Martin Luther King Jr. Exploited, Not Celebrated

www.JackassDemocrats.com ^ | 1/17/2005 | Blake Elliott

[carolinacrazy]

On a day meant to celebrate a great man and his legacy, all Americans should be grateful. We should all be grateful for our freedom, for our quality of life, for our neighbors, and for this entire country we call home. Yet every year new outcries of inequality and hatred arise on this day. What a shame for Dr. King’s legacy.

[carolinacrazy]

I wonder if MLK would have supported the ACLU in their fight against the belief in God. JackassDemocrats.com

[newzjunkey]

Exactly why I refuse to "celebrate" this fake holiday.

I refuse to support the racially devision megalomaniacs who crave face time because they once breathed the same air as MLK or brought him coffee. Yes, I'm talking about Jesse Jackson and posse.

[hiredhand]

In our house, and many of those in our immediate family, MLK doesn't simply get exploited. He gets IGNORED.

We celebrate General Robert E. Lee's birthday (19 Jan 1807). Granted it's a day or two early, but that's O.K. :-)

[carolinacrazy]

A Confederate General who never owned a slave, and didn't believe in it. Yet the Civil War was all about slavery.....right. Good man. JackassDemocrats.com

[newzjunkey]

I bet many don't think about what "celebrating" this day does. By "joining with" Jesse Jackson and those self-described diciples of MLK and self-appointed "civil rights leaders" in MLK's wake. Their perversion of his expressed vision becomes more and more crystalized as the years since MLK pile up. Wrapping himself in MLK's mythos, Jackson, et al. see that their cashcow of racial warfare politics replaces MLK's own vision. This holiday, the hows, ways and through whom it is "celebrated" is the anti-thesis of MLK's "I have a dream" speech.

[solitas]

Martin Luther King Jr. Exploited, Not Celebrated
When we start seeing advertisements for "marty's day bedding sales" and "marty's day electronic sales" and "marty's day white sales" THEN I'll believe in exploitation. Until then it's as dismissable as kwanza.

Yet every year new outcries of inequality and hatred arise on this day.
Yeah, and WHO's doing the crying and hating? (jesse, al, louis)

[newzjunkey]

Certainly the optimistic and healing words of his landmark speech are worth noting but there's no good born of the "celebrating" of a womanizer and plagurist who has been followed by the likes of Jesse Jackson. Not having been born until after his passing, I don't know if MLK was sincere in the words he spoke or if he was truly close to his acolyte Jackson's divisiveness, continued ethnic oppression and self-appointed oversear role. If you were to take the most positive view of this day, it should not be named for one man but rather be some unified civil rights pioneer's day including the Magna Carta, the work of the Founding Fathers, suffragettes and others. I'm repulsed by the perpetuation of the race war this "black" holiday keeps alive and believe it was a great error of Reagan's presidency.

[hiredhand]

Not to throw fuel on this "fire"....but have a peek at -

http://www.martinlutherking.org/thebeast.html

I can't verify the validity of all the content, but some of it is true.