Unfortunately, he didn’t get to vote.
Nope. He’d have done a Colin Powell and voted for Barry Soetoro. No doubt about it. Besides, he was a preacher who a) cheated on his doctoral dissertation b) cheated on his wife pretty regularly and c) hung out with known communists. He knew that white America wouldn’t buy his real agenda, so he did a good job of hiding that stuff. One step at a time like the tool that he was... What he said about equal rights was good as far as it went. For the rest of the story see how his pals Jesse and others now use the grievance industry to get rich.
WE DO NOT KNOW for whom Martin Luther King would have voted in 2008. WE DO NOT KNOW if he would still be pro-life. Je$$e Jacka$$ was, once. No longer. Association with the demoncRat party corrupted him. So ... let the man rest in peace.
I very much agree with this.
The problem is, that is not what is is wanted right now.
We have quotas, affirmative action, and it's ilk. Those things are very divisive and racist.
They seek to judge someone only by the color of their skin.
Too bad he didn’t live the Gospel that he preached.
If “Dr” King really lived the word of God do you think that: he would have been a plagiarizer?
An adulterer? A communist??
The message of equality and civil rights for all was great and noble, but the messenger was not all that they make him out to be.
I’m not sure I agree that MLK wouldn’t have voted for BO. I know a lot of Blacks who are very socially conservative,but their social views were overridden by their desire to see a black elected POTUS.
On the one defining issue of his life, however, the man was absolutely right: equal rights under the law for African-Americans was a moral imperative; his efforts were instrumental in making the achievement of those rights, and ultimately cost him his life. As President Lincoln might have said, it is altogether fitting and proper that we honor him.
As for Barack Obama, he has done nothing yet of substance to share even a fraction of the respect we annually pay Dr. King. My hope for his Presidency is that he grows and learns and does so in a damned hurry.
Others in MLK’s family didn’t vote for B.O.:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2123207/posts
Martin Luther King Jr. was never a Fundamentalist chr*stian at all. And aside from desegregation (something that should have been done a hundred years earlier) he was neck deep in the most radical causes of the time (he even received an award from Planned Parenthood, I believe).
King was not pro-abortion only because abortion had not yet been legalized. He was not pro-homosexuality only because that perverted cause had not yet risen out of the sewer (though his widow and most of his family championed both these causes). He was, however, pro-Communist when it came to Vietnam.
It is an almost supernatural situation. The Black masses of the country, who on the outside appear to be very similar to the rednecks (ie, religious fundamentalists, not too terribly intellectual, and been here longer than anybody else) have for over forty years accepted as a leadership only people who hold the most radical positions across the board. Their beloved "leaders" (like Obama) endorse homosexuality and abortion and they don't hear a word. Their atheist and homosexual "friend" ridicule the religion which Blacks allegedly practice and they are deaf, dumb, and blind to it. Liberals poke fun at Sarah Palin for allegedly speaking in tongues and Black Pentecostals apparently could care less. Is it possible that they are that ignorant? I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe. If the Black community were not as a whole complicit in across the board radicalism then there would here and there be a Black politician who, however liberal on race and poverty issues, would be conservative on social and moral issues. But no such politicians exist (and those who become Republicans or identify as conservatives and then get pilloried for it only prove this).
I have come to believe that most Black preachers, despite their wannabee-hillbilly-snake-hander preaching style, are just a bunch of Jim Joneses who are nothing but atheists. As Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson has said (and I don't agree with Rev. Peterson on everything), most Black preachers have no relationship with G-d and are leading their congregations to hell. And as another FReeper observed a while back, most Black churches aren't churches at all; they're racist societies that preach "the gospel of black" while posing as churches.
During the late Forties Stalin forced Ukrainian Catholics into the government-controlled Russian Orthodox Church (the Moscow Patriarchate, not the Church Abroad). As Bishop Ware admitted, in that instance Orthodoxy benefited from the persecution of fellow chr*stians. For forty years Black "chr*stians" have benefited from the radical secularization and demoralization of America and from a war raging against their own supposed religion. In G-d's Providence this cannot and will not go unpunished (and it won't be by any "rednecks" either).
There was a time when I would have been willing to believe that most Blacks are still religious fundamentalists who are misled by authorities they trust. But there is no freaking way they cannot be aware of the hideous things the politicians they support stand for. There is such a thing as collective guilt. After all--and I say this in all sincerity--the very situation which I am describing and complaining about can only be G-d's justice against American white "chr*stians" for their shameful attitudes of past centuries. So there is no escaping G-d. And one day His wrath will be turned from one community of hypocrites to another.
In the meantime, perhaps we should offer to collect all the Bibles from Black churches so they can replace them with Origin of the Species. After all, it's only logical that Blacks celebrate Charles Darwin as well as homosexuality and atheism!
I wish you were here, Widey.