Dr Martin Luther King saved this country

[The T]

And to further RightwingShitflinger? WHY do they now claim his mantle?

 

[rightwinger]

Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human

MLK was a great man who did great things for his country by opposing violence. First of all, hyperbole like this and the rest of your piece is not only not necessary, but it undermines from the reality of what he did. Second, civil rights was coming, it would have happened with or without him. He deserves credit for making that less violent than it could have been. But again the hyperbole that he saved the country doesn't send the right message.

But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower

You mean unless they are rich or hard working...

Civil Righs was coming?

From who? Mississippi? Georgia? Alabama?

They integrated by force not by any desire to do so

 

[rightwinger]

I grew up in the 60's and saw most of the Civil Rights movement. Like most Americans, I was outraged at the assasination of Dr King. When we talked about giving him a national holiday ten years later, I looked at it as a form of appeasement for outraged blacks.....a way of giving them their own holiday to quiet them down.

In reading about the Civil Rights movement in subsequent years, I realized what a great American Dr King was. Black Americans came back after WWII to find that despite fighting and dying in defense of their country, they were still treated like lesser Americans. They found they were not allowed to mingle with whites, were not welcome in much of the country they had fought for. Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human. Some whites were outraged at the thought of eating with blacks, using the same restrooms, riding on public transportation with them.

As black Americans began to protest their treatment in their own country they were met with harsh resistance from both white militants and governments who swore to support inequal treatment. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to freely associate, rights to a fair trial. Those who resisted were met with terrorist attacks. Lynchings, bombings, arrest and assasination of their leaders.

Most of us faced with such horrific treatment in our own homeland would fight violence with violence. How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?

When the courts did not protect blacks, armed conflict would seem a reasonable response. Dr King knew violence would only result in more violence against you. He modeled the Civil Rights movement around Gandhis peaceful resistance theories. By using cameras to document the treatment of peaceful protestors he saved this country from an armed violent protest that would have destroyed this country.


America returned from WWII as an economic and military superpower. But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower. By changing the way we treat our citizens, Dr King, more importantly, saved our soul. By forcing us to look in a mirror and see who we really are, he enabled us to become a truly great country.

On this Martin Luther King day I hope everyone can reflect on what a great American he was and how much better off we all are

Tell us WHY the Democrats were AGAINST what MLK stood for?

They weren't.........it was southern Democrats AND Republicans who were against him

Tell me why Conservatives were against him

 

[deltex1]

King was a communist who cheated on his wife frequently.

I often say that if you don't like socialists, you better get used to them. As long as racial injustice and financial crimes go unpunished, those committing the injustices and crimes will be creating more socialists.

Becoming a socialist to solve those problems is insane.

 

[Pheonixops]

I grew up in the 60's and saw most of the Civil Rights movement. Like most Americans, I was outraged at the assasination of Dr King. When we talked about giving him a national holiday ten years later, I looked at it as a form of appeasement for outraged blacks.....a way of giving them their own holiday to quiet them down.

In reading about the Civil Rights movement in subsequent years, I realized what a great American Dr King was. Black Americans came back after WWII to find that despite fighting and dying in defense of their country, they were still treated like lesser Americans. They found they were not allowed to mingle with whites, were not welcome in much of the country they had fought for. Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human. Some whites were outraged at the thought of eating with blacks, using the same restrooms, riding on public transportation with them.

As black Americans began to protest their treatment in their own country they were met with harsh resistance from both white militants and governments who swore to support inequal treatment. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to freely associate, rights to a fair trial. Those who resisted were met with terrorist attacks. Lynchings, bombings, arrest and assasination of their leaders.

Most of us faced with such horrific treatment in our own homeland would fight violence with violence. How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?

When the courts did not protect blacks, armed conflict would seem a reasonable response. Dr King knew violence would only result in more violence against you. He modeled the Civil Rights movement around Gandhis peaceful resistance theories. By using cameras to document the treatment of peaceful protestors he saved this country from an armed violent protest that would have destroyed this country.


America returned from WWII as an economic and military superpower. But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower. By changing the way we treat our citizens, Dr King, more importantly, saved our soul. By forcing us to look in a mirror and see who we really are, he enabled us to become a truly great country.

On this Martin Luther King day I hope everyone can reflect on what a great American he was and how much better off we all are

Tell us WHY the Democrats were AGAINST what MLK stood for?

Things like this below? Was this the Republican/Conservative platform?

