17 October 2006

A YouTube Moment

I seem to have "acquired" a number of nutjob BNP supporters in my comment boxes, after the exposé on BNP "terrorists" and I wondered how best to deal with them, then I had an idea.

At YouTube I ran across a great video that nearly everyone appreciates (excluding nutjob BNP types): Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream"

(Hat tip: Habibi)


The transcript (best viewed with a small font):

the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous
joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.


the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the
Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note
check that has come back marked "insufficient funds."

God's children.

This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass
until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen
rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship
our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous
inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and
righteousness like a mighty stream.

battered by storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police
work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

and will be changed.


men are created equal."

together at the table of brotherhood.

will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

of their character.

I have a dream today.

with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition
sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

that we will be free one day.

pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!"

let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let
from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.


Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi - from
every mountainside.

we are free at last!" "


Anonymous said...

I seem to have "acquired" a number of nutjob BNP supporters in my comment boxes,...

Actually, I've left a couple of comments on your BNP related posts. I am not a 'BNP supporter'; in fact, I am not even British, and could not, with confidence, name a single BNP politician.

However, I leave the house occasionally, read the news, and do place value in modern quantitative science, including demographic statistics, which are widely available on the internet these days. And I'm intellectually capable of facing up to facts, and reasoning logically from them. Which, apparently, is not true of you, since in reply you have not made a reasoned counterargument, instead choosing to rely on childish ad hominem ("nutjob").


In terms of deserving equal treatment before the law, of course King was right. In nearly every other way, however, he was wrong. In particular, in terms of innate ability, e.g. the traits needed to succeed in an egalitarian, competitive economic environment, he was wrong -- all people are most definitely not created equal. Methods used to measure these traits are available, and while not perfect (i.e. intelligence tests may not be a cosmically perfect measure of what we call intelligence), they are really very good in one important sense: their predictive value -- people who, when measured, do well are much more likely to also do well in their career (the statistical correlation is quite high). In addition, these measurements yield some interesting results:


Data like this makes it hard to put forth one of the standard cliches like 'discrimination' as the reason for the consistent underachievement of Blacks -- since presumably these black children are not 'disadvantaged' in the usual sense of that word.

BTW maybe you could also exlain what, exactly, pre civil rights America has to do with, say, black criminality in modern Britain? Meaning the disproportionate crime perpetrated in Britain today by Blacks who come primarily from Africa and the Caribbean.

Lastly, regarding the BNP: One thing that immigration of Blacks to Britain is undeniably doing is building up a black criminal underclass -- this is true, as statistics clearly show, whether people like you want to believe and admit it or not. Given this, it is not at all unreasonable to ask what the tradeoffs are -- the advantages vs the disadvantages. This is true of any public policy issue, e.g. here immigration policy. The same goes for other identifiable groups in the UK whose numbers are increasing -- e.g. muslims, where, as I stated before, 1/3 of the families with dependent children have no working adult, meaning the vast majority of them depend on public assistance, i.e. taxpayers, for support. So here again, it is not unreasonable to ask: On average, does more muslim immigration into Britain really make sense?

Anonymous said...

A 'London moment'.

Anonymous said...

Passages from this famous oration were lifted from a speech made by a black Republican delegate, Rev. Archibald Carey, to a GOP convention in 1952.

"Dr" ML King Jr was a serial plagiarist: much of the thesis for which he gained his doctorate at Boston University was coped verbatim.

He was also a fellow-travelling dupe of Soviet communism and a serial adulterer, mainly with white women. He was with a prostitute the night before he was assassinated.

Truly a fine role model for the Negro, and a prophecy of how Negroes would fail to hold their own in an integrated society-- descending into an intellectual, criminal and moral morass while endlessly dilating on ther wrongs and blaming all their sins and errors on The Man and 'the legacy of slavery'.

ModernityBlog said...

it is not unreasonable to ask, why don't you go and trouble someone else (and I am being as polite as I can).

I have no interest in engaging with moronic racists, such as you.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

It seems that counter measures do not work. When all else fails - ERASE usually does the job.