It comes down to intelligence. If you want to fight the leftists in the Civil Rights movement, then you must first stop the situation that has created the movement. In other words, quit beating your wife so the neighbor cant seduce her.
Your zeal against leftism is meaningless without racial equality. Because the left can easily use that injustice as a petri dish in which to grow, and from which to blossom forth.
And I call BS on King pushing affirmative action, and racial reparations. Ive never heard a single word that he thought blacks should get quotas, special advantages. And he never called for financial reparations.
And yeah, Heston is a pretty good arbiter. I make up my own mind too. And I really like it when I discover people I respect are there beside me after I decide what I think.
I have no use for leftists in the "Civil Rights movement" nor or anywhere else.
Either you are anti-leftist, or you aren't. You don't get to pick and choose certain pet radicals.
"Your zeal against leftism is meaningless without racial equality."
Don't hand me that politically correct garbage.
" Because the left can easily use that injustice as a petri dish in which to grow, and from which to blossom forth."
What "injustices" do you mean? Examples, please.
"And I call BS on King pushing affirmative action, and racial reparations. Ive never heard a single word that he thought blacks should get quotas, special advantages. And he never called for financial reparations."
Oh, I'm sure you want to call BS on it, because you're all swept up in the King cult and you want to stay there.
Regardless, in his book A Testament of Hope, King wrote: "This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of human personality -- that is the dream.
In King's 1965 Playboy interview, he said that granting equality only to blacks wasn't enough to close the racial gap. He called for a $50 billion government compensatory program.
And in his 1961 speech to the AFL-CIO, King voiced his support for "economic justice."
"And yeah, Heston is a pretty good arbiter. I make up my own mind too. And I really like it when I discover people I respect are there beside me after I decide what I think."
If you were thinking, you wouldn't be a fan of a leftist radical like King.