Wednesday, January 23, 2002
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Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
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Some truth-telling needed about MLK Jr. While few would deny the impact Martin Luther King Jr. had on society, it would be refreshing if someone (anyone!) would be truthful about him. Hosea Williams boasted how MLK would send "me and some of his lieutenants to town a day or two ahead to stir up a little trouble." That "little trouble" was rioting, burning, looting and murder, so MLK could follow with his phony message of "nonviolence." We had dozens of black friends who lived in the Watts area of Los Angeles, when MLK caused that riot. I remember the anguish as they saw their homes and businesses destroyed, and some of their family members murdered by rampaging MLK supporters, attacking the very people he pretended to be working for! Everything MLK did was to further his political career. He reached his prominence on the backs of gullible blacks, and the communist groups with whom he sympathized (Weathermen, Black Panthers, SDA, BSU, SNCC, RNA, SCLC, et al). [He was an] adulterer, anti-American Vietcong sympathizer, plagiarist (even the "I Have A Dream" speech was taken from a speech by Archibald Carey, a black preacher, given to the Republican National convention of 1952), instigator of riots. [He also was] a great orator, a charismatic leader, an intelligent focused man. Is the good he might have done not enough to sustain his place in history, without erasing and fictionalizing the facts about his life? There is a long list of black Americans much more deserving of hero status than Martin Luther King Jr. Lost in this preening adulation is the fact that Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act, while the Democrats did not. Victoria A. Wanzer Peachtree City
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