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Do we REALLY need a Martin Luther King holiday?
http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/ ^ | January 15, 2007 | Christopher Knight

Posted on 01/16/2007 4:14:11 PM PST by lowbridge

Do we REALLY need a Martin Luther King holiday?

Today is Martin Luther King Day here in the United States. For the past few days I've felt led to articulate some thoughts about this holiday. This morning I made the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTVf5btHy5I

Comments are welcome, either on this post or on the video's YouTube page.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: martinlutherking; mlk; mlkday
http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/2007/01/do-we-really-need-martin-luther-king.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTVf5btHy5I

1 posted on 01/16/2007 4:14:13 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

interesting..... PM me if you want a critique on the presentation.


2 posted on 01/16/2007 4:29:46 PM PST by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: lowbridge

In answer to the question....YES we do...hey let's get rid of Columbus Day instead!


3 posted on 01/16/2007 5:27:40 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: lowbridge
I am just curious:
What proof is there that MLK plagiarized 19 pages of his doctoral thesis at Boston University?
MLK's infidelity...was he really asked to leave the church in Birmingham because he committed adultery too many times?
Was MLK a Marxist and communist and a sympathizer to the Monteagle Activist school in Tennessee?
Was MLK committing adultery at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis just hours prior to his death?
Did MLK plagiarize his I have a Dream speech?
4 posted on 01/16/2007 7:21:30 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: lowbridge
Got a fair bit of nasty e-mail about this one today. Some people don't appreciate that I refer to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as "shysters" and "hucksters" and "racial con artists" in the video. Go figure...

I wrote this on another forum about it: "It's one thing to look back and reflect on the impact of a historical person. It's quite another to obsess upon him."

In another 20 or 30 years, there will probably not be a federal Martin Luther King holiday. Those who have been exploiting King's memory for their own gain have just about had their run. It's already happened to the "women's liberation" movement and it's starting to happen to those who have been playing the race card way too many times. Neither ideologies have a new generation that is willing to carry on with the same vigor as the old. When enough see what wrong has been done in the name of Martin Luther King by many of his followers, they will begin to demand that this be a holiday at taxpayer expense no more.

I'll probably get jumped-flunky for saying this, but if Martin Luther King had not been assassinated, he would not be held up as the object of veneration that he has become. He would have retired and eventually passed on relatively quietly. Martyrdom changed that, just as it bestowed upon John Kennedy some mystical quality that he otherwise would never have had. One can only imagine what holidays would be on our calendars had Jane Fonda or Gloria Steinem been gunned down back in the day...

5 posted on 01/16/2007 9:39:04 PM PST by Darth Sidious
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To: Darth Sidious

An interesting take that is similar to yours and penned by an African American is the MLK Day episode of Boondocks.


6 posted on 01/25/2007 6:50:43 PM PST by Rodney Kings Brain ("veritas odium parit" - "truth begets hatred")
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