"King openly advocated quotas and racial set-asides. He wrote that the "Negro today is not struggling for some abstract, vague rights, but for concrete improvement in his way of life." When equal opportunity laws failed to achieve this, King looked for other ways. 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. In a 1968 Playboy interview, he said, “If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.” King was more than just talk in this regard. Working through his Operation Breadbasket, King threatened boycotts of businesses that did not hire blacks in proportion to their population. "

" King was even an early proponent of reparations. 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. "

"King of course was a great opponent of the free economy. 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. "
Myths of Martin Luther King ? LewRockwell.com

 

[ScienceRocks]

Looking at the problems of the black family. Can you really say he saved this country? Saving this country would of = the black community being better off.

Right? Music alone has want to hell.

 

[rightwinger]

Looking at the problems of the black family. Can you really say he saved this country? Saving this country would of = the black community being better off.

Right? Music alone has want to hell.

Show where one caused the other

Want to talk about the increased roles of blacks in our society? More career fields open to blacks. Managerial positions. Even the President

 

[Rocko]

He didn't save the country. That statement is preposterous. He played a big role in the civil rights movement, yes, but that movement was bigger than one person. King is martyr of the movement and romanticizing him has become tradition, but if you look at the facts, he had some serious flaws.

 

[rightwinger]

Why we needed Dr King

 

[kaz]

Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human

MLK was a great man who did great things for his country by opposing violence. First of all, hyperbole like this and the rest of your piece is not only not necessary, but it undermines from the reality of what he did. Second, civil rights was coming, it would have happened with or without him. He deserves credit for making that less violent than it could have been. But again the hyperbole that he saved the country doesn't send the right message.

But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower

You mean unless they are rich or hard working...

Civil Righs was coming?

From who? Mississippi? Georgia? Alabama?

They integrated by force not by any desire to do so

So civil rights was on no one's radar, the movement was created, carried out and was successful only because of MLK and if it weren't for him, we would still have segregation in the south and white people would think blacks are "dirty, diseased and sub human." Wow, that's good to know...

 

[NoNukes]

Looking at the problems of the black family. Can you really say he saved this country? Saving this country would of = the black community being better off.

Right? Music alone has want to hell.

The Black community would be different had he lived. After his death, many Blacks decided that they did not want to live in the White community, and their communities deteriorated.

 

[NoNukes]

He didn't save the country. That statement is preposterous. He played a big role in the civil rights movement, yes, but that movement was bigger than one person. King is martyr of the movement and romanticizing him has become tradition, but if you look at the facts, he had some serious flaws.

We all have flaws. Can you cast the first stone.

 

[rightwinger]

He didn't save the country. That statement is preposterous. He played a big role in the civil rights movement, yes, but that movement was bigger than one person. King is martyr of the movement and romanticizing him has become tradition, but if you look at the facts, he had some serious flaws.

How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?
How would you react if someone firebombed your church?
How would you react if someone kidnapped and tortured your child to death?

How do you think the gun nuts on this board would react? I know I would want to return violence with violence...it is a natural reaction

It was Dr King, through force of will, that kept the movement peaceful. Any violence from Civil Rights protestors would have been met with massive police retaliation and the movement would have stalled

By keeping the movement peaceful, Dr King won the support of the public and ultimately won the game

 

[rightwinger]

MLK was a great man who did great things for his country by opposing violence. First of all, hyperbole like this and the rest of your piece is not only not necessary, but it undermines from the reality of what he did. Second, civil rights was coming, it would have happened with or without him. He deserves credit for making that less violent than it could have been. But again the hyperbole that he saved the country doesn't send the right message.



You mean unless they are rich or hard working...

Civil Righs was coming?

From who? Mississippi? Georgia? Alabama?

They integrated by force not by any desire to do so

So civil rights was on no one's radar, the movement was created, carried out and was successful only because of MLK and if it weren't for him, we would still have segregation in the south and white people would think blacks are "dirty, diseased and sub human." Wow, that's good to know...

Blacks fought and died in WWI and came back to an America that insisted on keeping them as second class citizens.
Blacks fought and died in WWII and came back to an America that insisted on keeping them as second class citizens

Any demonstration that blacks did not "know their place" was met with violent attacks that were condoned by the local and state government.

When did you expect this movement to take place.? If Civil Rights came, it would be violent retaliation for the violence blacks were experiencing

Dr King was the symbol of the movement. Dr King was the one who insisted on peaceful resistance. Dr King taught them what to do and how to do it

Dr King saved this country

 

[kaz]

Civil Righs was coming?

From who? Mississippi? Georgia? Alabama?

