Happy MLK Day
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr Day.
What a great message - wish we had more peaceful protestors today. Our company honors today with a company holiday and the kids are home from school.
Heading to Midtown Atlanta for lunch at my buddy's restaurant. What's your day look like?
January 16th, 2017 at 8:05 AM ^
get these type of days off. Happy MLK day everyone, he was a great man
January 16th, 2017 at 10:48 AM ^
I'm at work as well. Can I accuse my employer of being a bigot because I don't have it off?
January 16th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
At that time, MLK shared the same holiday there with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Felt a slight bit awkward.
January 17th, 2017 at 8:46 AM ^
What the hell did they call that day?
January 16th, 2017 at 8:09 AM ^
Yes, happy MLK day. His message of non violence was great.
I'm off today, the Wifey is working. I am taking my 25 pound killer Dachshund mix to the Vet. I'm wearing a M football shirt. Maybe my bill will be 3-9 dollars.
January 16th, 2017 at 8:10 AM ^
Then off to get some "Black Hog BBQ." They have the best Memphis style ribs and jalapeño mac-n-cheese.
January 16th, 2017 at 8:47 AM ^
Where's that at? I assume you aren't in Memphis.
January 16th, 2017 at 9:32 AM ^
in downtown Milford is very good, reasonably priced, IMO. Just FYI for anyone interested. After dinner, head south to River's Edge Brewery.
January 16th, 2017 at 8:35 AM ^
We get today off, so I am still sort of basking in the post-wakeup haze....as I woke up only about a half hour ago. It just rare for me to be able to get up at 8 AM on a Monday, so I am enjoying that little bit of the day first, also being in no hurry to eat breakfast. I'll probably go for a nice run later, and it won't be because I am running from a meeting.
January 16th, 2017 at 9:21 AM ^
Went out last night to discover frozen sidewalks.
January 16th, 2017 at 8:41 AM ^
and my kids have school.
January 16th, 2017 at 8:59 AM ^
since you're in Russia
January 16th, 2017 at 9:22 AM ^
yeah, civil rights don't quite have the same meaning over here
January 16th, 2017 at 9:23 AM ^
Plus, he's super busy. Running one large country while controlling the president of another must be just work, work, work! :-D
January 16th, 2017 at 9:27 AM ^
you'd be surprised how easy it is, actually
January 16th, 2017 at 10:49 AM ^
....but how do you make the time to do the SNL skits?
January 16th, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^
by fauxmo
January 16th, 2017 at 10:09 AM ^
With a name like FauxMo, what did you expect? FYI, the weather in Belgrade is excellent today. 42 degrees and as gray as the Grade D meat my mother will boil later this afternoon...
January 16th, 2017 at 10:37 AM ^
Yeah, I bet that Russia has Obama's REAL birth certificate, since that was a valid story that didn't take up several years to placate a bunch of idiots...
January 16th, 2017 at 10:44 AM ^
You sound pissed. Like there is just a steady stream of anger coming out of you. (FYI, these jokes are going to be golden for the next 4 years. I expect to shower people with them whenever possible. And I can do it, because I'm a whizz at this sort of thing...)
January 16th, 2017 at 11:34 AM ^
I see what you did there.
January 16th, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^
You're asking me to believe that we have state called "Hawai'i" that is a beautiful island paradise in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? I don't believe you.
January 16th, 2017 at 11:07 AM ^
"Whoa, slow down there, maestro. There's a NEW Mexico???" ~C. Montgomery Burns
January 16th, 2017 at 8:41 AM ^
Incredible figure. If you haven't already, I would recommend that everyone read some of MLK's writings/addressesbeyond his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is great. I'd also recommend his writings that show the breadth of his thinking and his emphasis that racial equality and other forms of human rights were related. One example is his April 1967 speech condeming the Vietnam War; another is "Testament of Hope," which I believed was published after he died in 1968.
January 16th, 2017 at 8:57 AM ^
Part of what made MLK so great was that, contrary to popular belief, he was a pretty radical dude.
He was arrested over 30 times while protesting believing, "One has a moral responsiblility to disobey unjust laws."
He called on U.S. leaders to scale down militarism, to form a multiracial working class coalition and to combat poverty.
"Everyone is worrying about the long hot summer with its threat of riots. We had a long cold winter when little was done about the conditions that create riots," King said in June 1967.
King was a Democratic Socialist who preached about resistance and strength as much as he preached about love. But many of these qulities have been sanitized out of history.
Link: http://mashable.com/2016/01/18/martin-luther-king-jr-quotes/#X8h3zQJ5KSqj
January 16th, 2017 at 9:16 AM ^
Yep--the public memory of King tends to emphasize him as a moderate figure. He really wasn't--he demanded an end to segregation, which is now uncontroversial and accepted by a large majority of Americans. But he also insisted that the government had an obligation to end other forms of inequality, including economic inequality. And he called the United States government "clearly . . . the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." Those views are less popular and tend to be ignored.
I have mixed feelings about our "sanitized" view of King--I really wish more people would be aware of his more "radical" views, but I also recognize that such knowledge could make him a less popular figure.
January 16th, 2017 at 9:21 AM ^
Every famous person has an untold side.
