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misskitty
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berdawn wrote >>
misskitty wrote >>
That's not very descriptive. Care to fill us under a rock in?Although legally able to register to vote, those African Americans who did so in Lowndes County were evicted and fired; most moved into tents beyond the county line where they were terrorized. The "Black Panther" party was formed as an alternative to the segregationist Democratic party in Lowndes County. The symbol for the D party was a white rooster and the local black HS emblem was a black panther.
ETA: Stokley Carmichael was part of the SNCC (who did the voter education and registration work there) and went on to create the separatist Black Panthers. Stupid thugs appropriating any part of this is laughable.Are you siting the year 1965? Seriously ? In 1965 I could understand seeings how we were still anti black rights. However the black panther thing happened recently and um I'm pretty sure It's just a tad different. Did you know that the Latin Kings started out as a good thing too and look at it now.
So for some reason it's ok to return the intimidation in 2008 because we can't grow up and move on.Posted 1 year ago # -
berdawn
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misskitty wrote >>
berdawn wrote >>
misskitty wrote >>
That's not very descriptive. Care to fill us under a rock in?Although legally able to register to vote, those African Americans who did so in Lowndes County were evicted and fired; most moved into tents beyond the county line where they were terrorized. The "Black Panther" party was formed as an alternative to the segregationist Democratic party in Lowndes County. The symbol for the D party was a white rooster and the local black HS emblem was a black panther.
ETA: Stokley Carmichael was part of the SNCC (who did the voter education and registration work there) and went on to create the separatist Black Panthers. Stupid thugs appropriating any part of this is laughable.Are you siting the year 1965? Seriously ? In 1965 I could understand seeings how we were still anti black rights. However the black panther thing happened recently and um I'm pretty sure It's just a tad different. Did you know that the Latin Kings started out as a good thing too and look at it now.
So for some reason it's ok to return the intimidation in 2008 because we can't grow up and move on.not sure I understand your first sentence. Your original post was referring to a lack of media coverage of black panthers. I mentioned that the BP in Lowndes County could have used some. You appeared ignorant of the relationship between voter disenfranchisement and the subsequent creation of a third party. I responded not to your request for information.
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Mercurius
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misskitty
Columbus
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berdawn wrote >>
misskitty wrote >>
berdawn wrote >>
misskitty wrote >>
That's not very descriptive. Care to fill us under a rock in?Although legally able to register to vote, those African Americans who did so in Lowndes County were evicted and fired; most moved into tents beyond the county line where they were terrorized. The "Black Panther" party was formed as an alternative to the segregationist Democratic party in Lowndes County. The symbol for the D party was a white rooster and the local black HS emblem was a black panther.
ETA: Stokley Carmichael was part of the SNCC (who did the voter education and registration work there) and went on to create the separatist Black Panthers. Stupid thugs appropriating any part of this is laughable.Are you siting the year 1965? Seriously ? In 1965 I could understand seeings how we were still anti black rights. However the black panther thing happened recently and um I'm pretty sure It's just a tad different. Did you know that the Latin Kings started out as a good thing too and look at it now.
So for some reason it's ok to return the intimidation in 2008 because we can't grow up and move on.not sure I understand your first sentence. Your original post was referring to a lack of media coverage of black panthers. I mentioned that the BP in Lowndes County could have used some. You appeared ignorant of the relationship between voter disenfranchisement and the subsequent creation of a third party. I responded not to your request for information.
Yes I think we agree that some coverage back then would have been helpful to further a good cause. I have heard many times that the media tends to show people of color in a negative light more then they do a positive one. Which is why I wondered why the Philly situation didn't get that much attention from anyone other then Fox it seemed like something people would be all over.
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thefiercelime
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Voting is easy. Unfortunately, the left and right hardly produce different results. They are mostly two sides of the same crappy team and they don't represent any real choice or democracy.
Would you like paper or plastic, today? Would you like the lesser of two losers? We're very short on starting a revolution and creating a new structure for real change and long on pretending that we can work within the same unchanging, failed system to bring about the change we envision. I don't trust the guy on the right at all, nor the guy on the left (although he seems to agree with my line of thinking a bit more and might be able to produce some marginal results in the next year or so). Holy Hell- the same dude is holding up both puppets!
Is "I voted today" just another laissez-faire, half-a$$ed form of activism? I suspect that we've been in a pickle we can't vote our way out of. It's just not going to do it.
Or not. Perhaps our representative form of government is not perfect but it's still breathing and it works. The never-ending slogans for change have always really been in stark contrast to our flip-flop votes that really represent our desire for slow, moderate change through a complex series of checks and balances...and damn it, we like it!
Go, USA, go!
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thefiercelime wrote >>
We're very short on starting a revolution and creating a new structure for real change and long on pretending that we can work within the same unchanging, failed system to bring about the change we envision.Just to ask:
* What is the change you envision?
* How do you plan to achieve it?
* What do you measure to see if your implementation is working?
* Who supports both your vision and method of implementation?Posted 1 year ago # -
thefiercelime
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I'd hardly know where to begin; the horror of unveiling my New America. It might never stop.
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