Martin Luther King day

DayByDay ^ | 1/17/2005 | Chris Muir

[StoneGiant]

It’s a day to remember those who served others in the cause of freedom.

[cripplecreek]

It's a worthy holiday.

[newgeezer]

Unfortunately, an awful lot of those who will expound on Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech today are the very ones who refuse to let his dream become reality.

I think they're typically called "race baiters." According to them, everything and everyone must be judged on the basis of race. Yet, today, they will talk about the "dream" as if it's theirs.

[confederate66]

What makes it so worthy? Another 3 day weekend? Recognize the holiday ON the actual birthday, not just a paid holiday for a long weekend off. Whatever.............
I bet the prostitute he beat on could care less.

[Redbob]

Cheerfully at work today!

[Non-Sequitur]

Shouldn't you be off celebrating Lee-Davis-Jackson-Forrest-Hood Day or something?

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Martin Luther King: "A man should not be judged by the color of his skin, but the content of his character!!!". American Blacks, today, adrift at sea, abundant with leaders that lack character and honesty, had better take a good hard look at themselves today on MLKs birthday. The honorable Dr. King wanted an America where Blacks would assimilate into and be fully accepted by general American society as equals. This had not happened at all, and a good, majority portion of that failure lies in the hands of American Blacks themselves. If they continue down they road they have traveled politically for so long, in supporting the Democrat "Slavery" Party, they will forever lanquish in the black hole of weakened political clout, economic squalor and missed opportunity. Today is a great day to celebrate MLK and his dreams, and conduct a "reality" check among the Black folk in our great nation. Get real!!! Being Black, liberal and a Democrat is a loser!!!

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Indeed. And perhaps someday we'll have a more inclusive holiday to honor and commemorate the lives and deeds of:

Beaten, jailed, and/or slain (white) civil rights workers;

The courageous (white) Republican US Senators and Representatives who risked their political careers and their lives to fight an uphill battle against their Democrat colleagues -- perhaps the most noteworthy being AlGore, Sr. and Robert "Sheets" Byrd -- to force the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964;

The hundreds of other courageous civil rights activist groups and individuals, black and white (e.g. Ralph Abernathy, CORE), and righteous Americans who even today live their lives in a manner that treats all men and women, regardless of color, with fairness, Godly charity, respect and dignity; and, last but by no means least,

Black Americans who have overcome and continue to overcome the persistent cancers of racial discrimination; the individual bigotry of too many of their fellow Americans; Liberal-ridden, paternalistic Government agencies; and race-baiting, opportunistic, and self-promoting frauds and charlatans (e.g. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the leadership of the NAACP) who have profitted immensely by helping millions of black Americans to remain on "the plantation".....

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Indeed. And perhaps someday we'll have a more inclusive holiday to honor and commemorate the lives and deeds of:

Beaten, jailed, and/or slain (white) civil rights workers;

The courageous (white) Republican US Senators and Representatives who risked their political careers and their lives to fight an uphill battle against their Democrat colleagues -- perhaps the most noteworthy being AlGore, Sr. and Robert "Sheets" Byrd -- to force the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964;

The hundreds of other courageous civil rights activist groups and individuals, black and white (e.g. Ralph Abernathy, CORE), and righteous Americans who even today live their lives in a manner that treats all men and women, regardless of color, with fairness, Godly charity, respect and dignity; and, last but by no means least,

Black Americans who have overcome and continue to overcome the persistent cancers of racial discrimination; the individual bigotry of too many of their fellow Americans; Liberal-ridden, paternalistic Government agencies; and race-baiting, opportunistic, and self-promoting frauds and charlatans (e.g. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the leadership of the NAACP) who have profitted immensely by helping millions of black Americans to remain on "the plantation".....

[M 91 u2 K]

MLK in his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

Jesse Jackson isnt very far off from what MLK wanted. It is foolish for us to deceive oursleves and pretend MLK was a conservative.

[puroresu]

Why should there be a holiday honoring King when there is none honoring so many truly great Americans?