I can understand why he embraced the radicalism, but he clearly was not fully aware of the destructive tendencies of radicalism. It was a moral blind spot of his.
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January 16th, 2017 at 9:30 AM ^
you can't improve society without breaking a few eggs, or something like that
January 16th, 2017 at 9:46 AM ^
Revolution is not a dinner party.
Except, of course, when it actually is a dinner party <LINK>
January 16th, 2017 at 9:53 AM ^
The PRC might be in for some serious unrest if/when the rural poor realize this kind of thing is happening.
January 16th, 2017 at 12:34 PM ^
of an unregulated capitalist / libertarian economic system (massive wealth disparity, environmental catastrophe, tragic working conditions and huge economic swings), with the worst of a Soviet style govenmental system (lack of freedom of speech, protest, religion, press etc).
The current systems will eventually correct themselves. When they do I hope it looks more like 1989 Berlin than 2016 Venezuela plus nukes.
January 16th, 2017 at 12:52 PM ^
The geriatric kleptocracy in Beijing is betting that the assumption of an eventual "correction" is incorrect and just another product of the relationship between capital and the state in bourgeois society. And at this point, almost 30 years after Tiananmen, who's to say they are wrong? I spend a bit of time in China every year, and I bet most Chinese would say they would rather have a butler than the right to vote for someone not chosen by the party.
January 16th, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
both the thoughts of the Chinese leadership and the tradeoffs the butler-hiring Chinese citizenry is willing to make, I wonder how the Chinese butlers feel about the arrangement. I don't know what the actual rate of Chinese growth is, but whatever it is it doesn't seem sustainable. Without that growth the economic opportunities available to its poor citizens dies and, I think, their willingness to live in an authoritarian system dies with it.
We shall see.
January 16th, 2017 at 9:52 AM ^
What does that mean? His embracing of radicalism was a moral blind spot? He turned to more radical means because like all of the civil rights activists before him, he learned that the true liberation of black folk won't come using the masters tools.
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January 16th, 2017 at 12:28 PM ^
Radicalism is responsible for tens of millions
of deaths. That he failed to see how dangerous radicalism is was the moral blind spot.
That you and others cannot see it is further proof of just how blind much of our society is towards the destructive consequences of radical action.
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January 16th, 2017 at 12:42 PM ^
Um, I am no radical, but I could change your quote slightly and it would be no less true, and maybe even more truthful: "Capitalism is responsible for tens of millions of death..." Don't let your ideology blind you to the evils of all sorts of different worldviews.
January 16th, 2017 at 3:52 PM ^
I am aware of that.
Ultimately, humans are responsible for these deaths. Ideology or religion is simply the excuse people use to justify their inhumanity.
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January 16th, 2017 at 11:08 AM ^
It's always a pretty good bet that if Salvatore has a take on something, it will be hot, and ridiculous.
January 16th, 2017 at 12:25 PM ^
Should you not be stalking WD or something?
When have you uttered anything more substantive than moo?
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January 16th, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^
I'm always amazed at how you frame your arguments, pretend to be knowledgeable, but are also so utterly narrow and misinformed on the subject. Try to actually think instead of devising a personal narrative that ignorantly dismisses the complexities of the subject at hand.
January 16th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
I am amazed how utterly uninformed you are.
Try to form a cogent thought. I know it is hard for thickheaded people like you. But do try. We are all pulling for you.
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January 16th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
When do I say anything substantive?
Pretty often, actually. People just like to latch on to the wd thing as a way to turn the narrative when called out. I think the fact that you're relentlessly negged pretty regularly stands on its own. My posting history is available for all to see. As is yours.
January 16th, 2017 at 3:53 PM ^
You do? Like when?
I cannot remember the last time you said something worth remembering. You seem to lack self-awareness as you are quite often neg-bombed for some inane comment you made.
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January 16th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
LOL, now you're just making things up. As I said, my posting history is there for you to peruse, should you care enough to do so. I do not.
January 16th, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^
Here comes the bullshit. Moral blind spot?
January 16th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
"Every famous person has an untold side."
Very true, and sometimes, that untold side can stay well-hidden for a long time. For example, it was only a few years ago that I learned that Abraham Lincoln had a second career as a vampire hunter.
You'd think Ken Burns would've mentioned that.
January 16th, 2017 at 9:42 AM ^
but much the same could be said for Washington, Jefferson, TR, Churcill, and Mandela. Heroic actors all who caused positive change in spite of their various imperfections.
January 16th, 2017 at 9:18 AM ^
That is not what made him great.
Radicalism has brought countless horrors to the world from Robespierre to Lenin to Mao to Castro.Radicalism is an evil.
What made King great was his ability to reach white peoples in a way no other black leader ever had. He understood that for blacks to achieve equality or at least start the journey to it he needed the majority's assistance.
Democratic Socialism is not an ideology I think much of. I'll leave it at that.
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January 16th, 2017 at 9:28 AM ^
The American Revolutionaries were radicals, plain and simple. To be sure, some more so than others (Thomas Paine at one end, G. Washington at the other). So unless you are also willing to suggest they too had a "moral blindspot," then you are using that term very selectively.
January 16th, 2017 at 10:28 AM ^
like those minority leaders of his day (and like many do today).