Posted on 01/21/2019 8:22:14 AM PST by NobleFree
Highlander Folk School, New Market, Tennessee.
The school was bought and later re-named by Communists with the neutral-sounding moniker, the "Highlander Research and Education Center".
Here, Communist cadre trained young Communists and leftist activists.
Well said.
To this day his FBI file still hasn’t been released. He was a notorious womanizer. At his demonstrations, many commies, left wingers and socialists were in the front lines.
Great points
Whose resume is more fake MLK or BHO?
A mature, reasoned analysis....thank u!
The only problem I have with Dr. King was his violence against women.
And that he was wrong to give his sympathies to the Viet Cong and side against U.S. troops.
And his Russian/communist sympathies during the cold war.
And his advocacy of a guaranteed annual income for everyone in the U.S.
And for his successful advocacy of giving the federal government more, and more, and more power for just about everything, including local schools.
And for his idea that deployment of federal bayonets would make people love each other.
I don't know that I agree with Jackie Kennedy's statement: "I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man’s terrible."
But then, I don't have the information to which she had access.
Mike King, left, in between classes with fellow travelers undergoing political indoctrination at the Highland Center.
> He was not perfect. But he did preach non-violence and “content of your character” <
Well said. And as Sans-Culotte noted, MLK showed great personal courage.
Every great person had his weaknesses. There is nothing wrong with mentioning those faults. But I find it sad how some people will focus almost exclusively on them. It makes me wonder what their true agenda is.
A good example of that is when George Washington is discussed. He was a man of great vision and courage. But some people will pound the fact that he was also a slave owner. So don’t celebrate all the good Washington did! Let’s instead focus on the slavery thing.
And every year on MLK day, King gets the same sort of treatment.
He was not perfect.
But he did preach non-violence and “content of your character”
Today’s generation has no clue what that means.
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As I learned at the 11 annual MLK Day all day sessions I attended at the university from which I just retired, the other factions including the Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X and H.Rap Brown types considered MLK hopelessly old fashioned and needlessly nonviolent but recognized that his faction was needed to make progress and he had to be honored to keep the movement together for its goals. It didn’t last as MLK was soon gone, of course.
At a session I attended in 2017 the leader showed a white board list of phrases.
The one “All people are equal and should be treated equally and have full rights without regard to race.” was a good thing in MLK’s lifetime but IS A BAD STATEMENT TODAY.
Why? Black people have to have special, extra rights to make up for white privilege and white rights of the past which require reparations and new laws today. “Equal rights” is thus an insult and a call to arms by blacks.
This was a college instructor lecturing students, faculty and staff in a room in a university.
“Equal” isn’t good enough.
Wow.
I’d rather commemorate a truly great man, like Booker T. Washington.
Bkmrk.
The Gaurdian - read no further.
This is from the leftist rag calling itself “The Guardian”. Anything it espouses is garbage.
Peccadilloes? Adultery and plagiarizing are certainly not peccadilloes. And a man who beats up prostitutes is not courageous.
In GA (and AL and TX), one does not register by party. He is a Democrat if he votes in a Democratic primary every two years. And vice versa
King said nothing that people of goodwill didn't already believe.
Yeah, they don’t mention that he was a Republican, either. Whaddya say to that?
How come there no MLK sales today?
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