“Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
What a shame that in a
nation of laws and equality one can find race baiting as a sport reaching new
highs or lows depending on your perspective.
The Zimmerman trial in Florida in which a jury
dismissed all charges against the defendant, George Zimmerman, ruling
self-defense, has demonstrated once again how some American traditions
transcend politics, time and truth.
“I have decided to stick to love...Hate
is too great a burden to bear.”
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Race baiting, that age old
practice of proving people are inherently prejudiced even when they are not, is
alive and well.
You notice, I trust, that
I did not mention discrimination or equal opportunity because while I believe
we have made great progress in our history, we are far from a society when
there is only one race, mankind.
"Life's
most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
When you have cottage
industries whose purpose seems to be more oriented toward prolonging race
hatred, and inciting repressed fears, than helping society as a whole work to
eliminate racism against everyone, you still have a problem.
"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Here in America there
are two distinct groups who never hesitate to use race baiting for their own
purposes. There are the so called
advocates of an issue, those self-appointed mouth pieces for the invisible
oppressed and repressed Americans.
These are the parasites
who feed off parasites, grasping at any straw in the wind, no matter how remote
from the truth it may be, in order to prolong their own interests like
foundations, fund raising, consulting fees, kickbacks and the other benefits of
the great American machine of capitalism.
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Did I forget to mention
the chauffeured limousines available to them, private jets on loan, significant
tax deductible donations to their favorite charity? What about the thousands of dollars in
honorarium fees for speaking and the seven course gourmet dinner parties to
help the super rich learn about the hatred and fear they missed in their
finishing schools?
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
These people have often
taken extremely worthwhile causes and hijacked them for their own purposes. The pioneers of the American Civil Rights
movement, people like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave their lives to help
wipe out racism and hatred. Today's so
called leaders use racism and fear to turn people against people. They bring shame to the memory and work of such
martyrs.
As for the parasites the
parasites feed off of, they are the media, whether mainstream, main street,
network, cable, Internet, wire service virtual, blogs or just plain stupid.
"When
we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet,
from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all
of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and
Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old
spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at
last."
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Back in the 1960's when
Civil Rights had a cause and purpose, the most radical advocates for and
against the civil rights movement were known as hate mongers and even bomb throwers. But they did throw bullets and bombs.
Today's mouthpieces,
whether from the special interests out to protect their special interest or the
lawyers who created all the victim's non-profit funds that seem to pay huge
salaries to lawyers to watch over the money to the media.
"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Ah the media. The only parasite class to give up all
pretense of hiding the truth behind some sanctimonious purpose of serving the
higher good. No more lies about being
"objective", "unbiased" or "truthful".
Today the media serves
many masters and the truth is not one of them.
First and foremost in the media mind is corporate profits and profits
only come from ratings in television and lies on the Internet.
It is in the best interest
of the media ratings that all things good fail, all laws are subject to
ridicule, any old storm must be transformed into a major natural disaster in
the making, and sex sells.
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate
him.”
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
The more the public is
upset the higher the ratings and the more opportunity to exploit hapless
victims and their families and the more victims trust funds can be created.
Of course thanks to the
media packaging of trials and the public response to jury and court rulings,
the on camera reporters are so lame, apparently, that they need all kinds of bogus
"experts" beside them to help hype the lies being spun to gain more
viewers, higher ratings, and more advertising revenue.
Why have the very
institutions whose people helped bring well deserved recognition to Dr. King
now employed people and tactics that have sold out the very principles Dr. King
stood for in the name of racial equality?
“Now there is a final reason I think
that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has
within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually
transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep
loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in
the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a
little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the
power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see.
It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love
that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down
and is destructive. So love your enemies.
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Fear and hatred empower
racism and no one advocates fear and hatred more than the parasites who use
human capital to make money. They share
the Greed Masters Hall of Infamy in American culture.
Did you know that the
Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights movement,
has named 31 people as martyrs in
the civil rights history of America. Of the 31 there were 8, or 25%, who were
white ranging from housewives to ministers to college students to plain old
people.
Here is a sampling of the
martyrs who gave their lives for others.
Southern Poverty
Law Center
Civil Rights Martyrs
May 7, 1955 · Belzoni,
Mississippi
Rev. George Lee, one of the first black people registered
to vote in Humphreys
County, used his pulpit
and his printing press to urge others to vote. White officials offered Lee
protection on the condition he end his voter registration efforts, but Lee
refused and was murdered.
September 30, 1962 · Oxford, Mississippi
Paul Guihard, a reporter for a French news service, was killed by gunfire
from a white mob during protests over the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.
April 23, 1963 · Attalla, AlabamaWilliam Lewis Moore, a postman from Baltimore, was shot and killed during a
one-man march against segregation. Moore had
planned to deliver a letter to the governor of Mississippi urging an end to tolerance.
June 12, 1963 · Jackson, Mississippi
Medgar Evers, who directed NAACP operations in Mississippi,
was leading a campaign for integration in Jackson
when he was shot and killed by a sniper at his home.
September 15, 1963 · Birmingham, Alabama
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were
getting ready for church services when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street
Baptist Church,
killing all four of the school-age girls. The church had been a center for
civil rights meetings and marches.
April 7, 1964 · Cleveland, OhioRev. Bruce Klunder was among civil rights activists who protested the
building of a segregated school by placing their bodies in the way of
construction equipment. Klunder was crushed to death when a bulldozer backed
over him.
June 21, 1964 · Philadelphia, Mississippi
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Henry Schwerner, young civil
rights workers, were arrested by a deputy sheriff and then released into the
hands of Klansmen who had plotted their murders. They were shot, and their
bodies were buried in an earthen dam.
March 11, 1965 · Selma, Alabama
Rev. James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston,
was among many white clergymen who joined the Selma
marchers after the attack by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus
Bridge. Reeb was beaten
to death by white men while he walked down a Selma street.
March 25, 1965 · Selma Highway, Alabama
Viola Gregg Liuzzo, a housewife and mother from Detroit,
drove alone to Alabama to help with the Selma march after seeing televised reports of the attack
at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
She was driving marchers back to Selma from Montgomery when she was
shot and killed by a Klansmen in a passing car.
June 10, 1966 · Natchez, Mississippi
Ben Chester White, who had worked most of his life as a caretaker on a
plantation, had no involvement in civil rights work. He was murdered by
Klansmen who thought they could divert attention from a civil rights march by
killing a black person.
February 8, 1968 · Orangeburg, South Carolina
Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr., Delano Herman Middleton and
Henry Ezekial Smith were shot and killed by police who fired on student
demonstrators at the South Carolina State College campus.
April 4, 1968 · Memphis, Tennessee
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister, was a
major architect of the Civil Rights Movement. He led and inspired major
non-violent desegregation campaigns, including those in Montgomery
and Birmingham.
He won the Nobel peace prize. He was
assassinated as he prepared to lead a demonstration in Memphis.
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| Viola Liuzzo family |
"I
want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Definition of COTTAGE INDUSTRY
1. an industry whose labor force consists of
family units or individuals working at home with their own equipment
2.
a small and often
informally organized industry
3.
a limited but enthusiastically pursued
activity or subject cottage
industry for feminist academics — Wendy Kaminer
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