Martin Luther King: Sacred Cow

Cranky Bastard

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Quite a few posters here proudly paid lip service to MLK in typical, politically correct fashion. But what is the truth? Is MLK the saint, the second coming
of christ, the perfection of mankind that his lemming-tributaries propose?

Certainly, labels such as "hero," "crusader," "champion of equality and revered leader for freedom" abound when paying homage to the deity of MLK. Any criticism, even the slightest, gets labeled racism and bigotry and hatred (no direct accusation to Mentalist there - just observation).

So, shall we?

Myth #1: King wanted only equal rights, not special privileges and would have opposed affirmative action, quotas, reparations, and the other policies pursued by today’s civil rights leadership.


Gosh, how liberally cosmopolitan! How sanitary! The paragon of political correctness! HORSESHIT, I say. Consider:

King was a firm advocate of quotas and racial set-asides. In his book Where Do We Go From Here, he suggested that "A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." To do this he expressed support for quotas.

King was even an early supporter of massive "reparations," even though all the former slaves were dead. In his 1964 book, Why We Can’t Wait, he wrote,

"No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries…Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of a the labor of one human being by another. This law should be made to apply for American Negroes. The payment should be in the form of a massive program by the government of special, compensatory measures which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law."

How odious. But this is the "great American hero."

Myth #2: King was an American patriot, who tried to get Americans to live up to their founding ideals.

This is what we are taught to believe, and doom on you and your grandchildren if anyone dare suggests otherwise. HORSESHIT.

King believed "our nation was born in genocide," and claimed that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were meaningless for blacks because they were written by slave owners.

Myth #3: King was a Christian activist whose struggle for civil rights is similar to the battles fought by the Christian Right today.

Great christian minister! All about love! What a hero! HORSESHIT.

King denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Certainly not a christian, but rather a communist using religion as part of his opiate schtick.

What a charlatan.

Myth #4: King was an anti-communist who supported the free market.

After all, he was American and only wanted kumbaya-equality, right? He was the perfection of all mankind and appropriately black because blacks are superior. Right? He just wanted the system to be fair, right? HORSESHIT.

In a speech in front of his staff in 1966 he said,

You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism.

Godless, hating the constitution, racist, demanding reparations... fucking commie.

Myth #5: MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech was the most beautiful and eloquent KUMBAYA moment of American history.

It makes us all weep. It makes women wet. It makes white men wish they had thought of something so touching that they could make all the women wet. King was a genius. HORSESHIT.

King PLAGIARISED that speech.

Fucking phony.

Meanwhile, Americans dutifully recite the standard, politically correct horseshit about MLK to make him a hero. It feels so good, doesn't it? Who cares what the truth is? Just keep sucking at the black cock of sainthood that the media has bestowed.

Don't want to go against the groupthink, now do we?
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

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Your "Myths" aren't generally shared beliefs, but merely setups for your bitter factoids.

Can we break down the myths of the glorious Founding Fathers as well? They would make these allegations seem like small potatoes.
 

DarthSikle

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He was also gay
 

Cranky Bastard

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Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Your "Myths" aren't generally shared beliefs, but merely setups for your bitter factoids.

Excuse me? The media is replete with those characterizations. I acknowledge your use of "bitter" - as in "the bitter truth." The truth is not generally accepted or welcomed. As evidenced by your reaction.

Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Can we break down the myths of the glorious Founding Fathers as well? They would make these allegations seem like small potatoes.

Go right ahead. But none of the founding fathers are revered any longer. Their one holiday is gone.
 

Mentalist

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Forgive me but does this seem a tad like argumentum ad hominem?

It's the message that resonates, the man is but the provider of the message.
 

Cranky Bastard

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Mentalist said:
Forgive me but does this seem a tad like argumentum ad hominem?

It's the message that resonates, the man is but the provider of the message.

The message. So, build a fable around a villain. A house of flimsy cards to cover the ugly truth because the message "resonates."

Might as well build these fancies around Stalin or Hitler. Hell, lets get real sick and twisted and throw this onto George Bush. So what if he doesn't sign Kyoto; his message of equality "resonates."
 

Cranky Bastard

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I'm looking forward to the George Bush holiday.
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

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We still celebrate the 4th of July, and Washington is celebrated on President's Day with Lincoln.

No man who makes history is ever as big as his legacy is. Neil Armstrong may have worn dresses. Gandhi may have left track marks in his diaper. And everybody farts.

By your standards, no one in history should be revered for anything they accomplished.
 

Cranky Bastard

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Mentalist said:
Why so much anger?

You read anger into this?
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Eggs Mayonnaise said:
We still celebrate the 4th of July, and Washington is celebrated on President's Day with Lincoln.

Sanitized to "President's Day" as you said. Becoming less specific in honor is a retraction of that offering.

Eggs Mayonnaise said:
By your standards, no one in history should be revered for anything they accomplished.

The standards of truth? Would you want to see George Bush honored for Mother Teresa's accomplishments knowing what you know about him? Would you then say the same thing as here?

The politically correct groupthink is deeply ingrained.

Give credit where it is due, not where it is unearned. Currently, the assassination earns MLK accolades for accomplishments, deeds and intents that he did not espouse.
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

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But nothing you charged him with doing was all that bad, you just painted it that way. I'm not for reparations as it's an impractical idea, but the idea itself is not born of Satan. But blacks shouldn't get their hopes up, as it's not going to happen, and shouldn't really, as it would cripple the economy.

MLK was a preacher and a man who thought radical thoughts in a time when insanity was treated as the status quo concerning race in the supposed "greatest nation on earth". We were the envy of the world, and continued to push our systems and beliefs on the rest of the world, meanwhile blacks still had to use separate bathrooms and water fountains, and were denied education in public institutions. What the fuck can you say to that?
 

Cranky Bastard

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I painted it as bad? No, Eggs, what I did was to paint the false portrayal as bad.

I think everyone would agree that lies are bad. Of course, I won't speak for you.
 

Cranky Bastard

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And that's what I alluded to in my first post - any criticism, no matter how true, results in immediate condemnation by all the groupthinkers.

The truth is less than the lies.
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

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Not exactly an answer to my question, but I expected as much...I'll let you get back to the Fox News Channel now.
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

All In With The Nuts
Cranky Bastard said:
And that's what I alluded to in my first post - any criticism, no matter how true, results in immediate condemnation by all the groupthinkers.

The truth is less than the lies.
Wrong. But stilted, angry exaggerations are challenged by those who don't agree with them, nor agree with the way they are being spun.
 

Cranky Bastard

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Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Not exactly an answer to my question, but I expected as much...I'll let you get back to the Fox News Channel now.

Oops, sorry, missed the end of your post. And you should know better. I don't watch television and certainly none of the propaganda media outlets for the dominant left nor the struggling right.

Eggs Mayonnaise said:
What the fuck can you say to that?

He wasn't the only man or woman in America promoting equality.
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

All In With The Nuts
Paul Revere didn't make the big midnight ride thru 4 states, a man named Israel did. Paul made a shorter trip across a few towns in Massachusetts.

Let's recall the famous poem and sue the descendents of the author.
 

Cranky Bastard

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If there is a national holiday revereing the Revere, then I will post the exposure here on that day.
 

CaptainWacky

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Cranky Bastard said:
Quite a few posters here proudly paid lip service to MLK in typical, politically correct fashion.

Yeah, calling it "dead cupcakeer day" is typical, politically correct fashion.
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

All In With The Nuts
How about Thanksgiving? Care to blow the lid open on that?
 
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