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I never said you COULDN'T do anything, I said mostly black people celebrate it.

 

no but you did say that it was a black holiday.....do u need me to quote you on that? i don't understand why someone's bother can be racial.

 

Not sure I understand that last message.

Anyways, if mainly black people celebrate it, I might as well call it a black holiday.

 

would this be right, "george washington only helped white people, i guess i shouldn't celebrate his bday."

 

Lol, but again Washington is the father of our country. Isn't focosed on mainly white people.

 

who did he only help at the time? i guess, he went off to help people in mexico? so mlk was one of the greatest civil rights leader.

 

It has nothing to do as to WHEN it happened. Besides, that isn't a fair comparison. Only white people were around then. Lol, well, there were black people I'm sure, but not many.

 

so....are you saying what mlk did was a bad thing because it was supposedly, "taking the white man down?" true he mainly helped african americans, but he fault for all disadvantaged races.

quote wikipedia

On several occasions King expressed a view that black Americans, as well as other disadvantaged Americans, should be compensated for historical wrongs. Among his comments:

"Whenever this issue [compensatory treatment] is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but should ask for nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the second would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up."

"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis."

". . . for 15 centuries the Negro was enslaved and robbed of any wages—potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro: it should benefit the disadvantaged of all races."

what do u mean by that?

 

I said the opposite of that, actually, I said I didn't mind it.

 

u don't mind having your race "taken down." saying that u didn't mind it is not exactly saying it's good or bad.

 

Well, with anything, it is bad to take it down. Bad for whoever or whatever is being taken down.

 

lolz nice ^_^

 

you do realize that they made the 3/5ths compromise because there were so many slaves right?

and as someone stated before MLK did NOTHING to bring the white race down, he just simply gave blacks the rights we already had

 

No, you didn't "have" them, or he wouldn't have had to do anything. We were brought down, power wise, because we were no longer ahead of anyone, hence why I said brought us down.

 

White people weren't brought down, they never lost anything, he did no harm to your race. Black people we brought up and supposed to be seen as equal. Saying MLK harmed your race is retarded.