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Posted on 08/27/2011 5:06:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history — so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause — that it should have produced, at every hinge point, great men who matched the moment.
A roiling, revolutionary 18th-century British colony gives birth to the greatest cohort of political thinkers ever: Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, Jay. The crisis of the 19th century brings forth Lincoln; the 20th, FDR.
Equally miraculous is Martin Luther King Jr. Black America's righteous revolt against a century of post-emancipation oppression could have gone in many bitter and destructive directions. It did not.
This was largely the work of one man's leadership, moral imagination and strategic genius. He turned his own deeply Christian belief that "unearned suffering is redemptive" into a creed of nonviolence that he carved into America's political consciousness. The result was not just racial liberation but national redemption.
Such an achievement, such a life, deserves a monument alongside the other miracles of our history — Lincoln, Jefferson and FDR — which is precisely where stands the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: adjacent to Roosevelt's seven acres, directly across from Jefferson's temple and bisecting the invisible cartographic line connecting the memorials for Jefferson and Lincoln, authors of America's first two births of freedom, whose promises awaited fulfillment by King.
The new King memorial has its flaws, most notably its much-debated central element, the massive 30-foot stone carving of a standing, arms crossed, somewhat stern King. The criticism has centered on origins: The statue was made in China by a Chinese artist.
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Yes it does....
Forty-odd years ago we had Martin Luther King. Now we have Reverend Al. What a comedown.
It's dreadfully obvious you are not much of a Star Wars fan. I took one glimpse at the "Han Solo in carbonite" image you provided and had myself a good laugh. The likeness to Harrison Ford who played Han Solo is non-existent.
I doubt those making the comparison are talking about FACIAL resemblance, but rather the way both men appear to be emerging out of a mass of solidified substance.
Streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. can be found in many cities of the United States and in nearly every major metropolis in America. There are also a number of other countries that have honored King, including no fewer than ten cities in Italy. The number of streets named after King is increasing every year, and about 70% of these streets are in Southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas. King’s home state of Georgia had the most, with 75 streets as of 2001;[1] this had increased to 105 as of 2006.[2]
As of 2003, there were over 600 American cities that had named a street after King.[1] By 2004, this number had grown to 650, according to NPR.[3] In 2006, Derek Alderman, a cultural geographer at East Carolina University, reported the number had increased to 730, with only 10 states in the country without a street named after King.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Boulevard
I cannot stand the statue of Martin Luther King at this memorial to a great man and human being. I fully agree with CK that this Chinese sculpture does not portray MLK as he was. IMHO, MLK was, and is, the only true Black civil rights American in the entire civil rights movement. The Rev. King believed in equality for all, freedom for all, opportunity for all, education for all, liberty for all, was a true American patriot, loved his country America, and was not an iota of a Black racist. He believed in character, individual achievement, success in society and the value of each and every human being. Like him, hate him or somewhere in the middle, Black Americans would be better off had they followed his credo to freedom, equality and success in America!!! The supporters and creators of this flawed memorial to one of America’s greatest sons is both an huge embarrassment and major insult to Doctor King and his entire family!!! Where do I rate Dr. King versus POTUS Barack Hussein Obama? My answer, MLK sits on the top of the mountain with our maker, God almighty. BHO, the African Muslim, lurks and swims in the cesspool of America’s enemies and is so far removed from the qualities of MLK, he cannot be mentioned on the same page of history as the great MLK!!!
What a disgusting comment. Shame on you
Crawl back under your rock!!!
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Socialist “Saint” - Martin Luther King
The New American ^ | February 11, 2002 | William Norman Grigg
Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 5:12:52 PM by Tailgunner Joe
Revered as a virtuous American hero, the real Martin Luther King, Jr. colluded with Communists, plagiarized his doctoral thesis, and led an immoral lifestyle.
Fifty years ago, a black preacher’s speech captured the dream of a nation from which racial turmoil had been abolished. “We, Negro-Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride. From every mountain side, let freedom ring!”
“That’s exactly what we mean,” continued the preacher as he built to a dramatic climax. “From every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and the White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Great Smokies of Tennessee and from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia — let it ring.”
