http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mlkday/ en-us Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:57:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324141/posts I’ve been reading about the planned Sept. 11 National Day of Service. I certainly do not have an issue with service, but if my memory serves right – and it does today – we already have a national day of service… Martin Luther King Day. There has been a bit of a kerfuffle about Democrats selecting Sept. 11 as a national day of service. The event – with more at Serve.gov – been discussed over at Hot Air, Atlas Shrugs and Gateway Pundit, but I’m wondering what this development means for the Martin Luther King national day of volunteer service? http://radioviceonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324141/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:57:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957295/posts SAVAGE NATION, LIVE! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957295/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:07:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1768620/posts Do we REALLY need a Martin Luther King holiday? Today is Martin Luther King Day here in the United States. For the past few days I've felt led to articulate some thoughts about this holiday. This morning I made the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTVf5btHy5I Comments are welcome, either on this post or on the video's YouTube page. http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1768620/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:14:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767966/posts MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine goodwill and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in... Historical Text Archive http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767966/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:38:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1767766/posts King’s Dream has been fulfilled. The power of his message rings true. It was modest in it’s intent because it outlined only the framework by which racial harmony can grow. In communities all over the country we have thousands of Obamas and even more Oprahs; politicians, journalists, fire chiefs, judges and doctors thanks to the Dream. eNews Reference http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1767766/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:09:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567650/posts Two elected Democrats took the occasion of Martin Luther King’s birthday celebration on January 16 to give race-baiting speeches before black audiences. One did it because he is stupid. The other did it because she thinks blacks are stupid. Canyon news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567650/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:01:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565540/posts Former Vice President Al Gore gave another one of his famous anti-Bush speeches(1) last week before an enthusiastic audience of left-wing extremists called the 'Liberty Coalition' at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., and a more annoying compilation of unsubstantiated accusations I've not heard in recent times. ChronWatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565540/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564183/posts Hillary's Plantation By SHELBY STEELE Hoover InstitutionJanuary 23, 2006; Page A16Of course Hillary Clinton's recent claim that Republicans run the House of Representatives like a "plantation" was old-fashioned political and racial pandering. After all, she uttered this remark at what certainly would have been a prime venue for her husband: a largely black audience on Martin Luther King Day. So, clearly, she was looking to connect with this most loyal Democratic constituency. But Mrs. Clinton is possessed of a tin ear precisely where her husband is all deftness and charm. Black audiences are beyond her. The room of black faces... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564183/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:14:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563201/posts Mudslinging by leading Democrats, usually taking form these days as trying to brand Republicans as racists, confirms what I have been writing about for a number of years: the Democratic Party is running on an empty tank. Bankrupt of ideas, the only thing they have to offer is slamming the opposition and playing the race card. The latest case in point is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Martin Luther King Day pandering to a black audience in Harlem, telling them that Republicans run the House of Representatives "like a plantation and you know what I am talking about." According to Mrs.... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563201/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:21:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562878/posts LET ME see if I understand. The junior senator from New York, who many believe is the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, went to the famed Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem on Martin Luther King Day. Standing where King stood when he preached the installation sermon for his dear friend the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, the junior senator said to the predominately black audience: When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what Im talking about. Beyond the GOP hyperbole that would like... Insidebayarea.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562878/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:44:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562445/posts The latest installment in the Democratic Party’s attempt to divide the country came this week when their favorite daughter, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D – NY), used the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to stem the decline of Black people voting for their candidates. Democrats are justifiably frightened over the fact that in 2004 President Bush received between 12 to 16 percent support from African-American voters in battleground states such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Speaking this week at Harlem’s Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, Mrs. Clinton stated, “When you look at the way the House of... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562445/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:26:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561484/posts     Race-baiters betray the King legacy By Tony SnowJan 20, 2006 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Let history record that the race-baiting industry died on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2006 -- courtesy of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's "Chocolate City" oration and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's "You know what I'm talkin' about" rant.  The race-baiting industry has been dangling on the precipice of comic irrelevance for some time. Jesse Jackson's embrace of despots -- most recently, Hugo Chavez -- has reduced him to bit-player status, and Louis Farrakhan's "whitey blew up the levee" act after the hurricanes removed all doubt about... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561484/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:45:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1561058/posts On the occasion of the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday, New Jersey firearms opponents had planned to make a symbolic seven-mile march from an assembly point to a Dick's Sporting Goods store in West Windsor, New Jersey to protest that store's selling handgun ammunition. Instead, they found themselves explaining their absence to the local media. The reason given for canceling a peaceful protest designed to express the collective desires of the Mercer County Million Mom March Chapter, the NJ Million Mom March Chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the local chapters of the Southern Christian... theoutdoorwire.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1561058/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:33:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561291/posts As Americans Honor Martin Luther King, Abortion Destroys Black CommunityWashington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Millions of Americans today will honor the memory of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, but, as they do, pro-life leaders within the African American community are concerned about the toll abortion is taking. "Far and away the worse toll is taken in the most vulnerable community, the African American community, where black women are three times more likely to have an abortion than their white counterparts," explains Starr Parker, president of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education.African American women make up 13.7 percent of... