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The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
Fair.org/Media Beat ^ | 1/4/95 | Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Posted on 01/16/2012 12:41:11 AM PST by No One Special

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To: elvis-lives
In all the photos I have seen of MLK addressing the masses....seems to me a lot of the men are wearing those little white caps that islamics favor....

....just saying

21 posted on 01/16/2012 3:03:03 AM PST by spokeshave (Ron Paul finally lit a match after dousing himself with gasoline)
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To: No One Special
And Obama's nomination for this generation's MLK: Van Jones.

Mr. Jones said (threatened?) that "2012 will be a turbulent, exciting year. It's important for us to get together and get ready."

turbulent adj. Violently agitated or disturbed; tumultuous: turbulent rapids. 2. Having a chaotic or restless character or tendency: a turbulent period in history. 3. Causing unrest or disturbance; unruly: turbulent, revolutionary undercurrents.

Or as the Van Joneses used to say in the 60s "Take ten!"

Given the myriad racial attacks like that on the 14-year-old girl in Portland, Oregon, maybe today's rallying cry would be "Take it to the MAX!"

Note: As I recall Van Jones said that something was going to happen about a month before OWS hit the fan. He knows.

Why talk about this? Let me ask, Who talks about this black-on-white violence -- except the mayor of Philadelphia, the only Democratic Party member that has been reported as denouncing the attacks. What are we? Punching bags?

-- and don't say that well, in the 1960s it was just the opposite. No! it was not. I recall Cincinnati where whites were blocked on city streets, dragged out of their cars and beaten. Some suffered permanent injuries.

22 posted on 01/16/2012 3:50:52 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: No One Special

A sensible criticism. Notes that MLK did good, then went elsewhere.


23 posted on 01/16/2012 4:07:09 AM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: 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.

Both also used a sing-song cadence that one expects from the rabble-rousing "orators" of the Leftists.

24 posted on 01/16/2012 4:35:49 AM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: No One Special

abc ran a story this morning saying that MLK had unfinished work... to turn America into a communist state by demanding economic justice... aka stalinism. abc wants that result also.

LLS


25 posted on 01/16/2012 4:36:37 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ( MOOchelle obama is PISSED OFF that people say that she is an angry woman!)
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To: No One Special

He crisscrossed the country to assemble “a multiracial army of the poor”.
Sounds like what Obama and media are doing.If you make more people poor the greater the army.


26 posted on 01/16/2012 4:56:23 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: 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. ***

At 'one time' King may have been a registered Republican. But that all changed when first JFK and RFK, and then especially LBJ pushed 'Civil Rights' legislation. There's White House tapes of LBJ on the phone with MLK and King was behind Johnson and the RATS all the way.

(a) The History International Channel (now H2) and the Nat Geo Channel can be very enlightening.

(b) MLK wasn't all that 'non-violent' when he marched/protested. When he was in Chicago and marching into the Marquette Park neighborhood, behind MLK and the other 'Rev's' were black gang-bangers. And they always started 'something' with the white locals who lived there. Every march turned into a Riot. 'Non-Violent' he wasn't.

27 posted on 01/16/2012 5:20:56 AM PST by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: Olog-hai

Poor beautiful South Africa. I stood in the Levubu Tropical Valley in 2004 speaking to a black man who was part of the “new government” and we discussed the land “re-purchase”. He said it would not be like Zimbabwe. I knew right there and then it would be exactly like Zimbabwe. God help the Afrikaners!


28 posted on 01/16/2012 5:32:37 AM PST by crghill (Silly Mormons, God is triune.)
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To: Condor51

Some say that Marilyn Monroe suicided after JFK handed her off to MLK


29 posted on 01/16/2012 5:33:35 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: beaversmom
Most of the older blacks were repubs because it was the dems that stopped them from voting.
30 posted on 01/16/2012 5:38:21 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Vaduz

Not just making people poor, but convincing the non-poor they are (witness the bulk of Occupiers).


31 posted on 01/16/2012 5:44:08 AM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: No One Special

Links to transcripts of these questionable speeches?


32 posted on 01/16/2012 5:46:24 AM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: bert
*** Some say that Marilyn Monroe suicided after JFK handed her off to MLK ***

LOL, hadn't heard that one.

