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Star Member kpete (39,988 posts)
Martin Luther King Was A Liberal Progressive Who Favored Left Wing Causes & Don’t You Forget It
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Martin Luther King Was A Liberal Progressive Who Favored Left Wing Causes & Don’t You Forget It
Oliver Willis · August 23,2013
As we head towards the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, it is worth pausing for a second to solidly stake out the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of the left.
For years the right has sought to either de-politicize Rev. King or expunge his leftist sentiment from the public record. We are told time and again that King was somehow beyond ideology and that his quest for civil rights and justice didn’t deal in politics.
Bull.
Rev. King was a liberal. A dyed in the wool liberal. He was on the left. He favored liberal solutions and liberal policies. He wasn’t a centrist, moderate, on the center-left or God forbid anywhere near the right.
HE WAS A LIBERAL.
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the rest:
Wrong. He was a republican. Most blacks were republicans until the democrat party lured then with drugs and free money.
Response to kpete (Original post)
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 07:37 PM
KG (23,738 posts)
1. ****ing a
'We are told time and again that King was somehow beyond ideology and that his quest for civil rights and justice didn’t deal in politics. '
hell, i don't have to leave DU to hear that kind crap.
realtalk - other than being black, he as very little in common with prez.
Your boy getting on your nerves?
Response to kpete (Original post)
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 08:08 PM
Thinkingabout (3,209 posts)
2. He stood and walked the walk, talked the talk. Many things we now accept is results of
His work, he stood non violent, and he brought the beginnings of changes long overdue in our nation. To dream your children could achieve as much as others, to know you could vote and not just pay taxes is a good thing. He may have been a liberal but liberals aren't bad people.
Is today's democrat party non-violent? Nope.
MLK was a god fearing man. Is today's democrat party god fearing? Nope. Hell, they erased god from their convention. Bunch of heathens.
Response to kpete (Original post)
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 08:14 PM
Electric Monk (8,177 posts)
4. You forgot to post the link. Here it is:
http://thedailybanter.com/2013/08/martin-luther-king-was-a-liberal-progressive-who-favored-left-wing-causes-dont-you-forget-it/
(also, K&R)
Well shit.
Response to kpete (Original post)
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 08:17 PM
Star Member Hydra (10,776 posts)
5. There's a good reason they killed him
The RW loves to take our best people from us, because they're obsessed with winning. Anyone who was a winner must have been their people.
They can't have him. They hated everything he stood for, and they still do. I will remember.
Your best people? I know that you're not referring to bobby kennedy. He was a total ass. His death saved the nation, until obama took office.
Response to kpete (Original post)
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 08:34 PM
Star Member gopiscrap (3,044 posts)
6. Thank you and I have been saying that for years...it's also one of the reasons they killed him
along with JFK, RFK and Paul Wellstone
wellstone died because we needed to toast marshmallows. Aviation fuel burns hot.
