Posted on 11/07/2011 5:15:14 PM PST by markomalley
Martin Luther King's niece is peeved that the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been comparing the Occupy movement that has taken hold in major cities nationwide to the sit-ins of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. But Jackson, who visited McPherson Square 'occupy'ers Monday evening in the District obviously didn't get the memo.
Jackson gave a talk and then led a prayer with a small group of about 30 protestors as the sun set Monday evening. Afterward, he told The Washington Examiner that he supported the movement because they followed the same principles as the nonviolent civil rights protestors.
All of it is occupying for economic justice. Dr. King’s last act on earth was to come to Washington and to occupy the mall and put the focus on economic justice. He was willing to go to jail and engage in civil disobedience to keep that focus on [unintelligible]. He argued over and over again that we should establish a floor by which no American shall fall [through]. ... Those who lost their homes to foreclosure should be here. The churches that face foreclosure should be here. Those with student loan debt should be here. All those who are hurting have some obligation to come here and stand until something good and positive happens.
Earlier on Monday, King niece Alveda King told Fox News that her uncle would not have condoned the movement.
“I believe that Rev. Jackson is doing a disservice,” King said. “My uncle, the whole [civil rights] movement, was founded in prayer, in crying out to God in a peaceful movement. And this [Occupy] movement is not peaceful.”
The Justice Brothers are rolling in town - to bless the OWsers. Praise the Lawd! There goes Jesse!
What is he doing praying with them? They don’t believe in God.
Oh, right. He doesn’t either. It all makes for good theater.
Jesse is right.
Occupy Wall Street is just like the Civil Rights Movement. He should be the first to know because Jesse was MLK’s own protege.
It was Jesse Jackson that brought MLK to Chicago. He was with King in Selma. He was with him in Memphis when he was assassinated.
MLK was a socialist who believed in wealth redistribution. When he was assassinated, he was working on his “Poor People’s March on Washington.”
Many of the famous scenes for the so-called “Civil Rights Movement” are nothing more than flash mobs that were lionized by the liberal media.
The mob that was repulsed on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma was a flash mob from the George Washington Carver Housing Projects.
“I believe that Rev. Jackson is doing a disservice,” King said. “My uncle, the whole [civil rights] movement, was founded in prayer, in crying out to God in a peaceful movement. And this [Occupy] movement is not peaceful.”
This is a lie.
MLK never repudiated Malcolm X or Stokely Carmichael. The Black Panthers were born in Lowndes County, Alabama. The radical violent wing of the “Civil Rights Movement” rose to prominence after the Selma campaign.
MLK was surrounded by known communists like Bayard Rustin. This can all be found in the Taylor Branch biography. His closest advisor Stanley Levison also had all kinds of ties to the Communist Party USA.
JFK and RFK authorized wiretaps on MLK because of his communist affiliations. Those records are sealed, but the FBI knew at the time what he was about.
You misspelled “Just Us”.
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