Posted on 01/16/2017 7:58:07 AM PST by RightSideNews
By Craig Johnson
This weekend marks the 88th anniversary of the birth of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929). It also marks the 119th anniversary of the famous letter, “J’accuse!” It was written by influential French writer, Emile Zola, and published in the French newspaper, L’Aurore, on January 13, 1898.
Zola wrote the open letter to Felix Faure, President of France. “J’accuse” is French for “I accuse”. Zola accused President Faure of antisemitism in the unfair charging and convicting of French Army staff officer Alfed Dreyfus. The charge was espionage, which carried a sentence of life in prison on the infamous South American penal colony, Devil’s Island. Since the letter’s publication, even in English speaking nations, “J’accuse!” has become synonymous with expressing outrage and accusation against the powerful.
My pronouncement of “J’accuse” is against the many “poverty pimp politicians” and “pulpit pimp preachers” who this weekend will lionize Dr. King with their lips while their actions are counter to all that Dr. King stood for.
These speakers will wax eloquently about the greatness of Dr. King and of their great love for him. But, in Dr. King’s April 9, 1967 speech in Chicago, titled “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life”, he spoke of the first dimension being a concern for one’s own welfare that could turn from a healthy self-interest to an ugly selfishness. A love of others only when others proved to have a utilitarian purpose. Let’s examine some of the positions several prominent “Negro leaders” of today espouse and determine if they are “using” the King legacy or are truly in synch with Dr. King’s vision.
“I accuse” these people of cynically using Dr. King, and the cause he fought for his entire life, to cement themselves in power at the expense of other Americans, especially (but not only) Black Americans.
There’s an old saying, “Conquerors divide; but leaders unite.” Dr. King sought to bring Americans together. He often cited Paul in Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”. But, all we hear from Obama, Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan, and other Negro leaders is “hyphenated-Americanism,” and “whitey is greedy, racist, sexist, and a devil.” And, when they ran out of skin tones to hyphenate over, they invented a dozen ways to hyphenate over sexuality.
Dr. King spoke eloquently in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, declaring:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
“I accuse” these poverty pimps of turning every critique of Obama into a false charge that it is not about character, but about skin color. I accuse them of making college admission not about character (grades) but about skin color. I accuse them of denying advancement and learning to inner city Blacks because every institution that seeks to teach them discipline and character, i.e., the family, the church, schools, and coaches, has had governmental pressure applied to forsake character in favor of skin color; and the newest dividing line, change your sexual identity.
Pity the child, of any race, who has to be taught by these government monsters, without a strong father and mother, who are anchored in truth. The men who have replaced Dr. King will certainly not lead them in the ways of righteousness. Dr. King would be appalled at the teaching and government force used to promote a dozen different types of homosexuality, or give your daughter an abortion, or give your son a sex change – without parental notification. But not Obama, not Sharpton, not Jackson (let’s give Farrakhan credit for holding out on that one).
But, perhaps worst of all is the total absence of any prominent Democrat leader (black or white) giving any semblance of even a mention to today’s Blacks, of one of the key attributes that Dr. King, and men of his era always taught -- self-discipline. Again, from “I Have A Dream”:
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. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.In today’s world, where the Oxford Dictionary recently announced that the 2016 “word of the year” was “post-truth”; the type of truth that Dr. King taught has no place with these race hustlers. Again, “I accuse!” Wrongful deeds are not corrected but excused. The cup of bitterness and hatred is not frowned upon but encouraged. Dignity and discipline? “Why you must be a Republican! Get outta here!” And, as for meeting physical force with soul force, today it is turned around. The police officers, school teachers, job providers, etc., who bring “soul force” to the equation are increasingly being met with physical force from thugs who are juiced up on the hatred being spewed by these wicked preachers and politicians, who have 25% of Black America on a literal and spiritual plantation. Teacher beatings and police officer assassinations have skyrocketed and increasing or record breaking murder rates are in many of our major cities. Whenever a major incident occurs, there is no balm put on the wounds, the way Dr. King would attempt to do; but only salt.
You won’t hear very much talk like this as the usual suspects will misappropriate Dr. King, and go on their annual hate-fest, as though all of America is run by Democrat Lester Maddox, circa 1950. And the 10,000 young black men that Farrakhan asked to be ready to give their lives; many of them have a very big chip on their shoulders, and no active father to protect them from Obama and company whispering hatefulness in their young ears.
