[No One Special]

Dated, perhaps only by the date of publication. Submitted for your perusal, consideration, approval/disapproval and comments. :-)

[svcw]

There was a reason the Kennedy administration was investigating MLK, and continued to the next administration.
I remember cartoons on op-ed pages calling him a communist (by implication), op-eds that called him a rabble rouser, he was not well liked.
I KNOW it is very callous, however in this country if someone is assassinated all their flaws and extreme political agenda ideas are candy coated or removed all together.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

King WAS a Marxist, or close enough that you'd never tell the difference. To me, the fact that his concerns were valid doesn't justify his methods of correction, but trying to tell that to the average TV watching couch potato is a waste of breath.

American freedom is probably on the rocks, but I won't have it said that I died without a fight.

[beaversmom]

Why do people, even some on FR, say that he was a Republican? I always had a feeling that was a bunch of B.S.

[Cowboy Bob]

It is my understanding that there were prostitutes in his hotel room the day he was shot.

Can anyone confirm or deny that (with verification)?

[wardaddy]

Amen to confronting the whole charade

No one will touch....look only a few replies

Folks prefer to believe the lies...

Rush...hannity...beck worst of all

No wonder they are all silent on Mittens

Only more nauseating myth is the one over urine drinking little girl loving Ghandi

[Humidston]

Finally someone has the courage to speak the truth! I am old enough to remember these facts, and I’m frustrated when I see all this hero worship.

But hey, who are we to question the New Normal anyway??

[Olog-hai]

I’m still waiting for “The Nelson Mandela You Don’t See On TV” . . . you know, the hardcore communist terrorist whose legacy is in play in South Africa right now, turning the country into another Zimbabwe with its anti-white reverse-apartheid policies that are turning former breadbaskets into deserts, as well as creating a rape culture where a quarter of women will be violated in that fashion and nothing done about it and a culture of anti-white murder in general . . .

[SpaceBar]

By the authors’ comments at the end of the (1995) article, it sounds like they’re dissapointed King didn’t get a chance to release his barefoot hoardes.

[zeestephen]

Important to remember that the two greatest Black celebrities during 1965-1968 were MLK and Muhammad Ali.

Both of them loudly and vigorously opposed the Vietnam War.

This had a profoundly destructive impact on millions of Conservative whites who respected both these men.

In that time period, a solid majority of Americans supported the Vietnam War as the final line in the sand we would not allow a Communist government to cross.

Although war deaths were many times higher than Iraq and Afghanistan, the anti-war movement was confined to the usual Hard Left colleges and cities.

Then, anti-war and Marxist politics went vividly and shockingly on display during the Black Riots in 1968.

The angry political schism between American Blacks and the Republican Party can be traced directly to this period.

[elvis-lives]

“Dated, perhaps only by the date of publication. Submitted for your perusal, consideration, approval/disapproval and comments. :-)”
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Must be duplicated from print. The article dates January 1995 at Fair.org, but the Internet was not popularized until 1996.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

And Obama's nomination for this generation's MLK: Van Jones.

Mr. Jones said (threatened?) that "2012 will be a turbulent, exciting year. It's important for us to get together and get ready."

turbulent adj. Violently agitated or disturbed; tumultuous: turbulent rapids. 2. Having a chaotic or restless character or tendency: a turbulent period in history. 3. Causing unrest or disturbance; unruly: turbulent, revolutionary undercurrents.

Or as the Van Joneses used to say in the 60s "Take ten!"

Given the myriad racial attacks like that on the 14-year-old girl in Portland, Oregon, maybe today's rallying cry would be "Take it to the MAX!"

Note: As I recall Van Jones said that something was going to happen about a month before OWS hit the fan. He knows.

Why talk about this? Let me ask, Who talks about this black-on-white violence -- except the mayor of Philadelphia, the only Democratic Party member that has been reported as denouncing the attacks. What are we? Punching bags?

-- and don't say that well, in the 1960s it was just the opposite. No! it was not. I recall Cincinnati where whites were blocked on city streets, dragged out of their cars and beaten. Some suffered permanent injuries.

[ctdonath2]

A sensible criticism. Notes that MLK did good, then went elsewhere.

[LibLieSlayer]

abc ran a story this morning saying that MLK had unfinished work... to turn America into a communist state by demanding economic justice... aka stalinism. abc wants that result also.

LLS

[Vaduz]

He crisscrossed the country to assemble “a multiracial army of the poor”.
Sounds like what Obama and media are doing.If you make more people poor the greater the army.

[ctdonath2]

Links to transcripts of these questionable speeches?

[AppyPappy]

There is a good reason why his FBI files are not viewable.

[SharpRightTurn]

Another Marxist community organizer.

Someone to look up to by comparison would be Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams.

[CrazyIvan]

His famous “Dream” speech is usually truncated in the same manner. Except for the famous segment who we all know the rest of it is both poorly written and is a thinly disguised attempt to woo his minions by telling them that a “check” needs to be written to them by Whitey. “Follow me and I'll get you reparations” is what it is whispering in the masses ears.

[CodeToad]

In other words, King wasn’t just a fraud but a Communist.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

I didn’t see many Republicans working to end racism in the US back then although they worked mightily to end racism from 1860-1865