Justice Department Betrays MLK’s Dream
For decades this nation has followed a bizarre racial path in which discrimination in favor of minorities has been viewed as the path to non-discrimination and equality. This view, influenced by white guilt over the past, has spawned a racial grievance industry dominated by racial entitlements, race-based preferences, and unequal enforcement of federal civil rights laws. It is a scandal obscured by the fact that most of us are embarrassed to complain about it for fear of being tarred as right-wing racists or worse.
I find myself uncomfortable even discussing the subject, because for most of my life I was a liberal Democrat — I was on the front lines of the original civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s as a protester on the streets and as a federal civil rights official. I was present in the deep South to expose and dismantle the vast machinery of violent racial discrimination which was truly a stain on our national honor.
Like many other officials, I confronted white racists who were terrorizing innocent black citizens. We have not yet succeeded in completely halting such awful practices, but the election of an African American to the White House by a majority white electorate, including me, is proof of just how far we have come in the proper direction.
What outrages me is that despite our country’s wonderful successes, too many seek to gain and hold power by cynically perpetuating and exploiting racial grievances. These racial racketeers seek to convince minority members that nothing will help them improve their lives unless they buy into the myth of racial helplessness and continuing victimhood.
Those leading this destructive scam are both blacks and whites in positions of power, including — to my astonishment — lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division who once were involved with me in securing the destruction of racial segregation.
When I led an official federal investigation of the Civil Rights Division in 1960, I found lawyers dedicated to the race-neutral enforcement of the civil rights laws.
The current crop of racial racketeers, in and out of government, have betrayed the dream of my idol Martin Luther King Jr., and my own dream and the dreams of millions of others in the real civil rights movement.
Some of the worst aspects of this dream-betraying behavior were brought home to me on July 6, 2010, at a Commission on Civil Rights hearing: I watched attorney J. Christian Adams blow the whistle on the Obama/Holder Justice Department for its racially motivated decision to drop most of the charges in the already-won New Black Panther voter intimidation case because the defendants were black.
When you push the envelope to extremes as Holder has, sooner or later the wheels are going to come off the truck! I predict that Fast and Furious will blow up “big enough” to the point where the media will need to cover it. So far they have done everything possible to pretend this did not happen. As to the other near criminal behavior of the justice department, these too will come out but will likely be dwarfed by FandF and forgotten quickly. What hypocrisy from the media? Remember when Alberto Gonzolez was demonized for “politicizing” the justice department for changing a dozen US Attorneys General? Now we have Holder remaking the whole department and imbedding a bunch of losers into teh DNA of this organization forever. These people are now civil service types who will torment US citizens for the next 25 years. How is the hope and change working for us now? It will take a generation to rid us of the stench of this administration and the dark side of liberalism.
Maybe it’s time for the ‘New PINK Panthers’!
Maybe we need to start with labels. Why are blacks called “African Americans” when few if any are from Africa? And if they want to be called African Americans, then we should be called Caucasian Americans. I and most whites I know over my 72 years of life have never considered ourselves “white” Americans, just Americans. Isn’t it about time that blacks did the same? But as long as the Obamas, Holders, Rangels, Jessee Jacksons, Shiela Jacksons, etc., keep preaching that they are “owed”, there is little doubt who the racists are today. I just named some of them. When their minions wake up and realize that they are being used to promote left wing power, and it has nothing to do with “getting what’s theirs”, we can end this infantile game and start actin g like responsible adults.
AMEN howiem. quiet a few years ago I was sitting in a taver with some friends when some one said african american. immediatly a black guy to my right said african american my ass. either your african or your american. he said I am an american. my ancesters may have come from africa but I am an american,
The Negro who said that he was American, not “Afro-American,” was quite right. (I use the old term “Negro,” because no one is black, only shades of brown. The Black Panthers introduced the term “black” for Negroes.) If he is an “Afro-American” or an “African American” because some of his ancestors came from Africa, so are we all, since the human species evolved in Africa!
Here are two links that speak to Howiem’s point:
http://clarespark.com/2011/02/27/remembering-ralph-bunche-american/ and
http://clarespark.com/2009/10/31/the-offing-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-ralph-bunche/. MLK Jr. has been annexed to black power and multiculturalism in general. It is a scandal that many on the Right see him as they have been instructed to do, as a friend to communism.
