Did I tell this racist off properly?

[Omaha Steve]

From a Yahoo group I'm on.


wrote:
> > Hey Thanx for this Steve I liked her in 12 O'clock high good stuff. Hey! Steve whomever quoted MLK did they know that he was a communist and a whore monger? No. I guess that part of his life was saved for those who really new him.
> > Too bad history is so full of crap the real truth about these so called great influences of America are just not what people want to think...


*It's my sig file. Having just gone through a political fight on another
Yahoo list last week, I decline to object to your comments. I mention
only a few things in a positive light. I will say that Dr. King was a
labor organizer for the poor.

He had a conversation with Bobby Kennedy in 1962. From that conversation
Bobby recommended to JFK to appoint a young Labor Dept. attorney Howard
Jenkins to the NLRB. JFK then did appoint Jenkins (Mr NLRB) to the
board. He was the first black to ever serve on the NLRB. Over a dozen
years after the assassination of RFK and MLK, Howard Jenkins was the
vote on the board that upheld my appeal of an unfair labor action by my
former employer. It was considered one of member Jenkins most brilliant
and insightful opinions. It was upheld unanimously at the US court of
Appeals in St. Louis. I won reinstatement and 3 & 1/2 years of back pay
and benefits.

http://www.law.du.edu/jenkins/

http://www.afscme.org/about/1029.cfm

My case file at the NLRB:
http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Board%20Decisions/261/261-38.pdf

On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., traveled to Memphis to
support AFSCME sanitation workers. That evening, he delivered his famous
"I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech
<http://www.afscme.org/about/1549.cfm> to a packed room of supporters.
The next day, he was assassinated.

On a last note, the Memphis strike was illegal by Tn state law. Because
of the assassination of MLK, the union was finally recognized. 62 men
and teens were injured by several means including having gasoline thrown
on them and lit.

Gregg you can think whatever you like about MLK. I have contributed to
his memorial. I observe his holiday every year with pay. He earned my
respect many years ago. I have three different MLK shirts I take great
pride in wearing. I had his AFSCME Memphis strike shirt on yesterday.
I'm a shop steward for AFSCME local 251.

I met and talked with **Kathleen Kennedy (Townsend) last month. She
didn't know about her fathers link with Howard Jenkins. I filled her in.
Click the link below for more on that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2999271

TOMMYGUN-OUT
*


Any thoughts?

[Dr.Phool]

1. Excellent!

People like to pretend that great people are not human. They have the same weakness and foibles as the rest of us. They have the same temptations and usually a lot more stress. Not to mention a lot more scrutiny.

I consider myself a decent person, ut I'll never claim sainthood.

[catnhatnh]

2. Just that MLK had human flaws...

...and wanted all people to share in the bounty that was the United States in the 60's. You might mention I wonder if your protagonist's life could withstand the level of scrutiny it took to determine he was a "Whore monger" and since he seems a republican you might mention sex with children and men counts too.

[Omaha Steve]

5. We will never know

He left the group later that day.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. Good job

But the guy sounds like too much of an idiot to bother reading it.

[knitter4democracy]

4. Killing two birds with one stone--I love it!

You not only defended MLK Jr but you also defended unions and the NLRB, too. Awesome!