HISTORY RE-WRITE: WTF with the conned-servative pundits taking ownership of MLK?

[K8-EEE]

OMG has anybody else come across media darksiders & GOP-bots doing this "MLK was a conservative" schpiel?? In order to compare Obama's speech unfavorably. OH BROTHER! If you look up editorials from the times, of course, only Krazee Libruls supported MLK.

Check out this gem from National Review, don't mess with our "cake of custom!" omg....I can just picture the knuckledraggers on FR gobbling up this "cake."

http://www.oliverwillis.com/archives/2007/10/15/national-review-attacked-marti/


"For years now, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his associates have been deliberately undermining the foundations of internal order in this country. With their rabble-rousing demagoguery, they have been cracking the “cake of custom” that holds us together. With their doctrine of “civil disobedience,” they have been teaching hundreds of thousands of Negroes — particularly the adolescents and the children — that it is perfectly alright to break the law and defy constituted authority if you are a Negro-with-a-grievance; in protest against injustice. And they have done more than talk. They have on occasion after occasion, in almost every part of the country, called out their mobs on the streets, promoted “school strikes,” sit-ins, lie-ins, in explicit violation of the law and in explicit defiance of the public authority. They have taught anarchy and chaos by word and deed — and, no doubt, with the best of intentions — and they have found apt pupils everywhere, with intentions not of the best. Sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind."

[Buzz Clik]

1. Good lord. There is no cure for stupid.

[nxylas]

2. Not just MLK either

Have you seen this?

http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/2008/03/black-conservatives-in-large-and-small.html

[durutti]

3. Not only was he not conservative...

Toward the end of his life, he began to express socialist sympathies.