Thanks for posting this.
The deification of King over the last 50 is sickening.
After their death, some ordinary people are transformed into saints and heroes. MLK, JFK.
bttt
Yeah, it’s not holding someone black to a certain standard. Like so many white people, incuding churches, failed to meet a certain standard too. If there’s so much talk about “white privilege” among white liberals, and if discussion on racial issues in America doesn’t sound good, it’s in part because so many white Christians have left it to liberals to have any regard for black people’s humanity. There is still a noticeable and significant undercurrent on the right that black people, though it’s conceded now they’re human, are inferior. They start out from that belief, and black people have to disprove their inferiority to them, for one thing. This is what the Bible says, though:
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. (Revelation 7)
The original Mac Daddy.
Martin Luther King Jr. was not an orthodox chrstian at all! He was a typical nineteenth century German liberal who accepted all the nineteenth century German dogmas: evolution, higher criticism, de-mythologization, etc. Ultimately, this is much more important even than his Communist connections.
And because of King, almost the entire Black church is today of the exact same mind. There doesn't appear to be a single Black Fundamentalist left in the country. Why else would every single Black politician, even the most rural and Southern, be a screaming red on every issue across the spectrum?