Posted on 08/30/2010 8:19:16 AM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv
Ben gets jealous when he thinks someone is encroaching on his turf.
I cannot believe how folks here just instantly fall for this canard.
King may have been a registered GOP once briefly....some debate that. His father was for a good bit of his life but he didn’t have much choice then in the south and he wanted to support the party of the Radical Republicans and Reconstruction.
But let’s get one thing straight and kids here need to mine the net or buy some objective books.
Martin Luther King was a near socialist leftist period. Do not fool yourself. There are reams of written evidence from him out there on his views about wealth redistribution.
His pals from then are all leading black far left icons today and to think they all went left when he in reality woulda been a conservative icon is poppycock...yes that’s to you Glenn. (Martin’s niece notwithstanding)
This belongs in the same myth box with JFK was a conservative too.
No wonder the left laughs at us sometimes.
Reagan, Goldwater, WF Buckley and other notable conservative GOP opposed the Civil Rights Act for fear of where it would lead...and they were right in my opinion.
These threads floor me as to how far the left has killed us in the ideology battle to where race pandering, MLK icon status and lauding the very things that led to race polarization here and perpetual victim status for non whites and other “minorities” is celebrated on the culture’s largest conservative forum.
If this is actually true here than one could claim that in reality most conservatives today are actually 1970 era Henry Jackson style Democrats.
Wow, did Ben call that one wrong?
When Glenn played a clip of MLK, the crowd cheered wildly, and when Alveda stepped on stage she got the biggest cheer of the day. Both were amazingly touching moments.
Dr. King basically said: “Pick up your shovels climb on your Asses and I will lead you to the Promised Land.” Then tragically Dr. King was assassinated. The ensuing leaders who tried to take his place said: “Throw down your shovel and sit on your asses this is the Promised Land.”
Get the picture?
Noting that a majority of Americans below the poverty line were white, King developed a class perspective. He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for "radical changes in the structure of our society" to redistribute wealth and power.
"True compassion," King declared, "is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 — a year to the day before he was murdered — King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
From Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America, King said, the U.S. was "on the wrong side of a world revolution." King questioned "our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America," and asked why the U.S. was suppressing revolutions "of the shirtless and barefoot people" in the Third World, instead of supporting them.
In foreign policy, King also offered an economic critique, complaining about "capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries."
Sounds more like Barack Obama than a Conservative icon...to me anyhow.
The NAACP’s can’t exist unless it tries to hijack ownership of MLK’a legacy because that would render the NAACP irrelevant.
It kind of reminds me of the scene in “White Men Can’t Jump” where Wesley Snipe’s character riding along with Woody Harrelson and his girlfriend in their car listening to Jimi Hendrix is trying to convince Woody that he is only able to “listen” to Jimi Hendrix, not “hear” him. Then Woody emphatically points out that Hendrix’s band was all white.
1. ... heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. There is not a single hotel in all of America that turns away paying customers on the basis of race today.
2. ... the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. basic mobility is limited only by the limits one puts on oneself by refusing to get an education and seek employment.
3. ... our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." The only place you see "For Whites Only" signs are in history museums.
4. ... a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. Voting Rights Act has given minorities not only the right to vote but has even been abused by the courts to ensure that "minority-majority" voting districts are created.
5. ... until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." (OK well this one won't happen until Jesus returns to earth to set up His Kingdom and kick all the unrighteous out.)
Based on Dr. King's speech, I think if he were to address both Rallies, to Beck's crowd he would say
"we are closer than ever to the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:and to the al $harpton crowd, I think he would say:My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.and not only that, but also to that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.I believe Dr. King would stand with his neice rather than al $harpton.You have overcome so much, you must now throw off the shackles of bitterness and victimhood, and leave the plantation of those who would keep you dependant on the largesse of government welfare. Claim the freedom that is available to you.
Regardless of what other statements King made, what was at issue here was his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, which was — regardless of any other views he held or statements he made — an excellent speech and is widely viewed as a critical turning point in the civil rights history of our country.
yep...nearly all third world populist uprisings and independence movements were leftist by their very nature
I wonder if his middle initial is B.
Sounds like a communist, he did then(I heard him)and his words still do now. By barefoot rebels he meant communists.
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then pray tell how come you and I realize King was a socialist at best yet he is revered by Beck and many here too as well as the legislation King had no small part in spawning.
the most telling King years are the 5 before his death
if this is the new conservatism folks want to replace Obama’s leftism then I’m hardly impressed
it’s astounding...are some freepers so uninformed or just scared to criticize such a vaunted media creation
folks just have to have a black icon then look further
I see upthread that a fellow freeper “applauds” Beck’s reference to “Dr.” King
nothing short of incredible for a conservative forum...I am speechless
Probably they didn’t live through those years and hear King first hand, if they had they would realize he was just another leftist trying to take this country into communism.
it also shows how the culture has trumped us
why does Beck do this?
he’s almost a boomer...right on the line I think
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