In Memory of MLK: A Radical Leftist Agenda

Participants in Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally can take pride in Saturday’s positive message and uplifting spirit.  But just down the road, Al Sharpton’s “Reclaim the Dream” rally–dubiously dubbed by many in the media as a “counter” to Beck’s–carried a significantly different tone.   Many of the people “marching” with Sharpton arrived with very specific agendas.

NAACP President Ben Jealous marked the anniversary of King’s speech with a laundry list of Democratic agenda items and radical political allies:

Another group who marched with Sharpton this weekend was the People’s Organization for Progress–a New Jersey-based group whose no. 1 priority is slavery reparations for African-Americans, or what they call “full and just” compensation.

In Memory of MLK: A Radical Leftist Agenda

Also high on the POP’s agenda list of demands: guaranteed employment, guaranteed income, “free” health care, “free” higher education and “adequate food, clothing, housing employment, health care, education, legal repreentation, recreation and culture for every person in the United States of America.

In Memory of MLK: A Radical Leftist Agenda

And, as Jon points out over on the blog, there were other nefarious characters (with notoriously bad spelling skills, apparently) in attendance to “reclaim” The Dream…

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  • azghost
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 9:24am

    During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation.

    Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.
    It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation’s fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.
    http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500#continueA

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  • Newtie and the Beauty
    Posted on September 3, 2010 at 12:03am

    The ideals preached by MLK should be our goal; that the likes of Sharpton, Jackson and Farrakhan have hijacked those ideals and twisted them to fit their agenda. Perhaps a refresher is in order all around: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

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  • TimTheEnchanter
    Posted on September 1, 2010 at 12:28am

    Legislatively, it’s long past time for the One Human Race Act.

    This would outlaw any collection of data about race as it is simply immaterial to our existence. The only exception would be for law enforcement descriptions.

    It would also outlaw any programs or funding that target people by race or makes special accommodations for race, specifically because it is racism in and of itself.

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  • Timsincali
    Posted on August 31, 2010 at 7:07am

    From FBI files at the time of MLK Jr’s life, it appears he had a few personal problems along with being rather, well… Marxist in much of his beliefs. Now, the message he proffered of content of character over pigment of flesh is what should be recognized as a universal truth and a way to live by. As Glen, I have a difficult time placing any of my faith in men, currently or from the past without much investigation of that man, or woman for that matter. When Glen began using Dr. Kings as an example I, “questioned with boldness” his use of Rev. Dr. King as any example for a movement. Perhaps it is only the message Glen is embracing and I too can go along with the “content…” part of Rev. King.

    Glen Beck is a man I am willing to place my trust in and he is, in my opinion, doing GOD’s work and what must be done right now. I hope I’ve offended no one with my comment and I am far from perfect as well. I‘m just sayin’…..

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  • Margie10
    Posted on August 31, 2010 at 12:51am

    I don’t see anyone trying to say that MLK was a conservative. In fact, I find it curious that anyone even suggests that.

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  • TPARTY RADIO
    Posted on August 30, 2010 at 11:26pm

    Racism is an industry for the “civil rights” extortionists.
    Expect them to bitterly cling to their dead horse.

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  • Cynewulf
    Posted on August 30, 2010 at 11:20pm

    Reagan:

    “Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others — white and black — preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. We can be so thankful that Dr. King raised his mighty eloquence for love and hope rather than for hostility and bitterness. He took the tension he found in our nation, a tension of injustice, and channeled it for the good of America and all her people.”

     
  • weaselous
    Posted on August 30, 2010 at 11:06pm

    I’m a conservative in favor of reparations…of some kind. I think we need to take a good hard look at the state of the black community in this country and its high unemployment, low H.S. graduation rates, and children out of wedlock. I have a very hard time saying that it’s of their own doing, and that they don’t need targeted help. Slavery left a deep scar on that community. Uneducated people raising uneducated people is a cycle that’s extremely hard to break. I wouldn’t propose something as extreme and ridiculous as the P.O.P., but I do think more should be done.

