White moderates always asking “but what about me and my immediate priorities?” when people want to continue their long ongoing fight for minority rights, the instant they feel threatened by the same fascist state that had been targeting minorities for decades.
I was referring to MLK’s thoughts on white moderates’ tendency to hijack/coopt civil rights activism and neuter it, not to anything he might have said about open borders (which he opposed afaik).
First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”
You’re talking shit about people who have been fighting fascism on the streets for years if not decades and asking how they benefit the fight that you just joined once it started targeting people like you.
I completely agree with you, but the 3/5 compromise is a completely different thing. It was about states getting electoral college votes, not black people getting rights.
White moderates always asking “but what about me and my immediate priorities?” when people want to continue their long ongoing fight for minority rights, the instant they feel threatened by the same fascist state that had been targeting minorities for decades.
Every time without fail.
MLK was right.
MLK never advocated for open borders. It’s a bastardization of his statement to dismiss all but the most radical positions on any issue.
I was referring to MLK’s thoughts on white moderates’ tendency to hijack/coopt civil rights activism and neuter it, not to anything he might have said about open borders (which he opposed afaik).
That’s what I figured but I assumed, given the thread, that you were applying it to open borders. I apparently assumed wrong.
How do you think you’re helping your endgame friend? Did MLK ask for anything more than what was possible at the time?
You’re talking shit about people who have been fighting fascism on the streets for years if not decades and asking how they benefit the fight that you just joined once it started targeting people like you.
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“Freeing slaves just isn’t realistic. How about letting them out for fresh air first? How about a 3/5 compromise? Ridiculous”
I completely agree with you, but the 3/5 compromise is a completely different thing. It was about states getting electoral college votes, not black people getting rights.
I honestly don’t know if you’re using this as an example of something you think is realistic, or more difficult than open borders.
It’s a pretty clear hurdle to open borders
Closed borders are a hurdle to harmony!
Yes. Namely, the dissolution of the capitalist system.
He specifically talked about the tranquilizing drug of gradualism in his most famous speech.