I gotta stop you there. That article borrows heavily from the notorious Frances Rice piece published in Human Events back in 2006.
I call it notorious because it was infamously in error and has caused no end of embarrassment for those bragging about how “MLK Jr was a Republican” when it was simply false and based on speculation without references and pure wishful thinking. It has been repeatedly debunked on FR from almost the first day it was published. Reporting such egregious points that Asa Philip Randolph was a Republican showed the ignorance of the author. Randolph was not a Republican, but a Socialist activist who had been a standard-bearer for Congress (from New York) as a Socialist Party member, as had been his wife.
I will not waste my time again going point by point on it. As I stated, it should go down in internet history as one of the most poorly researched flights of fancy and shameful for a Conservative author. That Human Events published it without vetting the facts should’ve caused considerable damage to their reputation, and for Conservapedia to liberally use it as a reference similarly damages their credibility.
I was curious as to your response about MLK’s Merv Griffin appearance and his handling by notorious Communist actor and singer Harry Belafonte. I absolutely believe by his associations and affiliations that anyone could see that the rhetoric didn’t match. By hiding behind the word “liberal” (indeed, stealing the original definition, which was really that of today’s Conservatism), the ultraleft has been able to radically move cultural, religious and political values to their extreme, and MLK was one of those who was doing just that. I believe they ultimately also just hid behind Christian religious cloaks to use it as a vehicle to move large segments of the Black population into their camp. These were all part of a larger scheme by outside forces to divide and destroy the nation.
Well, if it’s actually in error, I’ll have to note that on Conservapedia…
Still don’t understand why he’d make that essay denouncing Christianity and Communism as irreconcilable and especially condemn Communism for it, especially when not even most Closet Communists infiltrating the church do that (I know Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin most certainly don’t do that, and they’re communists in all but name currently). And I still don’t understand why he would be friends with Nixon as early as 1957 if he were a far-left ideologue (especially considering this was after Nixon jailed Alger Hiss, which earned him undying bitter enmity from the far left, even those who pretended to be patriotic anti-Communist people).
“Debunked on FR.”
Ok, has anyone ever found MLK’s voter registration, one way or another?
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.