I’m on the right, and I’ve never heard anyone refer to MLK as a friend to communism. On the contrary, the guy was a Repub. Hardly likely that he would align with communists.
MLK is as much a hero to the right as he is to the left. The only difference is how he is viewed. The right sees him as a great American. The left sees him as a great Black American. The right listens approvingly to his call for judging a man by the content of his character rather than the color of his skin. The left wants affirmative action.
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his autobiography:
“The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism.”
That was his description of the 1964 Republican National Convention. He also referred to the Republican convention as “the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.”
Dr King was NOT a republican ..please stop spreading that lie…
Martin Luther King Jr. was a socialist. A real one.
He didn’t start out that way, but as the years went by, he began to switch his focus from racial discrimination to poverty in America. And his gut reaction was to blame the American economic system:
“…And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?’ And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society… ”
— Martin Luther King Jr., address to SCLC, 1967
King went on to quote Henry George approvingly, for advocating that workers will happily work without pay for the good of society.
And of course, King was a strong opponent of the Vietnam War and of military spending.
We’ve whitewashed King’s leftism so that we could all wrap ourselves in his legacy. But the man was different than the myth.
“King went on to quote Henry George approvingly, for advocating that workers will happily work without pay for the good of society.” Did he REALLY say that??? Where is the evidence he said that? People will NEVER happily work without pay. That is INSANE. If people did that, they would go hungry and homeless.
Martin Luther King was a strong supporter of Jews and Israel. Something that socialists have never been.
Remarks about Jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson
“While talking with the Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman in January 1984, Jackson referred to New York City as “Hymietown”.[30] Hymie[*] is a pejorative term for Jews. Jackson first denied having the conversation and said Jews were conspiring against him.[30] Later, he acknowledged Coleman’s account, indicated that he considered the conversation with the reporter private, and said he had been wrong to use the term.[30] Jackson apologized during a speech before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue, but continuing suspicions have led to an enduring split between Jackson and many in the Jewish community.[30]
Among Jackson’s other remarks were that Richard Nixon was less attentive to poverty in the U.S. because “four out of five [of Nixon's top advisors] are German Jews and their priorities are on Europe and Asia”; that he was “sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust”; and that there are “very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective about Arab affairs”. In 1979, Jackson said on a trip to the Middle East that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was a “terrorist,” and Israel was a “theocracy.”[31] Jackson has since apologized for at least some of these remarks, but they badly damaged his campaign, as “Jackson was seen by many conservatives in the United States as hostile to Israel and far too close to Arab governments.”[32]
Years later, Jackson was invited to speak in support of Jewish Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.[33]”
*http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=370
“Jackson then talked about the preoccupation of some with Israel. He said something to the effect of the following: `That’s all Hymie wants to talk about, is Israel; every time you go to Hymietown, that’s all they want to talk about.’ “
Those SLIMEBALLS shouldn’t be allowed to resign. they should be FIRED with prejudice. then charged tried and sent to prison doing HARD labor for many many years,
With the current political climate in Washington, their corruption only adds to their resumes for their next jobs. Van Johnson hasn’t gone away, nor ACORN, and there are/will be many et ceteras. Including Holder.
You’re mistaken. Van Johnson _has_ gone away, aged 92, as of December 12, 2008. Communist and radical Van Jones, unfortunately, is still with us — or, rather, still against US.
Not only fired, but take away their pensions.
When one person or group has been the victim of oppression in the past, exchanging victims and continuing the very same oppressive practices does not equal justice, it equals revenge. That is what motivates the politics of the third-world, and what motivates this administration. Tribal mentality .
Obama should give himself some military title such as ‘supreme commander’, then wear a uniform with a really big hat and some mirror shades.
The Who said it very nicely: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
The Who said it very nicely: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
In this case, that’s bullshit. The old boss favored race-blind justice. The new boss favors race-explicit injustice.
