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Everyone enjoying vacation today reflecting like most of us are?
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I'm observing this day with the reverence it deserves. Seriously though, I'm actually working, as I took off Friday for Robert E Lee/Stonewall Jackson day.
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I'm observing this day with the reverence it deserves. Seriously though, I'm actually working, as I took off Friday for Robert E Lee/Stonewall Jackson day.
I'm grabbing some 40's later and will slouch my way over to Selma after this hang over from the weekend passes.
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What a great holiday
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I was shocked to find out that the holiday Kwanzaa was started by some black dude in the 1960's.
Here I thought it was some ancient African tradition or something.
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I was shocked to find out that the holiday Kwanzaa was started by some black dude in the 1960's.
Here I thought it was some ancient African tradition or something.
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I was going to make a song about the 7 days of Kawanaza but didn't want to get banned. Sort of like
"On the 1st day of Kawanaza - Uncle Cletus gave to me - a pair of gold teeth"
On the 2nd day of Kawanza - Uncle Cletus gave to me - a 40oz and pair of gold teeth"
and sso on and so on. ha ha ha ha
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Have a full day of work ahead of me, but enjoy today's marching!
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great day for a great man
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great day for a great man
We Changed The World right bro?
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Would rather have another earth day or something
(http://texasforestservice.tamu.edu/uploadedImages/Websites/Famous_Trees_of_Texas/Trees/Kyle%20Hanging%20Tree.jpg)
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The day equal rights for black folk were reduced to an acronym.
Some doctor. Couldn't even stitch up a little racial cleft.
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Great man indeed, America needs more like him to rise and bring the black community together in this day and age.
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Great man indeed, America needs more like him to rise and bring the black community together in this day and age.
No more Obama Sharpton jesse trayvon browne - more MLK - agreed
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http://billygraham.org/story/remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ (http://billygraham.org/story/remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/)
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Billy Graham was in Australia at the time of King’s death. He remembers the moment someone approached him with news of King’s assassination, which was followed by journalists seeking a quote: “I was almost in a state of shock. Not only was I losing a friend through a vicious and senseless killing, but America was losing a social leader and a prophet, and I felt his death would be one of the greatest tragedies in our history.”
Describing how he met King during a 1957 Crusade meeting in New York City, Mr. Graham writes in his autobiography, “One night civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom I was pleased to count a friend, gave an eloquent opening prayer at the service; he also came at my invitation to one of our Team retreats during the Crusade to help us understand the racial situation in America more fully.”
As their friendship grew, King asked Mr. Graham to call him by his nickname. “His father,” explains Graham, “who was called Big Mike, called him Little Mike. He asked me to call him just plain Mike.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., entered the Christian ministry and was ordained in February 1948 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, at the age of 19. In 1954, upon completion of graduate studies at Boston University, he accepted a call to serve at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.
While there, King was an instrumental leader in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, made famous by the nonviolent resistance and arrest of Rosa Parks. He resigned from Dexter Avenue Baptist in 1959 to move back to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
From 1960 until his death in 1968, he also served as co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
King credited Mr. Graham with having a significant part in reducing the tension between whites and blacks in the South. In 1965, Mr. Graham canceled a tour of Europe to preach a series of crusades in Alabama, praying that the Gospel would tear down walls of division between the races and seeing the importance of his work alongside King’s.
King later said, “Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.”
During the civil rights movement, Mr. Graham preached: “Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man’s religion, and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.”
Reflecting on how his thinking changed through the years, Mr. Graham writes, “I cannot point to any single event or intellectual crisis that changed my mind on racial equality. At Wheaton College, I made friends with black students, and I recall vividly one of them coming to my room one day and talking with deep conviction about America’s need for racial justice.
“Most influential, however, was my study of the Bible, leading me eventually to the conclusion that not only was racial inequality wrong but Christians especially should demonstrate love toward all peoples.”
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What a couple of weird looking dudes.
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What a couple of weird looking dudes.
LOL
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Great man
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Mlk is a perfect example of how you confront a issue, you do it with a non violent educated and thought out plan..
Today it's just riots in the street and more violence then they wonder why things only are getting worse..
Oh that's right it's everyone else's fault
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Everyone enjoying vacation today reflecting like most of us are?
Just another reason for the negrow not to work.
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Just another reason for the negrow not to work.
and the other 364 days?
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and the other 364 days?
What do you mean they're out trapping 365...
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and the other 364 days?
You can thank obama for that.
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Judge them not by the color of their skin... ;D
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:D
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Just woke up from my hang over. Ate some biscuits and washed it down w OE. Got some grape fruit juice in the ice box. Got to the corner to score a few Benjis to pay for Selma in a few hours.
