Posted on 02/11/2006 9:43:03 PM PST by smoothsailing
Good post. That editorial hit every nail on the head.
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This myopic troll needs to read some history. I've said this before, and I'll say it again: MLK lived in a different world. If you were Black, YOU HAD NO RIGHTS!!! Capitalism did NOT work for majority of Black people. Yes, there were and always had been exceptions, for those in the South, and other parts, it didn't matter how intelligent, hardworking, or educated you were, you were limited in your advancement. MLK's movement changed that, and it wouldn't have happened, magically, on its own. His current torchbearers have lost their way and become power-hungry monsters, but MLK did help break the barriers.
The second sentence "Civil rights largely are practiced but souls are comforted by the security of the plantation. The Democratic Party is a master -- but not a good master" means that many in attendance at the funeral would rather pretend things are as bad as you described in your post (i.e. pre-MLK).
They should have come to celebrate what MLK and Coretta achieved (at great sacrifice), but instead, they chose to use the occasion to piss on Bush, and make insanely inappropriate references to wiretapping.
He was not saying that the pre-MLK days were not bad, and I do not see how you thought he did.
Jimmy Carter the running mate of Lestor Maddox?????lol
The article is spot on.
It appears that readers "see" that which they wish to see.
The gist of this piece was to focus on our former President, Jimmy Carter's disgraceful display of discourtesy not only to the Rev King and his spouse but to our current President, George F. Bush. Such behavior, from a former President , is so contemptible as too almost exceed any other.
Perhaps the next most egregious insult might be your own insistence at disturbing the decorum of these sad and solemn moments with your wild and exagerated depictions on how terrible the state of Civil Rights were in the days prior to the sad loss of Dr. King.
You win no victories or hearts with your lack of self restraint in these trying times.
I think you have either misread the column, or read into it things that are not there.
Please reread.
I'm almost afraid to ask what the F stands for! :)
This paper is one of the best dailies in the country, IMO.
SHOOT!
That's my way of seeong if your reading closely.
Let's see if he notices.
My face is a deep shade of Fushia!
I thoght the reply before mine was so nuch better than mine.
Some people are so good they make you feel your'e wearing a clown suit.
Thanks for the info/opinion. Your word is gold, AFAIC. :-)
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Good article, thanks for posting
We can talk about racial prejudice in our country till our faces turn blue. I grew up seeing some of it in my childhood but the nuts who spoke carried on Dr. King's left-wing anti-war legacy. When he was killed he was on the side of the hippies and Communists. The talk on the street when I was young was that he was a Communist. Evan Thomas did a bio on Bobby Kennedy who is quoted as describing a close King associate, Bayard Rustin as a "pink fairy" (Communist-homosexual). The FBI files that revealed his adultery are sealed until 2027.
When Rev. Ralph Abernathy (King's longtime associate) wrote a book in the 1980's that spoke of Dr. King as "less than a saint" the book was denounced by the family and quickly ignored by the mainstream media.
I've gotten threats from racists for producing news programs reporting on Martin Luther King Day phoned to my home back in the 80's and this is no endorsement of racism, but a simple search for the truth.
Republican party operatives want to use King to gain support and not tell it the way I do. "KKK" Byrd was really nasty towards King over the Vietnam War in the 60's and said things that were bad (Newsfilm still exists of it).
I have to confess that Lowery and Carter carried on the leftwing tradition of King and that Bill and Hillary were appropriate. Coretta, like Hillary, ignored and denounced the revelations of adultery for the sake of "the cause" and "the legacy."
Unfortunately King's example of holding up a mirror to the sin of discrimination and segregation by using nonviolence was disgarded by the radical left and the violent Black Power advocates who were as bad as the Klan. I remember that era and there were other great civil rights leaders like Bayard Rustin and others who without resorting to violence, like King, demanded that America live up to its promise to Black Americans.
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