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MLK Day: Why I won’t be celebrating

by Frank Of Queens

Now that MLK day is upon us, we will be inundated with a plethora of testimonies as to his greatness. In fact there is now the unspoken eleventh commandment:”Thou shalt not criticize Martin Luther King!”

He has taken on deity status. No one dares to look critically at his politics or life. Instead many believe that he is the most perfect being that ever existed. Yes, it’s true! Why you can smear the Founding Fathers, you can even put Our Lord Jesus in a vat of urine upside down and call it art. But heaven forbid that you should say a bad word about MLK. King was a public figure, and now an historical one. Therefore he should be open to examination of his beliefs and politics. There exists though the belief that if you should begin to question and examine them that somehow that makes you a “racist”. Tell me, if you raise historical inquiry about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Adams, etc. does that make you a traitor, or subversive? Of course not! Why in today’s Orwellian America, they are just reduced to slave holders and “old dead White guys”. I have heard them referred to as “the founding robbers”. Jefferson is reduced to a calumny that he was just a randy country squire who had sex with his slave. Jesus, why you can deconstruct His life, and it is not offending to Christians we are told, it is just historical inquiry. The same with the Founding Fathers, or for that matter any other figure in our society. Yet, when it comes to King, there is no deconstruction, nor is there real inquiry, or debate. We are just given some clips of speeches that create this image of a non-violent Ghandi figure who out Jesus’, Jesus!

King is depicted as the martyr for the sins of White America, sacrificed upon the altar of America’s hatred and bigotry. Because of the senseless crime of killing him, all White people are guilty by birth. It is a religion, and all White people are guilty of the original sin of racism. Affirmative action became a form of penance. Generations unborn must

pay the price for this act of collective sin. Just as Jews were held responsible for the death of Jesus as a group, so all Whites are guilty of this act of murder. It has even spawned a new form of penance, reparations. Drawn up into King’s murder is the U.S.government. J.Edgar Hoover is blamed for this. But why did Hoover have such antipathy towards King? Simply because Hoover who wasn’t against the Civil Rights movement, saw rightfully, that communists were infiltrating the movement and would as they have always done, subvert it. It is fact, not his paranoia that confirms this. Whether it was Spain during the Spanish Civil war, Cuba under Battista, the left has always used the popular front and noble causes to gain power, and then get rid of any opposition. King had known communists in his movement. Which brings me to my main question.

If King was for civil rights, then why did this man who proclaimed that he was for non-violence employ in his movement people whose philosophy suppressed liberty, and was the most violent movement in history? King knew that he had communists in his movement, yet he never got rid of them. He said he didn’t care if they were communists, as long as they helped him achieve his goals. Well then, is this the statement of some who believed in civil rights? Someone who is ignorant, or someone who himself believed in their ideology? Didn’t he know what was happening in Russia to Soviet Jews who were being deprived of their civil and religious rights. Jews who were imprisoned for wanting to go to Israel? Deprived of the right to practice their faith? Or how about Eastern Europe, where Christians were tortured, murdered and suppressed for their love of Christ? Didn’t he know about the millions who died under the Communists in Russia and Europe? How about China under Mao, the worst mass murderer in history? You mean this Reverend didn’t know this? This individual who said that the undeveloped nations looked to communism, not America, didn’t know about the repression, murder, and brutality of that system? Instead he excoriated America, our foreign policy, and our economic system. He compared it to Nazi Germany, and yet he didn’t know what the communists were doing and had done since Lenin’s coup in 1917? If some had Nazis in their political movement in America, do you think that it would be tolerated, given what they had done? Yet King saw nothing wrong with having people whose ideology cause the greatest suffering in history? He defamed the heroes of WW2 by comparing this nation to Nazi Germany. If it was like Nazi Germany, do you think there would have been a voting rights act of 1965? Do you think that there would have been any civil rights movement to begin with? King was critical of our economic system. He wanted to redistribute the wealth, and install a guaranteed national income. Didn’t he see how people lived under the “wonders of Marxist Leninist” economics”? This criticism coming from someone who never held a job, never ran a business, and had no experience whatsoever in the field of commerce! How can I honor a man whose whole life was spent on defending America’s enemies? As for the calumny that J.Edgar Hoover was somehow behind his death, let’s use some commonsense. Would he want to create a martyr out of a man whose political star was waning? If Hoover was this racist, as depicted by the left, then why did he break the KKK? Hoover loved his country, and sought to protect it from elements that were harmful to the common good. Given the record of communism at that time, should he have been tolerant of an intolerant ideology? He had asked King to get rid of the communists in his movement, King refused. Hoover rightly felt that he had to move to protect this nation from those who would use the civil rights movement to subvert and harm our nation. Instead of congratulations, he is smeared with lies and calumnies! King was against racism, yet he embraced an ideology that that was intolerant of those who disagreed politically. He was a reverend, yet he stood by those whose ideology punished those who wanted practice their religion! He accused America of being the number one perpetrator of war crimes in S.E.Asia, yet said nothing about what the communists were doing not only there, but also all over the world. If the one thing that history teaches us, it is that thirty years is far too short to make judgements on a public or political individual. The rush to deify King was a mistake, and those who question it are always attacked.

For this among other reasons, I won’t be celebrating MLK Day.

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