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In reply to the discussion: I implore you to let my friends speak and be heard, free from fear of retribution and retaliation! [View all]navarth
(5,927 posts)and I rely heavily on my excellent bullshit detector, which has seldom failed me. You, sir, could be the most sincere brother I ever did a hang with. I have no way of knowing that, but I would certainly prefer it to be true. Love See No Color. I've lived by that for some 63 years. I'm from Detroit. East Side.
And I honor your hesitation to make a comparison with MLK; it does you credit as it honors MLK, a man I revere and will always keep in my pantheon of heroes along with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Elmore James, Bud Powell, Malcolm X, John Brown, Nat Turner, General Smedley Butler, Charles Mingus....there are too many.
I would hasten to point out that I am EXTREMELY dissatisfied with the status quo, and I totally get the anger I see in my darker-skinned brothers and sisters; but I am also wary of the fact that this dissatisfaction can be an open back door for ratfuckers that would seek to divide us. Surely we can agree on that.