We were doing so well, why did someone do this?

[lilenth]

For those not in the know, the British government have spent the last few months trying to royally screw anyone who is disabled, long term sick, impoverished or otherwise in need to pay off the deficit that the bailing out the greedy banks created

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[thunderflyer]

I don't believe that MLK was only concerned with people of color.

He wanted equality for all people. His dream was that people would be measured by the content of their character, not their physical circumstances.

I believe that is the goal of all civil rights activists.

MLK is one of my heroes, and to be reminded in such a way of how all under privileged people dream of a better future is rather fitting.

I don't see the rage, unless I totally missed MLK's actual dream.

[mariechan]

I think the rage is comparing the able-rights movement to that of the civil rights movement. While they are two different things, I don't really get the rage with it either.

I didn't want to say anything though because maybe there was a reason to rage at it. I'm not black so I may be viewing the situation through that of white privilege and it's hard to tell x:

[thunderflyer]

I wanted that to be my reason for not seeing the rage, too, butcha know what? Humans are humans. I am a human being *before* I get sifted into whatever subset. I, and all my fellow human beings are equally deserving of dignity regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, eye color, hair texture, fashion sense, marital status, or any other dividing line less enlightened people want to recognise.

If MLK had been white, would his words and mission been less valid?

[lilenth]

Did you really just pull a colorblind argument?

If MLK had been white, he would have been privileged and thus would have had little reason to make a speech about racism or to lead a civil rights movement against racism.

[xenaeilonwy]

....MLK WOULD support the fight for disabled people. Dude, he was all about ALL human beings being treated like HUMAN BEINGS.

What, he can't use the speech to make a point about wanting to be treated like a human being just because he's white???

I don't get what you're trying to say here and I am not sure I like it.

Also what is this doing in the racism tag??? You think it's racist because...a white person used a black man's human rights speech to make a point about another marginalized group that HE belongs to? Are you for real?

[lilenth]

MLK made plenty of far more relevant speeches later on in his life about economic equality that could have been used. He didn't give just one speech in his entire life.

Using his African American I have a dream civil rights speech though?

No, it's racist because it's privileged and inconsiderate move.

[xenaeilonwy]

Well, he probably chose that because it was his most famous speech and it was the one he knew right off the bat. EVERYONE knows that speech, but not everyone knows any of his others.

[velum_cado]

I'm actually not entirely sure that MLK himself would have a problem with his speech being used for this cause, tbh.

[lilenth]

The thing is he made plenty of other speeches that weren't on PoC civil rights (he was a economic equality campaigner in the latter part of his life long before OWS) and which would have been far more suited.

[tovasshi]