Whenever you meet a man or woman who describes himself or herself as a hyphenated American you can rest assured that the anti-American hyphen applies. Round’em up and ship them off to their hyphens. And no, tommy gunn, we’re not going to be plagued by this bunch for 25 years. If it will require new legislation or mob action, they will be removed.
Hopefully the pendulum is swinging back and again hopefully when it does it will take the heads off of these race baiting losers of the black community. The problem is no longer, and hasn’t been for quite a while a few white idiots living in the past, it’s now the Jesse Jackson’s of the world feeding the racism snake that slithers in the black communities. The racism crutch used by these parasitic blacks is keeping us apart and poisoning relations between our communities.
A lot of the good accomplished these past years is being destroyed by the flippant use of one word, racism.
Anonymous, you are so right. The saddest part is, Martin Luther King was a big part of the problem. I marched on Washington with him in 1963, and had I known then what I know now, I would not have. Here is a link to a Washington Times editorial that mentions much of the truth about MLK:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/1/martin-luther-king-jrs-mixed-legacy/
Thank you that worth the read.
“King openly promoted the anti-colonial “liberation” movements engulfing the Third World. For example, he defended Ghanaian strongman Kwame Nkrumah, excusing his authoritarian rule and forced nationalization.”
I say bravo to Dr King on that….
I read that stupid article and what is wrong with King fighting against colonialism , protesting the vietnam war , and basicailly fighting racism worldwide…Tell me what’s wrong with that..???
I’m not sure it will ever go away. Mr. Trebach saw Jim Crow laws, dogs, fire hoses, hoods & torches. Now we deal with subtleties – “hidden” racism inside people’s heads that can only be exposed by psychologists; politicians and ordinary citizens using “code words” rather than the n-word; “systemic” racism from which white people allegedly benefit and are reluctant to abandon; and the “historic effects” of slavery, which apparently will last forever. All stuff that only experts and certain politically-enlightened black people can see and understand.
Not to diminish the achievements of Mr. Trebach’s generation, but the things they were fighting for and against seem pretty well-defined compared to what we deal with today. That’s why Federal and state governments were able to pass laws to fix them. Today – what can we do about this nebulous thing called “racism?” The definition of that word keeps changing, expanding and contracting to fit the circumstances. There is no clear target at which to direct legislation or funding.
Most importantly, there is no clear goal in the fight against racism. That is, nobody seems to know what the end state will be. How will we know when racism is gone? What specific conditions will we see? What will life be like for black people and white people? Nobody can say. So we flail around, condemning racism, throwing money at it, but – to hear racism experts talk – making no progress in eradicating it.
How else shall we correct the sins of our past, but to give extraordinary attention to those victims and their offspring? I for one see the logic in not prosecuting an African-American who may have acted a little bit naughty toward some random white guy. Did you ever stop to think that the African-American suffered terrible discrimination at the hands of the white establishment? Or that his father was beaten and had police dogs attack him back in the 1960′s at the hands of white perpetrators? Or that his great-great grandfather was a slave? Or that his great-great-great-great grandfather was a tribal chieftain in Botswana, where some wily white trader (probably a “Zionist”, if you know my meaning) tricked him out of some valuable beads? Or that his great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather got a raw deal on the price of African slaves that he sold to some filthy Arab slave trader? I can go on and on with stark examples of how the present day black man always gets screwed, whether it be on the price of malt liquor or his right to vote. Let them have a little power please….it’s what they deserve.
Did you ever stop to think that the African-American suffered terrible discrimination at the hands of the white establishment?
Yes, we all know that. The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act are good evidence that we rectified it. Holder’s InJustice Department, by making explicitly race-specific violations of those Acts, is no better than the former ‘white establishment’ in its brutality to human rights.
Or that my friend Priscilla – white – was attacked by at least six blacks in a park? There’s plenty of bad behavior to go around.
LovelyEarth,
You fail to mention that black Americans are the wealthiest, freeist, and most prosperous black people in the world and in the history of Humanity. That’s a legacy america can be very proud of.
“Or that his great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather got a raw deal on the price of African slaves that he sold to some filthy Arab slave trader?”
LOL.
LovelyEarth strikes again.
LovelyEarth writes, “I for one see the logic in not prosecuting an African-American who may have acted a little bit naughty toward some random white guy.”
