I thought he was kinda slick, but all bombastic preachery strikes me as kinda slick.

I’m still gonna place him substantially higher up the grade than those modern day purveyors of “identity politics for personal profit and adulation” such as the Reverend Jesse and the Reverend Al.

That is simply false. MLK did not object to the words of the Indian prime minister. He was always playing games with the American people.

“It’s wasn’t the “I Have a Dream” speech I chose to consult…”

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a plagiarizer. The “I Have a Dream” speech was stolen from Rev. Archibald Carey who originally uttered them at
the 1952 Republican National Convention. This is very well documented—but the politically correct establishment prefers to ignore the facts. One should also read Theodore Pappas’ Plagiarism and the Culture War: The Writings of Martin Luther King, Kr., and Other Prominent Americans.

I don’t know that MLK would have supported those measures anymore than Justice Clarence Thomas supports them.

(which is not at all)

Or Thomas Sowell.

I think the point that MLK (personally) would have been above the smarmy “identity politics” of today is well taken.

As the campus ex-spurts proliferate and the categories of “identity groups” get narrower and narrower.

(…what’s next, righthanded US born Hispanics versus lefthanded Latin America born Hispanics…? )

I can’t imagine there is much intellectual rigor holding the day under these asinine conditions.

I’ve been asked what MLK would have made of the sorry national burlesque in which ovaries and melanin are all but exit poll determinants.

Sad, indeed. Apparently reflective of what has been going on in American educational institutions (at all levels) for some time.

That is simply inaccurate. Martin Luther King, Jr. was definitely into identity politics. One should read page 133 of “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.”:

“The Indian government spent millions of rupees, annually developing housing and job opportunities in villages heavily inhabited by untouchables. Moreover, the prime minister said, if two applicants compete for entrance into entrance into a college or university, one of the applicant being an untouchable and the other of high caste, the school is required to accept the untouchable.

Professor Lawrence Reddick, who was with me during the interview, asked: ‘But isn’t that discrimination?’

‘Well, it may be, “the prime minister answered. “But this is our way of atoning for the centuries for the centuries of injustices we have inflicted upon these people.’”

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a radical non-violent leftist. There is little doubt but that he would have supported today’s affirmative action programs.

I’ll leave the meat of that to be googled by anyone who might believe that civil rights are for all Americans and that all should embrace that notion.

To go even further into irony, the German home to Martin Luther used the American civil rights theme and music to help overthrow the Russians from East Germany when it reunited.

But in keeping with the story at hand, Obama is no more black than he is white. He is no more white than he is black, so how, pray tell dear fellow Americans can it be of any consequence at all other than more pandering that distorts the issues?

If one is able to use a land mass to declare a race or a religion, then I shall forever more be known as an Christian American-American. But that’s more about pride than pandering…..

Next time you read your Bible, thank Martin Luther. The next time you hear OUR civil rights honoring day used as a race issue, remind them that thanks, in part, to great men like Martin Luther King, it’s a day for all Americans and to stop pandering. ( it’s a responsibility that goes with those rights.)

If one needs to feel special, then let being part of this great nation warm your heart everyday.