DeRay McKesson, a Black Lives Matter activist and former Baltimore mayoral candidate, led instant criticism on social media. “Bill Maher has got to go,” he wrote.
DeRay McKesson ... former Baltimore mayoral candidate
In February 2016, Mckesson announced his candidacy for Mayor of Baltimore just before the filing deadline. He placed 6th in the city's Democratic primary in April, with 2.5% of the vote.
house negroes vs field negroes (term at the time). the slaves served in the master's house and had a perceived better existence. they were usually distrusted by the slaves in the field, so when people use it now it's an insult for a black person trying to appease whites.
It isn't niggardly at all. In fact, I suspect you only used that word because of its resemblance to a well known racial epithet. And if so, shame on you.
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While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.
I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise. So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here.
But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation.
Then, last September, came the opportunity to talk with leaders of Birmingham's economic community. In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants--for example, to remove the stores' humiliating racial signs. On the basis of these promises, the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to a moratorium on all demonstrations. As the weeks and months went by, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. A few signs, briefly removed, returned; the others remained. As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self purification. We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, 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 for Christmas, this is the main shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic-withdrawal program would be the by product of direct action, we felt that this would be the best time to bring pressure to bear on the merchants for the needed change.
Then it occurred to us that Birmingham's mayoral election was coming up in March, and we speedily decided to postpone action until after election day. When we discovered that the Commissioner of Public Safety, Eugene "Bull" Connor, had piled up enough votes to be in the run off, we decided again to postpone action until the day after the run off so that the demonstrations could not be used to cloud the issues. Like many others, we waited to see Mr. Connor defeated, and to this end we endured postponement after postponement. Having aided in this community need, we felt that our direct action program could be delayed no longer.
You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and fos
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n/a 80BAIT08 2017-06-03
Of course he did.
n/a subpoutine 2017-06-03
And then he added
This 👏🏾 is 👏🏾 completely 👏🏾 Trump's 👏🏾 fault.
n/a JasonJewnova 2017-06-03
AYO HOL UP
n/a grafton29 2017-06-03
DeRay "Im relevant, im relevant i swear" McKesson.
n/a poopy_ass 2017-06-03
He's got a cushy job and a 6 figure salary, I doubt he cares about fame anymore
n/a RamboButGayer 2017-06-03
How is this guys blatant opportunism not more offensive to black people than the N word?
n/a MaybeNotaTurtle 2017-06-03
Nothing says "black power" like this limp wristed faggots salute.
n/a crimsonchibolt 2017-06-03
jesus thats sad ive seen submissive daddy bois with more assertiveness then that fuckstick.
n/a Slutha 2017-06-03
fukboi
n/a RestoreFear 2017-06-03
That looks like a prop arm wtf
n/a Pepperglue 2017-06-03
Low energy. Sad!
n/a dramallllama 2017-06-03
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
n/a DivinePrince2 2017-06-03
Grasping at straws since they are so well-off they have nothing better to do.
n/a cochnbahls 2017-06-03
Wow,I can't believe bill actually admitted he was wrong.
n/a Kekistanian9000 2017-06-03
Was he wrong though?
n/a I_DRINK_TO_FORGET 2017-06-03
He was not.
n/a Slutha 2017-06-03
n/a Allanon_2020 2017-06-03
What a puss
n/a ThatGaymer 2017-06-03
What a house nigger.
n/a missmurrr 2017-06-03
house negroes vs field negroes (term at the time). the slaves served in the master's house and had a perceived better existence. they were usually distrusted by the slaves in the field, so when people use it now it's an insult for a black person trying to appease whites.
n/a ThatGaymer 2017-06-03
Ok thanks
n/a OniTan 2017-06-03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uvJzr0zZvk
n/a Pyrepenol 2017-06-03
niggaaah
n/a Kekistanian9000 2017-06-03
with those kind of shitstorms how can anyone say "white fragility" unironically?
n/a chanilastname 2017-06-03
Easy. When Netflix releases "dear white people" and people get fucking butt hurt just from the title.
n/a Kekistanian9000 2017-06-03
Compare that to a teen who's telling "teacher was not even punished" after he hears a one single word.
n/a freet0 2017-06-03
What a niggardly thing to do
n/a JohnTheOrc 2017-06-03
It isn't niggardly at all. In fact, I suspect you only used that word because of its resemblance to a well known racial epithet. And if so, shame on you.
n/a freet0 2017-06-03
Prioritizing losing a little bit of money over sticking up for a guy who's brought you viewers for years isn't ungenerous and miserly?
n/a pi_over_3 2017-06-03
I always wonder why people are trying to accomplish with comments like yours. You sabotage the credibility of you and your group, for what?
n/a freet0 2017-06-03
I have a group?
n/a JohnTheOrc 2017-06-03
Well that one is just plain offensive, sir
n/a Imgur_Lurker 2017-06-03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scs7c5RiV9I
Wow this is an actual thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl5Xc8_zySg
I'm impressed by how hard these racist songs are to actually play.
n/a glmox 2017-06-03
yeah before all the meth appalachian rednecks could actually play a hell of a fuckin' tune
n/a poopy_ass 2017-06-03
Jimi 🅱endrix was an Appalachian redneck before mayocide
n/a portablegrant 2017-06-03
Let's hope he renigs that one
n/a RenegadeJoeson 2017-06-03
Your TV career is about to go down the tubes.
n/a Basically_Trash 2017-06-03
I'm convinced that every single TV personality will eventually be run out of their jobs by the end of the decade. Probably for the best tbh
n/a Minimum_T-Giraff 2017-06-03
Remember when his show was based on not being political correct?
n/a bareballzthebitch 2017-06-03
Racism is so wrong.
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n/a Stuntman119 2017-06-03
Ha ha random lol
n/a MelungeonQueen 2017-06-03
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.
I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise. So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here.
But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation.
Then, last September, came the opportunity to talk with leaders of Birmingham's economic community. In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants--for example, to remove the stores' humiliating racial signs. On the basis of these promises, the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to a moratorium on all demonstrations. As the weeks and months went by, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. A few signs, briefly removed, returned; the others remained. As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self purification. We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, 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 for Christmas, this is the main shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic-withdrawal program would be the by product of direct action, we felt that this would be the best time to bring pressure to bear on the merchants for the needed change.
Then it occurred to us that Birmingham's mayoral election was coming up in March, and we speedily decided to postpone action until after election day. When we discovered that the Commissioner of Public Safety, Eugene "Bull" Connor, had piled up enough votes to be in the run off, we decided again to postpone action until the day after the run off so that the demonstrations could not be used to cloud the issues. Like many others, we waited to see Mr. Connor defeated, and to this end we endured postponement after postponement. Having aided in this community need, we felt that our direct action program could be delayed no longer.
You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and fos
n/a missmurrr 2017-06-03
tl;dr
n/a Homer00025 2017-06-03
What edgy redditeur has cooked up this spicy copy-pasta?
n/a grungebot5000 2017-06-03
tbf he is like 30 years too old to have an excuse
n/a Matthew1J 2017-06-03
Where can I find the footage of the totes offensive joke or whatever?
n/a chanilastname 2017-06-03
Every once in awhile white people try this, just waiting for the day they can say nigga again.