And, herein, lies the problem with those whom fail to understand the term ‘racism.’ Now, I’m not talking about ‘reverse racism,’ because the term is an oxymoron. There’s no such thing as ‘reverse racism,’ whatsoever. Such commentary, as you posted above, is properly labeled as pure racism, without regard to race-neutrality.
LovelyEarth, the color of one’s skin has about as much importance as the color of one’s eyes.
What, LovelyEarth, are the color of my eyes?
See?
Yeah right. It’s either the filthy Arabs or the filthy Jews or the filthy. . . .
Hippies.
I’m grieved that wonderful hero, Martin Luther King, is no longer with us to fight this new and terrible battle. We need you, Mr. King.
There is mostly silence on the horrors taking place in Libya.
SILENCE IS CONSENT
We need another Martin Luther King!
STOP the GENOCIDE of Blacks by the U.S. backed Libya rebels!
The Obama-supported rebels left in charge are now conducting a “large scale cleaning in the areas under their control with the extermination of all blacks in the capital”, according to The Independent.
Barbaric atrocities, kidnappings and ruthless genocide of blacks in Libya by US/France/NATO backed Al-Qaeda linked rebels has been going on for months.
US/NATO who have waged war for months for the Al-Qaeda
linked rebels-who murder our troops in Iraq-are RESPONSIBLE for stopping the genocide.
US/NATO are also responsible for rescuing the
many terrified blacks kidnapped by the rebels, including the kidnapped black children who have been horrifically abused by the black-hater Muslim rebels.
Blacks must have human rights!
STOP THE GENOCIDE!
Wow where have you been for the last 1400 YEARS Mohammedan ARABS have always killed Blacks and taken Black Slaves. And are STILL doing so today what do you think Sudan is all about? The ARABS were the SLAVE TRADERS in Africa hundreds of years before the first Whitey ever set foot there. Which is what makes Blacks converting to Islam so HILARIOUS they change from the Religion of their Slave Masters to the CULT of their SLAVE TRADERS. Its beyond parody. BTW Mohammad and his merry men had a name for Blacks they called them “Raisin Heads” and many Arabs still use this.
Of course, I know that. But the genocide of blacks in Libya is being ignored! It has also been reported that some of the black children in Libya who were kidnapped by the rebels, after being horribly abused, were shipped off to European countries.
US/FRANCE/UK/NATO have great guilt. Waging war for the rebels empowered these evil forces and made the genocide and kidnapping of blacks in Libya possible.
Huge slave trader, Mohammad, founder of Islam, is considered the perfect man and role model by Muslims who follow their religion. That is why devout Muslims believe that slavery is totally acceptable and good.
Hundreds of thousands of Black Sudanese Christian children and women have been taken for slaves by Sudan’s Arab Muslims.
Jihad Slavery in Sudan, with Dr Charles Jacobs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4Fcx7AE_o
May every slave be free one day!
I read that stupid article and what is wrong with King fighting against colonialism , protesting the vietnam war , and basicailly fighting racism worldwide…Tell me what’s wrong with that..???
Sorry Linda…my post was for someone else….
The Arabs who moved to places like, well, Kenya, were generally setting up HQs for slave trading.
If you are a descendent of an Arab who moved to Kenya, you are very, very likely the descendent of a vile slave trader.
Muslims did not take only blacks for slaves. Slavery is part of Islam. Muslims took Hindus, Christians and others for slaves.
Professor Robert Davis, author of “Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) documents that Muslim slavers off North Africa’s Barbary Coast enslaved one million or more white Europeans between 1530 and 1780 – a number greater than Africans enslaved during the same period.
The Violence of Intolerant Polarization
Mohandas Gandhi said, “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.” He was right on the mark with that observation, although he was only addressing transparent intolerance and physical violence, not the subtle intolerance and invitations to violence favored by the Obama administration.
It’s just too bad Gandhi isn’t around today advising America’s president.
Intolerance and violence have become hallmarks of life in Barack Hussein Obama’s America, our America, fueled by systematic administration policies of polarizing and dividing the nation for political-ideological purposes. What we are witnessing is a far cry from the civility and unity he preaches but in perfect harmony with what he and his Democrat Party have intentionally fostered.
