Dr Martin Luther King saved this country

[rightwinger]

Can you imagine a nation that was shocked at the atrocities perpetrated against the Jews and proclaimed how we were fighting for freedom while denying blacks the right to vote and treating them as if they were diseased animals?

That is not a great nation. That is a nation with serious social problems

Martin Luther King saved us

Your dismissal of the accomplishments and sacrifices of an entire generation of Americans, because they did not meet your modern PC standards,


reveals you to be a narrow minded, prick.

It is not narrow minded to reveal the dark underbelly of our 1940 s society

That great society then expected blacks who fought in that war to resume their subservient status

It is narrow minded to deny the greatness of the rest of 1940s society because of that one aspect.

That was one hell of an aspect

MLK saved us without resorting to violence

Only to some one completely ignorant of history.


Your reactions to the normal level of bitter partisanship that Obama was subject to, your choice to smear half the nation with the false accusation of racism, your choice to tell minorities that republicans were "Whitelashing" against a black president,

made a mockery of King and his dream.

I am well aware of our history

That is why I honor MLK in this thread

 

[Correll]

Your dismissal of the accomplishments and sacrifices of an entire generation of Americans, because they did not meet your modern PC standards,


reveals you to be a narrow minded, prick.

It is not narrow minded to reveal the dark underbelly of our 1940 s society

That great society then expected blacks who fought in that war to resume their subservient status

It is narrow minded to deny the greatness of the rest of 1940s society because of that one aspect.

That was one hell of an aspect

MLK saved us without resorting to violence

Only to some one completely ignorant of history.


Your reactions to the normal level of bitter partisanship that Obama was subject to, your choice to smear half the nation with the false accusation of racism, your choice to tell minorities that republicans were "Whitelashing" against a black president,

made a mockery of King and his dream.

I am well aware of our history

That is why I honor MLK in this thread

Only to some one completely ignorant of history.


Your reactions to the normal level of bitter partisanship that Obama was subject to, your choice to smear half the nation with the false accusation of racism, your choice to tell minorities that republicans were "Whitelashing" against a black president,

made a mockery of King and his dream.

 

[rightwinger]

Blacks came back from WWI after fighting for their country. They found they were treated better by the French than in their own country
They thought they could come home to Liberty and freedom. Instead, there was a resurgence of the klan to keep them in their place

 

[Correll]

Blacks came back from WWI after fighting for their country. They found they were treated better by the French than in their own country
They thought they could come home to Liberty and freedom. Instead, there was a resurgence of the klan to keep them in their place

So, the French were pretty cool, huh?

 

[rightwinger]

Blacks came back from WWI after fighting for their country. They found they were treated better by the French than in their own country
They thought they could come home to Liberty and freedom. Instead, there was a resurgence of the klan to keep them in their place

So, the French were pretty cool, huh?

In terms of how they viewed race

They were

 

[basquebromance]

my friends, we have been drenched by the Trump rain. our bodies are tired. our feet are sore. we need a King-like figure to save the American race from complete extinction!

 

[basquebromance]

when they asked Dr King arent you tired of walking? He said MY FEET ARE TIRED, BUT MY SOUL IS RESTED!

MARCH WITH ME! MARCH WITH DR KING! MARCH WITH CORY BOOKER! MARCH WITH STACY ABRAMS! MARCH WITH ANDREW GILLUM! MARCH WITH STEVE KING! MARCH WITH DONALD TRUMP! WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS WHO MUST LOVE EACH OTHER! THAT WAS DR KING'S DREAM!

 

[Preacher]

Another marchin lootin coon day....OH BOY! Kids love having day off and I enjoy not having to get up early....then get to troll the morons on FB LOL. Ah a day celebrating a womanizer,plagiarist,alcoholic and known communist.

 

[basquebromance]

Dr King has a magical effect on me. when i hear his speeches, i just feel...hope!

 

[LeftofLeft]

Obama was raised by whites in a white community. It gave him an insiders perception of race in America

One could argue, "white privilege" as well.

In his early days he was raise buy his black muslim father and his liberal mother in Asia. It was not till later that he was raised by his white grandparents in a white community

Again, one could argue, “white privilege” as well.

 

[basquebromance]

the fight between good and evil was compressed into the tiny community of Selma and turned the whole nation into a new era. some of the most passionate pleas for human rights ever made in american history was by Dr King. we must thank white America's role too, though, as Dr King acknowledged. from Montgomery to Birmingham. from Birmingham to Selma. from Selma back to Montgommery. that's a lot of tired feet.

