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And all those good conservatives held up their Bibles as justification. Today their children are holding up their Bibles to tell same-sex couples they have no right to marry.
Of course most of the conservatives who today hail Dr. King as a hero couldn't name one jail he sat in or one march he led. But, by gum, he belongs to them now!
it depends on the white conservative male. most of them still will call him a communist outright
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Originally Posted by desertdetroiter
Conservatives hated the man when he was alive. They hounded him, bugged him, jailed him, put dogs and water hoses on his followers...even killed people that believed in his work.
Now that he's SAFELY in his grave, they hold him up as a hero because the people that came AFTER him (as was warned) aren't as easy to push around as King was given the latitude his enemies had. Now they're nostalgic for more docile blacks. I get it.
So please...let's not get carried away with the King worshipping by conservatives today.
Most Reverends are socially conservative. I swear the cons will do anything to adopt a hero. The same people praising him would call him a race baiting communist if he was alive today.
Democrats hated the man when he was alive. They hounded him, bugged him, jailed him, put dogs and water hoses on his followers...even killed people that believed in his work.
Now that he's SAFELY in his grave, they hold him up as a hero because the people that came AFTER him (as was warned) aren't as easy to push around as King was given the latitude his enemies had. Now they're nostalgic for more docile blacks. I get it.
So please...let's not get carried away with the King worshipping by Democrats today.
I changed it, all I did was put Democrats where they belong. Hey, I was there, I remember.
Revisionist history is wrong. The truth is painful for Progressives and Liberals.
I changed it, all I did was put Democrats where they belong. Hey, I was there, I remember.
Revisionist history is wrong. The truth is painful for Progressives and Liberals.
What's that you say about revisionist history?
Here is a quote from the man himself, on the 1964 Republican convention:
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The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The “best man” at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.
Senator Goldwater had neither the concern nor the comprehension necessary to grapple with this problem of poverty in the fashion that the historical moment dictated. On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.
The truth is, MLK was neither a Republican nor a Democrat. To state categorically that he was a Republican is utterly absurd.
The premise of the linked article is bizarre. How many people are unaware the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was a minister? As a progressive, leftist Christian I have no problem with the fact the Dr. King, Jr was a minister. In fact, I celebrate the fact.
I think you missed the point. And, I think many people do not realize he was a real pastor, with real theological training, including a Ph.D, unlike the two imposters, one of which has no theological training whatsoever.
How can one be a "progressive leftist Christian?" The ideas of "progressivism" are not consistent with Christianity. This is because left-imposed equality of any sort is achieved through theft of the rights or property of another. Christ taught charity. Theft is always wrong, no matter who is doing it.
Secondly, Progressivism denys the natural rights which our founders declared "unalienable" in the Declaration, and "endowed by our Creator". In fact, Woodrow Wilson even stated that all that in the "preface" of the Declaration, should be ignored. He believed it to be meaningless.
Our country was founded by devoutly religious, virtuous, and moral people who understood the teachings of the bible. Their writings and their speeches were repleat with referrences to God, the Creator, and scripture. There is no way to reconcile what our founders believed with today's "progressivism,' which seeks to eliminate all vestiges of individualism in favor of the collective. This Marxist/socialist philosophy can be found nowhere in scripture. It is an invention that has come to us only in the modern era from Europe, and passed down through the university system.
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As your one of the "imposters", it was under Dr. King Jr's tutelage at Operation Breadbasket that Jesse Jackson developed the tactics and methods that Jackson has used to push for social justice.
Social justice was not something that Dr. King espoused. He fought for equal rights, not equal outcomes.
Hang on. Many other cons fervently believe that King was a Communist... but now we're supposed to think he was a Republican?
Surely he can't have been both. Can he?
I have never heard anyone say he was a communist. But he was a Republican. Alvida King would vouch for that.
Democrats fought tooth and nail against civil rights. There is no way that King would have been anything but a Republlican.
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