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dawg

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40. I know, but ...

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 11:23 AM

Aug 2013

it would just be the silly, impractical liberals like me who would care. They would be figures like Alan Grayson, Van Jones, or, if they were lucky, Bernie Sanders.

They would speak out. Guys like me would say "Right on!". And the woodchucks would go "Tut, tut, tut".

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“Brother Martin would not be invited to the very march in his name" [View all] HomerRamone Aug 2013 OP

Cornel West is full of shit JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #1

AMEN!! uponit7771 Aug 2013 #3

+100 ..n/t obnoxiousdrunk Aug 2013 #9

Wonder why? Because phonies rule on behalf of the richest people in history. Octafish Aug 2013 #15

I only know him from the perspective JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #25

Great. I'm in Detroit. Things haven't trickled down here, yet. Perhaps one day... Octafish Aug 2013 #34

Cornel is probably upwardly mobile hfojvt Aug 2013 #37

MLK would not be marching, b/c he would be on a hunger strike in support of the HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #18

And don't forget JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #21

bullshit, West thinks people wouldn't let Martin tell truth to power?! As if we haven't heard it ... uponit7771 Aug 2013 #2

Oh dear...truthiness meter going wrong way.... Safetykitten Aug 2013 #4

"“Obama is the living negation of everything, from his domestic to foreign policy, that Dr. King and geek tragedy Aug 2013 #5

No one JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #6

Anyone who walks through an African-American neighborhood in any American city geek tragedy Aug 2013 #7

Amen! JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #8

+1 uponit7771 Aug 2013 #26

When he says 'brother Martin wouldn't be invited' RZM Aug 2013 #10

You get the gold star! JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #11

Say it again!!!! West's ego is still somewhere in the midst of that rap song he made. eom mfcorey1 Aug 2013 #23

+1 uponit7771 Aug 2013 #27

Score! Lex Aug 2013 #31

Ding! Throd Aug 2013 #43

Cornel West was thrown under the bus years ago when he TBF Aug 2013 #12

K & R Le Taz Hot Aug 2013 #13

El toro poo poo! mfcorey1 Aug 2013 #24

This is stupid on it's face, West has complained too much at this point he's being a reflexive jerk uponit7771 Aug 2013 #28

I agree with Dr. West. MLK was WAY too radical for the..... socialist_n_TN Aug 2013 #14

Peace. Justice. Equality. Not...''Vote for us cause we'll do that next election. Promise.'' Octafish Aug 2013 #16

At the next week's march JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #33

rec. KG Aug 2013 #17

People should stop speculating as to what MLK jr would and wouldn't have done. JaneyVee Aug 2013 #19

Why not? Some of us were alive and politically aware at that time.... socialist_n_TN Aug 2013 #20

When you consider all the rest of the Civil Rights leaders alive today lunatica Aug 2013 #41

Both JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #46

Hyperbole. He would have been invited, and likely given a memorable speech winter is coming Aug 2013 #22

Divide and rule how much n/t malaise Aug 2013 #29

I think Dr. West is correct. limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #30

For the record malaise Aug 2013 #32

My thought is that if MLK Jr were still alive today this country would have lunatica Aug 2013 #35

Sadly ... dawg Aug 2013 #38

Well we can rest assured that they would have certainly tried to destroy them lunatica Aug 2013 #39

I know, but ... dawg Aug 2013 #40

"...as Cornell West says" oberliner Aug 2013 #36

Cornel West has become a heckling clown, CakeGrrl Aug 2013 #42

So, your argument is that Dr. King would support or even be tolerant of dragnet surveillance, drone TheKentuckian Aug 2013 #44

There was nothing patriotric about releasing 250,000 unredacted diplomatic cables pnwmom Aug 2013 #45