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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 156034" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p>As I would state about yours. You can't seperate the man from what he represented. He represents a man of color who led his people out of a time of extreme discrimination. Now you can try to sell the color blind theme to whomever will listen to your rantings and ravings but the fact is he didn't lead the whites away from oppression they had every thing. Martin luther kings day is not only a celebration of a color blind society but its a test as to whether whites will let a man of color be honored the way white leadership has been honored. His day is a test as to whether we who are white can suppress the last vestige of racism and let a man of color have his well deserved day. Whether you want to throw racism into the mix or not is totally irrelevant. A man of color will look at MLK's birthday as his day to celebrate his heritage and his release from oppression. Its his day to celebrate a freedom he had been denied many years solely because he happened to be born non-white. Whites try to somehow suppress this thought by pointing out MLK's vision of a color blind society. This is meant to neutralize the point we gave a black man a national holiday and your pointing to this concept reeks of racism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 156034, member: 1912"] As I would state about yours. You can't seperate the man from what he represented. He represents a man of color who led his people out of a time of extreme discrimination. Now you can try to sell the color blind theme to whomever will listen to your rantings and ravings but the fact is he didn't lead the whites away from oppression they had every thing. Martin luther kings day is not only a celebration of a color blind society but its a test as to whether whites will let a man of color be honored the way white leadership has been honored. His day is a test as to whether we who are white can suppress the last vestige of racism and let a man of color have his well deserved day. Whether you want to throw racism into the mix or not is totally irrelevant. A man of color will look at MLK's birthday as his day to celebrate his heritage and his release from oppression. Its his day to celebrate a freedom he had been denied many years solely because he happened to be born non-white. Whites try to somehow suppress this thought by pointing out MLK's vision of a color blind society. This is meant to neutralize the point we gave a black man a national holiday and your pointing to this concept reeks of racism. [/QUOTE]
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