 

[rightwinger]

the fight between good and evil was compressed into the tiny community of Selma and turned the whole nation into a new era. some of the most passionate pleas for human rights ever made in american history was by Dr King. we must thank white America's role too, though, as Dr King acknowledged. from Montgomery to Birmingham. from Birmingham to Selma. from Selma back to Montgommery. that's a lot of tired feet.

Selma repulsed the nation
The dignity of the marchers and the savagery of law enforcement defined the Civil Rights movement

 

[bodecea]

It is not narrow minded to reveal the dark underbelly of our 1940 s society

That great society then expected blacks who fought in that war to resume their subservient status

It is narrow minded to deny the greatness of the rest of 1940s society because of that one aspect.

That was one hell of an aspect

MLK saved us without resorting to violence

Only to some one completely ignorant of history.


Your reactions to the normal level of bitter partisanship that Obama was subject to, your choice to smear half the nation with the false accusation of racism, your choice to tell minorities that republicans were "Whitelashing" against a black president,

made a mockery of King and his dream.

I am well aware of our history

That is why I honor MLK in this thread

Only to some one completely ignorant of history.


Your reactions to the normal level of bitter partisanship that Obama was subject to, your choice to smear half the nation with the false accusation of racism, your choice to tell minorities that republicans were "Whitelashing" against a black president,

made a mockery of King and his dream.

:false accusation:

 

[bodecea]

Another marchin lootin coon day....OH BOY! Kids love having day off and I enjoy not having to get up early....then get to troll the morons on FB LOL. Ah a day celebrating a womanizer,plagiarist,alcoholic and known communist.

^ I see another conservative republican has arrived.

 

[Bush92]

Happy Birthday Dr King

A Nation turns its lonely eyes to you

And all his work was nullified by Obama

You say a ridiculous thing like that while we have a White Supremacist in the Oval Office?

Dumb

 

[bodecea]

Democrats are rightfully proud to elect the first black president

Republicans will be shamed by history for their treatment of Obama

Your desire to have Obama treated differently than all the other dem Presidents we have opposed,


made what should have been a positive milestone for the country, into a step BACKWARDS.

No other previous president had no support from the opposition party. Republicans did not provide a single vote in support of Obama.
No other President was refused the right to fill a Supreme Court vacancy

I reject you pretense that you are so stupid that you have not noticed that we are is a period of increasingly bitter partisan divide.

YOu may be stupid, but you are not that stupid. Stop pretending to be even stupider than you actually are.

You can’t deny it...

No other previous president had no support from the opposition party. Republicans did not provide a single vote in support of Obama.
No other President was refused the right to fill a Supreme Court vacancy

Republicans poisoned the bipartisanship well

I already rejected your pretense of being so stupid that you have not noticed that we are is a period of increasingly bitter partisan divide.


I'm willing to meet you half way on this.


I will admit that you are very, very stupid.

BUT, you are not as stupid as you pretend to be.


Do you remember when we impeached Bill Clinton? Who was white?

Impeachment is the most powerful attack on the Presidency that an opposing party can launch, short of open warfare.


We did that to Bill Clinton, the dem President immediately preceding Obama.


So don't pretend that this harsh divide is something that just started when the black guy showed you, you dishonest race baiting moron.

Name calling again.

 

[JimH52]

Happy Birthday Dr King

A Nation turns its lonely eyes to you

And all his work was nullified by Obama

You say a ridiculous thing like that while we have a White Supremacist in the Oval Office?

Dumb

Why is Congressman King penalized for his white supremacist statements when Rump called the torch carriers Good People.

The GOP is a Hypocritical cess pool of white men.....

 

[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

What did he “save us” from? He was a Marxist during the Cold War when Soviet Union had 20,000 nuclear warheads pointed at us. His grievances were justified. But the Clinton administration protected his legacy by sealing the FBI files on King...and then destroyed them. Liberals accuse Donald Trump of being an agent of the Russians...how do we know King wasn’t? Was he a great man? Yes. But his deification is unwarranted as he was a whore monger like JFK. Good job Michael King you won.

 

[Bush92]

Happy Birthday Dr King

A Nation turns its lonely eyes to you

And all his work was nullified by Obama

You say a ridiculous thing like that while we have a White Supremacist in the Oval Office?

Dumb

Why is Congressman King penalized for his white supremacist statements when Rump called the torch carriers Good People.

The GOP is a Hypocritical cess pool of white men.....

Evidence please.

 

[Bush92]

My biggest complaint is that he never wore the uniform or fought for his country.