[2ndDivisionVet]

Always covering for him, always making excuses. She volunteers 1,000 times more then Mr. Photo Op, Peter.

[rktman]

LOL! I’m just guessin’ that he said it’s possible, just possible that some folks don’t like him cause he’s black. He even got that wrong. He’s halfrican-American. Color got nuthin’ to with it there berry.

[Olog-hai]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but King was trying to end a very specific racial divide, and he wasn't really worried about white children being judged by the color of their skin. …

Ending racism is ending racism, Herr Weber. You just called MLK a racist by saying that, Herr Weber.

[BillM]

He’s complaining about his numbers getting worse. I didn’t know he’s been getting blacker!!!

[onyx]

CLICK Yesterday

Happy MLK, Jr. Day!

"I have a dream that my four little 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." – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card.

~Sarah Palin

[hosepipe]

[jiggyboy]

He rather clumsily works in some of the usual logical fallacies (”She wasn’t alive when King gave his speech”), but doesn’t quite get around to actually saying what he’s pretending that Palin got wrong.

[SoldierDad]

He does hope that "the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." But when he was speaking in 1963, nobody was really keeping the sons of slave-owners away from that table.

Ah, I beg to differ with the author of this blather! The son's of slave owners were certainly being forced to stay away from the table of "Brotherhood" with the "Black Man" during the 60's! Any White man/woman/child found to be cavorting with any Black person was quickly reminded, and often harshly, of the penalty for doing so.

[Pietro]

It was obama that flubbed the answer, he has an excuse for everything.

Palin just called him on it, but you're not allowed to point out the obvious anymore.

[Old North State]

What a ridiculous article. Sarah Palin stated a quote from Martin L. King. Now, exactly what fact did she get wrong? The author is entitled to his opinions of what King did or did not accomplish, but thy remain just that; opinions. King may have chased away white on black fear in the south way back when, but I doubt he would have wanted it to reappear as black on black fear in the streets of modern day Chicago. Obama came visit all the soup kitchens he wants and it will have exactly zero effect on that.

[skeeter]

Dr King didn’t mean that racial consideration should be a two way obligation, apparently.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but King was trying to end a very specific racial divide, and he wasn't really worried about white children being judged by the color of their skin.

So Dr. King was an egocentric intellectual dwarf who only cared about himself and "his people?"

[RightOnTheBorder]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but King was trying to end a very specific racial divide, and he wasn't really worried about white children being judged by the color of their skin

Is Peter Weber suggesting that Martin Luther King Jr. was a racist who only cared about the treatment of blacks?

[MrB]

OK, so this author is saying that MLK was actually a racist because he meant that blacks should receive preferential treatment in the law instead of simply equality under the law.

[a fool in paradise]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but King was trying to end a very specific racial divide, and he wasn't really worried about white children being judged by the color of their skin. Seriously, read the speech [PDF]. He does hope that "the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." But when he was speaking in 1963, nobody was really keeping the sons of slave-owners away from that table.

Obama proved a black man was CAPABLE of winning the White House (twice in fact), however he has not proven he himself is capable of DOING the job. THIS is why he is criticized. His character is horrible (everyone now admits that Obama lied to push Obamacare, that Joe Wilson was correct in saying YOU LIE to Mr. Obama during the State of the Union speech when Mr. Obama LIED about his critics).

Obama still says that his low approval numbers are because of his skin color. THAT is playing the race card and the DUmmies keep spinning disproven memes.

[a fool in paradise]

This isn't pro forma Palin-bashing. She wasn't alive when King gave his speech, and I have no doubt she is an admirer of the changes King helped bring to the United States. But it doesn't honor Dr. King to misrepresent what those changes were.

Where does the jerk who wrote this piece fall on Obama's false claim of ties to the Selma march and the changes that came afterwards?

Obama credits Selma march for his existence (2008)

"What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation...This young man named Barack Obama...came over to this country. He met this woman...(who) had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided...it might...be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama... So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama. I'm here because somebody marched."

http://www.barackobama.com/2007/03/04/selma_voting_rights_march_comm.php

[Starstruck]

She wasn't alive when King gave his speech,

Neither was this author.

[EveningStar]

This isn't pro forma Palin-bashing. She wasn't alive when King gave his speech, and I have no doubt she is an admirer of the changes King helped bring to the United States. But it doesn't honor Dr. King to misrepresent what those changes were.

How does calling Obama out on playing the race card misrepresent MLK? The author really pulled that one out of his ass.

[a fool in paradise]

http://theweek.com/author/peter-weber

Peter Weber is a senior editor at TheWeek.com, and has handled the editorial night shift since the website launched in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine. He speaks Spanish and Italian and plays bass and rhythm cello in an Austin rock band, The Heavenly Rays. Follow him on Twitter.

[driftless2]

Yes, it's curious that while the white terrorism (the Klan) was coming to an end by the end of the sixties, the black terrorism against whites gained steam during that time and is currently raging in full force. In the entire history of lynchings by the Klan and other racist groups chronicled since 1886, around 3,000 black people were illegally killed/lynched.

Since that time, probably 50,000 white people have been murdered by blacks. So King's dream has not been fulfilled, but it's not because of nasty, white racists. Today we have a black Klan that goes around terrorizing the country. What have you to say about that Mr. Weber?

[RginTN]

Typical obot, protecting obama even when he's says something stupid.