TFW white liberals who enjoy proselytizing about race relations from their keyboards, but then they are friends with literal white supremacists and averse racists who: use phrases like "all lives matter" and "IOTBW," (popular with neo-Nazis) among others, tell black people to "move on" from slavery, justify the killing of black citizens, and deny systemic racism.
I'm reminded of the last years of Martin Luther King Jr's life when he was increasingly highlighting the "comfortable vanity" of those Americans who envisioned themselves as supporters of racial progress but were unwilling to take any real action to close the gap of inequality.
He didn't just call out his enemies.
Some MLK quotes that people should remember:
"And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity."
"Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?"
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
"Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn."
"Many white Americans of goodwill have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice."
"Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
"The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just."
"However difficult it is to hear, however shocking it is to hear, we've got to face the fact that America is a racist country."
"There aren't enough white persons in our country who are willing to cherish democratic principles over privilege."
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; It must be demanded by the oppressed."
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle."
"White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change of the status quo."
"One has the moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
"Riots are not the causes of white resistance, they are the consequences of it."
"A riot is the language of the unheard."
"The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class utopia embodying racial harmony, but unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity."
I'm reminded of the last years of Martin Luther King Jr's life when he was increasingly highlighting the "comfortable vanity" of those Americans who envisioned themselves as supporters of racial progress but were unwilling to take any real action to close the gap of inequality.
He didn't just call out his enemies.
Some MLK quotes that people should remember:
"And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity."
"Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?"
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
"Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn."
"Many white Americans of goodwill have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice."
"Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
"The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just."
"However difficult it is to hear, however shocking it is to hear, we've got to face the fact that America is a racist country."
"There aren't enough white persons in our country who are willing to cherish democratic principles over privilege."
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; It must be demanded by the oppressed."
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle."
"White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change of the status quo."
"One has the moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
"Riots are not the causes of white resistance, they are the consequences of it."
"A riot is the language of the unheard."
"The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class utopia embodying racial harmony, but unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity."