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561291/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:39:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560372/posts Unlike our president, who spent Martin Luther King Day paying respectful tribute to MLK and Abraham Lincoln, Democratic Party notables, Hillary Clinton and Albert Gore, used the holiday as another opportunity to character-assassinate President George W. Bush. Just when we were beginning to think Hillary Clinton had found her voice -- albeit a decidedly phony one -- as a mature, seasoned politician poised for a presidential run, she reverts to those cacophonic utterances that find little resonance beyond her embittered but indispensable base. If one could momentarily suspend his powers of discernment, he could almost sympathize with a woman saddled... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560372/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:48:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560226/posts Funny, I always thought that part of Doctor King’s dream was the coming of a day when nobody would notice the color of anybody’s skin, a day when their accomplishments would speak for themselves. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560226/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:10:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560310/posts Local labor leaders are fuming over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's last-minute appearance at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in San Francisco -- and a lot of their anger is directed at former Mayor Willie Brown. "We've spent a year and a half, and millions of dollars fighting this SOB,'' San Francisco Labor Council head Tim Paulson said of the governor. "For him to come to this breakfast was an absolute insult." Paulson also had a few words for Brown, the lawyer/lobbyist and talk-show pundit (he regularly appears on TV with this column's Phil Matier) who helped engineer Arnold's well-covered... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560310/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:56:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559462/posts Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped a Martin Luther King Day stunner yesterday - comparing GOP rule of the House of Representatives to a "plantation." Standing alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton, Clinton told a mostly black crowd that "when you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation - and you know what I am talking about." The startling comment got muted response from those at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ on W. 116th St., but Republican leaders seized on her remarks as inflammatory and insensitive. "It is always wrong... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559462/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:37:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559449/posts SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Sen. John McCain said in a speech Monday that white Americans owe Martin Luther King Jr. more than black Americans because the slain civil rights leader "rescued us from a shame that would have destroyed us." McCain also read part of King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," which he called "among the most powerful and compelling cries for freedom I have encountered." King wrote the famous letter while awaiting trial after his arrest in 1963 for demonstrating without a permit in Birmingham, Ala. McCain, returning to the state where he suffered the body blow from which... modbee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559449/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:11:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559524/posts SARASOTA -- Many people just passed right by her. No spare change. No hellos. In some cases, not even a good morning for the seemingly homeless lady with thick glasses wheeling a cart full of belongings around the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast. Many people paid no attention to her at all. That is, until she wheeled the cart up to the front of the Newtown Estates Gymnasium, grabbed the microphone, and turned out to be someone that most people there knew quite well. Activist Glenda Williams wanted to send a message, and she did it even before... Sarasota Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559524/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:40:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559906/posts Former candidate honors MLK with call to fight poverty The ideals and dreams of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are being forgotten, former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards said Monday. “The great moral issue is the 37 million people in our country who live in poverty,” Edwards told about a thousand people attending Monday’s service for King at Mount Zion First Baptist Church on East Boulevard. “How can we turn our backs on 37 million people who had to beg for health care?” Edwards, who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina, cited a “void in moral... 2theadvocate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559906/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:52:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559688/posts On Monday, many Americans honored the memory of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. President Bush, speaking at the “Let Freedom Ring” festival at Georgetown University, said that America must recommit itself to working toward Dr. King’s dream. How did Democrats such as Al Gore and Hillary Clinton choose to honor Dr. King? They did so by once again playing the race card and pitting black against white for the sole purpose of political gain. As reported in the Houston Chronicle, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said Monday in a speech in Harlem that President Bush was one of... The Loft http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559688/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:09:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559715/posts According to white liberals, I'm really missing the boat. As a supposed benefactor of “white privilege,” a topic that reached its pinnacle in the week leading up to MLK Day, white and black liberals keep telling me how much I have benefited from my whiteness. So, I went on a search to find out the truth about my automatic benefits and discover just how evil I am. A Boston Globe columnist obsessed over the “white privilege” of the Justice Alito nomination to the Supreme Court before going on a (highly off-topic) Bush-bash-fest and signaling his support for abortion-on-demand. As far... Capitol Hill Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559715/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:42:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559807/posts (AP) WASHINGTON The White House charged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was "out of bounds" when she said Monday that the Bush administration was "one of the worst" in U.S. history and compared the Republican House to "a plantation." White House spokesman Scott McLellan was asked about sharp remarks from two nationally prominent Democrats, Clinton, D-N.Y., and former Vice President Al Gore. Gore, in a separate Monday speech, called for an independent probe of the administration program that listened in -- without a warrant -- on Americans suspected of talking to terrorists overseas. Asked about the criticism coming from the two... WCBSTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559807/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:49:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559873/posts Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted that New Orleans would be a "chocolate" city once more and asserted that "God was mad at America." "I said some things that were totally inappropriate. ... It shouldn't have happened," Nagin said, explaining he was caught up in the moment as he spoke to mostly black spectators, many of them fearful of being shut out of the city's rebuilding. During the speech Monday, Nagin, who is black, said that the hurricanes that hit the nation in quick succession were a sign of God's... Briebart via Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559873/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:51:18 GMT