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The cast could've been a little more diverse, though:
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I don't judge a man by the color of his skin. I judge a man by the size of his nostrils.
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And if I post that im a racist :D
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http://billygraham.org/story/remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ (http://billygraham.org/story/remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/)
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Billy Graham was in Australia at the time of King’s death. He remembers the moment someone approached him with news of King’s assassination, which was followed by journalists seeking a quote: “I was almost in a state of shock. Not only was I losing a friend through a vicious and senseless killing, but America was losing a social leader and a prophet, and I felt his death would be one of the greatest tragedies in our history.”
Describing how he met King during a 1957 Crusade meeting in New York City, Mr. Graham writes in his autobiography, “One night civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom I was pleased to count a friend, gave an eloquent opening prayer at the service; he also came at my invitation to one of our Team retreats during the Crusade to help us understand the racial situation in America more fully.”
As their friendship grew, King asked Mr. Graham to call him by his nickname. “His father,” explains Graham, “who was called Big Mike, called him Little Mike. He asked me to call him just plain Mike.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., entered the Christian ministry and was ordained in February 1948 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, at the age of 19. In 1954, upon completion of graduate studies at Boston University, he accepted a call to serve at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.
While there, King was an instrumental leader in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, made famous by the nonviolent resistance and arrest of Rosa Parks. He resigned from Dexter Avenue Baptist in 1959 to move back to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
From 1960 until his death in 1968, he also served as co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
King credited Mr. Graham with having a significant part in reducing the tension between whites and blacks in the South. In 1965, Mr. Graham canceled a tour of Europe to preach a series of crusades in Alabama, praying that the Gospel would tear down walls of division between the races and seeing the importance of his work alongside King’s.
King later said, “Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.”
During the civil rights movement, Mr. Graham preached: “Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man’s religion, and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.”
Reflecting on how his thinking changed through the years, Mr. Graham writes, “I cannot point to any single event or intellectual crisis that changed my mind on racial equality. At Wheaton College, I made friends with black students, and I recall vividly one of them coming to my room one day and talking with deep conviction about America’s need for racial justice.
“Most influential, however, was my study of the Bible, leading me eventually to the conclusion that not only was racial inequality wrong but Christians especially should demonstrate love toward all peoples.”
Always liked mlk and billy
I swear things racially would be better if mlk were still around
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I will be glad that all the FB people can put away their sanctimonious MLK quote statuses that so many people feel compelled to "like" and all the self-loathing white people can drop the "we still have a long way to go" observations until February.
Kwanzaa was invented in 1969.
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Haters gonna hate
Potatoes gonna potate
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We should also remember how, on the day after MLK was killed, that Jesse Jackson showed up on all the morning news shows on TV, wearing a a ketchup stained shirt, lying about how he cradled the bloodied body of his dear friend MLK, in his arms and cried.
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Mlk is a perfect example of how you confront a issue, you do it with a non violent educated and thought out plan..
Today it's just riots in the street and more violence then they wonder why things only are getting worse..
Oh that's right it's everyone else's fault
This
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Mlk is a perfect example of how you confront a issue, you do it with a non violent educated and thought out plan..
Today it's just riots in the street and more violence then they wonder why things only are getting worse..
Oh that's right it's everyone else's fault
MLK's message would be lost on the black community of today. They're more interested in what Oprah and Lil' Wayne have to say.
And then Obama would have the MSM ignore MLK and put a ban on having him in the media.
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Mlk is a perfect example of how you confront a issue, you do it with a non violent educated and thought out plan..
Today it's just riots in the street and more violence then they wonder why things only are getting worse..
Oh that's right it's everyone else's fault
::) thank this guy not mlk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin
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Everyone enjoying vacation today reflecting like most of us are?
I don't work so every day is a vacation for me :)
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::) thank this guy not mlk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin
Yep, no one had more balls than this guy...black, openly gay in the 30's and up, and sitting in the front of the bus.
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King.
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What a couple of weird looking dudes.
LOL
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I was shocked to find out that the holiday Kwanzaa was started by some black dude in the 1960's.
Here I thought it was some ancient African tradition or something.
::)
Didn't know that, but i'm celebrating Kwonza every month.
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I never knew they had a federal holiday celebrating milk.I do love me some with chocolate chip cookies.
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And if I post that im a racist :D
GetBig is one of the only Sharpton-approved racist sites out there.
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::) thank this guy not mlk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin
Wow, quite the role he played in modern history......that very few people know about.