I was talking with Pop on MLK Day…

My father knew Martin Luther King, Jr., at least to speak to.
They weren’t friends, just acquaintances really; Pop was friends with his brother Alfred (AD), who was closer to his age. But they had all attended Morehouse college, and MLK would periodically return for various events after graduation.

I asked Pop what he imagined MLK would have to say about MAGA.
He replied, "I believe he’d be very disappointed that we let this clown get into the White House, not once but twice…did Martin overestimate the American people ?

I don’t think he could’ve guessed that the country would be going through this again." 🥺

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Magicianzini · M

Again?

It never really ceased to begin with.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Magicianzini When I was a child, there were still public places that legally, only white people could go, with services that only white people could use. Not just restaurants and hotels, but schools, hospitals, theaters, stores…I don’t take for granted the legislation that changed that. The mindset clearly has remained among some people, but it’s not like seeing those "whites only” signs with no one protesting. I said back in 2016 that Trump would take us back to Jim Crow. Never have I hated being right more. 🥺

Magicianzini · M

@bijouxbroussard It was always still there. It never went away. Mindsets don't change in only a few generations.

You're a kind person saying "some" people. I believe it's most. I do believe there are very few who don't hold the mindset, but we're talking less than 2%.

If it wasn't orange boy, it would have just been someone else.

The someone else everyone was waiting for..

bijouxbroussard · F

@Magicianzini Maybe so, maybe this was inevitable. But I know I was able to go places and do things where my grandparents, and to some extent my parents were restricted. People didn’t have to like me, I stopped caring about that as a child when I integrated my elementary school. But I had the same right to be there as anyone, and as I said, I didn’t take that for granted.

I don’t know how old you are or your circumstances with this particular issue, but perhaps you can’t relate.

Magicianzini · M

@bijouxbroussard For me it was never enough to just be "allowed" (and sometimes I haven't been) though I'm grateful to those who fought so I could be .. sometimes. I'm probably not the right person to try to look at this circumstance with positivity. I've been on the receiving end of this far too often in life, and it's something that affects me still on a daily basis. I'm too biased. I can't give these people the benefit of the doubt because it never quit, and I never expected it to.

We're all just seeing what was always still there.

Sorry, again I'm probably just too negative in this one area to deal with this fairly. I don't want fair anymore. I just want true change (but I doubt it would ever be that way in this country.)

bijouxbroussard · F

@Magicianzini You must be a young person, because you’ve had the privilege of being able to decide what was enough, while those of my generation had to get the door open to see any of it. I have these kinds of conversations with my niece.

But people who see no hope stop fighting, and if that’s where we are and why so many didn’t vote in 2024 then we are really and truly screwed.

Magicianzini · M

@bijouxbroussard I believe in fighting.. but I don't think we can do it by voting, not anymore.

By any means necessary ..

This is the only way it will ever be achieved.