Today’s theme: “MLK & Race”
• Race related blog posts …
“MLK would have become a Steeler fan”
“Randoms on Ferguson, race & The Three Dog Night”
MLK & Race
• Suggest we could reduce painful race issues if black and white people would, ironically enough, stop looking at all race issues like everything was so black and white.
• I guess I’d like to turn back the clock to the 1950s when it seemed like it must have been a really great time to be a white male who liked to drink. That would have worked for me better than, say, if I were a black male who liked to vote.
• Commit to memory at least one great quote from as many famous people as you can. For instance, “Evil is not driven out, but crowded out.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
• I understand we're all hyper-sensitive about race issues these days, but I hope we never get to the point where my black brothers and sisters become blind to the humanity of my empathetic ice-breaker/greeting of "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?”
• Conservative whites who become livid when wished Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas think blacks over-reacting about unarmed blacks getting murdered by conservative whites.
• Most discriminatory club in America is Groundhog Phil's Inner Circle. All white, all male. Still, America will overlook Phil's bigotry cause Phil’s just so darn cute.
(Randoms)
• Next time you have occasion to heartily sing "God Bless America" which groups will you in your mind parenthetically ask God to exclude? White bigots? Welfare moms? Pro-Trumpers? Immigrants? Former FB friends you can no longer stand for political reasons? 'cause we're all in there.
• I wonder how many people have died choking on a Life Saver furiously aware of the irony.
• It’s been said our character is the sum character of the five people with whom we most associate. If that's so, then I'm about 60 percent upstanding citizen and 40 percent pure sleazeball.
• News reports say man suffering from gunshot to the knee in "stable condition." Not if he tries to stand up!
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