Comments on: Fun Theory and the Ethics of Marketing http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/2009/10/15/fun-theory-and-the-ethics-of-marketing/ Politics for Real People Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:33:26 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mzalia http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/2009/10/15/fun-theory-and-the-ethics-of-marketing/#comment-293 mzalia Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:26:44 +0000 http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/?p=1397#comment-293 Joe: Nice start. My 'cog' was to embrace a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. That was in the 1960s. How could a person identified by others as being Black/ Negro/Colored not be estatic about Martin Luther King, Jr., as my leader. Having been in the U S Army in Germany when King came on the scene in 1955 I can assure you that King was NOT my leader. For the past 54 years I have stood against this characterization. I believe that I have the right to define myself as I choose. Some say I do not have a place in America if I chose to reject the "King is your leader" characterization. I am part of a community of fellow travelers. I reject, as the late scholar Ashley Montagu and contemporary intellectual Dave Unander of Eastern University, PA, did the bifurcated and socially corrupt notion of race with reference to humankind. Keep on pushing... Joe: Nice start. My ‘cog’ was to embrace a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. That was in the 1960s. How could a person identified by others as being Black/ Negro/Colored not be estatic about Martin Luther King, Jr., as my leader. Having been in the U S Army in Germany when King came on the scene in 1955 I can assure you that King was NOT my leader. For the past 54 years I have stood against this characterization. I believe that I have the right to define myself as I choose. Some say I do not have a place in America if I chose to reject the “King is your leader” characterization.

I am part of a community of fellow travelers. I reject, as the late scholar Ashley Montagu and contemporary intellectual Dave Unander of Eastern University, PA, did the bifurcated and socially corrupt notion of race with reference to humankind. Keep on pushing…

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