Re: Israel president greets al-Asad, Khatami
Malcolm X didn’t use violence either. But his way of thinking was profoundly different from MLK’s. Malcolm was absolutely correct when he called MLK “the white man’s dog”.
Re: Israel president greets al-Asad, Khatami
MOA240 how much do you really know about MLK anyways?
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What about MLK? His adulterous character, his communist leanings, or the fact that he usually plagiarized his speeches including his "I Have a Dream" speech? Or are you talking about the Southern black church/civil rights movement he led whose primary goal was integration and appeasement of the white man?
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MLK was the leader was a Nobel Prize winner who was instrumental in ending segregation and pasing the Voting Rights Act. His peaceful teachings were inspired by the King of Peace, advocating on behalf of the poor and social injustice and against the Vietnam war. His actions are much more responsible for the political, social and economics success blacks have achieved than Malcom X who was a thug, drug addict and thief who preached separatism and hate.
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Malcolm X never preached hate. He WAS a thug, pimp, and among other things, went to jail and cleaned himself. He will always be a much greater inspiration to blacks, because Martin made blacks ashamed to be black, whereas Malcolm made blacks proud of being black.
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Dude, you have NO clue. What a shock that is!
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^ LOL great response, Seminole. 
Is it hard for you to fathom that MLK was a little sh!t? Got any more pearls of wisdom? And by the way Arafat also won the Nobel Peace Prize, so that award doesn’t mean jack.
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They would be wasted and I’ve already wasted enough time here. I don’t have time to play with children, I’m off to more challenging ventures. 
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^ righty-ho. cya in cafe then.
Re: Israel president greets al-Asad, Khatami
How gracious of you to accept defeat. Bye bye loser
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Grow up MOA, you have ended this discussion with your quote above.
Re: Israel president greets al-Asad, Khatami
This is a little something for all you MLK lovers:
Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human Rights vs Civil Rights
For a radicalism of human rights
BY TARU TAYLOR | GADFLY – February 12, 2004
http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2004-02-12/opinions/13674
Everybody knows that Malcolm X was radical and that the Rev. Dr. King was not, but it’s usually for the wrong reason. Most agree with that statement because one advocated self-defense while the other turned the other cheek, as if the dialectic between the two greatest philosophers of the last half-century could come down to something as petty as “Kill whitey!” vs. “Love thy neighbor.” White and black bourgeois fearful of black power have caricatured these heroes as mere icons of the violence vs. non-violence controversy. We must see beyond that red herring to their true African-American dialectic — human rights vs. civil rights.
It is not a question of either-or, human rights or civil rights. Each is a concentric circle of justice, with civil rights as the inner circle and human rights as the outer circle. Here, civil rights are particular, specific to the United States of America. Human rights are universal, general to every human being. Since 1776, civil rights have been the North American Caucasian’s by birthright. Since 1965, they have been the North American Negro’s by an act of Congress. **The Declaration of Independence is the white man’s holy writ of freedom. The black man’s is the Voting Rights Act. **
It is the Rev. Dr. King’s crowning achievement. When he got former President Lyndon Johnson to sign it in 1965, he got him to establish the basis for Negro civil rights. It expires in 2007. Thus, the Negro’s civil rights here, based on his right to vote, are provisional. Former President Ronald Reagan amended the act in 1982. Will the 38 states required to pass it in 2007 renew it for another 25 years? Better yet, how great was the Rev. Dr. King’s crusade for civil rights when at its very culmination he negotiated the Negro’s right to vote via a renewable contract? Is the civil rights movement so myopic and shortsighted that its greatest activist couldn’t see more than 25 years ahead?
Every 25 years, Uncle Sam decides the civil fate of several million Negroes. Every 25 years, Negroes must ask the white man yet again for permission to vote. Uncle Sam is arbiter of his freedom, his dignity, his “somebodiness.”
The Rev. Dr. King christened Marginal Man,] “somebody”–] and had Johnson sign his/“Sombody’s”] life away to an existence along 25-year margins. [This] “Somebody” [Marginal Man] lives wholly within the periphery of North America as a minority, on the superficial level of civil rights, a quarter-century at a time.
Malcolm X’s “Original Man” lives on the radical level of human rights. He is part and parcel of the Negro majority living in Africa and all over the Pan-African world. His human rights go back to Osiris. More immediately, his human rights go back to the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
Civil rights are Uncle Sam’s prerogative to give or to renew or not. But human rights are every man’s birthright. Malcolm X was radical and the Rev. Dr. King was not, because human rights are radical and civil rights are not. “Radical,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, means “forming the root, basis, or foundation; original, primary.” Human rights are the root and foundation of civil rights.
