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Dr King is Glenn Becks hero.
He really was a hero and now he is for white as well as black.
Mighty strange after all of Beck's rantings about Progressive, Social Justice Christians. Beck is now embracing of one of leading Social Justice Christians. Someone who definitely believed in "redistribution" ie Government sponsored programs to combat poverty.
Dr King was one of those darned progressives that has the Beck cult living in their bomb shelters wearing tin foil hats. 50 years ago the Becks of this country wanted MLK jailed for unAmerican activities.
Mighty strange after all of Beck's rantings about Progressive, Social Justice Christians. Beck is now embracing of one of leading Social Justice Christians. Someone who definitely believed in "redistribution" ie Government sponsored programs to combat poverty.
Ahh no... Beck like MLK believed in the OPPORTUNITY to become successful, not some left wing "progressive" government savior for the citizens..
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Originally Posted by twista6002
Dr King was one of those darned progressives that has the Beck cult living in their bomb shelters wearing tin foil hats. 50 years ago the Becks of this country wanted MLK jailed for unAmerican activities.
More bs... MLK was a Republican who believed in EQUAL rights. He did NOT believe in government supporting individuals, he believed in allowing individuals the opportunity to go out and create their OWN lifestyle, regardless of the color of skin. Senator John Kennedy himself, opposed the Civil Rights legislation.
Hell, MLK's niece was on the Beck show just a few days ago.. He looked so afraid of her, while trying to do an interview from his bomb shelter.. Give it a break with the bs..
Nothing short of amazement from the left who disrespects everything MLK stood for.
Ahh no... Beck like MLK believed in the OPPORTUNITY to become successful, not some left wing "progressive" government savior for the citizens..
More bs... MLK was a Republican who believed in EQUAL rights. He did NOT believe in government supporting individuals, he believed in allowing individuals the opportunity to go out and create their OWN lifestyle, regardless of the color of skin. Senator John Kennedy himself, opposed the Civil Rights legislation.
Nothing short of amazement from the left who try to take MLK and disrespect everything that he stood for.
Don't you know those prone to liberalism have swallowed the lying propaganda from the progressives for years about MLK? Conservative blacks know MLK was all about equal rights. Keeping the lie alive is why the libs attack conservative blacks with such venom.
Ahh no... Beck like MLK believed in the OPPORTUNITY to become successful, not some left wing "progressive" government savior for the citizens..
More bs... MLK was a Republican who believed in EQUAL rights. He did NOT believe in government supporting individuals, he believed in allowing individuals the opportunity to go out and create their OWN lifestyle, regardless of the color of skin. Senator John Kennedy himself, opposed the Civil Rights legislation.
Hell, MLK's niece was on the Beck show just a few days ago.. He looked so afraid of her, while trying to do an interview from his bomb shelter.. Give it a break with the bs..
Nothing short of amazement from the left who disrespects everything MLK stood for.
Dr. King from "Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?"
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
Earlier in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation as destructive of initiative and responsibility. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual's abilities and talents. In the simplistic thinking of that day the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. We have come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operation of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. The poor are less often dismissed from our conscience today by being branded as inferior and incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands it does not eliminate all poverty.
We have come to the point where we must make the nonproducer a consumer or we will find ourselves drowning in a sea of consumer goods. We have so energetically mastered production that we now must give attention to distribution. Though there have been increases in purchasing power, they have lagged behind increases in production. Those at the lowest economic level, the poor white and Negro, the aged and chronically ill, are traditionally unorganized and therefore have little ability to force the necessary growth in their income. They stagnate or become even poorer in relation to the larger society. .... The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Funny thing, MLK was condemned by conservatives as a Communist and now he's Glenn Beck's hero?
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