She tolerated the money-grubbing the same way she tolerated MLK's cheating, and for the same reasons, just like mrs. bill clinton. I am sure she was a nice lady, but I wish I could have more respect for her.
1 posted on
02/04/2006 9:58:44 AM PST by
NYpeanut
To: NYpeanut
Just wait till after the funeral and watch King's children fight over the loot...It will be the ultimate insult to Reverend King's legacy.
2 posted on
02/04/2006 10:05:06 AM PST by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: NYpeanut
Good thing plagiarism did not mar his legacy.
3 posted on
02/04/2006 10:05:22 AM PST by
Mark was here
(How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
To: NYpeanut
I refer you to the King family's 1993 lawsuit against USA Today for reprinting the "I Have A Dream" speech and their subsequent licensing of King's image and voice for use in television commercials, one of which placed him between Homer Simpson and Kermit the Frog. OMG. This is not kidding?
To: NYpeanut
King was a womanizer and plagiarizer, so mere commercialism is not much of a mar.
6 posted on
02/04/2006 10:12:13 AM PST by
Ninian Dryhope
("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
To: NYpeanut
7 posted on
02/04/2006 10:13:01 AM PST by
lunarbicep
(There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.)
To: NYpeanut
I interviewed Coretta Scott King once - at no cost. Years ago I was taking a Delta flight from Atlanta to Washington. The coach section was only half full and in the seats in front of me were none other than Coretta King and another lady who, it turned out, worked at the King Center.
A stewardess approached Mrs. King and asked if she would like to move to first class where there were some empty seats. She graciously declined, said she was comfortable where she was, and continued her conversation with her friend which I could not help but overhear.
It was banal, gossipy, somewhat catty, something you might overhear in a beauty parlor. At the Washington airport she was met by some kind of delegation and whisked away. I went away, however,with the impression that she was a rather ordinary woman who simply had had the misfortune of having had her philandering husband murdered.
To: NYpeanut
"
Martin Luther King, it seems necessary to say, was not Elvis Presley. He was a man who stood for something and died for something."
Excuse me Pitts?
Hey, if the coffee doesn't work by drinking it, go to that joint in Mexico and get their coffee enema.
Oh ... that's right. They closed down after Coretta left.
10 posted on
02/04/2006 10:15:15 AM PST by
G.Mason
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: NYpeanut
The title should have been "Commercialism DEFINES King Legacy"
all I can say is, "t'was ever thus...."
Maybe on second thought the subtitle should have been
"Tired journalistic cliches mar King Legacy"
'twas ever thus" also
"courageous .....quiet dignity......blah blah blah"
Let's hear from someone who doesn't have a political axe
to grind.
To: NYpeanut
Having grown up in segregated Alabama in the 40'-50's, I'll tell you, I don't understand how the man could have been so peaceful. I've done shameful things in my life too.
MLK was a great man...just let all the 'other' stuff go, he was only human.
19 posted on
02/04/2006 11:45:25 AM PST by
blam
To: NYpeanut
Since the Democrat party and what now passes for the "civil rights movement" has utterly betrayed everything that King stood for why should a little crass comericalism shock anyone?
20 posted on
02/04/2006 12:12:56 PM PST by
Mad_as_heck
(The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
To: NYpeanut
G.W. was bashed big time by blacks at the euology. What an idiot for showing up there. As usual G.W. continues to be the punching bag for the left and does nothing about it.
Listen to Michael Savage discuss the Bush bashing.
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23 posted on
02/07/2006 3:34:21 PM PST by
KeyLargo
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