Maggie's Farm

Yeah, MLK, the icon of the African American, the saintly one who blacks all treat as though he were a god was in reality an adulterer,plagiarizer, racially divisive, and over all just another ghetto "Reverend"..(where do all these black 'reverends get their divinity training anyway..."The Reverend AL Sharpton"..what a joke.

So Congress traded in the birthdays of two American giants, Washington and Lincoln's birthdays for "Presidents Day", which obviously includes Jimma Carter,Bill Clinton, and Richard Nixon to give the darkies their towering light of virtue and rectitude.

Any, any, historical comparison between MLK, Washington , and Lincoln buts MLK at the back of the bus, where he rightfully belongs. But politics being what it is the compromise was struck in the name of racial harmony....of course it was all bull shit but the Dems had to secure the plantation African Americans for the next forever years.

Even today were it not for the internet MLK's calumny, racial bigotry, and the host of other moral failings would not reach the light of day, and "The Reverend" could remain seated beside his betters with nary a question asked as to his claim to that seat ...thank God for the internet.

MLK was trash.

A "need" for a civil rights movement. Not a need, no. And certainly not in the manner or execution that the one that took place evinced. The "leaders of the movement decided to, in a Shermanesque fashion, invade the South with freedom riders and agitators from northern states. This at a time when the memories of a defeated an humble South were still very vivid in the minds of it's population.

The movement could have as easily target Detroit, site of the worst race riots in the country and that occurred in the middle of WWII that this nation was fighting to win. It could have targeted Boston and the South Boston Irish who brutalized blacks all the way into the 1980's. It could have targeted Chicago or New York sites of racial unrest.

Instead the "movement" chose an in your face southern strategy guaranteed to provoke violence, and they knew it.
So when you ask was the movement needed, no, not that movement. It was simply a continuation of the Civil War by other means egged on the progeny of abolitionists. It was payback, after payback had been extracted in blood and treasure and left the South bankrupt but unbowed. The "movement " wanted to extract the last pound of flesh when similar violations occurred in the North.

The laws and the nation were changing, and that change would have come about without the destruction of the Tenth Amendment, a more vital element to our republic that the acceleration of sociological change that would have occurred naturally over time.

Leadership REQUIRES a rectitude beyond the basic instincts of man. King did not possess in any degree the leadership characteristics of honor,honesty, and rectitude necessary to honorably lead that movement.
He was exactly the opposite and his example continues to play out in the leadership the blacks choose today. Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton (do you recall the Twanna Brawley hoax?) ..The "Reverend" Shakedown Jesse jackson. Former Congressman and later head of the NAACP Kwasi Mfume who fathered eight children by six different women...these are the blacks "leaders" They speak for the black community.

Are you aware that every member of the Congressional Black Caucus is also a Member of the Democratic Socialist of America aligned with the Communist Party? http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html

No, there was a better way than to force the South into the volatile position it was forced to respond to.

King was a racial huckster who was elevated beyond his right to lead. But that was the blacks choice and continues to be.

Luther,
I know all about the axe handle crowd. Don't hold with it either. I grew up in every state south of the Mason Dixon line that borders the Atlantic. The Carolinas,Ga.Fl. VA, Maryland so need no education on race from you or anyone from my birth in '48 to today.
As far as the abolitionist go their agitation began pre US Constitution but the nation need the south so it formed the union with the fully understanding that the institution of slavery was to stand. If they hadn't we would never have formed a country.
Then within seventy years the North, having gained enough political power broke the compact and the South left the Union. Lincoln, abandoning the laws that governed the nation forceably stopped the succession. having the arms to succeed the North won and then the Radical Republicans began to take their retribution on the South, an already defeated force. You don't forget or forgive that kind of treatment. It even cost Andrew Johnson an impeachment for trying to stop them, as was the wish of Abe Lincoln.

For the most part I could easily do without the black culture in this country. We've spent tens of trillions on "helping" them. Our ROI is pitiful. The Liberia idea was just dandy for my taste. Marcus Garvey had the right solution.

Luther,

It also may interest you to know that I worked two full summers in Burton South Carolina with black migrant farm workers at a tomato packing factory and that while pursuing an advance degree worked for CORE in Tampa ,Florida, helping young black kids get jobs mowing lawns and making sure they got paid and had the proper gear etc. All this while attending the University of South Florida.
I've worked with'em,partied with 'em, spent time trying my best to help educate them and I'd say by and large it was unfulfillling and a waste of my time. Today I think Bill Cosby and Thomas Sowell have the hood zero'ed in pretty good.
And that breaks down to then believing that the blacks aren't pulling their weight. I agree.

But I never ever condoned or encouraged the redneck whites who perpetrated some most grisly acts on innocent blacks. For my part those whites should be shot down like the rabid digs they are.

Man do I feel stupid.

Dr. Mercury, I would say what a great job you've done but it would be a bit like asking a 2 year old to explain string theory, I mean what do I know, or the two year old either.

But just in case ..great job.

If you will initiate an internet search I'm confident you'll find more than enough information on his adultery, even written by his best buddy Ralph Abernathy.

Yes, Cesear Chavez is a favorite of the Young Communist League.

http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/19/1/32/

An inspiration to many I'm sure.