Posted on 07/03/2011 5:00:09 AM PDT by BCrago66
In her new best-seller Ann Coulter breaks with the politically correct history of the civil rights movement by openly criticizing Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The always provocative Coulter makes the case that King’s embrace of mass street protests, specifically breaking the law by staging marches without permits and gaining public sympathy by purposely putting children in the way of vicious dogs and blasts from power water hoses used by rabid segregationists, is a prime example of how liberals throughout history get their way by using angry, inflammatory mob behavior.
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Good for Ann. It is way past time to have more critical thought on the deification and worship of MLK.
It's strange that they're all black, then. What are the odds?
:) well your probably right but heck if John Lennon can well??????? /lol
Calypso Louie all but admitted to killing Cleaver and said what happened in the black community was none of the white man’s buidness.
Course it didn’t take long for Louie to figure out that a racist conspiracy to have Cleaver killed was far more profitable.
As has been postulated by many others, MLK was able to make himself appear more moderate 'Integrationists' to the public by comparison to the extremes of Carmichael and other "Black Nationalists". Yet within the Civil Rights movement itself, MLK positioned himself as far more of an activist than the relatively staid Marshall and other moderates.
For a grin, I don't remember ever writing a sentence with two words with a 'uu' in it. Tain't that many in English to do it unintentionally!
The good is oft interred with their bones. We ought not let that happen here at FR, regardless of what Ann Coulter has to say.
ML/NJ
Yep...King should have filed petitions and sought permits to be recognozed as an equal citizen. You can’t tell a man he isn’t a man forever, you can’t tell a man when he gets to be a man. There will be consequences for trying to do that. America is lucky that we didn’t have a full blown race war in the 1960’s and Dr King’s leadership was one of the reasons we didn’t.
Sports and entertainment were the main sources of success for blacks. Yes there were fewer in both compared to today.
Nothing good about America in the MSM vis-a-vis black Americans. Just like today.
In her constant endorsements of that fat RINO Chris Christie as the Second Coming? Yep. In her support of GOProud? Yep. In this instance. Nope. She's dead-on.
AKA.....Print the legend.
ML/NJ
King's, like Kennedy's, reputation benefited mightily from his early demise. Fact (not all detrimental) has been overlaid with myth. Myth can be shaped ... facts are stubbornly what they are.
You know what, I lived in Alabama when all the marches and protests started. It was mostly outside groups stirring up trouble over staged events, and about problems that didn't exist in most cases.
Everywhere in the country the roadsides had outside BBQ tents set up and almost all of them owned and run by blacks. There would be dozens of picnic tables under the open sided tents and about an equal number of blacks and whites eating together. Everybody sat at whatever table had an open spot. Nobody cared where anyone sat and everyone got along fine.
Before all the riots and protests, nobody knew that we couldn't get along or had to eat in seperate places. It's a good thing the liberal commies came down and let us know how much we hated each other, we would have never known.
From the article:
“Coulter’s brand of vituperative political commentary has sometimes poisoned our political discourse over years”
Nonsense. Speaking the truth has little to do with “poisoning the political discourse”. It is the _left_ that has done the poisoning by trying to place the truth “out of the bounds of discussion” for the last 50 years.
The TRUTH is that King was a communist sympathizer who plagiarized his way to his position. Much about this has been published, admittedly by sources not allowed to be quoted here on FR.
He was much “less than” the icon he was built up to be. (Aside: as was Rosa Parks, who did not spontaneously refuse to give up her seat on the bus, but rather was chosen and groomed to perform that “role”).
The problem with speaking the truth these days is that we are only allowed to speak it about _some_ issues. On others, truth is verboten.
Just sayin’....
In the article, he refers to the many interviews he had with Thurgood Marshall and the frustration he had with King and his tactics.
The final paragraph from the article...
Coulter’s brand of vituperative political commentary has sometimes poisoned our political discourse over years. She and her fellow provocateurs on the far right are featured prominently in my upcoming book “Muzzled: the Assault on Honest Debate.” But even a stopped clock is right twice a day. On this one, Coulter has her history exactly right and that is why the left is screaming.
While I think Coulter would be a great president, I don’t see eye to eye with her on certain issues. Like WFB did not understand the civil rights movement, Coulter does not always understand the force of history on certain issues. Civil rights was one of those issues. King forced America to look at her treatment of non-white citizens. Was he a perfect human and all his tactics good? Probably not. But here Coulter is nitpicking. Not all liberals were/are evil, and not all conservatives were/are good.
While I think Coulter would be a great president, I don’t see eye to eye with her on certain issues. Like WFB did not understand the civil rights movement, Coulter does not always understand the force of history on certain issues. Civil rights was one of those issues. King forced America to look at her treatment of non-white citizens. Was he a perfect human and all his tactics good? Probably not. But here Coulter is nitpicking. Not all liberals were/are evil, and not all conservatives were/are good.
From the article: “Marshall conceded that King had tremendous influence. “He came up at the right time,” he said. “I think he was great – as a leader. As an organizer, he wasn’t worth s—t..He was a great speaker...but as for getting the work done, he was not too good at that…All he did was dump all his legal work on us (the NAACP) including the bills. And that was all right with him so long as he didn’t have to pay the bills.”
My, my. I suspect Justice Marshall would say the same about Obama, that “he wasn’t work s—t”, that “he was not good at getting the work done” and that “all he did was dump...the bills on us”.
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