Obama has repeatedly speechified on the need for civil discourse and actions, which, like so much of what he says, is contradicted by what he does. It boils down to all talk, talk, talk. This administration has talked the civil, tolerance talk and walked the walk of the most uncivil and intolerant administration in American history.
At the same time Obama mouths conciliatory words, his union minions–think Teamsters’ President Hoffa–his mainstream media lackeys–think MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow–his congressional cohorts–think Maxine Waters–have have intensified their vile, personal attacks on anyone who dares to disagree with him.
If anyone seriously believes that that gross, intolerant incivilty isn’t tacitly approved by Obama’s DNC, explanations of why such invective goes unchallenged and un-rebuked by the White House are invited. Objections to the contention that failure to censure scurrilous leftist vituperation has contributed to a pervasive violent atmosphere in the United States are invited as well.
Some of the most devious machinations of the Obamians have been their collective winks extended to rioters, insurrectionists, and to those who would reject constitutional mandates, our national law, in the name of expediency and ideology.
The marked increase in street violence and borderline chaos may be controllable by local authorities, assuming they are given permission to enforce laws in P.C. America. However, another, more sinister, force is in play in America, the manipulated polarization of the populace and the undermining of the very foundations of our Republic.
What really constitutes incivility? What really breeds violence? What really leads to polarization and divisiveness? Is it not a failure of political leadership, a refusal to rein in the uncivil and the criminal elements in a society, a tacit, or worse, an overt approval of incivility and criminality?
In a democratic republic, exceeding in gravity even the absence of a lack of moral leadership and condoning of wrongdoing, a blatant disregard for the law of the land, for the legal authority under which any people live, naturally results in the commission of every conceivable evil by malcontents and nihilists who interpret that disregard as a blank check issued by their leaders to do as they please.
In the United States of America, the guiding force and most basic principles which delineate the rights, privileges, and responsibities of Americans are contained in our Constitution, the same 224 year old document which President Barack Hussein Obama, his administration, and his supporters have repeatedly and consistently ignored, abused, and trashed.
Obama knows full well his constituency base will remain, if not rock-solid, reasonably supportive and must hope they will still carry him on to re-election while his opponents are intimidated into submission and defeat. Meanwhile, his henchmen and henchwomen labor on as his surrogates to conceal his leadership-challenged, intolerance-based administration.
We are witnessing the consequences of that disgrace . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5588.)
Thank you Mr. Trebach, for speaking to this serious issue and recognizing just what the civil rights movement has become. Far too many people have just begun to exploit racial prejudice and anger to create voting serfs to maintain their power. Nobody deserves that.
Radical Racists: Obama, Holder, and the NBPP
It’s turning out that the president of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States, and the New Black Panther Party have much more in common than race. Call it recompense, call it reparations, that commonality is almost as ugly and damnable as any crimes committed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Barack Hussein Obama has undertaken prodigious efforts to appear the president of all the people regardless of race and an even greater effort to conceal his radical, racist past. Eric Himpton Holder has been more forthcoming in his racism and active discrimination toward white Americans without conceding his bigotry. The New Black Panther Party, founded on black racism and distinguished from the old Black Panthers only by the fact most have not yet been tried and convicted, is more brazenly ingenuous about its radical racism.
No matter Obama’s attempts to hide who and what he is, no matter Holder’s accidental admissions, if nothing else, Obama and Holder could learn a great deal about forthrightness from the NBPP. Their learning curve aside, recent and past revelations have now linked all of them.
After his election, Obama told America he has been running for the presidency since kindergarten. Toward that end, he campaigned in Selma, Alabama in March, 2007. Nothing wrong with that; he campaigned in 57 of America’s 58 states so Alabama most likely was one of them.
What is very wrong is that photos depicting him marching and speaking with NBPP National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz and other members of the New Black Panther Party were quashed and hidden from the American public for four years by Obama’s mainstream media.
That oversight could readily be attributable to journalistic negligence–or to a covert attempt to portray their hero, their anointed one, as Everyman, a universal man who represented all of America, black, white, yellow and everyone in between, who didn’t have a racist bone in his body. . .
