Dr. King given the finger?

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-10-2008
Dr. King given the finger?
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Tue, 09-30-2008 - 7:49am
Almost all blacks are voting for the black candidate even though Martin Luther King said not to judge people by the color of their skin. If blacks are going to ignore the main points of Dr. King's talking points, why have a Martin Luther King holiday? I know in advance that leftists are going to come on here and say that they are voting for him because of the issues, but that's a lie because an overwhelming majority will vote for a candidate they agree with - not 95 percent!
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-15-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 4:20pm

Do you judge based on skin color?

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 4:21pm
they've been here for a while - since the election is getting closer, the sheets are almost visible!!!
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-10-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 4:34pm
I changed my mind. I've been doing some serious thinking after reading posts here. I think we need the "Dr" King holiday and encourage Obama. Blacks need all the support they can get. They are only 12 percent of the general population, but 66 percent of the prison population. Let's do everything we can as a society to keep blacks out of jail and keep America safe. Long live the "Dr" King holiday and Obama!
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-15-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 4:45pm

"Long live the "Dr" King holiday and Obama! "


Hear, hear!

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-16-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 6:07pm
And almost all conservatives will vote for the ticket with a hockey mom who believes abstinence only education works and wants Roe V Wade overturned, just like 8 years ago - even though Roe v Wade hasn't changed. So what is your point?
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 6:24pm

Thanks for this discussion,

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 7:19pm
And you see
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-10-2008
Tue, 09-30-2008 - 10:22pm
If "Dr" King were alive today, I'm convinced he would denounce a holiday in his name after seeing 95 percent of blacks judge on skin color.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 12:05am
Ah but it was President Kennedy and his brother Robert, the attorney general,
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 12:14am

Hoover's contempt for King's private behavior is clear in the memos he kept in his personal files. His scrawl across the bottom of positive news stories about King's success dripped with loathing.


On a story about King receiving the St. Francis peace medal from the Catholic Church, he wrote "this is disgusting." On the story "King, Pope to Talk on Race," he scribbled "astounding." On a story about King's meeting with the pope, "I am amazed that the Pope gave an audience to such a degenerate." On a story about King being the heavy favorite to win the Nobel Prize, he wrote "King could well qualify for the 'top alley cat' prize!"


When King learned he would be the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the FBI decided to take its harassment of King one step further, sending him an insulting and threatening note anonymously. A draft was found in the FBI files years later. In it the FBI wrote, "You are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that." The letter went on to say, "The American public ... will know you for what you are -- an evil, abnormal beast," and "Satan could not do more."


The letter's threat was ominous, if not specific: "King you are done." Some have theorized the intent of the letter was to drive King to commit suicide in order to avoid personal embarrassment. "King, there is only one thing left for you to do," the letter concluded. "You know what it is ... You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation."


With the exception of the wiretap transcripts that remain sealed under court order, many of the other memos were made public as part of high-profile congressional investigations into the FBI's harassment of King. A summary was put together during the course of these investigations. Other memos were released through a Freedom of Information Act request from the Center for National Security Studies in 1978. Another large batch was released through a 1979 FOIA request from David Garrow.




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