King was a charismatic man and a great speaker. He was also a socialist and a supporter of the enemy in the Vietnam War. He plagiarized his doctoral dissertation and his most famous speech. He apparently was a philanderer who abused women. He's often quoted favorably by conservatives for advocating a color blind society, but surely if he were alive today he'd be advocating racial quotas and would be running around like Jesse Jackson claiming President Bush stole both of his election wins.

He may have called for "freedom" but what did he mean by that? Private enterprise? The Bill of Rights? I doubt it.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Conservative?
He was a communist.

[9999lakes]

[b]Amber Alert: Dr. King's Legacy Reported Missing by Scott Ott[/b] (2005-01-17) -- An Amber Alert has been issued nationwide today after the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was reported missing on the very day when millions of Americans planned to observe the slain civil rights leader's birthday. In Jonesboro, Georgia, authorities monitored a speech Sunday by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, after an informant said Mr. Jackson might be carrying the King legacy. However, during his speech it became clear that the legacy was no longer in Mr. Jackson's possession. Police have released a description of the legacy in Dr. King's own words from a speech he delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Analysis of the so-called 'I Have a Dream ' speech shows that Dr. King was concerned primarily with freedom by means of equal rights and equal justice under the law for everyone. Forensics experts have been unable to find a match for the King legacy among the words of any of the major American leaders who claim the King mantle. "The King legacy is so easy to counterfeit and then pass off for personal gain," said one expert. [b]"It's just a small cut to take Dr. King's dream that people 'will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character', and to slice out the 'character' part and leave nothing but empty skin.[/b] Equality of opportunity gets falsely transformed into equality of results as a birthright." The most common counterfeits also lack what experts call the "backbone" of the King legacy -- trust in God. Dr. King allegedy rested his assertion of equal rights on the passage in the " target=_blankDeclaration of Independence that says, [b]"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." "Without a Creator," said the forensics expert, "the legacy of equal rights collapses into a viscious struggle where the strong prevail and no rights can reasonably be asserted. Dr. King knew there is no basis for equal rights without a loving and righteous creator God."[/b] "The second most common measure employed by counterfeiters is to remove Dr. King's desire to unite the races," the source said. "The genuine legacy pictures Black and White holding hands, eating together, marching together as well as singing and praising God together. [b]The counterfeiters inevitably portray civil rights as a struggle of innocent Black against malevolent White, or caring Democrat against selfish Republican. But the King legacy pitted the justice of God against the injustice of men and foresaw the day when God's victory would benefit Americans of every hue, faith and political stripe."[/b] Indeed, the 'Dream' speech text seems to corroborate this when Dr. King said, "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred." A review of the archival audio reveals that the biggest applause line in the 1,619-word speech was as follows: [b]"The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. Amid the roar of applause, Dr. King added, "And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone."[/b] Meanwhile, as the search continues for the missing King legacy, Americans are left to struggle with what it all meant. "The kids are out of school and I have the day off," said one suburban Philadelphia man, "so we're grateful for Dr. King's efforts to free all Americans from education and work. What a great dream." In related news, the Columbia School of Journalism today holds a panel discussion titled 'Inequality in America." Professional journalists on the panel include Connie Chung, Geraldo Rivera, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Ed Bradley and Rudi Bakhtiar. http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/002030.html

[confederate66]

I celebrate those days every day. Not just once a year with a free government paid day off. Now back in your cage.

[Fighter@heart]

In D.C.; I overheard some black teens talking about today. They were calling it "ma-loofa" King day. Ebonics & poor education, the cornerstones of failure, a trap set by race baiters with more than enough "bait takers."

[HIDEK6]

Shouldn't you be off celebrating Lee-Davis-Jackson-Forrest-Hood Day or something?

That would be January 19.

[FastCoyote]

The stock market is closed. Why would they do that to me?

[newgeezer]

It is too bad that Lincoln's Birthday was eliminated as a Federal holiday for the likes of MLK.

(By the way, Washington's Birthday is still a holiday. Don't listen to the "Presidents Day" people. They're wrong.)

[PresbyRev]

No 'holidays' celebrating or honoring communists for me. Thanks.

[Cultural Jihad]

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr:

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."

President Bill Clinton:

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

Liberal Media Types:

"Let's all move on; this is just about the content of someone's character, which is not important at all in a moral-liberal America."