zoogs Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Wow, that's interesting. Thanks for sharing! Politics makes for strange bedfellows -- especially when you choose your allies based on mutual hatred. From https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dpwamv/when-malcolm-x-met-the-nazis-0000620-v22n4 Quote Overt anti-Semitism, it turned out, was something the two groups could bond over. While Rockwell pushed his hatred of Jews to frothy extremes, Muhammad backed a range of racist theories, including the hoax that the Jews had financed the slave trade. (Malcolm X was cagier about his anti-Semitism, often deferring to Muhammad's conspiracy theories rather than offering his own.) [...] Division of the races was another mutual bugbear. Malcolm X's speech that night was titled "Separation or Death." Inside the arena, Rockwell told reporters, "I am fully in concert with their program, and I have the highest respect for Elijah Muhammad." The question of where to send America's blacks—the NOI wanted a chunk of the US, while the ANP wanted a full deportation to Africa—was, he said, his only quarrel with the Muslims. This wasn't quite true. The Nazis and NOI also disagreed over whether black people were human beings. Link to comment
zoogs Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 I think this underscores the importance of priorities and also clear eyed-ness. We have to be able to grasp what is more of a problem facing us today -- for example, obviously, yes, discrimination can happen to white people, sexual abuse can happen to men, and so on. Where confusion sets in is when the minor issue becomes viewed as the larger issue, or worse, when efforts to combat the larger issue are seen as not only exclusionary but actively working against the larger issue. And so, the oppressor becomes the oppressed. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 (edited) A very strong article to read on MLK day. Edited January 15, 2018 by NM11046 1 Link to comment
Bornhusker Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 yes, racism is real from both sides, and there is most definitely a double standard. have to use fox again.. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/15/hey-there-white-people-rice-students-martin-luther-king-day-satire-draws-outrage.html Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 My God...I would love to give this guy a big high five right now. 3 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 Seriously - this got tears from me. I'd like to see the entire testimony session, I bet there were a lot of doosies. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Oh how far we’ve come. 1 Link to comment
QMany Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: Those things are not mutually exclusive. We can "take care of people" and worry about slurs, racism, etc. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 2 minutes ago, QMany said: Those things are not mutually exclusive. We can "take care of people" and worry about slurs, racism, etc. I found it much more interesting that 9 out of 10 native Americans don't give a hoot. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 This is disturbing. But, let's remember, there are good people in these groups. 1 Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 On 1/29/2018 at 12:59 PM, BigRedBuster said: I found it much more interesting that 9 out of 10 native Americans don't give a hoot. They probably don't.... But thank the Lord for the liberal white man. Always there to let minorities know when they should/shouldn't be offended. Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Deadspin. Doing that thing where they make Fox News look stupid. Link to comment
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