[baltodog]

I cannot put my finger on, but there is something sacred about the memory of MLK.

I had to write a college essay on his "Dream" speech a few years ago. It is a very profound speech and should be required reading for all Americans.

I really don't care about his earlier years. At this point, I really don't care about his sexual escapades. I don't want my vision of him polluted.

I despise the way his memory has been whored out by the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan, and now, it seems, even his own family.

[HungarianGypsy]

I often wish Martin Luther King were still around to see if he would smack Jesse Jackson (perhaps just verbally, but literally would be good), upside the head.

[candeee]

I can't get passed his abuse of women.

[JimVT]

Today, in these parts all the local, state and federal offices are closed. The politicians, the teachers and students get the day off.....the rest of us are working.

But we can't get our mail, make a deposit, do business with city hall or state government or contact our politicians.

Meanwhile the Burlington Peace and Justice Center is celebrating with a speech by a "former Black Panther leader."

Wow!

I would be more than happy to celebrate the memory of folks like George Washington Carver or Booker T. Washington who did something for all Americans.

[Gottwnz]

What you call "sacred" is that good brainwashing that the government schools have given you. Thats ok though, I felt the same way about him till i learned the truth.

[BluSky]

What part of the phrase we hear at this time of year, that post-marked MLK 'Dream' speech, do the 'democrats/liberals' adhere to, follow and uphold??? "Judge a person by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin" (I paraphrase)

Would seem to me that CONSERVATIVES most likely represent policies that confirm MLK's thoughts and beliefs.

Hypocrisy by the libs:
Quota's
Affirmative action initiatives
anti-Academic Freedom initiatives
anti-Equal Opportunity hiring practices
Number of Black Democrats: Past-presidential admin. Cabinet members
Congressional Black Caucus
NAACP
Others. . . Jackson's Rainbow foundation, Sharpton, Farrakhan, Mosely-Braun, etc. (the list is long. . .)

[eureka!]

"I despise the way his memory has been whored out by the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan, and now, it seems, even his own family."

And the Rat party and complicit press. MLK would be GOP were he alive today and he saw who the "civil rights" leaders claim to be....

[ikka]

At this point, I really don't care about his sexual escapades. I don't want my vision of him polluted.

Well, now you know how the Clintonoids feel about Slick Willy.

[SC DOC]

If you wrote an essay on King's "Dream" speech, you are probably aware that he got much of the content from a Black minister, Archibald Carey, who gave a speech to the Republican National Convention in 1952.

[Carey, 1952]

We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans:

My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrim's pride
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!

That's exactly what we mean — from every mountain side,
let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia — let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for . . . the disinherited of all the earth — may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!

[King, 1968]

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrim's pride
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire!
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York!
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi!
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

[MHGinTN]

MLK would not be endorsing the black genocide that keeps Jackson and Sharpton the darlings of the dnc, that's for sure! MLK had a dream, a vision, a high purpose for this nation ... that America would live up to its espoused values as written in the DI and Constitution. As such, there would always be some faction that would berate him for that dream. Some will continue to do so even though he's in the grave. But as long as there are folks (including this ol' White boy) who agree with his vision for America, where competition is fair, vital to national health, and valued over handouts, MLK is still a force to be reckoned with.

[snooker]

All you really need to know about MLK is Charlton Heston was a big supporter of his.

Use that as a yardstick to see how far his legacy has been twisted to suit the needs of the race hustle crowd.

They have clearly made MLK's vision into a nightmare.

[I got the rope]

I wish he was still alive so that we could see his doctorate yanked out from under him.