Not unsurprisingly, like those damning 2007 photos, that evidence of “reverse racism” has been suppressed by Obama’s media.
Obama’s appointment of fellow African-American Eric Holder as attorney general should have provided the clue that neither Obama nor his new appointee were on the same page as the majority of Americans.
Eric Holder’s background of facilitating Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich, defending the terrorist Ejército Popular Boricua, negotiating a settlement in the case of Chiquita Brands paying off terrorists, his firm’s representation of Guantanomo accused terrorists, etc., were a dead giveaway that Holder was closer to being a terrorist himself than qualified to be the attorney general of the United States.
Obama’s MSM deftly hid those pretty damned relevant details on Holder’s résumé. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5645.)
will we ever get ride of slavery, i mean the blacks are not in slavery, so what is their point. it happened, its over get over it and start living in the real world. its nothing but a crutch, ok you had a rough time, but its OVER.
“Can it actually be that black leaders in America actually want race relations to deteriorate? Can it be that, even though Democrats own studies show Republicans aren’t racist, that perpetuating the perception is all they have to offer black voters? This not only reveals their disrespect for the race as a whole, but concludes they have no interest in the demographic beyond their own political gain.
The time has come for black voters to think for themselves, repudiate the racism, the denigration and the perception that you cannot survive without the Democrats who’ve played you like Nero played his fiddle. It’s time to acknowledge that you have more in common with those who don’t belittle your belief in God, diminish your common sense, or your desire to see your children do a little better- just like every other American. It’s time you refused to continue to live on the plantation where you eat the scraps from the masters table; it’s time you stopped seeing yourself as different from “those people” and joined the American mainstream. The America that offers you more opportunity to become whatever you want to become is waiting for you with wide open arms”
http://www.jaxobserver.com/morninginamerica/2011/08/28/still-on-the-democrats-plantation/
MLK–Monumental Man
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was a complex man, to say the least. Now he’s a monumental man.
Despised and investigated by J. Edgar Hoover for a variety of anti-American activities, idolized by his followers for his struggles on behalf of African-Americans, held in contempt by Jackie Kennedy, unparalled leader of the Civil Rights Movement, MLK now has an imposing monument on four acres erected in his honor on the Washington Mall.
The controversial 30 foot, 16 ton Chinese-sculpted statue, 11 feet taller than the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, was 20 years in the making at a cost of some $120 million. It was finally dedicated on October 16th after an earthquake and Hurricane Irene spoiled the planned opening on the anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Another earthquake of controversy ensued following the dedication. Among other critics, some objected to the failure to incorporate reference to God anywhere on a memorial to a Baptist minister and poet Maya Angelou contended the main inscription on the Buddha-esque monument “makes Dr. Martin Luther King look like an arrogant twit.”
The abbreviated King quotation reads, ”I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.” More than twittish arrogance, the words create the image of a drum and bugle corps leader.
In an startlingly frank article on the Dream speech and the monument by an African-American columnist, Robert E. Pierre observes that King might not recognize either the monument inscription or himself today based on that inscription.
Newsday titled the publication of Pierre’s piece in its printed edition, “Let Memorial Stand for the Real MLK.” Online, Newsday re-titled the article, ”Pierre: Recalling MLK the Revolutionary,” a more accurate representation, more reflective of who and what Rev. King really was. (http://tiny.cc/npxa4)
As Pierre points out, the “content of their character” and “table of brotherhood” parts of King’s “Dream” speech were secondary to his incitement to revolution and his ominous prediction that “The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.”
He’s right. There’s not much character content and brotherhood associated with violent revolutions nor in King’s acknowledged Communist sympathies.
Pierre does mention that little-known facet of King’s career but fails to comment on the minister’s womanizing, the reasons J. Edgar considered him a national security threat, or how MLK’s supporters pressured federal and state legislators into declaring the only national holiday honoring an individual American. (Washington and Lincoln were lumped together in “President’s Day” in 1971.)
Pierre does reveal, without apology, that King was more viscerally revolutionary and outwardly radical than most of his contemporary counterparts or subsequent idolizers would care to admit. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5747.)