4/4/2018 9:34:34 AM · by RightGeek · 31 replies
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Posted on 04/04/2018 12:02:15 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
Hmm, well I think the right looks silly when they constantly bring up King’s name. It is pandering. See, we aren’t really racist because we love MLK! It doesn’t work. The more the right grovels, the more the left and black activists dump on them.
Personally, I don’t think he was all that admirable. From what is reported, he was a womanizer, an abuser, and a plagiarist.
MLK was a proud Christian who despised PC and wanted people treated fairly. No SPECIAL TREATMENT, just fairness.
He voted Republican ever election until he was blackmailed by the Kennedys into supporting them.
MLK would be a proud member of the TRUMP TRAIN if he were still alive today. Infact, he may even have been a solid VP choice for Trump
The Left wants to make King into a new-age, social justice warrior. He was not - he was a Baptist Minister, and if you listen to every one of his speeches, it is a Sunday Sermon. Every speech that I have listened to is steeped in the Bible.
But King was also a socialist in many of his views - on minimum wage, on “minimum incomes” on unions, on reparations in one form or another to blacks, on affirmative action, on the size of the nanny-state, etc.... This is hardly conservative or right wing.
Every man contains contradictions, even more so the most famous ones.
Too many of “his people” have rejected that content of character thing.
Yes, that’s the kind of argument that I’m writing against. I’ve not heard anything re: abuse, but yes, there are allegations of extramarital affairs and of plagiarism. In my view, they are insignificant relative to the good things. I love Trump, but can accept that he’s clearly not been perfect in his marriages, and likely not even in his business affairs.
And yes, appealing to King could be seen as pandering, but I don’t think so. His leadership, and the movement he led, did help correct a certain degree of mismatch between our founding ideals and our actual practices (caused mostly by Democrats not coincidentally). In doing so, in my view, they reinforced the power of those founding ideals, and thus contributed substantially to the greatness of America.
King was turning left the last several years of his life. There’s plenty of interviews out there where you can listen to him regurgitate leftist platitudes.
“society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro.”
But he didn’t actually say “affirmative action” or something.
I agree with you.
I don't embrace MLK in all the things that are leftist about him including his socialist leanings and alleged communist influences, but I do embrace his non-racist viewpoints on race relations.
I do have a problem with the use of him by the Left as an icon. It isn't that I don't think he is a worthy icon, I despise the use of him as a racial cudgel and the way that they use him, which I believe is detrimental to race relations.
From what I know of MLK, his views were largely based in Christian love, not racial hate. But when we see his memory invoked these days, it doesn't seem like there is much love there, and much hate.
Winston Churchill, one of the greatest men of the 20th Century, is a good example of a great man with flaws.
Full disclosure: I embrace his flaws, because it makes him so much more interesting...:) Smokes...drinks...swears...eats bad food...is occasionally stubborn, stupid, dense, and wrong. In other words...he is like many of us!
Now I have. Thanks! That’s a great example of what I’m talking about. We should not cede that territory.
Yes, and the more he turned left, the more unsuccessful and depressed he became.
True, way too many.
MLK was not a Christian. In his own words he did not believe in the deity of Christ, the virgin birth or the bodily resurrection.
His private life was a mess.
Winston Churchill is my favorite person from the 20th Century.
If by “Right” you mean Republican Party and “Left” the Democrats spare me the drama.
The two phony baloney Uniparties were King’s enemies. He worked outside of them like all of us should.
After his death Jesse Jackson talked of a third party but so many people associated with “Civil Rights” sold out to the Democrats and the big business elites in the end including Jesse Jackson.
Too late.
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