They integrated by force not by any desire to do so

So civil rights was on no one's radar, the movement was created, carried out and was successful only because of MLK and if it weren't for him, we would still have segregation in the south and white people would think blacks are "dirty, diseased and sub human." Wow, that's good to know...

Blacks fought and died in WWI and came back to an America that insisted on keeping them as second class citizens.
Blacks fought and died in WWII and came back to an America that insisted on keeping them as second class citizens

Any demonstration that blacks did not "know their place" was met with violent attacks that were condoned by the local and state government.

When did you expect this movement to take place.? If Civil Rights came, it would be violent retaliation for the violence blacks were experiencing

Dr King was the symbol of the movement. Dr King was the one who insisted on peaceful resistance. Dr King taught them what to do and how to do it

Dr King saved this country

LOL. I gave him a lot of credit, particularly for the non-violence. Your hyperbole is a dishonor to him because it obscures the incredible things he actually did accomplish.

 

[rightwinger]

So civil rights was on no one's radar, the movement was created, carried out and was successful only because of MLK and if it weren't for him, we would still have segregation in the south and white people would think blacks are "dirty, diseased and sub human." Wow, that's good to know...

Blacks fought and died in WWI and came back to an America that insisted on keeping them as second class citizens.
Blacks fought and died in WWII and came back to an America that insisted on keeping them as second class citizens

Any demonstration that blacks did not "know their place" was met with violent attacks that were condoned by the local and state government.

When did you expect this movement to take place.? If Civil Rights came, it would be violent retaliation for the violence blacks were experiencing

Dr King was the symbol of the movement. Dr King was the one who insisted on peaceful resistance. Dr King taught them what to do and how to do it

Dr King saved this country

LOL. I gave him a lot of credit, particularly for the non-violence. Your hyperbole is a dishonor to him because it obscures the incredible things he actually did accomplish.

Which part of what I wrote is not accurate?

 

[paperview]

Why we needed Dr King

A truly memorable and iconic depiction of Ruby Bridges.

 

[hazlnut]

I grew up in the 60's and saw most of the Civil Rights movement. Like most Americans, I was outraged at the assasination of Dr King. When we talked about giving him a national holiday ten years later, I looked at it as a form of appeasement for outraged blacks.....a way of giving them their own holiday to quiet them down.

In reading about the Civil Rights movement in subsequent years, I realized what a great American Dr King was. Black Americans came back after WWII to find that despite fighting and dying in defense of their country, they were still treated like lesser Americans. They found they were not allowed to mingle with whites, were not welcome in much of the country they had fought for. Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human. Some whites were outraged at the thought of eating with blacks, using the same restrooms, riding on public transportation with them.

As black Americans began to protest their treatment in their own country they were met with harsh resistance from both white militants and governments who swore to support inequal treatment. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to freely associate, rights to a fair trial. Those who resisted were met with terrorist attacks. Lynchings, bombings, arrest and assasination of their leaders.

Most of us faced with such horrific treatment in our own homeland would fight violence with violence. How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?

When the courts did not protect blacks, armed conflict would seem a reasonable response. Dr King knew violence would only result in more violence against you. He modeled the Civil Rights movement around Gandhis peaceful resistance theories. By using cameras to document the treatment of peaceful protestors he saved this country from an armed violent protest that would have destroyed this country.


America returned from WWII as an economic and military superpower. But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower. By changing the way we treat our citizens, Dr King, more importantly, saved our soul. By forcing us to look in a mirror and see who we really are, he enabled us to become a truly great country.

On this Martin Luther King day I hope everyone can reflect on what a great American he was and how much better off we all are

Great post.

I was shocked at the number of overt racist Animals we have on USMB -- they all raised their dirty little heads yesterday and screamed Yee-haw!!

Thank you for posting the truth about Dr. King and honoring him.

 

[Wildman]

Dr King and all who engaged in the Civil Rights struggle were American Patriots

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yuckkkk ! your bullshit makes me sick, he was a liar, commie, plagiarist, drunk, woman hater, etc., etc.

 

[rightwinger]

Dr King and all who engaged in the Civil Rights struggle were American Patriots

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yuckkkk ! your bullshit makes me sick, he was a liar, commie, plagiarist, drunk, woman hater, etc., etc.

I laugh at the TeaTards on this board who claim they are American Patriots

They run around in silly hats screaming ....Look at me, I'm a PATRIOT

A TeaTard has never put their life on the line, never fought for true freedom and liberty, never faced a corrupt government that would beat them and imprison them

Dr King and the rest of the Civil Rights movement did just that. They were beaten, arrested, murdered ...fire bombed

All in the name of equality

That is what a REAL PATRIOT is