Like Dorothy and her friends as supplicants of the Wizard of Oz, the Rev. Dr. King and his fellow civil rights activists are supplicants of Uncle Sam. The former asked the wizard for brains, heart, courage and a ticket back to Kansas. The latter asked Uncle Sam for civil rights as a token of “somebodiness.”
Malcolm X saw Uncle Sam not as a savior, but as a criminal. Whereas the Rev. Dr. King saw Uncle Sam as the standard-bearer of justice, Malcolm X more circumspectly saw the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights as the standard. He threatened to take Uncle Sam to trial before the U.N. tribunal for his crimes against Negro humanity, namely slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Tragically, he was assassinated. In the aftermath, Rev. Dr. King, like Esau, sold out our birthright for civil rights on a 25-year lease.
Such is the renewable legacy of our great civil rights activist. But the radical legacy of our great human rights advocate is for all time, for all human beings.
*So this supposedly great leader couldn’t even get the white man to give the Negro full rights **UNCONDITIONALLY? *Some leader. No wonder white people love this ingrate.
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Sorry MOD the article you posted is full of falsehoods, go back and do some more homework.
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what are these falsehoods you speak of? can you disprove each of them. you obviously cannot. can you safely say that the voting rights act does not expire in 2007? it is clearly you who needs to educate himself.
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So in your opinion, men who cheat on thier wives with prostitutes are not little shi!ts?
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In no way does the right to vote ever expire.
The article you posted states that
“Every 25 years, Negroes must ask the white man yet again for permission to vote”
That is a bold face lie.
From the U.S. Department of Justice…
The Department of Justice has received numerous inquiries concerning a rumor that has been intermittently circulating around the nation for many months. According to this rumor, the Voting Rights Act will expire in 2007, and as a result African Americans are in danger of losing the right to vote in that year.
The rumor is false. The voting rights of African Americans are guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Voting Rights Act, and those guarantees are permanent and do not expire.
Here is a summary of relevant provisions of the Voting Rights Act:
The 15th amendment to the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibit racial discrimination in voting. Under the 15th amendment and the Voting Rights Act no one may be denied the right to vote because of his or her race or color.
These prohibitions against racial discrimination in voting are permanent; they do not expire.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted at a time when for decades in some areas of the South blacks had not been permitted to vote, and blacks who attempted to register to vote or to organize or assist others to attempt to register to vote risked losing their jobs, their homes, even their lives.
To combat this situation Congress included in the Voting Rights Act – in addition to permanent provisions banning racial discrimination – special provisions containing extraordinary remedies that applied in certain areas of the nation for a limited time period.
Among these extraordinary remedies are–
the authorization of the U.S. Attorney General to send federal registrars (examiners) to register voters, in counties where the local registrar refuses to register blacks. [Section 6, 42 U.S.C. § 1973d]
the authorization of the U.S. Attorney General to send federal observers to monitor elections, to make sure that blacks who are eligible to vote are actually permitted to vote, and that their votes are actually counted. [Section 8, 42 U.S.C. § 1973f]
the requirement that specially covered jurisdictions gain the approval of the U.S. Attorney General before implementing new voting practices or procedures, to make sure that any voting changes that they make are not racially discriminatory. [Section 5, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c]
These special provisions containing extraordinary remedies were intended to be of limited duration. They were originally scheduled to expire in 1970, but they were extended in 1970, and again in 1975 and 1982. They are now scheduled to expire in 2007, if not further extended.
Even if the special provisions are allowed to expire, they can be reinstated by court order if there is a renewal of discriminatory practices.
The basic prohibition against discrimination in voting contained in the 15th amendment and in the Voting Rights Act does not expire in 2007 – it does not expire at all; it is permanent.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/misc/clarify3.htm
Re: Israel president greets al-Asad, Khatami
What he did is between him and his wife. To be man is to have faults and no I don’t judge people as sh1ts for having faults.
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They still have to renew it according to the ACLU. Why are there numerous stories on the news about lawmakers getting ready to renew it then? And be that as it may, Malcolm is still a much greater leader, visionary and role model than MLK. MLK's legacy is nothing more than a renewable piece of legislation, he couldn't even win his people's basic human rights.
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They do not have to and are not renewing anyones right to vote, that is a guarantee right that cannot be taken away.
As far as your comments about Malcolm being better than King, what can I say, I like red peppers you like brazilian peppers.
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Well I guess the ACLU and the media makes a big fuss about nothing huh?
But there are three provisions that should be renewed:
- A requirement that states with a documented history of discriminatory voting practices submit planned changes in their election laws or procedures to federal officials or judges for preclearance. A bipartisan Congressional report in 1982 warned that without this section, discrimination would reappear "overnight."
- Provisions that guarantee access to bilingual election materials for some Native Americans who have limited English proficiency and new citizens trying to learn the language.
- The authority to send federal examiners and observers to monitor elections