Bingo!!! You’re right as rain. MLK was a Socialist at least and maybe even a Communist. The Kennedy’s didn’t bug his rooms and phones just for the Hell of it.
The fact that MLK, Jr. has come to represent the ENTIRE face of the Civil Rights movement is a slap in the face to scores of people who accomplished much, those that were trying to do the right thing without necessarily seeking personal glory for themselves, let alone martyrdom to try to equal Christ, which is blasphemous on its face.
What of the heroic Republican federal officials from Reconstruction, for which almost nobody can name today ? Those men had NOBODY to pave the way for them. Even a Black Republican minister and Congressional candidate from Chicago, the Rev. Archibald Carey, Jr., who delivered the “Let Freedom Ring” speech before the 1952 Republican National Convention, has been forgotten (a speech largely plagarized by MLK, Jr). Nobody knows who Rev. Carey is today or what he spoke.
I find it exceedingly distasteful the canonization of someone who was a political opportunist, believer in massive government (which has caused far more grievous harm to the Black community than all the racists and single-digit IQ’d Klansmen could’ve dreamed of in their wildest fantasies), a serial adulterer, plagarist, Marxist sympathizer (sorry, guys, but he was on the side of the Viet Cong, and he didn’t want our people fighting on the side of the cause of pro-Democracy freedom), and an absentee father who sought personal glory at the cost of everything else as a model to emulate.
That may be a harsh statement, but for heaven’s sake, people need to take a step back and look at him from a critical perspective. What exactly DID he ultimately accomplish for the long term ? Can anyone answer me that ? The fact that the Black community has been reduced to a psychological basketcase always searching for the next Socialist Messiah to lead them to the promised land is sad, and continues to be their greatest impediment to success, the perpetual mental bondage. The failure to follow the self-help leaders like Booker T. Washington, who in my opinion may be one of the greatest men in American history of ANY race, who warned against race-hustler charlatans we’ve come to see in the past 50+ years leading the community astray, has been a terrible thing. We should be celebrating and studying THAT truly great man.