Comments on: Slavery as the Starting Point for Freedom http://blackthoughtblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/slavery-as-the-starting-point-for-freedom/ Political Commentary From An African-American Progressive Wed, 27 May 2009 04:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ric Caric http://blackthoughtblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/slavery-as-the-starting-point-for-freedom/#comment-5 Ric Caric Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:02:30 +0000 http://blackthoughtblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/slavery-as-the-starting-point-for-freedom/#comment-5 I clicked through your post on MyDD. What I like about the freedom post above is that it speaks to everyday matters like language instead of universal rights like the right to free speech. We in the U. S. tend to focus too much on "general" rights and not enough on the specific liberties needed to live freely. I also liked your Malcolm X post. My own reading of Malcolm X is that his ideas in essays like "The Ballot or the Bullet" are much more in line with modern liberal traditions than MLK's. And you're very much right. Malcolm X was great at framing issues in such a way that his ideas lined up with modern liberal ideas of all kinds. I clicked through your post on MyDD. What I like about the freedom post above is that it speaks to everyday matters like language instead of universal rights like the right to free speech. We in the U. S. tend to focus too much on “general” rights and not enough on the specific liberties needed to live freely.

I also liked your Malcolm X post. My own reading of Malcolm X is that his ideas in essays like “The Ballot or the Bullet” are much more in line with modern liberal traditions than MLK’s. And you’re very much right. Malcolm X was great at framing issues in such a way that his ideas lined up with modern liberal ideas of all kinds.

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