Grassroots Efforts at DL for ACS and FAs, no personal attacks.
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with all due respect to both Dr. King and the labor movement, it really cheapens the contributions he made to American life for all to focus on statements he made before the apex of his contributions to the Civil Rights movement and his death.
Dr. King was a God-fearing man who believed in peaceful transformation of society.
His legacy is as one who challenged and succeeded at changing the status quo regarding race relations that had permeated not just American society for centuries but also many societies for millennia.
I am proud of Dr. Martin Luther King, for his commitment to building a just and equitable society as God intended - even if yet to be fully realized, for doing it in a way that no government could have mandated, and for giving his life in the process.
Please don't belittle his contributions which can only be fully understood by telling the whole story.
Dr. King was a God-fearing man who believed in peaceful transformation of society.
His legacy is as one who challenged and succeeded at changing the status quo regarding race relations that had permeated not just American society for centuries but also many societies for millennia.
I am proud of Dr. Martin Luther King, for his commitment to building a just and equitable society as God intended - even if yet to be fully realized, for doing it in a way that no government could have mandated, and for giving his life in the process.
Please don't belittle his contributions which can only be fully understood by telling the whole story.
Excuse me?
Where did I belittle anything Dr King has done?
And where was Dr King where he was assassinated and what was he doing?
Let me give you a hint, he was in Memphis supporting striking workers when he was killed.
Where did I belittle anything Dr King has done?
And where was Dr King where he was assassinated and what was he doing?
Let me give you a hint, he was in Memphis supporting striking workers when he was killed.
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I am simply saying that the quotes from MLK about the labor movement do not fully represent his life and legacy without what happened after his death.
Few people believe that his greatest legacy is his contribution to the labor movement but rather race relations.
Few people believe that his greatest legacy is his contribution to the labor movement but rather race relations.
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By focusing on one part of what he did that doesn't acknowledge his larger and far more significant contribution to America and the world, you are not being true to who he was.
And, whether you want to admit it or not, there is a whole lot about the modern labor movement including the way the IAM operates that is counter to Dr. King's message.
grabbing onto parts of his message while ignoring others is hardly being true to someone's legacy.
And, whether you want to admit it or not, there is a whole lot about the modern labor movement including the way the IAM operates that is counter to Dr. King's message.
grabbing onto parts of his message while ignoring others is hardly being true to someone's legacy.
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..and what color were the sanitation workers in Memphis? Dr. King believed in unions because they provided a path to equality for all people but esp. people of color.
The IAM has latched onto the legacy of a man who was interested primarily in racial equality and the labor movement was simply a means to accomplish that goal.
People in Atlanta and at DL understand Dr. King's legacy. For the IAM to fail to acknowledge his contributions and to place his messages in their proper context is a travesty to who Dr. King was and what he accomplished.
The IAM has latched onto the legacy of a man who was interested primarily in racial equality and the labor movement was simply a means to accomplish that goal.
People in Atlanta and at DL understand Dr. King's legacy. For the IAM to fail to acknowledge his contributions and to place his messages in their proper context is a travesty to who Dr. King was and what he accomplished.
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you posted it right alongside and with IAM propaganda. DL employees have consistently said they are not interested in the IAM or other strong arm but not at all representative tactics of the IAM or the modern labor movement that Dr. King could never endorse.
Dr. King was a supporter of labor as much as it could lift people of color out of poverty and to a life of equality.
to fail to acknowledge what his real mission was or to distort it to mean something else is irresponsible pandering for votes by you and for the IAM.
you have an uncanny ability to distance yourself from the IAM when you want to including when their members with the support of IAM negotiators do stupid things such as what happened at UA for their ramp personnel.
Oh, and for all the trash you have thrown at DL for changing outsourcing companies, you do realize that is exactly what UA is doing to OO?
Regardless of whether the topic is the Civil Rights movement or UA's contracts or outsourcing, admit the whole truth of the positions you espouse and not just cherry pick what makes for a good message regardless of whether it is true or accurate or not.
Dr. King was a supporter of labor as much as it could lift people of color out of poverty and to a life of equality.
to fail to acknowledge what his real mission was or to distort it to mean something else is irresponsible pandering for votes by you and for the IAM.
you have an uncanny ability to distance yourself from the IAM when you want to including when their members with the support of IAM negotiators do stupid things such as what happened at UA for their ramp personnel.
Oh, and for all the trash you have thrown at DL for changing outsourcing companies, you do realize that is exactly what UA is doing to OO?
Regardless of whether the topic is the Civil Rights movement or UA's contracts or outsourcing, admit the whole truth of the positions you espouse and not just cherry pick what makes for a good message regardless of whether it is true or accurate or not.
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