Stormborn posted:Drugb posted:Stormborn posted:Drugb posted:Stormborn posted:Yep...black people had to do the heavy lifting for civil rights so you crows get to caw about your success!
Let us not forget the influence and example set by the great mahatma, of whom MLK was a student. Also the many White sympathizers who joined and financed the civil rights movement. I am not sure they taught you this in second rate Howard.
Ghandi borrowed from Thoreau whose tract on Civil Disobedience was seminal to his work. MLK sourced both and also Tolstoy. These men were students of human life not constipated racist hacks like you. And yes, howard is indeed that nurturing environment where thinkers are incubated. You could have benefited a bit in understanding of the world, humility as a human being and most urgently your lacking in that special ingredient; wisdom.
Referencing an essay and implementing are two different animals. Indeed humans and civilizations have influenced each other over the centuries. But to suggest that Blacks alone are responsible for the civil rights gains in this country is hogwash. The fact that the administration and people of the US were willing to listen and change is testament of the greatness of this nations where its laws and people allow for such groundbreaking transformations.
Stupid man, the seminal questions were asked and answered eons ago. Philosophy is not incremental as science ( and science is only incremental within a paradigm). Philosophical questions remain the same. Thoreau et al re-frame the questions for their time and made them cogent for those needing to be informed.
Blacks alone highlighted their injustice from slavery to Brown vs Board of ed. Yes, there were empathetic figures along the way but the immorality slavery and the injustice of the pre civil rights era was best highlighted by those experiencing it through their loss of life sacrifice and demands for a new system.
Social revolutions sweep away old belief systems. They are not accommodated by the old. Every advance of civil rights redefined civil rights by wiping out old beliefs. White people did not include anyone into their beliefs. They clarified their mistaken beliefs when it was destabilized by arguments as to its lack of soundness given the stark reality of its injustices. They adopted the new and more informed and stable belief system
The whites were the ones that ended slavery, Blacks virtually played no major role in the civil war other than to be the accidentlay recepient of the freedom, a byproduct of the war. The civil war was a struggle to preserve the union rather than to free slaves.