Pastor Archibald Carey spoke these words during the 1952 Republican National Convention. Eleven years later, Martin Luther King, Jr. appropriated Carey’s summation as part of his “I Have A Dream” speech on the Washington Mall. King kept the theme and cadences of Carey’s speech, while altering some of the details. This was in keeping with King’s previous practice of plagiarism, particularly his plundering of a doctoral dissertation by a scholar named Jack Boozer.
Spurious Scholarship
As Theodore Pappas documents in his study Plagiarism and the Culture War, King’s dissertation abounds in passages taken without citation from Boozer’s work, including errors in grammar and punctuation. King’s theft of another scholar’s work, comments Pappas, “was an indefensible act that should warrant the revocation of his Ph.D.” Liberal author Gary Wills made the same point — albeit in an endnote — in his 1994 book Certain Trumpets.
Boston University’s posthumous revocation of King’s doctoral degree would address a long-standing academic outrage. But it would be much more worthwhile — and far more difficult — to revoke King’s status as a civic demigod. Every year Americans are required to pay homage to King as an exemplar of tolerance, courage, and virtue. He is the only American to be honored with his own holiday — and his chief claim to such saintly status is the plagiarized “I Have a Dream” speech.
In April of 1993, Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania cosponsored a measure entitled the “King Holiday and Service Act,” the purpose of which was to “encourage” Americans to devote Martin Luther King Day to acts of “community service.” In his speech introducing that legislation, Senator Wofford recalled the words spoken by Christ over the Last Supper: “This do in remembrance of me.” In what can only be considered an act of conscious blasphemy, Wofford asked his Senate colleagues: “What should we do in remembrance of Martin?”
According to Wofford, King’s public utterances bear the mark of divinity. “Words — Martin’s words — will always be part of what we celebrate,” Wofford reverently declared. Republican Senator Dave Durenberger piously seconded Wofford’s view: “Never before has it been more important for our young people to hear Dr. King’s words.” Such pronouncements provide bitter humor to those who understand that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s career was propelled by political opportunism and adorned with pilfered eloquence.
Credentials for Canonization?
Some of King’s defenders insist that he was working within a tradition called “voice merging,” in which black preachers would freely share sermons without attribution. While this might explain why King felt free to help himself to the work of Pastor Carey — with whom he maintained a correspondence — it would not justify violating established scholarly guidelines for writing a doctoral dissertation. Besides, if plagiarism can be dismissed as “voice merging,” adultery could be dismissed as “spouse merging” — and as it happens, King indulged in that vice as well.
In his 1983 book The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. — which was in many ways a favorable treatment of King — investigative author David Garrow describes the findings compiled by the FBI’s investigation of the civil rights leader. That investigation was ordered by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who was concerned about King’s habit of consorting with Communists. According to Garrow, the FBI learned that King was also involved in “embezzlement, employing prostitutes, alienating wives’ affections from their husbands, and violation of the Mann Act” (by taking women across state lines for immoral purposes). In 1989, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, King’s successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, published a memoir disclosing that King spent the night before he was killed in a sexual liaison with a female friend.
Hypocritically, while King felt free to steal from other scholars and preachers, he took great care to protect his own work from similar treatment. Pappas points out that “King took, copyrighted, and later defended his legal right to the words and thoughts” of Pastor Carey. In January 1997, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, which is headed by King’s son Dexter, struck a marketing deal with Time-Warner. The media conglomerate agreed to produce and market books and other products using King’s writings, thereby netting the King estate an estimated $30-50 million over five years.
As Pappas reports: “At the heart of the deal is aggressive enforcement of the hundreds of copyrights that King placed on ‘his’ writings and on his most famous speeches in particular. Most disturbing … has been the King family’s aggressive profiteering toward those wanting to praise King by quoting the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. For instance, the King estate sued USA Today demanding a $1,700 licensing fee plus legal costs after the paper quoted the speech in praise of King.”
