[Pelham]

I don’t know that I see any lies about MLK in that piece. I’m old enough to remember King’s speech and to remember John and Bobby Kennedy’s concern over King’s close relationship with two communists, Hunter Pitts O’Dell and Stanley Levison. MLK was very much a political progressive. Beck’s attempt to make him something else is one of the more bizarre exercises in reinventing history that I’ve ever seen.

[philman_36]

Beck’s attempt to make him something else is one of the more bizarre exercises in reinventing history that I’ve ever seen.
One of the more bizarre (and funniest) exercises in reinventing history that I’ve ever seen.
If it doesn't fit force it to.
Too few really know what MLK was really about and he is such a revered figure that pointing out his foibles, questionable background and associations often brings the roof down upon one's own head.
Either way, it doesn't matter. I know what I know and despite the good he did the bad is overlooked way too often.
He was, in the end, just a man and very fallible.

[old gringo]

i can remember when hoover wanted him dead.