Does anyone here really read what King said besides the flowery Obama type talk. No doubt King was a good speaker and more likable than his contemporaries in the civil rights speaker’s tour.
But for folks to imagine he was a conservative icon is nuts...pure nuts.
Imagining something to be true so we can continue to pander...that is not conservatism to me.
I’ll pass but ya’ll have fun.
Anyone here wonder why Goldwater, Magnus and WF Buckley all opposed the Civil Rights Act?
because they feared where it would lead and they were right.
King was a socialist and wanted redistribution of wealth as a means of redress and he was conciliatory to Communism...and that is just for starters.
Just look at his close circle and how they have behaved since his death. To find it plausible that he was so different than all of them when they were his closest advisors defies logic and reason.
Btw...I was alive then and don’t remember King like Beck who is 8 years my junior does.
“Btw...I was alive then and don’t remember King like Beck who is 8 years my junior does.”
I was a teenager living in greater Washington DC when King made his famous speech. Beck’s version of King has very little in common with the real man. King was many things, but conservative wasn’t remotely one of them. He routinely praised socialism and he kept a couple of Communist Party members as advisors.