpg)
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(http://edaht.com/images/Chelsea_Ives_Riot_Kool.jpg)
A true hero of the working classes
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There is no reason, absolutely none, for a sixteen or eighteen year old kid of sound mind and body in a modern western society to feel so "oppressed" or "hopeless" that they see their only solution is to run around looting, breaking and burning shit.
Therein lies the key phrase.
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I don't believe in ghost or spirits but for the DUmmies and those that do, I have a question. Is MLK's ghost black or white?
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blabajabba rubbasmujah?
Is that English?
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blabajabba rubbasmujah?
Is that English?
And WE'RE supposed to be the ones mangling the English language?
A proud ambassador to the world of sport that one is. She will do them proud in the diplomatic corps one day.
"All I care about is money and the city that I’m from I’ma sip until I feel it, I’ma smoke it till it’s done And I don’t really give a f-ck, and my excuse is that I’m young And I’m only getting older so somebody shoulda told ya I’m on one" - Chelsea 'Chinksz' Ives