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    • Cynewulf
      Posted on August 30, 2010 at 11:30pm

      Weaselous,

      I’d recommend reading Thomas Sowell. The state of the black community today is directly related to the decline of the black family. The Civil Rights Movement should have ushered in a renaissance for the black community; instead, we see, in many ways, the opposite. That cannot be attributed to slavery. It is the unintended consequence of leftist policies. If you can find a way to have leftists repay the black community, I’m all for it.

       
    • weaselous
      Posted on August 30, 2010 at 11:46pm

      Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like Sowell has quite a few books out. Is there one in particular that would be a good one to start with?

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    • Cynewulf
      Posted on August 31, 2010 at 1:05am

      Weaselous,
      In relation to this topic, probably Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? or Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study. Also, this essay might be of interest:
      http://www.tsowell.com/spracecu.html

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    • yungpunk
      Posted on August 31, 2010 at 1:33am

      I respectfully submit that what slavery has stolen cannot be repaid with monies or education or intervention. What was stolen was freedom. This is a God given right. The only reparation sufficient is a complete restoration of that freedom. Any attempt to restore more than that would be just as presumptious as the initial slight in that it supposes that anything more or less comes from aught but the hand of God. It would also involve diminishing the freedom of others. Perhaps not to so great an extent, but how can we offer an advantage to one without fettering another?
      I say that freedom has been restored, and those who preach otherwise are the slave owners of our generation. It may not be with whips and corporeal punishment, but the idea that this or that condition must be met for one to succeed is a slavery of the mind just as crippling as fetters of iron.
      All that remains is to awaken the spirit of those who’s forbears would have dreamed to live with the opportunity of today… to foster a burning desire to exercise to the fullest of their ability the freedoms which have been restored… and within but few generations the fruits of that action would eclipse all the suffering of days gone by.
      Make no mistake, we cannot Gift success. Success is a measurement of our production in comparison to our potential, always measured on a personal scale within our personal sphere. Once restored, freedom enables that potential to be realised, but only through direct and personal action. Even for a race deprived of freedom in the past, the principle must operate on a personal level, soul by soul hungering for and achieving personal success. The sum of these efforts will be the reduction of the symptoms you listed.
      In simple terms, when did anyone ever feel good about winning a game of monopoly when they started out with Boardwalk and Park Place already with all the hotels???

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    • TimTheEnchanter
      Posted on August 31, 2010 at 11:16pm

      Reparations are why the black community is in the state it is in. We’ve been doing reparations for nearly 5 decades. When I went to college, it was FAR easier to get in if you were a minority and far easier to get money. There were special classes with “Black” in front of the class. And I was called a “racist” for thinking maybe we were going too far. Despite that my roommate and girlfriend were both quite a few shades darker than I am.

      The best thing we can do for them is treat them as humans, rather than minorities. Then maybe they will think of themselves the same way. And if not, it’s their issue.

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  • FCoxUSMC
    Posted on August 30, 2010 at 9:57pm

    MLK’s I have a Dream speech was ment for all races not just the black race, and not just liberals. Sharpton and his cronies, NAACP….etc, are the racists. Any one who thinks that someone’s descendants should pay for the mistakes that their ancestors made is in need of professional help. Apparently these are the kind of people who keep racism going. What a bunch of hypocrites

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  • Skandia Recluse
    Posted on August 30, 2010 at 9:41pm

    CSPAN replayed the Sharpton rally later in the day. It was an amazing thing to see, and one might hope it would be available in the CSPAN archives.

     
  • Dame Eddie
    Posted on August 30, 2010 at 9:24pm

    Not to defend the folks above, MLK wasn’t exactly a conservative. Perhaps socially in many ways. But fiscally, politically? His last big stand was a march against poverty and in support of an expansion of government welfare. I find it odd that the conservative movement tries to paint him as some icon of conservatism. It’s okay that some national heroes were liberal, isn’t it?

     
    • gator70
      Posted on August 30, 2010 at 9:33pm

      Sure, but I also don‘t think the Dem’s can claim that MLK or JFK were the same type of Liberal Democrats that we see today.

       
    • TheReasonableLib
      Posted on August 30, 2010 at 10:25pm

      Dr. King was actually very far from conservative, some would say down right socialist.

       
    • anniebanannie
      Posted on August 30, 2010 at 10:31pm

      Gator, I think JFK would be closer to a liberal republican that we see today

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