"Offensive" passage in a Confederate book displayed in Republican congressman Drew Ferguson's office

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Here is a bible on display. Turned to about the middle of the book because that looks the best when displaying. No idea what is on the 2 pages shown, but i bet if you read them you'd find an offensive passage about slavery, stoning someone, women as property etc. This is why i find no offense based on limited information given in the OP's article.

NOW..if this offensive passage was highlighted somehow to stand out from the rest of the words on the two pages. Then that is an issue. But we don't know that with the limited amount or lack of facts given. So as it stands its a click-bait title meant to garner them revenue. Some of you people need to keep a level head and stick to logic and known facts given to you, you are all jumping to conclusions based on a lack of information.

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fskimospy

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Your party today is lead by people that actually fled their previous party because it adopted Civil Rights--yes, you unquestioningly support the party that, today, is unquestionably founded by racist assholes, that couldn't tolerate egalitarianism in this country to the point that they simply fled their political party....and yet you deign to lecture others on their responsibility toward fostering racism? Fight about that all you want, there is only one set of facts, and I'm on that side. Flail about and wail that I am making this shit up, but ask yourself why, in the face of so many other people, you are confronted with such information that just doesn't make sense to you...

fuck off, you ignorant twat. You are forever battling against the weight of history, and your flailing is either hilarious or pitiful...I actually can't figure that part out, right now.

I mean UC’s approach to combating racism is literally that we should all pretend it doesn’t exist until it goes away on its own.

I’m serious. That’s what he thinks.
 

ewdotson

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MLK would be disgusted at what’s going in these days.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
I think you're right that MLK would be disgusted at what's (still) going on these days, but I think you're gravely mistaken about what he'd take issue with.
 

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I think you're right that MLK would be disgusted at what's (still) going on these days, but I think you're gravely mistaken about what he'd take issue with.

MLK agreed that people should be judged by the content of their character and was a preacher. I'm sure that he'd agree with the right today over the left.
 
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MLK agreed that people should be judged by the content of their character and was a preacher. I'm sure that he'd agree with the right today over the left.

Yes, I'm sure MLK would be a really big fan of the right today where its president has the hearty endorsement of David Duke, calls Nazis 'very fine people', and said that a judge couldn't rule on his case because he was a Mexican.

I'm sure even you don't believe these lies and they just make you look dumb. Why do you do it?
 
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Yes, I'm sure MLK would be a really big fan of the right today where its president has the hearty endorsement of David Duke, calls Nazis 'very fine people', and said that a judge couldn't rule on his case because he was a Mexican.

I'm sure even you don't believe these lies and they just make you look dumb. Why do you do it?


I doubt he'd be for manufactured racism (like this thread).
 

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And he wouldn’t be for judging people based on the color of their skin which happens daily on this forum and in general. Nor would he be ok with the justification people use of “it’s not racism since there’s no collective power”, he’d tell you to quit judging people based on skin color period.
 

fskimospy

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I doubt he'd be for manufactured racism (like this thread).

You think MLK would have hated people he was actually on the record praising like Margaret Sanger and would like people endorsed by Nazis and white supremacists.

lol.
 

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MLK agreed that people should be judged by the content of their character and was a preacher. I'm sure that he'd agree with the right today over the left.
I see you've gone with "take a single quote out of context to construct a fictional milquetoast version of the man". I'd say that's a bold choice, but it's really more of a boring one.
 
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And he wouldn’t be for judging people based on the color of their skin which happens daily on this forum and in general. Nor would he be ok with the justification people use of “it’s not racism since there’s no collective power”, he’d tell you to quit judging people based on skin color period.

Yes, I'm sure he would have been a huge fan of your 'pretend racism doesn't exist and do nothing about it' stance.
 

SlowSpyder

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You think MLK would have hated people he was actually on the record praising like Margaret Sanger and would like people endorsed by Nazis and white supremacists.

lol.


There are racists on both sides of the spectrum. Is affirmative action judging content of character, or does race matter? This thread is full of manufactured racism, I doubt very much he'd be against it.

