NewsFlash! Attention Neo-Conservatives: Martin Luther King Supported Affirmative Action

Toogood Reports ^ | 26 January 2003 | Nicholas Stix

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See also:

Bush: My Quotas are Better Than Yours!

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[Poohbah]

Please remove me from your ping list.

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[basil]

I don't care if MLK is responsible for affirmative action being in place today. It is still racism!

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[dead]

Who cares? The guy's been dead for thirty-five years.

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Just a minute.

[Warren]

Really!
"Martin Luther King Supported Affirmative Action"
So what, I don't support it & don't much care what king supported.

[axxmann]

Yup...I knew he was a racist. Thanks for the confirmation.

[Red Jones]

thanks for showing us this article. I remember reading about memos that MLK wrote to Jese Jackson. These were memos internal to MLK's organization. Jackson had been promoting race quotas and MLK was slapping him down and saying 'no' to that idea at that time. So, I think that MLK said a little bit different things at different times on this issue. And he slapped Jesse down partly because he just plain didn't like Jesse. I bet if he'd lived he'd have been pro-affirmative action. Even if he was pro color-blind he'd have migrated on that issue like the rest of the civil rights movement did.

[Mike Darancette]

NewsFlash! Attention Neo-Conservatives: Martin Luther King Supported Affirmative Action.

But does he support it now? Fourty years is a long time, and things and people change.

[sneakypete]

You mean this criminal,whore monger,and communist liar whose goal was to destroy America and our Constitution supported affirmative action? I'm shocked,SHOCKED,I TELL YA!

[Clock King]

MLK wasn't racist. He supported AA because at the time it was needed. That makes sense to most well educated Black people like myself and Colin Powell. What happened is that AA, like many government initiatives, became corrupted; a means to power and money for the few. Over the years it lost its original intent, which was to diminish institutional racism; the kind of stuff where groups of people do the same thing over and over again (such as keeping certain types of people out of the group) without giving it a second thought.

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He supported AA because at the time it was needed.

This may require 20/20 hindsight on King's part, but I don't think it's possible to support a government program as a temporary measure. Once instituted, it is so difficult to end a program, that we have to look at every one we support as permanent.

Note too that virtually all civil rights leaders supported quotas, without any notion of them being temporary, and Justice Thurgood Marshall privately told people 30 years ago, that AA would be necessary "for 100 years," which is just another way of saying, "forever."