Comments on: WHAT DID HILLARY CLINTON SAY ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING?

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:08:09 +0000

Did it ever occur to anyone how much time is waisted on talking about racism.
As long as there is different shades of society there will always be signs of ignorance. I look at Obama as thee person that will prove to the world that he is the spark to get the economy back on track. I don’t care if the president is green blue or orange, just DO SOMETHING ….You know God is looking down saying i gave you this beautiful planet and this is what i get…..thanks..

Sirthanksalot

By: Nicholas Mwibawa Sii

Nicholas Mwibawa Sii — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:16:37 +0000

Hey Americans, as you vote, in November, remember the world wants you to break with the past failures of voting for war mongers who thrive on peddling fear and mistrust of everyone from the Arab world. Bush could not have secured a second and disastrous tenure without empty rhetoric about the need to protect the ‘homeland’ from terrorists and ‘evil’ men like Bin ladin and Saddam Hussein. Most of you swallowed the lies peddled by Bush and the neo-cons like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. These men thrive on fear mongering and depicting of the world as a horrible place where Americans are not safe and require ‘them’ to offer that protection at the expense of young American marines ready to be expended in this nonsensical mayhem and bloodletting. A break with the past is what America needs. As world leader, you need confidence in your place in the world community of Nations. You need to earn the respect of the world which has suffered a terrible bashing on Bush’s watch at the white House! Vote for a candidate who will steer America as far away from unneccessary and pre-emptive wars as possible. A man or woman who isn’t paranoid and egocentric as Bush is. We don’t need another cowboy demented guy in the White House! We need a diplomatic, tactiful and insightful president of the USA we can all be proud of. The stakes for the world are sky high in a US election as sizzling and exciting as the Dems race to the nominee is. Happy voting, God bless America. I love the Americans and their free ways. I will live in America soon!
Nicholas Sii, ZAMBIA.

By: Coca,

Coca, — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:25:15 +0000

I decided to revisit this issue, for the last couple of people who commented, I am happy you did. Your ignorance has lent itself to my comment. I am an American Studies major and one thing that I will say is not a single and follow me on this one, not a single president.in.American.History was and will ever be unless we are lucky, looking out for what was/is best for African Americans in this country. I like how all of you like to pile on as if you understood what Dr.King stood for. You don’t know what Dr.King stood for and you will never, unless you open your mind and realize what Dr.King had died for. If it were not for A. Phillip Randolph threatening to MARCH ON WASHINGTON the troops would have never been intergrated. However many give the credit to Roosevelt. Yes, Lincoln payed with his life but Lincoln was no friend of “the negro”. He was not for intergration or did he believe that all men were equal. There is proof of this. As a professor of mine said, “My father condemned the Holocaust but he still hated the Jews and blamed them for everything”. As for John F. Kennedy and “his idea”, if he felt strongly about it, he would have addressed it sooner. It took thousands of people and a March on Washington that could not be ignored to wake him up!! As for LBJ, I am grateful for him signing the Civil Rights Act but he wouldn’t have signed it if it were not for all the people that the insightful commentors mentioned above. All of which have been conveinently written out of history. Fannie Lou hamer had to go to the Democratic Convention and show them her pain by saying that she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired” for them to even pay attention. You guys, seem to forget how change happens and how things come about. It isnt from the top down but from the bottom up. In addition, Dr, King’s dream has not yet been fulfilled nor realized esp. with the nonsense that I see on a regular basis. Hence, for her to say that alone was a gaffe. One act!! will not stop racism from occuring nor rectify what had happened in the past. What she was trying to do was score a political cheap shot on the back of Dr. King’s legacy and that alone is a disgrace.

If you pay attention to the media, you would often hear them speak of how Senator Barack Obama is an amazing orator. The political pundits and the media have compared his oratory skills to those of JFK and Dr.King. Hence Hillary Clinton decides to take it a step further. In order to diminish the media’s praise, she decides to do,as what she still is doing, is make Obama into a “talker” and herself into a “doer” by claiming that in signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 LBJ got it done while Dr.King just…dreamed.

P.S. I was taught about racism at the age of seven when I was called a “dirty darkie” by a pizza shop owner or then it could have also been my friend’s grandmother who told me that I was not allowed in her house when she invited her granddaughter’s school friends over for cookies and milk. I was the only black person in the group. She closed the door in my face. It was winter and I was left to walk back up the school in tears so my mother could pick me up. This is the 90s i’m talking about. My parents tried to keep the issue of race and racism away from me because they knew how vicious, hurtful and defeating it is. My parents loved me too much to see me hurt. Therefore they kept it away from me. You are cold and ignorant for making such a comment that racism is something that black parents teach their kids and that it doesnt exist.

How can racism not against in the United States of America anymore but the biggest topic of discussion was and still is “Will Americans elect a black man as president?” Hyprocritical dont you think. If Dr. King’s dream was fulfilled we wouldnt be having that discussion.

By: William

William — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:37:12 +0000

God! Are you people of color racist or what? Kennedy started the Civil Rights thing. I enjoyed MLK’s speeches. They were peaceful. They were truth. Who of King’s heritage is pushing the same dream? No one on this website. You want division and segregation. Whine, whine, whine way past of the time of whining. Time to quit laying blame. People of color aren’t the only ones having a hard time. Get over your little baby racist selves and grow up!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:08:36 +0000

I still fail to understand in the U.S. today that so many people are so closed minded. People have to turn everything into a racial issue and here I thought we were all just people. This is not what Dr. King envisioned and not what he intended. He wouldn’t stand by and condone the behavior that comes from people in this country. The biggest reason that black men are victims is because they make themselves victims by turning everything that is said into a “racist” comment. I know that there are still people out there that do these things (i.e. Don Imus), however the vast majority understand otherwise. Black men and women are taught as children that they are less fortunate because of their skin color by their parents. And the press enforces this ignorance by allowing such closed mindedness to continue on the airwaves. I am sickened that this country can’t get past race and just see people.