[jazusamo]

Good post. That editorial hit every nail on the head.

[mcenedo]

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[Clock King]

that Martin Luther King's legacy is far less significant than his acolytes would have us believe.

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.

[JABBERBONK]

Jimmy Carter the running mate of Lestor Maddox?????lol

[nopardons]

What a terrific article..it really nails it; in spades!

[scratcher]

Good article, thanks for posting

[Nextrush]

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."

[Caipirabob]

Mr. Carter -- who fumbled the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis, setting the stage for today's nuclear confrontation -- also found in the blackness of Hurricane Katrina victims evidence that equal opportunity has not been achieved.

Carter also campaigned on promoting a platform of White and Black Segration in order to win the Governorship of Alabama.

"He wanted to appeal to the large middle class, blue collar type, predominantly white, and most of these people are going to be segregationists," says historian E. Stanly Godbold. "Carter himself was not a segregationist in 1970. But he did say things that the segregationists wanted to hear."

So he was against it before he was for it (and campaigned on it)? Sounds about right for a rat.

In a bid to win their vote in the 1970 governor’s race, Carter minimized appearances before African American groups, and even sought the endorsements of avowed segregationists, a move that some critics call deeply hypocritical.

At any rate, Carter wasn't above catering to the lowest common denominator when he needed to.

[jmaroneps37]

When jimmie made his comments about wire taping, he showed that as an old bigoted white man who grew up in a bigoted part of America, he still thinks of Black people as child like. He still believes they can he patted on the head and told anything as long as they go back to the fields, pick more cotton and vote Democrat. This old dope doesn't even realize how insulting and patronizing his comment was.