I can’t be the only one to note this today — though I haven’t really looked around, so I’m going to note it anyway and just hope you don’t mind my adding my two cents — but I find it absolutely repulsive that a man like Jesse Jackson, who stood behind Dr King and who has made a career in the “civil rights movement” has become so corrupt, so morally bankrupt, and so intellectually barren, that he would now, 50-years later, join with other so-called “civil rights leaders” (which today would better be called the racialism industry) in an effort to make sure that people are actually denied their franchise by promoting fraudulent elections and using the trappings of civil rights rhetoric to deny states the ability to use photo IDs, etc., to make sure elections are fair and free and limited to actual citizens with one vote each.
To further imply that those of us who wish to see this happen — and who revere the very Constitution that provided, as Lincoln noted, the blueprint for the inevitable end to slavery (and later, suffrage) — are somehow the new Confederacy, as Jackson has, suggests to me that Jackson never once listened to King. He instead spent those formative years figuring out ways he might later profit off of a changing culture and those looking to make up for the sins of their youth. And in so doing, he’s become his very own version of Bull Connor, only with corporate lawyers instead of attack dogs, and a media establishment beholden to racialist politics rather than fire hoses.
Were he and Sharpton and Holder and two-time Obama voter, “Republican” Colin Powell, all to stand before the ghost of Dr King today and ask to be judged, I’m quite certain Dr King would not spit in their faces, being the devout Christian he was.
But I’d bet he’d have to give it some extra thought before he decided against it.
Jeff, all you need to know and remember about JJ, Jr. is that he WAS NOT on the balcony when MLK, Jr. was shot. He was inside and came out later afterwards and dipped his own shirt in the blood to create his own “heroic” tale of nearly being gunned down.
The guy is a dog.
No. But he might shake the dust off of his feet in their general direction.
“I Have A Conventional (albeit honorable) Morality” just doesn’t boast the same promise in a speech title as “I Have A Dream”, does it? Anyhow, it fer damn sure doesn’t boast of promise of socialist nirvana.
Interesting post via the thinking Housewife of the late traditionalist Lawrence Auster:
. . a sort of Yom Kippur for white liberals.
That’s excellent. Thanks.
King was a man of God. Jackson is a man of Chicago. That’s pretty much all you need to know.
As for the festivities vis a vis Dr. King’s dream, you’ll note that the lone black US Senator and the lone black SCOTUS Justice were not invited. These degenerates are unsurprisingly scandalous.
You’ll also note two living presidents were excluded as well.
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Spicenarrative mustflowbe maintained.So was MLK’s niece, Aleta (I think) who is a conservative minister and pro-life.
Alveda.
Oh goodie, plastic hoodie land.
Picture Drudge has up.
I wonder if anyone noticed the irony of hoods becoming a black solidarity icon.
Were he and Sharpton and Holder and two-time Obama voter, “Republican” Colin Powell, all to stand before the ghost of Dr King today and ask to be judged, I’m quite certain Dr King would not spit in their faces, being the devout Christian he was. But I’d bet he’d have to give it some extra thought before he decided against it.
Call me a cynic, but I’m not so sure.
If MLK were not murdered, would he have eventually morphed into the “modern” version of the civil rights activist? And if not, would he have been thrown by the wayside by the JJ’s and Al Sharpton’s, only to be remembered for what he did in the ’60’s?
MLK was martyred; that dynamic changed everything.
Martyrhood is for saints. MLK was a man who was becoming eclipsed by the Malcolm X’s and the nascent Black Panthers and their brand of violent protest and hatred. I think had he not been killed, he would have become marginalized as an archaic symbol of the past and possibly unmasked as a philanderer and plagiarist in his lifetime.
Much like JFK, assassination was the catalyst that cemented him in memory as more than he was in life.
Actually, leigh, that was my actual point, and you made it more succinctly than I did.
Thanks, I thought that’s where you were going.
“If MLK were not murdered, would he have eventually morphed into the “modern” version of the civil rights activist? And if not, would he have been thrown by the wayside by the JJ’s and Al Sharpton’s, only to be remembered for what he did in the ’60?s?”
I highly doubt it, as did those who assassinated King and Malcolm X*. I believe King would have truly inspired dignity to the black community, and things would have been MUCH different had he not been murdered.
Any such conjecture is pure speculation of course…
*By March 1964 Malcolm X had grown disillusioned with the Nation of Islam and its head Elijah Muhammad, and ultimately repudiated the Nation and its teachings. […]
Though continuing to emphasize Pan-Africanism, black self-determination, and black self-defense, he disavowed racism, saying, “I did many things as a [Black] Muslim that I’m sorry for now. I was a zombie then … pointed in a certain direction and told to march”.[2]
In February 1965, shortly after repudiating the Nation of Islam, he was assassinated by three of its members.
Throughout the land, the powerful odor of mendacity. Funny how every personal foible of dead white statesmen from Jefferson forward must be meticulously catalogued, but MLK’s unpleasant private life scrupulously avoided. Hagiography is not history, but no one wants truth should it tar the pop culture’s heroes.
Ain’t it the truth, George? I’ve actually heard people refer to criticism of MLK as “blasphemy”. The man was not a deity, folks.
I you’re not for big government, you’re racist.
“but no one wants truth should it tar the pop culture’s heroes.”
MLK was a Republican (when that meant something), Christian man that preached traditional American values and advocated a color blind society, not a “pop culture” hero. You must have the real thing confused with the caricature the left is trying to make of him.
Still, gossip away if you must, when you arrive at any “truth” I’ll be all ears…
Obazm: And if, in fact, people start thinking the government’s the problem instead of the solution, then what that leaves you is whatever the marketplace does on its own. And what we’ve seen is a marketplace that increasingly produces very unequal results. And it – so it – it disempowers our capacity for common action to do something about poverty, to do something to help middle-class families.
There’s another way of putting this proposition Obazm directs at the little people: *** If you think you are something, then you will be nothing. ***
It’s a harsh message to the little people when we spell it out that way, but hey, maybe they’re better off eating Obazm’s bullshit just as he serves it up, right?
MLK was a Republican
There is no definitive proof that this is true. King made it his policy not to endorse either party (c.f: Snopes, Wikipedia, et al.) since he felt neither party was godly.
Alveda must be a liar then.
No, Alveda was a child when King was killed. King’s father was a registered Republican. MLK, Jr. was not.
Alveda Celeste King (born January 22, 1951)
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968
MLK was a republican
– Alveda King
Well, I certainly can’t find a confirmation anywhere. If that’s what Alveda believes, that’s fine.
The ceremony sounds like it was the Wellstone Funeral 2.0.
But I loved the Drudge headline yesterday:
SEGREGATION: NATION’S ONLY BLACK SENATOR NOT INVITED