Posted on 01/19/2014 10:57:32 PM PST by boknows
Edited on 01/20/2014 1:04:31 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
One of the easiest things to forget about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is that he was just a person. One of the most influential people of the 20th century, no doubt, but a person with unique flaws and quirks that made him different from the Christ-like figure he’s often portrayed as today.
At the time of King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, he was still the personification of the civil rights movement in the United States. But those near him said he appeared to have lost a step, in part because of conflicts in his inner circle of advisers and a growing estrangement from his former ally President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.
Five years after his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, though, and 40 years before the first African-American became president, King stepped onto the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.
King was on the balcony sneaking a cigarette
When racist assassin James Earl Ray aimed his rifle sight at King, he almost certainly saw the civil rights leader doing something King's children never saw him doing: smoking. King was a lifelong smoker, although very few – if any – pictures exist as proof because he never smoked in public. King didn’t want his family to know about the habit.
After King was shot, his advisers stopped the bleeding while one of them, Dr. Billy Kyles, removed a pack of cigarettes from King’s pocket.
The Kennedy brothers allowed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to wiretap King
Excerpt, more at ibtimes.com
I was just gonna say “don’t go dissin’ Lassie”! LOL
Lol..yeah that was pretty funny. :)
I have a relative who is totally wrapped up in the King Legacy. He claims to be a Christian and draws strength from his life. I question how a serial adulterer who cheated on his wife can be a moral role model for anyone.
Must have gone to a public screwel. Columbus was not an American. Nor was St. Valentine.
But it’s ok to smoke pot.
The weakness of mankind
We should have big Italian feasts on Columbus day.
He didn't know squat. And if he were alive today, he'd have his hand out with the other race hustlers. It's a stinking shame that he's a role model whereas Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice are looked at with skepicism and/or contempt.
Hey, lighten up Francis.
The worst thing you can say to a leftist moron is:
"Martin Luther King was a Republican."
He was a Ho Chi Minh sympathizer
That he dallied as GOP in college is inconsequential
Do we want NVA supporters in GOP
We have one in the white house and state dept already
King was no conservative...better than the black beret crowd I guess I’ll give him that
But more effective.. hence dangerous
Also plagiarized his name...His real name was Michael, not Martin...
That's not what his famous quote stated. What's the content of your character?
LoL
That’s it
Praise the holy dead man
Ignore that magnus..Buckley...and Barry all saw right through him
The segregation, Jim Crow laws, and racial inequality he opposed were even more deeply flawed than he was.
You would have liked belonging to the group he formed - the Junto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto_(club)
There are a few junto clubs today located in e.g. New York, London, Silicon Valley. They’re modeled after Franklin’s original club.
That famous quote was just window dressing on his writings
Why was he in Memphis?
Push for more pay and Union rights for black garbage workers.....and bring attention and funds to his “struggle”
Which had slowed to what’s next....we got the vote and all this groovy legislation....that still plagues us
Not voting rights or lunch counters
Read Kings words....those he didn’t borrow..... he was a lefty who spoke sweet
Remind you of anyone
Did you ever see the movie about the Founders and Ben? I believe it was made back in the late 80’s. He was sleeping at the Constitutional Convention and they couldn’t wake him... until they told him they were going to a pub to eat... and there would be whiskey and women... he was up and out the door first!
Yes, but not Jack@$$ nor Sharptongue.
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