What Sarah Palin gets totally wrong about MLK Day and the 'race card' (Must've hit a nerve)

The Week ^ | January 21, 2014 | Peter Weber, senior editor

[2ndDivisionVet]

Always covering for him, always making excuses. She volunteers 1,000 times more then Mr. Photo Op, Peter.

[rktman]

LOL! I’m just guessin’ that he said it’s possible, just possible that some folks don’t like him cause he’s black. He even got that wrong. He’s halfrican-American. Color got nuthin’ to with it there berry.

[Olog-hai]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but King was trying to end a very specific racial divide, and he wasn't really worried about white children being judged by the color of their skin. …

Ending racism is ending racism, Herr Weber. You just called MLK a racist by saying that, Herr Weber.

[BillM]

He’s complaining about his numbers getting worse. I didn’t know he’s been getting blacker!!!

[onyx]

CLICK Yesterday

Happy MLK, Jr. Day!

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card.

~Sarah Palin

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[2ndDivisionVet]

There’s almost nowhere to go but up from 4%. George Zimmerman is 25%.

[jiggyboy]

He rather clumsily works in some of the usual logical fallacies (”She wasn’t alive when King gave his speech”), but doesn’t quite get around to actually saying what he’s pretending that Palin got wrong.

[SoldierDad]

He does hope that "the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." But when he was speaking in 1963, nobody was really keeping the sons of slave-owners away from that table.

Ah, I beg to differ with the author of this blather! The son's of slave owners were certainly being forced to stay away from the table of "Brotherhood" with the "Black Man" during the 60's! Any White man/woman/child found to be cavorting with any Black person was quickly reminded, and often harshly, of the penalty for doing so.

[Pietro]

It was obama that flubbed the answer, he has an excuse for everything.

Palin just called him on it, but you're not allowed to point out the obvious anymore.

[Old North State]

What a ridiculous article. Sarah Palin stated a quote from Martin L. King. Now, exactly what fact did she get wrong? The author is entitled to his opinions of what King did or did not accomplish, but thy remain just that; opinions. King may have chased away white on black fear in the south way back when, but I doubt he would have wanted it to reappear as black on black fear in the streets of modern day Chicago. Obama came visit all the soup kitchens he wants and it will have exactly zero effect on that.

[skeeter]

Dr King didn’t mean that racial consideration should be a two way obligation, apparently.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but King was trying to end a very specific racial divide, and he wasn't really worried about white children being judged by the color of their skin.

So Dr. King was an egocentric intellectual dwarf who only cared about himself and "his people?"

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” 8/16ths White, 7/16ths Arab, 1/16 Black. “

[2ndDivisionVet]

Maybe he has MLK and BHO confused?

[dsc]

“Any White man/woman/child found to be cavorting with any Black person was quickly reminded, and often harshly, of the penalty for doing so.”

Maybe where you lived. Not where I was.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but King was trying to end a very specific racial divide, and he wasn't really worried about white children being judged by the color of their skin

Is Peter Weber suggesting that Martin Luther King Jr. was a racist who only cared about the treatment of blacks?

[MrB]

OK, so this author is saying that MLK was actually a racist because he meant that blacks should receive preferential treatment in the law instead of simply equality under the law.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Which is probably true, but we’re not allowed to say it.
Check out this one:

Sarah Palin whitesplains the meaning of MLK Day to that black guy in the White House
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/20/sarah-palin-whitesplains-the-meaning-of-mlk-day-to-that-black-guy-in-the-white-house/

WTH does “whitesplains” mean?