This tweet is scary bad..really scary bad!https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1033868041224900608 …
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Yes, it reminds me of a several passages from MLK’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail”.... 1. “History is the long and tragic story that privileged groups seldom give up Their privilege voluntarily” 2. “I guess it’s easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of
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Segregation to say “wait”. OR in your case, go to a “rural area”. 3. “When you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are Negro, living constantly at a tip toe stance, never knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and outer resentments,
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when you are forever fighting a degenerate sense of “nobodyness” then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait” or in your case, accept the “everything and everyone is fine” logic, that’s not based in reality.
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4. “...but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace, which is the absence of tension, to a positive peace which is the presence of Justice,...”who paternalistically says they can set the timetable for another man’s freedom”
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Or in your case tell them everything and everyone is fine outside of your social media silos.. You know who else said that? Slavemasters, Segregationists, and Fascists...People were working, Society seemed normal, everyone else was fine. They were happy. As they were locking
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Children away from their Parents, thousands were dying of neglect from their Government after a Storm, Press Freedoms were being eroded, and an Orwellian Demagog was in the WH. Private business was attacked, wages were stagnant, hate crimes on the rise, but everyone is fine.
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Except those who really aren’t, they just put their game face on and appear “normal”.
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Your tweet was shortsighted, narrow, yet broad, with severely negligent implications.
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