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.
Did you read his book “A Testament of Hope” yourself, or did you just cut and paste it from some other site where it’s also been cut and pasted?
Did you read the 1965 Playboy interview yourself, or did you just cut and paste it from some other site second or third hand site?
Did you read his 1961 speech yourself, in context, or did you just cut and paste it from another second hand source?
I ask because some quotes used to promote how red he was On the internet are taken not from him directly but from a book written by an agenda driven author who hasn’t been fact checked and in some cases is the only online source. The excerpts from that book are spread all over the internet by the CP, but not in full.
Even if it accurately reflects his views
( and it may because I sure haven’t read them all in full)- if Freepers take a moment and reflect on how easy it would be for a few people to revise history on any subject when virtually no one goes to the cited sources to see if the citations are even real, just simply trusting the author. We’re all guilty of it, but in the old days on FR before the lefties sued the site, and everyone started texting from tiny smart phone screens, we made each other link to their sources so we could read it in context.