Who Are You and What's Really Really Happin ?: "Tha People Speak Out"

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Who Are You and What's Really Really Happin ?: "Tha People Speak Out"

[Moorbey]

Great piece.Keep it comin for they will come and learn.

[Pragmatic]

I think I've been in this forum for about an hour. I just came out of the HAARP forum. Enshalla, I went to see some more videos on the HAARP on youtube. Man, thank you brotha for all this information.



That Dr. King piece at Slepton.com was right on point about his politics on "OPPRESSION" at the end. SleptOn Magazine: Don't Sleep On The Struggle. Be A Part Of It

Why we can't wait: Dr. Martin Luther King

James Bevel, Andy Young, Bernard Lee and Dorothy Cotton began visiting colleges and high schools in the area....


By the fifties and by the hundreds these youngsters attended mass meetings and training sessions.

They listened eagerly as we talked of bringing freedom to Birmingham, not in some distant time, but right now...

Looking back, it is clear that the introduction of Birmingham's children into the campaign was one of the wisest moves we made. pg.97

YouTube - Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

YouTube - Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

YouTube - Martin Luther King on Malcolm X

YouTube - Martin Luther King on Malcolm X

That the Revolution was a comparatively bloodless one is explained by the fact that the Negro did not merely give lip service to nonviolence. pg. 40



"The tactics the movement utilized, and that guided far-flung actions in cities dotted across the map, discouraged violence because one side would not resort to it and the other was so often immobilized by confusion, uncertainty and disunity.

Nonviolence had tremedous psychological importance to the Negro. He had to win and to vindicate his dignity in order to merit and enjoy his self-esteem. He had to let white men know that the picture of him as a clown--irresponsible, resigned and believing in his own inferiority--was a stereotype with no validity. This method was grasped by the Negro masses because it embodied the dignity of struggle, of moral conviction and self-sacrifice. The Negro was able to face his adversary, to concede to him a physical advantage and to defeat him because the superior force of the oppressor had become powerless". pg 40

"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action". pg 78

pg. 79 "We began a series of workshops on non-violence, and we repeatedly asked ourselves: "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?" We decided to schedule our direct-action program for the Easter Season, realizing that except Christmas, this the main shopping period of the year...


Peace be upon you