Posted on 01/21/2019 8:22:14 AM PST by NobleFree
What ever he was, he was charismatic and he said things that hurt the race baiter industry. The left doesn’t like the real MLK any better than they like the real Kennedy. Only blatant rebranding has made them icons of the left.
The message of non-violence and the exhortation for “content of character” belie radicalism. He may have believed in some of the commie stuff (From each according to his ability, to each according to his need which sounds nice until you learn that faceless bureaucrats and elitist leaders decide what you need and what you owe) but true commies have never espoused non-violence.
Definition of Irony: All government welfare programs are closed on MLK Day.
But others had not even thought about. May have changed some hearts.
Who here has advocated that? My point is simply that those who pontificate about "Disneyification" and the-whole-truth are hypocrites in not actually telling the whole truth. As has been pointed out in this thread, we all agree on the ideals of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity of which MLK spoke so stirringly; that doesn't mean everything he said or did was right, and those who would so argue need to be hoist on their own petard.
That's not necessarily socialistic. It could represent a desire to get people back to work.
King was moving with his time. Where he would have gone after the Sixties were over isn't something we'll ever know.
I’d love to see J. Edgar’s REVDOCMLKJR dossier published.
But this is: "We are demanding an emergency program to provide employment for everyone in need of a job, or if a work program is impractical, a guaranteed annual income at levels that sustain life in decent circumstances. It is now incontestable that the wealth and resources of the United States make the elimination of poverty absolutely practical."
Jim Crow needed to die. It had a lot of blind support and it took a very special kind of man to bring it down.
His death broke the back of racism in America. Accuse him of anything you want. God uses who he uses.
BHO’s, without a doubt. Not even close.
Or Fredrick Douglas or Thurgood Marshall.
Pisses me off that we had to bundle the presidents birthdays for this womenizer
He was a radical however the idea of a society where people are judged on merit and not their skin color is worth pursuing. However the modern left are its biggest enemy.
The modern left wants a society where people are given points for being minorities, women, gay, transgender etc And whites especially heterosexual males and christians are given demerits.
The modern left are minority supremacists.
“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” – Where do We Go from Here?, 1967.
Just was at the birthday celebration of MLK at Dexter Baptist Church where he launched the bus boycott. He would have been 90 today. They are still preaching love and non-violence at that church.
“His death broke the back of racism in America.”
And yet, people continue to be hired, promoted, and kept out of certain jobs and schools because of the color of their skin.
The federal government insists on this; and the Supreme Court often approves.
In fact, the Supreme Court disapproves of gerrymandering political districts - unless it is for the purpose of ensuring politicians of a certain color get elected.
Thank you!
I refuse to honor MLK, just as I refuse to honor JFK.
There are plenty of Americans more worthy of honor than those two plagiarists and adulterers.
I don’t care what else he did or preached,
the axiom of judging others by the content of their character and not the color of their skin
struck me and stuck with me as being an obvious truth.
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