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The betrayal of Martin Luther King; Those who claim to be his heirs are reviving racial thinking.
Spiked ^ | August 28, 2023 | Tom Slater

Posted on 08/29/2023 1:42:10 PM PDT by Reno89519

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Martin Luther King's dream is almost lost today with "anti-racism" that is equally as bad and insidious as the racism he fought. I grew up taught and believe in every fiber of my being that we should never judge people by the color of their skin, yet nowadays that is practically the first question asked and we are treated on that first, instead of merit or need.
1 posted on 08/29/2023 1:42:11 PM PDT by Reno89519
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To: Reno89519

Indeed. Just look at the way the lefties Donald Trump for his skin tone!


2 posted on 08/29/2023 1:44:36 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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Before I retired at the university library I always signed up for the Martin Luther King Day events. Starting with the Black National Anthem and proceeding through educational sessions and discussions. About 7-8 hours. Probably 10% or fewer white employees of the university were going to them when I retired. Maybe 75% twenty years earlier.

One session. A young black woman assistant professor stood by a white board and a PowerPoint or Visme screen. She showed examples of old statements.

One was Dr.King saying all people should be listened to equally for their ideas and everyone should have equal rights.

She said: “In Dr.King’s time that would have been a good thing to say back then but today it is not. It does not acknowledge that ‘equally’ doesn’t bring any special weight for persons of color who were traditionally overlooked. Equality means they are still getting less than whites are.”


3 posted on 08/29/2023 1:53:50 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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I’m always make curious by these comparisons of an martyred hero to current trends - and wonder if MLK would have been similarly ‘corrupted’ over time, as his contemporaries appear to have been.


4 posted on 08/29/2023 2:02:24 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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What a bizarre way of thinking. Equality means getting less than whites?

Thsse activist types today have no clue how to apply Dr. King’s message to today’s world.


5 posted on 08/29/2023 2:03:52 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Reno89519

Race baiting and poverty pimping is a multi billion dollar a year enterprise. We Need RACISM!!! to keep it alive.


6 posted on 08/29/2023 2:07:56 PM PDT by eyeamok
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“Equality means they are still getting less than whites are.”

Yup—what she is saying is to get equality a “final solution” for white people is needed....


7 posted on 08/29/2023 2:10:27 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

To them “Equality”, means making whites slaves to “get even”.


8 posted on 08/29/2023 2:10:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

One speaker I saw was a young man who said Dr.King was given respect by more impatient leaders of other factions including the outright Marxist ones. He said they knew he had a role with moderates like Roy Wilkins, Whitney M. Young Jr. and A. Philip Randolph and he met with the H.Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X types each of them knowing that they all had a role to play. The moderates could say “don’t let those hotheads take over” and Congress would listen.


9 posted on 08/29/2023 2:12:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: larrytown

We don’t have many people with the clarity and presence of Martin Luther King today. Actually, none. I can’t think of anyone alive today that I would put in the same category as Martin Luther King.


10 posted on 08/29/2023 2:13:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: cgbg

Unspoken but horrible and true. That game is playing out now.


11 posted on 08/29/2023 2:14:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Reno89519

MLK was a womanizing Communist.


12 posted on 08/29/2023 2:18:37 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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And now it’s time for character assassination. Have at it.


13 posted on 08/29/2023 2:31:08 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Reno89519

Nonsense, King was a Commie coddling Socalist.


14 posted on 08/29/2023 2:32:06 PM PDT by cowboyusa (UA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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King was tied in with Communists. Stanley Levinson was his handler. One great speech does not excuse trucking with reds. Fredrick Douglas and Booker T Washington deserve all honor, not this woman beating, Christ denying, commie loving, social justice false Prophet.
15 posted on 08/29/2023 2:35:39 PM PDT by cowboyusa (UA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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More character assassination. Thanks.

Apparently we aren’t allowed to say anything favorable about Martin Luther King, here on Free Republic. Who knew?


16 posted on 08/29/2023 2:37:22 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Nope straight facts. He led the black community astray with his faulse Social justice gospel.


17 posted on 08/29/2023 2:45:27 PM PDT by cowboyusa (UA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There are a lot of angry people here who crap in everybody’s breakfast bowl. King, FDR. JFK, Reagan, anyone you like or ever liked will be quickly criticized. No one is good enough for them. Some of them will go so far as rooting against conservative candidates in favor of the establishment.

Ignore them. Don’t respond to their venom and trash. You don’t know them and you never have to.


18 posted on 08/29/2023 2:53:50 PM PDT by Luke21
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The only venom I have is that mlk jr was one of the faulse teachers the Book pfJude writes about.


19 posted on 08/29/2023 2:57:37 PM PDT by cowboyusa (UA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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Thanks. There do seem to be some really negative people here sometimes.

It’s hard to seriously discuss the legacy of Martin Luther King, when someone drops these one liners which supposedly cancel out anything the man did in his life.


20 posted on 08/29/2023 3:07:15 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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