The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Fair.org/Media Beat ^ | 1/4/95 | Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

[No One Special]

Dated, perhaps only by the date of publication. Submitted for your perusal, consideration, approval/disapproval and comments. :-)

[svcw]

There was a reason the Kennedy administration was investigating MLK, and continued to the next administration.
I remember cartoons on op-ed pages calling him a communist (by implication), op-eds that called him a rabble rouser, he was not well liked.
I KNOW it is very callous, however in this country if someone is assassinated all their flaws and extreme political agenda ideas are candy coated or removed all together.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

King WAS a Marxist, or close enough that you'd never tell the difference. To me, the fact that his concerns were valid doesn't justify his methods of correction, but trying to tell that to the average TV watching couch potato is a waste of breath.

American freedom is probably on the rocks, but I won't have it said that I died without a fight.

[beaversmom]

Why do people, even some on FR, say that he was a Republican? I always had a feeling that was a bunch of B.S.

[Cowboy Bob]

It is my understanding that there were prostitutes in his hotel room the day he was shot.

Can anyone confirm or deny that (with verification)?

[wardaddy]

Amen to confronting the whole charade

No one will touch....look only a few replies

Folks prefer to believe the lies...

Rush...hannity...beck worst of all

No wonder they are all silent on Mittens

Only more nauseating myth is the one over urine drinking little girl loving Ghandi

[Humidston]

Finally someone has the courage to speak the truth! I am old enough to remember these facts, and I’m frustrated when I see all this hero worship.

But hey, who are we to question the New Normal anyway??

[HiTech RedNeck]

But now that this sort of classist talk has re-entered the mainstream with the oBummer himself, OWS, the new Acorn, various union thugs, and the like openly stumping for it, what’s still keeping the lamestream from presenting “the full MLK Jr.”?

It can’t be mere shame.

[Olog-hai]

I’m still waiting for “The Nelson Mandela You Don’t See On TV” . . . you know, the hardcore communist terrorist whose legacy is in play in South Africa right now, turning the country into another Zimbabwe with its anti-white reverse-apartheid policies that are turning former breadbaskets into deserts, as well as creating a rape culture where a quarter of women will be violated in that fashion and nothing done about it and a culture of anti-white murder in general . . .

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Many people never grasp that a government expected to do a lot of things MUST be empowered to control EVERYTHING.

It starts off slow then snowballs.

[No One Special]

Nail on the head twice in a thread. :-)

[DeaconRed]

"Finally someone has the courage to speak the truth! I am old enough to remember these facts, and I’m frustrated when I see all this hero worship."

My feelings exactly.

[MestaMachine]

It sure did jesse the jack a favor. Wonder if he still has that bloody shirt.

[SpaceBar]

By the authors’ comments at the end of the (1995) article, it sounds like they’re dissapointed King didn’t get a chance to release his barefoot hoardes.

[No One Special]

Seems if he were registered Republican there would be records. I know his father was Republican and many , if not most southern blacks were also due to the legacy of the Civil War. Also his niece claimed he was.

Here is something from his autobiography he wrote on Nixon and Kennedy before that preidential election. He calls Nixon a moral coward:
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/home/pages?page=http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/publications/autobiography/chp_15.htm

[No One Special]

Nobody knew what was going on back in the olden days. The Marxists were still en-closeted. ;-)

[zeestephen]

Important to remember that the two greatest Black celebrities during 1965-1968 were MLK and Muhammad Ali.

Both of them loudly and vigorously opposed the Vietnam War.

This had a profoundly destructive impact on millions of Conservative whites who respected both these men.

In that time period, a solid majority of Americans supported the Vietnam War as the final line in the sand we would not allow a Communist government to cross.

Although war deaths were many times higher than Iraq and Afghanistan, the anti-war movement was confined to the usual Hard Left colleges and cities.

Then, anti-war and Marxist politics went vividly and shockingly on display during the Black Riots in 1968.

The angry political schism between American Blacks and the Republican Party can be traced directly to this period.

[elvis-lives]

“Dated, perhaps only by the date of publication. Submitted for your perusal, consideration, approval/disapproval and comments. :-)”
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Must be duplicated from print. The article dates January 1995 at Fair.org, but the Internet was not popularized until 1996.

[No One Special]

I think your analysis is right on the mark. Recall that Ali was a consciencous objector to the draft based on being in the Nation of Islam. Howard Cosell praised him for this stance and he lost his world championship as a result. I wonder when, why and how he got involved with the NOI. Perhaps he was duped?