http://sfist.com/2008/01/21/2008_martin_lut.php All comments for 2008 Martin Luther King Day Labor Breakfast in San Francisco en-us 2009 SFist_Brock Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:45:53 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss brochtrup@gmail.com brochtrup@gmail.com 60 http://sfist.com/2008/01/21/2008_martin_lut.php#comment-1275760 http://sfist.com/2008/01/21/2008_martin_lut.php#comment-1275760 Comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:08:14 -0800 <p>Every time I make it to work without getting panhandled to, I say a silent little thank you to Alex Tourk.</p> http://sfist.com/2008/01/21/2008_martin_lut.php#comment-1275282 http://sfist.com/2008/01/21/2008_martin_lut.php#comment-1275282 Comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:00:10 -0800 <p>For all the good that Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall and Dr King did for black folks and humankind at the risk of great personal harm including imprisonment, torture and death itself, modern day black folks have erased much of that progress by allowing the criminal element to hide within their neighborhoods, drug dealing to infiltrate their communities and violence to run unabated. You ask me who is to blame for the problems in the black community today and I say it is the weakness and split of the black community itself. Do not blame anyone else for the problems you face. Fix it and make MLK day a worthwhile holiday where people actually respond to it and see it for the struggles and triumphs of all Americans, blacks included. Stand up, take part and fix it. </p>