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Like many conservatives Mlk is a man of God. MLK is not a liberal in any sense and he fits the mold of Majority of Conservatives in this country. Also remember DR King was anti Communist, Pro American and wanted America to work, he was also a religious pious man, he believed in family where parents are marrued and raised children. Im sure If Dr. KING saw how people live under Liberalism he would be disgusted. Sad thing is that majority of black Americans support Liberal agenda, nothing wrong with it but Im sure he would have wantes things a bit different.
Another absurdly inaccurate post ^^^. Are you making the above assumptions because you have so little factual knowledge about MLK's life and work? You really should read the article in the link.
"The crucial figure was Stanley David Levison, a white New York lawyer and businessman who first met Martin Luther King in 1956, just as the young minister was being catapulted to national fame as a result of his role in the remarkable bus boycott against racially segregated seating in Montgomery, Alabama. The FBI knew, in copious firsthand detail from the Childs brothers, that Levison had secretly served as one of the top two financiers for the Communist Party USA in the years just before he met King.
In the months immediately following Levison's visible departure from CPUSA activities, his selfless assistance to King soon established him as the young minister's most influential white counselor. But when the FBI tardily learned of Levison's closeness to King in early 1962, the Bureau understandably hypothesized that someone with Levison's secret (though thoroughly documented) record of invaluable service to the CPUSA might very well not have turned up at Martin Luther King's elbow by happenstance.
As the nation celebrates King's national holiday Monday, a new battle has erupted over his legacy. Some conservatives are saying it's time for them to reclaim the legacy of King, whose message of self-help, patriotism and a colorblind America, they say, was "fundamentally conservative."
But those who marched with King and studied his work say that notion is absurd. The political class that once opposed King, they argue, is now trying to distort his message.
King's most famous words are the crux of the disagreement.
"He was against all policies based on race," says Peter Schramm, a conservative historian. "The basis of his attack on segregation was 'judge us by the content of our character, not by the color of our skin.' That's a profound moral argument."
Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of a trilogy on King, says some conservatives are invoking a phantom version of King to avoid dealing with contemporary racial issues.
Are you claiming you knew him better than his own family?
Martin Luther King would certainly be a whole lot different than Obama, and I highly doubt he would support many of Obama's policies that are most definitely hurting minority Americans more than they hurt whites.
For one MLK was a Christian minister, he believed in the Bible -- liberals today would despise him for that.
I'm asking how old his niece was when MLK was killed.
MLK was a Ph.D, enormously bright and well educated person. Liberals would love him today as they did when he was alive. Btw, how do you know what he believed? It seems from your posts that you know little to nothing about the real person, but only what you've been reading from the right wingers who are now attempting to co-opt King to "improve" their image.
Doing away with the repugnant Jim Crow laws is a conservative ideal. Less government.
Oh. my. god! Do you people really believe that^^^? OBVIOUSLY you have not even bothered to read through the posts in this thread which would have disabused you of such an absurdity.
That was the Kennedys who suspected MLK of being a Communist and had the FBI investigating him. Robert F. Kennedy was the Attorney General, JFK was president.
Actually, it was FBI "informants" who got that ball rolling, and their names were Jack and Morris Childs. King was investigated because the informants FIRST reported to the FBI and then the FBI reported to RFK, and an investigation THEN was approved. And, yes, throughout that investigation the FBI lied.
"Yet at the time, neither Robert Kennedy nor anyone else outside the FBI knew more than a tiny part of the story that had led to that decision, or even the identities of the two FBI informants who had set the investigation in motion. Only in 1981 were their names—Jack and Morris Childs—publicly revealed,"
Jesse Jackson Jr is a racist. MLK was not. Anyone with half a brain knows what "he" was about.
If you read through this thread, you will see that in fact the far right wingers posting here must not have half a brain because they are clueless as to what MLK was about. After reading your post above, I'm thinking you may not really know what "he was about."
Oh. my. god! Do you people really believe that^^^? OBVIOUSLY you have not even bothered to read through the posts in this thread which would have disabused you of such an absurdity.
Oh. my. god! Do you people really believe YOU have credibility^^^?
OBVIOUSLY you have not even bothered to read through the definition of conservative which would have disabused you of such an absurdity.
Have someone explain this to you. Less government is conservative.
If you read through this thread, you will see that in fact the far right wingers posting here must not have half a brain because they are clueless as to what MLK was about. After reading your post above, I'm thinking you may not really know what "he was about."
Because you say so? LMAO Talk about clueless. You don't even know the definition of conservative yet you still comment.
keep posting I enjoy a good laugh at your expense early in the morning.
Like many conservatives Mlk is a man of God. MLK is not a liberal in any sense and he fits the mold of Majority of Conservatives in this country. Also remember DR King was anti Communist, Pro American and wanted America to work, he was also a religious pious man, he believed in family where parents are marrued and raised children. Im sure If Dr. KING saw how people live under Liberalism he would be disgusted. Sad thing is that majority of black Americans support Liberal agenda, nothing wrong with it but Im sure he would have wantes things a bit different.
Oh yes. I can just see him now wanting to do away with unions and increase the defense budget while doing away with 'entitlement' programs for the poor.
Yep.
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OBVIOUSLY you have not even bothered to read through the posts in this thread which would have disabused you of such an absurdity.