Your basic argument is flawed. There are racists that prefer the Republicans, so therefore non-racists are not capable of preferring the Republicans over the Democrats. Dumb, really dumb.
 

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Seriously though, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." wasn't the only thing that MLK ever said or wrote and you're taking it wildly out of the context of the larger corpus.

I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
 
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fskimospy

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Seriously though, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." wasn't the only thing that MLK ever said or wrote and you're taking it wildly out of the context of the larger corpus.

Like, this quote directly repudiates what UglyCassanova thinks and calls out exactly his sort of 'pretend it doesn't exist' thinking, yet UC thinks MLK would agree with him.

Baffling.
 

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I can only think to myself how sad it must be to belong to a party that feels a need to defend that party because it is full is racists and thus obsessed with a need to deny it. Racism is a disease you catch from the people who raise you. It hurts to see one is sick.

The good news is that some people recover.
 

Homerboy

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I'm going to guess that MLK would be side by side with Rep. John Lewis on most topics.
 

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Like, this quote directly repudiates what UglyCassanova thinks and calls out exactly his sort of 'pretend it doesn't exist' thinking, yet UC thinks MLK would agree with him.

Baffling.

Not really baffling, just typical of his dishonesty. He wants that boil to be kept under wraps. Kind of like when Slow rants about 'manufactured racism' and how 'the left creates racism where it doesn't exist.' The easiest way to suppress justice is to pretend injustice doesn't exist.
 
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Vic

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MLK agreed that people should be judged by the content of their character and was a preacher. I'm sure that he'd agree with the right today over the left.
Are you talking about the same 'right' that judges people solely by the way they vote? And with otherwise no regard for the content of their character?
 

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Here is a bible on display. Turned to about the middle of the book because that looks the best when displaying. No idea what is on the 2 pages shown, but i bet if you read them you'd find an offensive passage about slavery, stoning someone, women as property etc. This is why i find no offense based on limited information given in the OP's article.

NOW..if this offensive passage was highlighted somehow to stand out from the rest of the words on the two pages. Then that is an issue. But we don't know that with the limited amount or lack of facts given. So as it stands its a click-bait title meant to garner them revenue. Some of you people need to keep a level head and stick to logic and known facts given to you, you are all jumping to conclusions based on a lack of information.

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MLK agreed that people should be judged by the content of their character and was a preacher. I'm sure that he'd agree with the right today over the left.
Nice cherry pick. He also believed in programs to level the playing field like AA
 
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fskimospy

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If the author of the bible was an enemy of the United States your opinion may have been different.

Nice cherry pick. He also believed in programs to level the playing field like AA

He very much did agree with affirmative action, yes. Ironically, according to Slowspyder that makes Martin Luther King the racist, not hum.
 

HomerJS

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There are racists on both sides of the spectrum. Is affirmative action judging content of character, or does race matter? This thread is full of manufactured racism, I doubt very much he'd be against it.

Your basic argument is flawed. There are racists that prefer the Republicans, so therefore non-racists are not capable of preferring the Republicans over the Democrats. Dumb, really dumb.
ah-ah. Careful with your #bothsides bullshit. While anyone individual can be/act racist if an act of racism occurs there is a 80-90 chance they are from the right. IMO.

Also only party still tolerates it from their members today.
 

Vic

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Nice cherry pick. He also believed in programs to level the playing field like AA

Why is it so bad that hiring practices should reflect the community that is being hired? If racism is occurring in hiring practices, what better way is there to determine that than to compare those who are being hired to the community they are being hired from?
 

cytg111

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I'm mostly referring to the first portion: "The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially, and physically. "

Of course - one major factor is what timeline you're referring to though.
Damn .. you are the third "conservative" we have here who have found himself a hill to sacrifice his balls to this week. Its like a mass-suicide-pact or something?
 

UglyCasanova

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there is a 80-90 chance they are from the right.


I’m going to need to see data to back up your stat please. You can’t be throwing numbers like that around on here all willy nilly. Ask your cohorts they don’t take kindly to that.