Can I say this? That Marsha Blackburn - R - Tenn is an asshole

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103. I think Malcom X would laugh in your face.

He said if people put a hand on you, you put them in the cemetery. He didn't say if they call you a name you don't like you should pout around like a little kid.

He told people to be strong, to own their businesses, to become robust and independent enough to not care what someone "said".

Here's an excerpt from the Field Negro Blog:

It's the 21st Century, but the house Negro is still here.

"...If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.

To understand this, you have to go back to what [the] young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro -- back during slavery. There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good 'cause they ate his food -- what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house quicker than the master would. The house Negro, if the master said, "We got a good house here," the house Negro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house Negro.

If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, "Let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house Negro would look at you and say, "Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" That was that house Negro. In those days he was called a "house nigger." And that's what we call him today, because we've still got some house niggers running around here."

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*The field Negro was beaten from morning to night. He lived in a shack, in a hut; He wore old, castoff clothes. He hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master. But that field Negro -- remember, they were in the majority, and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try and put it out; that field Negro prayed for a wind, for a breeze. When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he'd die. If someone come [sic] to the field Negro and said, "Let's separate, let's run," he didn't say "Where we going?" He'd say, "Any place is better than here." You've got field Negroes in America today. I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about "our government is in trouble." They say, "The government is in trouble." Imagine a Negro: "Our government"! I even heard one say "our astronauts." They won't even let him near the plant -- and "our astronauts"! "Our Navy" -- that's a Negro that's out of his mind. That's a Negro that's out of his mind.
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I agree with him. His effectiveness, by the way, is probably what got him murdered, by people who were about form more than substance. Like people who care about what they are called.

He cared about teaching people to be strong, strong enough that words will roll off their back like so much water.

I think today he would be about teaching millions of people that the government they have now would rather support the wealthy than make provisions for medical care for people who make so little that they can't afford health insurance under the bright, shiny, new ACA.

I'm not sure one could call them a name that disrespects them any worse than they are being disrespected now, and nothing is going to change that until they become stronger.

Think what you want. I have other things to do.