In honor of Martin Luther King

[Nitro Express]

Stupid Mike Douglas asks King if he's a communist sympathizer...

King talked about God way too much to be a communist. There is no god in Communism. God is the state. Religious freedom is not allowed in communism.

[Seshmeister]

Did you know that the Pentagon has 284 restrooms because they built separate ones for blacks to go to?

[Nitro Express]

Did you know that the Pentagon has 284 restrooms because they built separate ones for blacks to go to?

I did not know that. Did you know I was refused service in a Georgia restaurant because I have a Yankee accent or was refused entry to the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club because I was not Chinese?

[Nitro Express]

Did you know that the Pentagon has 284 restrooms because they built separate ones for blacks to go to?

But the Pentagon is over in Arlington, Virginia (the south) right next to Robert E. Lee's old plantation. Yeah. Those black people were lucky to get any restrooms at all in those days.

[VanHalenFan5150]

I may not be one to have much of a say in anything, but, even though I was not born in the right generation I am very thankful of what MLK did throughout his life to make all of ours better, and equal. If it wasn't for him and a select few others, we wouldn't be where we were today as far as race equality goes. Now, i'm not saying he did everything, but he helped spark the movement...

[chefcraig]

Did you know that the Pentagon has 284 restrooms because they built separate ones for blacks to go to?

I was completely unaware of that. SNOPES has an interesting article on the subject:

The Pentagon was built with extra bathrooms to accommodate racial segregation laws.

[Nitro Express]

Segregation in the military started to break down during WWII. I think the reason is when you were in a bomber and the German Luftwaffe was after you, you didn't care what color the pilot of the P-51 escort was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_2XqDombc

[chefcraig]

Segregation in the military started to break down during WWII.

But the U.S. armed forces were not desegregated by Harry Truman until 1948, three years after the war ended.

[Nitro Express]

With the globalists breaking the independent businesses and farms, now we are all equally fucked.

[Nitro Express]

But the U.S. armed forces were not desegregated by Harry Truman until 1948, three years after the war ended.

Officially on paper but prejudice is a mental condition that tends to be multi-generational. In the old south they were scared to death of the black man because there were more slaves than free white people. They hated Lincoln for invading the south with a military and resented the blacks getting their freedom from him. When you are a kid and you grow up in this environment you tend to be that yourself until you are put in a situation where you are shown maybe your parents and grandparents were wrong.

Also, the black soldier went over to fight and many were heros but had to come back and use the separate bathroom and get no recognition until decades later.

It's fucked but that's the history of it.

[Nitro Express]

But then when I lived in Hong Kong the Chinese didn't even consider anyone from the Philippines human. Boats full of refugees were coming into Hong Kong harbor and they were not allowed on shore. Jokes of shelling the boats and putting the people out of their misery were the norm. I mean prejudice is not just an American thing and it's quite wide spread actually. Oh and that was a British territory and the British could care less, they just wanted the trade money.

[Seshmeister]

If you define your target on human rights and morality to 'not be as bad as people in SE Asia' then you have lost already.

[Seshmeister]

Segregation in the military started to break down during WWII. I think the reason is when you were in a bomber and the German Luftwaffe was after you, you didn't care what color the pilot of the P-51 escort was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_2XqDombc

http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tusk.html

March 29, 1941 - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee and met Charles "Chief" Anderson, the head of the program, Mrs. Roosevelt asked, "Can Negroes really fly airplanes?" He replied: "Certainly we can; as a matter of fact, would you like to take an airplane ride?" Over the objections of her Secret Service agents, Mrs. Roosevelt accepted. The agent called President Roosevelt, who replied, "Well, if she wants to do it, there's nothing we can do to stop her."
With Mrs. Roosevelt in the back seat of his Piper J-3 Cub, Chief Anderson took off and flew her around for half an hour. Upon landing, Mrs. Roosevelt turned to the Chief and said, "I guess Negroes can fly," and they posed togeher for an historic photo. Not long after Mrs. Roosevelt's return to Washington, it was announced that the first Negro Air Corps pilots would be trained at Tuskegee Institute.

[chefcraig]

http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tusk.html

If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend a film called "The Tuskegee Airmen", which was produced by HBO several years ago.

[Nitro Express]

If you define your target on human rights and morality to 'not be as bad as people in SE Asia' then you have lost already.

You can't change history. What happened happened. White Europeans with advanced technology went out and exploited the world's resources. The British and the Dutch seemed to be the most successful. The Germans and French got bogged down into wars and the Spanish just raped things. At least with the British you got railroads and canals.

In the US the form of government gave the average person a better shot at making it rich. In Europe you had to have connections.

So my family immigrated here from Scandinavia to escape the potato famine. Are you saying I'm to feel guilty about people escaping starvation and trying to make a better life for themselves because some rich European plantation owners exploited Africans? What? Many Americans immigrated here way past that fact but somehow we are made to feel guilty of it and better yet, pay up for it in the name of fairness.

Hell if all of us had to pay up for something that happened in the history of the country we all currently live in, we all would be fucking broke.