Personally I'm in the 'conspiracy camp'. The RFK offing her with Peter Lawford and 'others' help. For one, RFK lied about where he was on that night. He said DC, but was in fact, in LA. And a small hypo injection mark was found on MM and that was covered up (never reported) by the M.E. It was also a known fact that MM hated needles and would never inject herself. Add another body to the Kennedy family count.

33 posted on 01/16/2012 5:53:01 AM PST by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: Cowboy Bob
It is my understanding that there were prostitutes in his hotel room the day he was shot.

King was with his mistress, Kentucky state senator Georgia Davis when he was shot. In fact, his handlers scrambled to make her go away as the media converged upon the Lorraine motel.

An absolutely outstanding book, Hellhound on His Trail details the final days of King's life and the world-wide manhunt for his killer, a small-time crook and aspiring pornographer who went by the name Eric Starvo Galt --but the world would later know as James Earl Ray.

By the time of his assassination, MLK was a has-been. A Time magazine poll didn't even list his name in the top ten most influential Americans. Many blacks, particularly younger ones had given up on "that old preacher" King and were gravitating towards the more militant black power leaders like Stokely Charmichael and Huey Newton. King was washed-up, womanizing and drinking too much while trying to plan a "million poor march" on Washington DC --an endeavor many of his increasingly fewer supporters believed was a quixotic pipe dream.

In April 1968, King was a fading star. James Earl Ray changed all that.

34 posted on 01/16/2012 5:59:35 AM PST by Drew68
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To: No One Special

There is a good reason why his FBI files are not viewable.


35 posted on 01/16/2012 6:01:32 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: 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)?

I will confirm and verify your understanding.

It's a unanimous and anonymous group of sources that must be projected and protected, and therefore can not be relived or revealed {but for the right amount of cash I'd consider selling them out}. heheh

36 posted on 01/16/2012 6:05:56 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke The Terrorist Savages)
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To: ctdonath2
I did a couple of googles for you:
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However, if I recall correctly, the King family has made most of what he said unavailable by using the copyright law, so there may not be much.

37 posted on 01/16/2012 6:19:16 AM PST by No One Special
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To: No One Special

Another Marxist community organizer.

Someone to look up to by comparison would be Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams.


38 posted on 01/16/2012 6:24:13 AM PST by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: svcw

It has been documented that MLK, Jr. did attend CPUSA meetings. I don’t know if identified specifically with that form of collectivism but the op-ed pages were more or less correct since he wanted to get rid of the free enterprise capitalist system.


39 posted on 01/16/2012 7:15:24 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: ctdonath2; wardaddy; Kenny Bunk

Both an audio recording and the transcript of King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech is found here:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

King’s speech was sponsored by “Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam “, a hard left antiwar group King belonged to that among other things accused American troops of war crimes.

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_clergy_and_laymen_concerned_about_vietnam_calcav/

“In February and April 1967 King delivered two speeches devoted entirely to Vietnam. On 25 February 1967, King delivered ‘‘The Causalities of the War in Vietnam.’’ He was eager to ensure his message would not be distorted and approached CALCAV to organize a public event where he could situate his position within the broader religious opposition to the war. CALCAV hired a publicist exclusively for the event, which was held at Riverside Church in New York City on 4 April 1967. King’s speech, which drew over 3,000 people, provided his most significant endorsement of the anti-war movement to date. CALCAV published and distributed 100,000 copies of the Riverside speeches and King accepted an invitation to be co-chair of the organization.

Later that month, CALCAV endorsed ‘‘Vietnam Summer,’’ a campaign promoted by King and the noted pediatrician Benjamin Spock to mobilize grassroots anti-war activists in preparation for the 1968 elections. Throughout the summer and fall, CALCAV chapters engaged in civil disobedience by protecting draft resisters, a departure from their more moderate tactics, such as petitions and vigils. The organization’s second national mobilization was timed to coincide with the February 1968 release of a study commissioned by CALCAV documenting American war crimes in Vietnam...”


40 posted on 01/16/2012 7:33:05 AM PST by Pelham (Vultures for Romney. We pluck your carcass)
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