Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: rktman
King's name was "Michael King". Adding the "Martin Luther" is pompous and ridiculous. Martin King was no more "Martin Luther" than I am.

14 posted on 12/20/2020 10:32:05 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Governor Dinwiddie

Martin Luther King is the greatest martyr known to the civil rights cause

His I have a dream speech in 1963 is unparalleled in the modern history of the United States

It’s up there with the Roosevelts “there is no fear but fear itself”

And Kennedy’s speech about going to the moon

All human beings have their foibles; and beautiful women are often involved in those foibles!

The most important point and I’ve seen giant billboard so this effect of that Martin Luther King was a staunch Republican


74 posted on 12/20/2020 11:11:30 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

To: Governor Dinwiddie
King's name was "Michael King". Adding the "Martin Luther" is pompous and ridiculous. Martin King was no more "Martin Luther" than I am.


Pompous? Or inspired homage in the face of Nazism? I'll take inspired homage. From Wikipedia:

In 1934, the church sent [MLKjr's father] King Sr. on a multinational trip to Rome, Tunisia, Egypt, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, then Berlin for the meeting of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA). The trip ended with visits to sites in Berlin associated with the Protestant reformation leader, Martin Luther. While there, Michael King Sr. witnessed the rise of Nazism.

In reaction, the BWA conference issued a resolution which stated, "This Congress deplores and condemns as a violation of the law of God the Heavenly Father, all racial animosity, and every form of oppression or unfair discrimination toward the Jews, toward coloured people, or toward subject races in any part of the world." He returned home in August 1934, and in that same year began referring to himself as Martin Luther King Sr., and his son as Martin Luther King Jr, [whose] birth certificate was altered to read "Martin Luther King Jr" on July 23, 1957, when he was 28 years old.

As the above passage reveals, MLK Jr's father began calling him Martin Luther King from the age of 5. Changing his birth certificate later on seems a formality to align with the identity taught to him by his father, also an accomplished preacher.
89 posted on 12/20/2020 12:06:30 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson