Discrimination is alive and well in the northeast…
And has been for well over 50 years, except today it is acceptable!
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office reportedly mistakenly sent an email invite Tuesday to white officials on City Council for an event intended exclusively for “electeds of color,” a.k.a. non-white representatives. The event coordinator in the Wu administration, who had made the mistake, has since clarified that the inclusion of City Hall’s white councilors was an “accident.”
Full article, HERE.
Anybody wanna bet there will be a separate event for the white representatives?
IMHO, it is truly sad to see everything Martin Luther King was trying to overcome being purposefully dismantled…
From his 1963 I have a Dream speech-
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of slaves, who had been seared in the flames of whithering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the colored America is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the colored American is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
One hundred years later, the colored American lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the colored American is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our Nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our great republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given its colored people a bad check, a check that has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice.
We have also come to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is not time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.
Now it the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
Now it the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God’s children.
I would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of it’s colored citizens. This sweltering summer of the colored people’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hope that the colored Americans needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.
There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the colored citizen is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
We cannot be satisfied as long as the colored person’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.
We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “for white only.”
We cannot be satisfied as long as a colored person in Mississippi cannot vote and a colored person in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of your trials and tribulations. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our modern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you, my friends, we have the difficulties of today and tomorrow.
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day out in the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father’s died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!”
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi and every mountainside.
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.”
Now, today, everything is about racism or denigrating one group or another (Jewish/Israelis down, Hamass up)…
Granted I’m an old man, who grew up in the South, but I also spent over 20 years in the military where skin color didn’t matter, just your work ethic and ability to do your job and another 23 years working as a government contractor. Bottom line, there are good and bad in ANY ethnic group anywhere in the world.
I have always treated anyone I met with respect and expected to be met the same way. Guess I’m an odd ball…
I’m old enough to have heard that speech then. And even now, all these years later, it makes my pulse quicken. I sometimes wonder what Dr. King would say to the race hustlers of today. I have the mental image of Jesus driving the money lenders from the Temple.
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I have no problem with anyone who chooses to associate or congregate with their own “tribe”. They shouldn’t, however, then get their panties in a twist when others do the same. You can’t preach a colorblind society, but only for some. That ways lies internecine strife and civil war as some become second class citizens, with rights reserved for the favored few.
I grew up in in a lower middle class family that was poor when I was born. I was born 6 years after my brother and 8 years after my sister in the late 50s. We lived in a suburb of Los Angeles that was equally split between White, Mexican, and Asian and there was no racism.
When each of us graduated HS we were shown the door. My Sister went to college in AZ where my folks are from and my grandparents lived. My brother was drafted and went to Vietnam and stayed in the Army. I was shown the door when I graduated HS in 75 and went to work for the phone company to live and pay for college.
I ended up working in the Black Slums of South Central LA on a multiracial crew with a Black supervisor. The area was very dangerous and there was daily shootings and weekly killings. This was the first time I felt racism from the locals. The area was still bad from the Watts Riots in the 60s and did not have much, Black on Black crime was the worst, and Black crime to other races was the next worst. Me and all of my crew was attacked and my supervisor was shot.
I stopped working that area when I finished college. I have seen that Blacks are more racists then other races in America. I have grown up and worked with various races and found it to be that way. I have also worked in the West, in Northern Virginia, and in the South. I find DC and Northern Virginia worst then the South.
It is truly tragic that Dr. King’s dream lies in tatters today — not to mention some of JFK’s dreams along much the same lines. But it is not surprising. For most people — and almost all the political establishment, not just in this country but everywhere, it is all about ME and all about power, and any wheeze which will accomplish that will do. This is nothing new…
This is one of the next methods of dividing the population into hostile factions, after that darn capitalism worked too well.
Mike- Agreed!
Hereso- That is a key point.
JG- Thank you for sharing your story. Everyone of us ‘sees’ things differently based on our life experiences. And yes, DC/NOVA suck!
Ian- Concur.
Ritchie- Point!
Critical theory scholars are propagandists working on behalf of a government faction. That faction wants the rule of law diminished, in hope of riding ‘rule of men’ into their glorious thousand year reich of uninhibited jollies obtained by harming others.
They basically combine an autistic like belief that rules exist as independent things, with a narc like obsession with causing others to suffer, and using everything as a tool to inflict suffering to feed that craving. Their theories of ‘power’ and ‘systemic’ behavior are basically delusion mostly divorced from the realities of human behavior.
Critical theory scholars, and activists purporting to represent groups, actually represent only themselves and their paymasters.
CRT scholar-activists make two major claims. One is effectively that there can be no peace between white and black. The second is that they represent blacks.
Basically, in general most people are not doing anywhere near enough iterations of the ‘missing murders’ analysis.
If American blacks truly all believed themselves at war with whites, there would be more killings, killings that we do not see.
CRT folks are maybe that crazy, but they do not speak at all for ‘blacks’.
I reject the second claim of the CRT scholar-activists. I do this as part of rejecting the first claim.
Also, JFK was a monster. The opposition to white supremacist terrorism was mostly an invention by later hagiographers. If we were playing fair with the ‘remove symbols of white supremacy from public land’, his ‘eternal’ memorial would be gone from federal land.
The parties did not ‘switch places’, and the continuity in Democratic Parties is kinda important to understanding why the modern ‘anti-racist’ Democrats were so willing to get their hands dirty with a terrorism campaign in 2020 that is objectively white supremacist terrorism.
The international socialists talk a fancy game about opposing national socialism, which they define as being different because the national socialists are fixated on race. The problem for them is that American political fights are often divided between two big-tent factions. So, if the NSDAP and the Italian fascists being national socialists taints the symbols of those parties forever, and makes it impossible for any decent human being to support anyone who would use those symbols, would not the same apply to a native American national socialist organization?
After WWII, an American xenophobe who wants to promote US nationalist politics of whatever flavor of left bogeyman has no need to use the symbols of a loser political party that is foreign. FDR’s Democratic Party was a home for both the international socialists, and for the national socialists of America. No one ambitious in American politics has any pretense of clean hands according to the criteria of the international socialists.
The communists will continue pretending that their current revolution’s ‘takeover’ by ‘fascists’ was not largely the doing of the same ‘true communism has never been tried’ communists who are going to continue screwing up their plans for the foreseeable future.
People willing to live in peace with one another will continue to do so, and mostly filter out the left theorists as noise.
One must wonder if this CC to All was a Freudian slip or a deliberate middle finger.
Bob- Good points
Dan- One wonders…
White staffers should have crashed the party and forced her to call police to have them removed.
Gregg- Interesting idea…
Preach it, Mr. NFO.