I pray that the true spirit of Dr. King: loving, compassionate, wise, thoughtful, disciplined, and determined; is still resonate enough to shine in our hearts in spite of who will be delivering most of the speeches.
Craig Johnson can be heard on “The REALLY, Real, Deal, with Brother Craig The Hatchet Man,” Saturdays from 10am to 12pm, EST., at www.820theanswer.com. Brother Craig’s Dr. King broadcast from Saturday, January 14, 2017 can be heard by following or pasting this link into your browser, DROPBOX LINK. For media inquiries or speaker engagements, contact Kimberly@agencyforthearts.com.
We also need a Hiawatha Day or Sacajawea Day or Chief Sitting Bull Day. Why isn’t there a holiday for the American Indians? That’s racess.
And General Robert E Lee, Jan 19.
Here in Virginia we used to have Lee-Jackson Day on the third Monday of January. When they passed the MLK day, it became Lee-Jackson-King Day, which I found hilarious, but others did not.
Lee-Jackson Day was moved to the Friday before.
Martin Luther King, Jr. cheated on his wife and was proved to be a plagiarist. On the plus side, he stood up for civil rights against the evil Democrat party which wanted to keep blacks ignorant, poor, powerless - in other words, they wanted to keep them from becoming Republicans. Yeah, I said it.
He was assassinated. He got a national holiday and a bunch of streets named after him which no one should be around after dark if they want to live a long life.
Emile Zola was an atheist idiot. He also led the fight to clear Alfred Dreyfus against dishonest accusations of treason and spying which destroyed his life.
His death was actually more eventful than Martin Luther King’s: http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/strange-death-emile-zola
He was assassinated. He got a national holiday and a bunch of streets named after him which no one should be around after dark if they want to live a long life.
Sad but true. I’ve noticed in my travels, in city after city, that Martin Luther King Blvd. is located in a bad neighborhood. Not politically correct to say out loud, but sometimes there are inconvenient truths in life.
I’ve heard truckers say that if they want to score drugs, all they have to do is find where MLK Boulevard is.
But he gets a one day holiday all to himself because his skin is black.
We once celebrated George Washingion's birthday and Abraham Lincoln's birthday but they were sent to the back of the bus with all the other presidents to make room for MLK.
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Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed
"It is curious that blacks, the least educated thirteen percent of the population, the least productive,
most criminal, and most dependent on governmental charity, should dominate national politics."
"Yet they do."
"Virtually everything revolves around what blacks want, demand, do, or can't do. Their power seems without limit."
"Courses of instruction in the schools, academic rigor, codes of dress, rules regarding unceasing obscenity, all must be set to suit them, as must be examinations for promotion in fire departments, the military, and police forces. Blacks must be admitted to universities for which they are not remotely qualified, where departments of Black Studies must be established to please them. Corporate work forces, federal departments, and elite high-schools must be judged not on whether they perform their functions but on whether they have the right number of blacks."
"Do laws requiring identification to vote threaten to end multiple voting? The laws must go. Do blacks not like Confederate flags? Adieu, flags. Does Huckleberry Finn go down the Mississippi with the Nigger Jim, or Conrad write The Nigger of the Narcissus? These must be banned or expurgated to please blacks who haven’t read them or, usually, heard of them. Do we want to prevent people coming from regions infested with Ebola from entering the United States? We cannot. It would offend blacks."
"We must never, ever say or do anything that might upset them, as virtually everything does. It is positively astonishing. One expects the rich and smart to have disproportionate power. But America is dominated from the slums."
READ MORE HERE:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/BlackPower.shtml
LOL, but true. For your own safety, avoid Martin Luther King Blvd.
Is there any city with a street named for Dr. King, in which that street runs through a middle class or nicer part of town??? Any at all???
I have often wondered why MLK is a holiday and not, say, Emancipation Day or 13th Amendment Day.
Officially, in some states, Martin Luther King's name is still combined with "Civil Rights" or "Human Rights" or Lee or Jackson in the holiday's official name.
Craig Johnson, tu n'est pas un Emile Zola.
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