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Other Things Martin Luther King Jr. Said

Jill

On a day when we should be thinking about the impact of race on society, when we should be focusing on how racism continues to thrive, and when we should be challenging ourselves and working to end bigotry of all sorts, some assholes are predictably arguing that Martin Luther King Jr. was actually the perfect conservative. It might help if they actually read some of Dr. King’s words, beyond trotting out “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” every time affirmative action is brought up. To help them out, here are some of the other things Dr. King said:

Here are some more of his beliefs, in his own words.

2 thoughts on Other Things Martin Luther King Jr. Said

  1. But wait a minute! A couple years ago some of the half-wits on Free Republic were arguing that MLK was a communist agitator. Now all of a sudden he’s the perfect conservative?

    Kind of shows you how desperate the right wing is to market conservatism to an increasingly disaffected public — if something is cool or popular at the moment, just come up with some threadbare explanation as to why it’s the epitome of conservative values. MLK? Would’ve opposed affirmative action and is therefore conservative! “The Transformers”? Pro-military and pro-Iraq war and therefore conservative! By Election Day my guess is that we will have seen the New England Patriots, Cesar Chavez, the Boeing Dreamliner, Tiger Woods, and Batman all held up as examples of why conservatism is teh awes0me.

  2. It really kills me how so many people, on all points of the political spectrum, are overlooking the obvious parallels between Vietnam and Iraq. An open-ended commitment to a nebulous, constantly shifting goal…guerrilla attacks by combatants who blend into the population…leaders who insist against all evidence that we’re making progress…

    King’s early opposition to the war only confirms what a clear-sighted leader he was.

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