What Jerry Falwell says about Martin Luther King

[ck4829]

I know this is a couple of days late, for that I am sorry.

"I do question the sincerity and non-violent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations."
http://home.att.net/~jrhsc/devil.html

Instead of joining King's fight for true moral values, Falwell questioned King, opposed him, and even accused him of being under the influence of Communists.
http://www.mountainpridemedia.org/oitm/issues/1987/01jan1987/king.html

[6th Borough]

1. Jerry Falwell is a non-person who should get no more attention then...

the Olsen twins.

Ignore him an his egregious sin of gluttony.

(edited for spelling)

[6th Borough]

3. an=and

err...more spelling editry.

Too...much...whisky

[LostInAnomie]

4. LOL

I just spit water on my keyboard.

[Boosterman]

13. I would disagree with you

The Olsen twins are far more worthy of attention than Falwell.

[NewJeffCT]

19. agreed

The Olsen twins are much prettier. Falwell is just the American version of Radical Cleric Al-Sadr.

[LostInAnomie]

2. Nothing like Fartwell's moral clarity against an oppressed group...

... of human beings.

The funny thing is that pure Communism looks a HELL of a lot more like Jesus's ideal than Capitalism.

[CottonBear]

5. That's why King was killed: left-wing associations.

Note that the MSM and even most Democrats never speak of King's post March on Washington work. King espoused peace abroad and justice at home. At the time of his death, he was involved in the poor peoples campaign which supported civil and labor rights of the poor, women and minorities. That made him a threat in the eyes of the ruling class.

[UL_Approved]

9. The important truth

King helped all people to get civil rights. He helped garbage workers, he helped factory workers, he helped people all over the world. And this was one of the greatest achievements of the human race.

Falwell is an astronomical POS for decrying King's work. That speaks volumes to the "religious right". I wonder if more exposure of his racist rambling would destroy his support base?

[wolfgirl]

15. MLK was killed

after he began to vigorously oppose the war in Vietnam...he was educating the people that we are just cannon fodder for the rich & powerful who want to rule the world.

[itzamirakul]

16. Dr. King was a threat to

not only the racist rightwing but also the racist leftwing. We need tounderstand that there are still many racists in our own Party. Just read any post that someone puts up about the Confederate flag or the Civil War and true "colors" rapidly appear.

Dr. King and Robert Kennedy had begun to unify "the people" - meaning people of all colors and ethncities into an awareness of class differences. That alone made the elites of both right and left wing fearful and so both of them had to go.

[wolfgirl]

17. It's not just racism...

it's about money. The powerful keep us focused on race (and I agree, it is a huge problem) and diverted from the real issue of $$. If we look at the real divide in this country, it's a divide centered on who controls the wealth. We are fast approaching what was France before their revolution.

They are using race issues (& sexual orientation & religion) to keep us fighting among ourselves.

[itzamirakul]

21. Perhaps I did not make myself clear...

but essentially I am saying the same thing that you are saying. Only I said the Dr, King and Robert Kennedy had unified the average citizens, those of lower middle class and poverty backgrounds, despite differences in race and ethnicity. It is always the unification of the masses based on sharing the wealth that causes the upper classes to panic and to seek ways to divide and conquer.

The most lethal way of divide and conquer is by playing the race card.

[Jamastiene]

6. I know I am not supposed to hate, but

I despise that sorry excuse for a human being with a passion so strong, I'd turn down sex just to watch him suffer. If anything, he is going against the Bible by being such a prick that he causes normally good kindhearted gentle people to have the same kind of murderous lust normally reserved only for serial killers, sadists, and terrorists. He is the devil. That's the secret to the whole thing. Falwell and his ilk are the ones who cause criminal thoughts to exist where none existed before.

[Crankie Avalon]

7. It's not just Falwell, the whole neocon establishment...

...despises King. Their "Saint", Reagan, didn't ever want to acknowledge King as a hero:

Holiday for a Hero

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. Posted January 13, 2005.

Twenty-one years ago a fiercely reluctant President Reagan inked the law that made Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. Reagan signed the bill only after a 15-year tumultuous battle in Congress to get the bill passed, and only then when it was clear that the bill would pass with or without his backing.

Reagan bought North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms' loud and oft-shouted view that King was not just a noisy racial agitator, but had strong Communist leanings. Reagan barely finished signing the bill when he was asked whether he thought there was any merit to Helms' Communist charge against King. The Gipper couldn't resist the sly aside, "We'll know in about thirty-five years." Reagan referred to the voluminous FBI surveillance tapes on King that a court had ordered sealed until 2027. The year after Reagan signed the bill, Helms trailed badly in the polls in his re-election bid. He was thought to be a surefire loser. He won handily. The reason some media and political pundits gave for Helms stunning reversal: His filibuster against the King holiday bill.

Reagan's quip and Helms rabid opposition sent the not so subtle message that King really didn't merit a national holiday. Legions of state legislators, local officials, and business leaders instantly took the cue. It took more than a decade sparked by ferocious political, and legal battles and intense opposition from industry groups before all fifty states finally capitulated and passed a King holiday law.

That hasn't ended the fight...

More: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20984/

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Dr. King was a great man. Falwell is a horrible one.

I never give any creedence to that RW nutcase.

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Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Falwell doesn't like to being held up to the Christian standards of

Dr. King as he fails in comparison.

[Azathoth]

11. The communist allegations have been used to smear King for years

All this proves is that Falwell is not only un-Christian, but also uncreative.

[hector459]

12. Anyone who opposed the corporatocracy was labeled "communist"

by the US powers whenever they wanted to go after someone or marginalize the issues that honest, good, and sincere activists supported. Also, anyone who knew and understood what was going on around the world at the hands of our CIA and other government-sponsored clandestine operations and tried to get the message out to the people was considered to be either a communist or a communist-sympathizer. Now they are "terrorist apologizers" or Al-qaeda sympathizers.

[shadowknows69]

14. with a word king could have started a race war if he had wanted to

that we'd still be fighting. i'm glad he was a non-violent force. I am starting to wonder if his way will have any effect today though.

[Taxloss]

18. What MLK has to say to Falwell:

'Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be - a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God. Men will beat their swords into plowshafts and their spears into pruning hooks, and nations shall not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war anymore." I don't know about you, I ain't going to study war anymore.'

Falwell isn't fit to clean his shoes.

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