Posted on 08/28/2011 3:28:41 PM PDT by chessplayer
People don’t care about the real MLK or are afraid to tell the truth. If he hadn’t been murdered, he would have faded into obscurity. As it happened, though, the left decided he made a convenient a hero once he was dead.
In reality, Ralph Abernathy and others probably did more for getting rid of segregation, and Abernathy wasn’t the sleaze that MLK was.
They don't even have an idea of what is in our Constitution. It is amazing. I have talked with some of them. They are so confused on these important documents that it is impossible to unconfuse them and set them straight. And they are angry if you try to tell them where they are wrong.
They seem to have their own version of America's history, and it runs through their race like the fables of old. There is a little truth woven together with lots of lies and fictitious twists... and they continue to believe these warped versions of history that great grandma and great grandpa handed down to them. No matter how incorrect.
Obviously, even the ones who attended school never paid attention, or simply ignored anything that was taught . Of course, today, much is not even taught, and so the confused versions of our history is what kids remember and repeat.
Velveeta King really cheesed it.
Maybe she just confused Abraham Lincoln with Benjamin Lincoln, the Revolutionary War general. Of course Gen. Lincoln didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence either, but at least he was alive at the time. But maybe 1% of the people in the country have ever heard of Benjamin Lincoln, and she’s probably not in that 1%.
Heck no he didn't quit!
When the going got tough he gave that famous speech in which he promised: "I Shall Return!"
And did he let a little things like the Alps stop his elephants? No, not Lincoln!
Lincoln will be remember for doing the hard work - on his knees before God
Yes, indeed! What a missed opportunity for them.
Can you imagine the hilarity if Sarah has said, “corpse men” or misspelled “potato”?
These malicious Marxists are worse than “potato”-heads.
I’m pretty sure Lincoln didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence. You can look it up. This woman is clearly a product of the teachers’ union - ie, dumb and dumbest.
I am sitting here convulsed with laughing! Very good!
You ever read some of Marty’s quotes (sorry, I meant The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr’s) on our involvement in Vietnam? Wow! Talk about HATING America with all of one’s soul. Yet, the unholy, repulsive disease of leftism is so deep in our blood, I heard Mark Levin of all people say that the statue is “long overdue.” Where’s Madison’s statue on the Mall? Adams’ statue? I’ve heard dozens of callers to talk radio talk of how Marty “believed in the US cons, and capitalism, and freedom, etc. And would be (wait for it) rolling over in his grave at the antics of the civil rights movement today.” Sure he would. You know what he was doing, this great believer in capitalism, in Memphis when he died? Screeching for public unions that had gone on strike.It goes beyond Vietnam, he was among other things an avowed socialist. For what it's worth I think in terms of civil rights, his most obvious achievements were positive (In the way I think Stalin's victories against Hitler were a good thing) but his deification is absurd. And his promotion of socialist and anti American ideas within the civil rights movement has arguably contributed to the self-destructive tendencies of post-civil rights black America. I have no idea why some people feel compelled to reimagine King as some sort of conservative, I suppose it's the same impulse that leads left wingers to write all of those articles about how Reagan was actually some sort of social democratic peacenik despite all factual evidence to the contrary.
Revisionist progressive history says U.S. history began with the Civil War, not the War of Independence.
All the Founding Fathers are ignored.
It was made in China, after all. And isn't that a nice touch?
I don’t see alot of info about how much money the King family made (after infighting), over the ‘use of MLK’s’ ‘image’...
Having lived through those times, I think that even if he hadn’t been murdered, his name would be alive...however, he was heavily influenced by leftists, was not a leader but had good stage presence, and would probably have been only one of the several people credited with leading the civil rights movement.
The problem with MLK is that because he himself was not an original thinker or leader, it was very easy for the left to coopt him and make him their symbol. One of the reasons many people in the South at that time, including the Archbishop of St Augustine (Florida), didn’t like him was not because of his civil rights activity or his color, but that because they thought he was a Communist. The poor guy probably didn’t even realize this.
She is protected because she is a liberal !!!
Chiming in here, if Bachmann or Palin made that mistake it would be the top story on every news program of the mainstream media. They’d have been tarred and feathered.
PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE DOUBLE STANDARD.
Moron’s will never cease to be.
Which did not happen on Elvis’ birthday.
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