King was a leftist...flowery speeches notwithstanding.
Do you truly think all his compadres from that era were so different from him and his own views. We know that all of them except Innis were leftists of the first order and the organizations he started and belonged to were leftist.
Read his speeches and writings especially his last 5 years.
I cannot believe the King worship here...incredible.
What’s next...Malcolm X meant well?
Obama speaks well too and look how that turned out.
King was instrumental in the 1964 CRA which is the vehicle which made possible the very things you now lament.
Just to show you how much FR changes in just 7 years check out this old thread from 2003. Many conservatives now ignore the reality of who King was and just tout his colorblind speech and ignore the realities of the man and they themselves act anything but colorblind as they trip all over themselves for the black vote which never comes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/829049/posts
blast from past ping
Conservatism is about empirical truth from observation and experience and a belief in a higher being and the fallibility of mankind...governing ourselves given our innate nature and being responsible. It has nothing to do with race. You either grasp the notion or you don’t...or just don’t want to especially if you’ve been pandered to for 50 years.
Separate but equal?
Not a student of King, but I was a student in Alabama in 1964.
Would you have left the south as it was, largely unrepentant since Reconstruction, under the state sovereignty philosophy of conservatism?
I believe something needed to happen, and King strove for it peacefully, unlike Malcolm X, et al.
As a Christian who went to a white Christian school ( my parents paid to send me there to keep me away from trouble in the public schools) I saw things that still register deeply.
Tarpaper shacks, separate entrances to stores, dirt poor people in dirty clothes who wouldn’t look whites directly in the eye. This was 100 years after emancipation. But, there was a Christian desire there. King, for all his faults tapped into that and brought about change.
The movement was ultimately co-opted by liberals and the result was the dysfunctional “solution” that resulted in today’s failures with much of that community.
Paint me as you wish; I don’t worship MLK but something needed to happen down there. There really was a repressive system that was institutionalized evil.
King's not a hero. Frederick Douglass is.