MLK

Martin Luthor King: Conservative, yet also a Marxist. Welcome to the alternate reality that is Free Republic. Freepers alternate vilifying the guy and embracing him as one of their own. Today, I choose to show you the vilification:

King was one of those rare individuals: men who achieve fame rather early in life, then have the misfortune (or perhaps fortune) to die before the inevitable tarnishing of reputation that comes when success turns sour.

Thanks, quadrant. If there is one thing the Evangelicles on Free Republic hate, it's martyrs!

If you haven't read the text of MLK's speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", you should. It is a rather vicious anti-American rant that promotes radical Marxism pretty shamelessly. It doesn't get talked about very much because it would seriously damage his reputation.

As far as I'm concerned, the guy wasn't all bad. But he was mostly bad.

According to ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.), being against Vietnam damages one's reputation.

BenLurkin agrees - anyone who wants to help the poor is an "International Marxist:"

"issues of poverty and militarism"Translation: He favored international Marxism.

CyberSparticus takes time out from oiling his pecs to solve the MLK problem once and for all:

Let’s Honour the man who really won black civil rights - Fredrick Douglas.

Because after slavery was abolished, blacks were totally equal!

And I leave you, as always, with a good dose of crazy, courtesy of Neoliberalnot ((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy)), who has decided to quote Michael Savage in ALL CAPS TO REALLY SHOW THE CRAZY!!

THE SOFT-MARXISM THAT HAS PENETRATED AMERICA HAS SEEN THE ELIMINATION OF WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN’S HOLIDAYS(NOW CALLED “PRESIDENT’S DAY”). BUT, STRANGELY ONLY ONE MAN’S NAME NOW APPEARS AS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? HOW COULD THE NAMES OF THE MAN WHO LED THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AGAINST THE BRITISH AND FOUNDED OUR NATION, AND THE MAN WHO FREED THE SLAVES BE ELIMINATED FROM NATIONAL DAYS OF MEMORY? WHO DID THIS? REMEMBER PICTURES OF SADAAM’S STATUE BEING TOPPLED AFTER US TROOPS INVADED BAGDAD? WHAT IS IT THAT NATIONS’ DO WHEN ENEMY NATIONS ARE VANQUISHED? WHO INVADED OUR NATION? WHO VANQUISHED US? WHO ERECTED “STATUES” TO JUST ONE MAN? (PS, WILL THERE SOON BE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY FOR A HISPANIC WHO LED THE LETTUCE-PICKERS? TO PLACATE ILLEGAL ALIENS? JUST VOTE “D”.)
M. Savage

Cause no one will remembe Lincoln and Washington. Holidays are a zero sum game, people! If Washington's holiday is eliminated, it only makes MLK day grow in power!

And also: THE AYE-LEGALS!