Apostle of Socialism
In 1997, Professor Larry Hofford of St. Mary’s University lamented: “Naming a national holiday after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has proven to be a mistake.” Professor Hofford, a self-described “progressive,” complained that King’s image “has been so watered down that the picture of him is that of a ‘mainstream reformer’ who led a movement to end legal segregation. The result is that no person in a position of authority in the United States could possibly experience any discomfort with this image.”
Hofford continued: “What is missing from most of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations is any discussion of the radical King … [who] put forth a philosophy and theology stressing the need to balance individual will with community will.” Hofford recalls that King was a strident opponent of capitalism, a Marxist liberation theologian who preached that “‘the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation and the problem of war are all tied together.’” King sought not only an end to legally enforced racial segregation, but also a radical restructuring of American society.
In a September 1967 speech in Atlanta, King condemned capitalism as an inherently unjust economic system and declared that his movement was devoted to “restructuring the whole of American society.” In Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, a book published in that same year, King endorsed the time-honored socialist demand for a guaranteed minimum annual wage, which would be “pegged to the median income of society” and would “automatically increase as the total social income grows.” In this particular example of literary “borrowing,” King was merging his voice with that of Karl Marx, who coined the phrase “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
King also bared his socialist inclinations in a lengthy interview he granted to Playboy, a strange pulpit for a man of God to employ. In the porn magazine’s January 1965 issue, King moralized that “all of America’s wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his [sic] centuries of exploitation and humiliation.” Anticipating the contemporary movement demanding “reparations” for slavery, he insisted that black Americans be given preferential economic treatment. Of course, this would provoke similar demands from “the disadvantaged of all races” — a prospect King welcomed: “I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro.... We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining and jobs for all....”
Asked about the role of Communists in his entourage, King quipped: “There are as many Communists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida.” The real issue, of course, was not the number of Communists involved in King’s movement, but their influence. Martin Luther King’s long-term advisor — and occasional speechwriter — was New York attorney Stanley Levison, whom federal investigators identified as a Communist agent. Levison arranged for King to hire Hunter Pitts O’Dell, a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, as his executive assistant. In 1962, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy warned King that Communist agents were manipulating King. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy reiterated this warning, offering a personal appeal to King to sever his ties to Levison and O’Dell: “They’re Communists. You’ve got to get rid of them.”
In a 1979 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, black civil rights activist Julia Brown testified of extensive connections between King and the Communist Party. Like other Americans concerned about race relations, Brown had joined a “civil rights” group — only to learn that it was a Communist front. After she took her concerns to the FBI, Brown was asked to work within the Party as an undercover operative. In her 1979 testimony, Brown recalled: “The [Communist] cells that I was associated with in Cleveland were continually being asked to raise money for Martin Luther King’s activities and to support his movement.... [W]hile I was in the Communist Party … I knew Martin Luther King to be closely connected with the Communist Party.”
Regarding the proposal for a King holiday, Brown declared: “If this measure is passed honoring Martin Luther King, we may as well take down the stars and stripes that flies over this building and replace it with a red flag.” In light of the Establishment’s success in canonizing King, Brown’s words are sobering indeed.
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Why would anyone believe a word King had to say about his political allegiances and convictions when he was willing to lie to his doctoral committee and steal other peoples’ work?
King openly espoused all the talking points which the CPUSA espoused - Soviet-style “full employment laws”, unilateral disarmament, etc.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck . . .
2 posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 5:18:56 PM by wideawake
I did not say the link to the thread was not working. I said the link to the article is not working. And btw get of my thread
The best MLK that I've ever actually seen is the MLK boulevard in San Angelo Texas. Home of wild Bill's pawn shop, Speedy's Tire shop and Richard's lounge. bwahahahahahahaha... I think there are about 4 or 6 street signs left, but you can always tell your on the MLK.
Sorry folks are crawling out from under a rock because you put up this very interesting story. I appreciate it.
You’re welcome
Yeah...the RATs didn’t like Justice Thomas either. Wasn’t he some kind of Coke can pervert?
Don’t merely defeat them..DESTROY THEM!
Uh huh Can’t wait till the FBI files are released.
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