Apple today has honored the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a full-page tribute on its website. A photo of Dr. King is accompanied by a famous quote of his: "The time is always right to do what is right."
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Apple and Tim Cook Honor the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Patrick Henry has none of those things. But he was a great American too. Don't diminish the fact that a foreign country is honoring someone from outside their own culture. It says a great deal. I
I never said it was a national day outside the U.S. I said MLK's words deserve to be posted on all of Apple's sites if they deserve to be on one. If a message of equality and civil rights offends you, well...
Again, my first post never indicated that I'm offended by him, or do not support his message. I actually said it should be. I'm solely talking about the fact that the rest of the world is really not that up to date on when the US has a national holiday. Geesh, don't make such a drama about this, I doubt you have a clue when the Netherlands celebrates King's Day
For the love of god, I wish TC would just stop virtue signalling and at least pretend taking command of his primary responsibility, his company's products, customers, and future vision -_-
Yours was the very first useless comments on this thread.
Apple's celebration of MLK is hardly political, as he is mostly embraced and accepted by American culture these days. It's less politics, and more of a case of decent American values.
Reading a few books does not change human nature, no matter how much you would like to believe it. And looking inward? That's where the problem starts, so what's to discover and find there? I tend not to hate, actually, but find it to be very ignorant and arrogant when someone claims to have zero hatred. It's human nature to hate. The question is, how hard does a person battle that tendency. Sorry to disappoint you, but it never can be fully purged. Just managed.
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This is about all Tim knows how to do. I can see him sitting at his desk most days with a glaze over his eyes, completely lost in his role. And no, I do not "hate" Tim. But he is wrong for this role.
What does any of this have to do with honoring MLK?
Blacks killing blacks is normal human behavior just as whites will most likely be killed by another white person. Humans kill others within their ethnic/social circle at a higher rate.
Sad but true. (You can check the stats yourself)
Black/black crime is not a phenomenon that people love to bring up to downplay arguments of inequality.
Oh and rock and roll was just as controversial in MLK’s day as rap is today.
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Because you are perfect right?
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Yeah, that and other stuff. But....oh boy.... it’s so racist to point this out.
No it is stupid. His faults are well documented every movie and book points out his faults. So what does it have to do with his accomplishments?
Stupidest thing I've read today, I wish Tim Cook would focus on his job instead of tweeting, as if it took more than a minute or two to compose it, if he even does his own tweeting.
And this forum continues to become more and more toxic whenever the opportunity can.
A company is made up of all people.
I'm sure you didn't feel this way with the Think Different campaign featuring more than 4 African American's pivotal to American History, Arts and Rights: Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali, Rosa Parks, Spike Lee, Miles Davis, etc.
Maybe by selling their products in countries that don't respect human rights by their very presence and posts such as today's twitter by Cook and Apple's home page CAN lead to discussion, and changes WITHIN those countries. Ignorance and ignoring those countries may have more damaging consequences than actually participating. Pessimist's Mug my friend ... forest for the trees ... perception. Hypocritism is saying one thing and not trying to do something which is exactly what you're stating they should do ... nothing.
And yes I want a new Mini update ... MBP was just updated less than 6mths ago and it's not yet time in their cycle so stop wining about it cause Apple's never updated a PowerBook or MBP in less than 6mths from the previous iteration.
I think they were assassinated because of what they were doing and what they CAN do ... they gained too much power in the hearts and minds of a large group of people and THAT cannot happen against any particular groups agenda! Hence why we're here now with the current President of the United States of America.
Those are serious issues that get swept under the rug. The problem is in most other cases past indiscretions or wrong behavior no longer gets dismissed. The fact that people didn’t know about it or didn’t care in the past doesn’t excuse most people’s, dead or alive, past behavior.
"Sorry to disappoint you, but it never can be fully purged."
Not disappointed at all. Rather, I'm sorry you feel that way.
Keep working on it. Maybe as you get older, and realize you may not have all the answers, you'll understand everyone needn't conform to your views and assertions.
Apple posted this in the celebration of MLK day. Is MLK celebrated by every country in the world? Back to my question, must every country follow US events?
Of course not. It's not about the event, but rather Dr. King's message.
A big hat tip to Mr. Cook for exercising his prerogative honoring Dr. King and his message.
IMO no one should have the moral high ground here because of the tendency of such a mindset to lead to tremendous violations of basic human rights.
If he's not willing to walk the walk then Cook can shove it where the sun don't shine.
A high horse they ride. Doing the right thing means also not to sell high cost notebooks with keyboards that won’t last long, inform customer in time when they have to slow down devices to keep them running and not after they have been found wrong doing and mainly pay their fair share of taxes. Incredible high margins that generates billons upon billons in the bank. Don’t get me wrong but using MLK for their hyperbole marketing is something I am not sure I can stand.
Hmm. Kind of like you think I should conform to yours on this topic? My point exactly. The hypocrisy and arrogance, though you try to guise it as wisdom, show through.
Well rap has a lot of variety and many stories to tell, not all of it is self indulgent negative misogynistic crap. So he would probably find it interesting. Since he’s a minister he would even be pleasantly surprised to find some Christian rap with very positive messages. He would be proud to see how black culture has influenced and informed most other genres of music and dance over the years. He would also be excited to see all of the careers and success and achievements black Americans have been able to attain since the civil rights movement broke down some of the worst barriers against them.
My own family owes much to black mentors, friends, teachers, doctors, nurses, paramedics, engineers, ministers. The biggest one for me personally was the black woman ob-gyn who saved me and my baby during a labor that developed into an emergency. Dr. King would have been very impressed by her because she was among the first wave of female doctors graduating from med school as well as being among the first wave of black doctors in general, at least in our area.
And because he wasn’t a racist bigot, MLK would be probably shocked and saddened to see the ravages of the opioid epidemic on white Americans.
And if rap music could make him roll in his grave, he would probably get a kick out of “Amish Paradise” by Weird Al Yankovic.
Just like you and I, he had flaws, yes - But these things pale in comparison to the ones he accomplished.
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