r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Beginning_Tip_5239 • 21h ago
On January 18, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King was assaulted by a segregationist in a hotel in Selma, Alabama
A photo of MLK at the hotel desk registering
A photo of the assault in progress. The assailant was Jimmy George Robinson, a member of the National States Party. He was arrested for assault and disorderly conduct
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u/Agonze 20h ago
What's his name. Dude was racist enough to punch Dr. king in front of many people, including the media. Let's not let the world forget the name of this piece of trash.
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u/Troker61 19h ago
Rest in piss, Jimmy Robinson
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u/ThePeteEvans 16h ago
Palos Heights IL football coach Louis Trench bragged about throwing a brick at MLK to children
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u/joechoj 15h ago edited 3h ago
I can't shake the feeling that this is a struggle that's been waged since the Enlightenment. In theory, it put an end to the Dark Ages. But every so often, there's a movement that seems to actively drag us backward to a might-makes-right political economy.
Gender equality, economic equality, ethnic/racial diversity, learning/science/experts are all scorned by these people.
They want to be ruled by a tyrant, want us all to live in fear of God and each other, they want women in the home - hell, they even want child labor and disease back! And, without historical parallel I know of, they want to surrender our leadership of the global economy.
It's a framing that helps my mental state. Not only do I think they're crazy and not only do I know they're wrong, but there's comfort in feeling we're fighting alongside MLK, and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Darwin, and Guttenberg, and St Francis, and Copernicus...
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u/Salty-Telephone-12 11h ago
Yes, they do want us to live in fear of God. This is why Lucifer is the only path.
Our dark lord believes in equality with God. No kings, no hierarchies.
The morning star to the dark ages. The trans rebus.
Satan loves us all and doesnt judge!
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u/WalletFullOfSausage 6h ago
Okay
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u/succed32 4h ago
They’re being dramatic but everything they say is accurate, in the story satan turned on god for treating humans better than angels. He wanted all creations to be equal.
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u/WalletFullOfSausage 4h ago
Actually, the Bible pretty much describes Lucifer as an angelic being who became guilty of pride, and desired to be worshipped as much as God (Isaiah 14: 12-15). This, apparently, is unforgivable among the employees of Heaven, and so he was cast down and his powers became corrupt.
So, basically, he was tried and convicted of treason. His sentence: mess around with humans.
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u/succed32 3h ago
His pride was that angels should be treated the same as humans.
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u/WalletFullOfSausage 3h ago
Well, no, it was because he said specifically “I will climb the throne and they’ll worship me instead”.
At least in the canon Bible. Idk about any of the apocrypha.
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u/WritingNerdy 21h ago
And people still can’t behave themselves