YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Does most of the left even know that MLK was a registered Republican?
guess because Glenn Beck is white?
NAACP is out of touch and maybe not worth honoring?
They did at the time, why would they not do so now?
Hey! Jealous and Sharpton were right next to Mitt Romney’s dad when they marched with Dr. King!!
We’d “applaud” his speech, taken at face value.
I’m not saying that he was a hypocrite,
but I AM saying that any modern day race baiter
that holds up MLK as the standard IS a hypocrite,
because they certainly don’t seek the day when
people are judged by their character and not their color.
EVERYTHING is about race to them.
Sorry Ben, but the race card just AIN”T what it used to be.
So what does God say?
So is Al Sharpton with God ... or against?
Is Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR, THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF, Christian?
Well, IS HE?
Does Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR OBEY God about taxes and insure that 80 percent or
Does Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR OBEY God about other religions and not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works:
but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
... make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me:
for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.?
Does Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR encourage us to humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways?
Or does Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR work according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience?
What sad bunch of angry people.....
To understand this loser’s reaction to the 828 Restoring Honor rally, you have only to look at his last name. Sharpton’s rag-tag little band of counter protesters barely broke 300 in attendance, while Beck’s garnered anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000, according to estimates.
I’ve read elsewhere that the crowd at the Restoring Honor rally was “only” about 3-4% black, meaning that anywhere from 9,000 to 12,000 were in attendance at Beck’s rally - more than 30 times as many as at Sharpton’s, in other words. Little wonder the the NAACP prez is Jealous.
Dr. King's speech moved me deeply when I was not quite 12 yrs old...
And moves me this very day to consider his proposition:
THAT:
It's not about the color of one's skin...
But the content of one's character.
'nuff said...
Keep up that racial divide there, Benny.
The hate mongering, race-baiting, racists have a bad case of crackerphobia after Beck’s gathering of loyal Americans. Expect them to rally behind the slogan, “Beat Whitey,” because the hatred the left is stirring up can only be satisfied with ignorant violence.
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.