Posted on 05/27/2019 2:07:06 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
They are going to have change a lot of street names!
King County (Seattle) - my home - might get to keep its name.
The county was originally named for William R. King, an obscure slave owning Vice President under an equally obscure President Franklin Pierce.
Around 2005, the legislature and governor officially changed the designation honoring William King to Martin Luther King.
But, we still have a problem....
Around that same time, the always energetic King County Council decided to change our official county logo to an image of Martin Luther King - which appears on almost all King County forms, stationary, etc.
My prediction - the MLK “rape tape” will be declared a hoax, and nothing will change at all.
This is all true..and in fact, many of us had heard about it during his lifetime- but let it go. MLK was a plagiarist, a womanizer and probably all sorts of other things. But he said some good words, and actually is now hated by the black establishment for having said them.
So we need to just let it go. There’s more important issues out there.
Thanks!
They wouldn’t disparage Malcom X like this.
There’s a few black Kings that could take over for a deposed The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther. B.B. or Albert. Maybe Rodney.
He was a tool of deep state and the NWO.
Valid point.
The MLK Blvds could just go back to their old names. Sort of like Leningrad went back to being St. Petersberg.
Oddly enough I believe King had been GOP, as were most blacks pre-FDR, although I don’t know if he change his registration before the end. It appears he didn’t walk the moral majority walk. I recall hearing rumors about such before his assassination and I was only 10 then so they must have been widespread.
Anyone and everyone with a keen interest in ML King or Civil Rights knew King was a serious poacher by the late 1980’s.
https://www.amren.com/news/2018/01/martin-luther-king-jr-plagiarism/
Ugliness approaching on the near horizon.
I never knew much about King until they added the holiday.
We studied the traditional older names like Booker T. Washington, Tubman, Douglas, etc.
Give ‘em names like “Crippen” or “Bloodworth”...
Jimmy Carter is a lifelong Baptist. That denomination has a strong historical association with the Democrat Party and with political “liberalism.”
Being traditional amd moralistic does not equal being conservative. Carter is traditional and moralistic; he is far from conservative.
Old Saying in the South, to a newcomer to town:
So, are you a Baptist or a Republican?
I have known much of this since the 70s. That is why I have long refused to revere MLK.
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