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Mar 19, 2010, 08:07 PM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 5,518
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Originally Posted by AAAAA
Kathy this is where you and I divide. I think the ONLY way we’ll be able to fix this problem is to follow Martin’s teachings. Violence, hate and discontent only beget the same. He had it right. It makes me very sad that he wasn’t able to continue with his work. Humanity lost a lot on April 4, 1968. We celebrate his birthday, but ignore his message.
We need to LEARN from history and correct those mistakes. It only turns people off to be blamed for something they had NO control over. Every single culture in the world has committed horrible acts; America is not unique in this. I cannot change the past; I can only educate my children so that they will never partake in this type of behavior and stand up if/when they see it and say “I will not tolerate this.”
In my opinion, until we can let go of the resentment from the past we cannot move forward. I’m not saying forget or even forgive, but to judge for yourself from this second on. If/when discrimination and racism occurs SCREAM it from the mountain tops, hold people accountable.
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I absolutely agree with you. I'm not referring to the hatred of the past. I'm referring to the hatred and bigotry I'm watching today. Lecturing people about MLK hasn't worked. Passing Civil Rights laws hasn't worked. Killing each other hasn't worked. Sweeping it under the rug doesn't work. Skirting the issue with lies and deception doesn't work. 
Example: In today's news, a high school teacher in Rhode Island hung an effigy of President Obama upside down in his classroom. He was fired as punishment. Another "isolated incident." How do we prevent things like this from happening again, and again, and again?
Bigots refuse to LEARN. How do you make them learn? You can't hear me SCREAMING from the mountain top here?  I can't do this all by myself. 
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