MLK Day, 2005

Men's News Daily ^ | 17 January 2005 | Nicholas Stix

[amosmoses]

You criticized MLK on his b-day? You racist, archie bunker, former grand wizard, uh.. uh.. nazi sympathizer, homophobic, abortion lover, crusader, pro-Franco, conferderate flag waving angry white male!!! sarcasm

[pissant]

Isn't the author of this piece a member of Motley Crew?

[7.62 x 51mm]

That's precisely why I celebrate Ben Franklin's birthday on Jan 17th, instead of the King fraud. He's as phony as Kwanzaa is.

[andie74]

I feel for the author of this piece. Aren't facts hate speech? /s

[bencarter]

tacky

[The SISU kid]

That's precisely why I celebrate Ben Franklin's birthday on Jan 17th, instead of the King fraud. He's as phony as Kwanzaa is.

Poor Richard B-day BUMP!!!!! 8^)

[Texagirl4W]

I've heard that he was born as Michael King. He never formally changed it to MLK, Jr. That person never existed. So we have a bogus holiday to someone who never was. Go figure.

[xcamel]

You missed the "Card carrying Socialist" badge of dishonor.

[Innisfree]

Over 100,000 men and women currently in uniform in Iraq also display great physical courage every day, and the vast majority of them seek to defend, not to destroy America. And yet, to my knowledge, none of them has had a national holy day enacted by Congress in his honor.

By the same token, you could hardly find a scholar at Harvard whose works weren't plagiarized to some degree. Why is Mr. King to be singled out and pilloried?

There's something about a man with great physical courage and thus great integrity that inspires the enmity of lesser men: the green-eyed monster, I suppose. Mr. Stix doesn't have as much courage in his entire body as MLK had in one fingertip.

A Christian doesn't cast the first stone. Jesus said, there is no greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for a friend. Until you have MLK's courage, you haven't the right to criticize his petty failings.

[hushpad]

The one thing I remember about MLK is that he was a great Civil Riot Leader. Wherever he went, riots soon broke out.

MLK day should be called what it really is: "Pacifying the Black Lobby Day" instead of placing a race-baiting, white-hating, criminal on a pedestal

[dfwgator]

It's back. The most important day of the year. More important than the deposed Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, respectively. More important than Columbus Day. More important than Thanksgiving. More important than Christmas.

But not as important as Barack Obama Day is going to be 50 years from now.

[xcamel]

There are a thousand Men and Women of far greater courage of conviction then MLK. From the founding of this country, to the current day. Men and Women known by quiet demeanor, and great deeds of courage and compassion.

The "memory" (grand delusion) of MLK dishonors them all. - Then again, the "Dream" is the result of an infinite capacity for self-deception.

[xcamel]

There are a thousand Men and Women of far greater courage of conviction then MLK. From the founding of this country, to the current day. Men and Women known by quiet demeanor, and great deeds of courage and compassion.

The "memory" (grand delusion) of MLK dishonors them all. - Then again, the "Dream" is the result of an infinite capacity for self-deception.

[July 4th]

Well, for Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee's birthday. Talk about "confederate flag waving!"

[Capagrl]

I feel much the same way about Columbus Day (at my house, it's just referred to as mass murderer day). Of course, the blacks seem to feel the same way about President's Day celebrating slave owners like George Washington.

There are always multiple views of any issue. I am not in favor of a day devoted to one person who had a loud voice in a turbulent time - and if the beating of his mistress, etc. is true, I'd equate him with an eloquent version of Mike Tyson. Perhaps the day should have been coined as a celebration of integration?

Thanks for the very interesting, thought-provoking post!

[Proud2BeRight]

Happy Holidays and seasons greatings. Sorry, political correctness does not allow mentioning the name of a man of the cloth. You know, separation of church and state. :)

[joesnuffy]

[Malesherbes]

Republicans are branded as "racists" simply as a ploy to cut off further discussions of such subjects as immigration, culture, language, and anything else that liberals want to avoid. We are told, for example, that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (both slave owners) were racists. Therefore, their rhoughts were tainted, and Washington is certainly not entitled to a national holiday like MLK.

A racist is someone who sees everything through the perspectice of race. Several contemporary examples come to mind: Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.