Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did

[onpatrol98]

29. Thank you for posting!!!

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This post really helped me understand why I have been SO out of sorts with DU. The place makes me feel owned. It makes me feel SOME people think they can pick up bits and pieces of your history, your inner being, and use it wherever appropriate.

When the activist Sturtz interrupted Michelle Obama, I had a DUer tell me that had Frederick Douglas been alive he would have been MORE proud of Sturtz than Michelle Obama. Think about the privilege or insanity in believing that...

When Whitney Houston died and the speculation that she was gay was tossed around and it was discussed that it would be a good thing for the gay community if she was outed. Now, Whitney may well have been gay, nothing wrong with that. But, I just felt like...whoa...an iconic figure for the black community, but her worth to some is only in what purpose she can serve...even after death. And, these weren't gay black people doing the pontificating.

When we discuss white privilege and its impact on the black community, we get told, hey it doesn't exist or if it does exist, it's best not to talk about it. It doesn't help the greater cause. What is the greater cause? Well, it's whatever someone else tells you it is. They don't even see the irony. They don't have to. Now, with Bernie versus Hilary. It's just ugly.

Post after post of ... can't you see what Bernie has done for black people (AKA you people)? He marched 40 years ago. What more can you want?

But, I'm essentially sick and tired of feeling OWNED. My grandmother had this saying...that she had finally gotten grown...at age 88. That's what makes DU feel absolutely unbearable at times. That the signals being sent...I assume unintentionally is...sit down. We'll send for you when we need you. We'll tell you what to say, who to vote for, what to think, when you get here. Your needs are of no consequence. Even your children are disposable...AKA there are still those that think the right outcome was produced with the Trayvon Martin trial.

And, if you don't behave...well, you'll get republicans. And, you know how they feel about you. Damn...what a life. When I'm here, I live in the AA group...where people get it.

When your grandparents reality meant never really being safe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book

And, now in 2015, our children's reality means...never really being safe.

Dr. Martin Luther King's life and death means something entirely different for me in rural Mississippi.