Dr Martin Luther King saved this country

[2aguy]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

It was democrats.....Republican conservatives supported Civil Rights...democrat conservatives supported jim crow.

 

[rightwinger]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

It was democrats.....Republican conservatives supported Civil Rights...democrat conservatives supported jim crow.

Southern Republican CONSERVATIVES opposed Civil Rights

They still do

 

[Redfish]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

 

[Redfish]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

It was democrats.....Republican conservatives supported Civil Rights...democrat conservatives supported jim crow.

Southern Republican CONSERVATIVES opposed Civil Rights

They still do

more bullshit, but we understand, bullshit is all you libs have left.

 

[rightwinger]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

 

[2aguy]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

Nope.....Southern Republicans supported individual rights and were against the over reach of the federal government......southern democrats were racists who opposed civil rights.....they enacted jim crow laws and murdered blacks and republicans to keep blacks from voting.

 

[rightwinger]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

Nope.....Southern Republicans supported individual rights and were against the over reach of the federal government......southern democrats were racists who opposed civil rights.....they enacted jim crow laws and murdered blacks and republicans to keep blacks from voting.

Total nonsense

100% of Southern Republicans voted against the Civil Rights bill

 

[Redfish]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

grow up, moron. Everyone supports civil rights. Your attempt to create geographical bias fails once again.

You are also wrong about southern republicans, it was southern democrats who opposed civil rights-------------George Wallace, Robert Byrd, Bull Connor, Lester Maddox, Huey Long, just to name a few you might recognize.

 

[Redfish]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

Nope.....Southern Republicans supported individual rights and were against the over reach of the federal government......southern democrats were racists who opposed civil rights.....they enacted jim crow laws and murdered blacks and republicans to keep blacks from voting.

Total nonsense

100% of Southern Republicans voted against the Civil Rights bill

So Robert Byrd and Al Gore Sr, were republicans?????????????? WTF is wrong with you?

Who filibustered the civil rights bill? not republicans.

 

[rightwinger]

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

Nope.....Southern Republicans supported individual rights and were against the over reach of the federal government......southern democrats were racists who opposed civil rights.....they enacted jim crow laws and murdered blacks and republicans to keep blacks from voting.

Total nonsense

100% of Southern Republicans voted against the Civil Rights bill

So Robert Byrd and Al Gore Sr, were republicans?????????????? WTF is wrong with you?

Who filibustered the civil rights bill? not republicans.

LBJ signed it

Never would have passed without LBJ pushing it through

 

[rightwinger]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

grow up, moron. Everyone supports civil rights. Your attempt to create geographical bias fails once again.

You are also wrong about southern republicans, it was southern democrats who opposed civil rights-------------George Wallace, Robert Byrd, Bull Connor, Lester Maddox, Huey Long, just to name a few you might recognize.

Missed out on all those discussions on gays having the right to serve their country and get married didn't you?

 

[2aguy]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

Nope.....Southern Republicans supported individual rights and were against the over reach of the federal government......southern democrats were racists who opposed civil rights.....they enacted jim crow laws and murdered blacks and republicans to keep blacks from voting.

Total nonsense

100% of Southern Republicans voted against the Civil Rights bill

Not because they were racists....because the 64 act went too far.....just ask bakers and wedding photographers if it went too far.......and then you could address Affirmative Racism that was also created by the 64 act...which they also predicted.....

 

[2aguy]

Television saved this country. If not for the televising of the Civil Rights movement...it wouldn't have gone anywhere.....the democrats and their crime against innocent blacks shown on the news....woke Americans up and then they made the changes necessary. When there was no television.....and they couldn't see what democrats were doing to black Americans...it wasn't on their minds....

It was Conservatives behind the fire hoses and attack dogs
Not much has changed

bullshit, it was democrats.

No it wasn't....

There were hundreds of northern Democrats who supported integration
Southern Republicans opposed Civil Rights....they still do

Nope.....Southern Republicans supported individual rights and were against the over reach of the federal government......southern democrats were racists who opposed civil rights.....they enacted jim crow laws and murdered blacks and republicans to keep blacks from voting.

Total nonsense

100% of Southern Republicans voted against the Civil Rights bill

Moron...here is the Senate vote for the Civil Rights act of 1957....notice, not one Republican voted against it......showing that the vote for the 64 act was not based on race for republicans...

HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. -- Senate Vote #75 -- Aug 7, 1957

 

[rightwinger]

A happy Martin Luther King Day

He was truly a great American Patriot

 

[PredFan]

Well, he saved our conscience and was an agent for a much needed change, but I was there too and I believe the change was coming anyway. What's sad, is that race relations have been trashed by the left and blacks recently. I'm pretty sure that if he was alive today, King would be disappointed that his message has been lost

 

[mikegriffith1]

If King had been white and had been conservative on even a few major issues, I wonder if liberals would be so quick to ignore the fact that he assaulted one of his mistresses the night before his death (he "knocked her across the bed" and the two proceeded to have "a full-blown fight"), frequently cheated on his wife, swore profusely in private (not exactly conduct you'd expect from a "reverend"), and cheated in college.

This said, I agree that King's public works are worth honoring, that he did a great deal of good in his public actions. However, I think Booker T. Washington was and is more deserving of a holiday than King.

 

[miketx]

King was really a white man made up to look black so he could get money from whites to promote his motives for agrarian dystopia.

 

[Bonzi]

 

[Bush92]

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

Martin Luther King saved this nation from what? Overwhelming success?

 

[rightwinger]

Well, he saved our conscience and was an agent for a much needed change, but I was there too and I believe the change was coming anyway. What's sad, is that race relations have been trashed by the left and blacks recently. I'm pretty sure that if he was alive today, King would be disappointed that his message has been lost

That change was "coming" for 100 years

If it was going to come on its own, it would have happened when black veterans returned after WWII. They fought and died for their country and were expected to return to business as usual