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Jesse Jackson Claims MLK‘s Dream is ’Under Attack’
- Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:02pm by
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According to Rev. Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ultimate dream was not just equality of the races, but also apparently more gun control, universal health care, guaranteed employment, and on and on…
h/t Greg Hengler
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dmforman
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:37pmI hate to tell Jesse and Al, that Martin Luther King would not associate with these 2 men. He did not expect the government to hand people food, clothing, homes, or jobs. He wanted EVERYONE to have the same opportunities to pursue jobs, education, and life. No one in America was ever guaranteed a home, a job, food, or anything else. Our founding fathers said that we had the right to pursue happiness, whatever that shall be for each human being.
By the way Jesse, rich people pay for the programs that poor people, some of whom cannot work, but others that choose not to work receive and I for one am tired of paying and paying and paying and not receiving anything. For example,I can’t write off the interest for my student loans because I “make too much money.” My parents made too much or had too much in assets as they had worked to pay off their home and I did not qualify for grants only loans that will have taken me 20 years to pay off. No one has given my husband or I a darn thing. We have worked hard putting in many hours and hard work to get what we have. I begrudge paying for those that are unwilling to work, spend wisely, and expect for the government (which simply means those that work and own property) to take care of them and their family.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:18pmWELL SAID DMF
Report Post »I can totally relate to your words!!!
Dan
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:35pmWhy don’t Jesse and Al Sharpton join a cult and drink the kool-aid already!! They are both bumbling fools that are hung up on something that was forever ago. They are the only ones that care anymore. ENOUGH!!
Report Post »Briggston
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:32pmIf this were true should we say your lying to us about him now. OR where you lying to us then when we thought about honoring him with a federal holiday. Which is it Jesse. His own family thinks your a hack
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 9:00pmJessie Jackson was a trouble maker in 1968 just like he is a trouble maker today. Jessie “keep ‘em stirred up” Jackson is and has always been an opportunistic loser and will NEVER hold a candle to Dr. King. They are as different as night and day.
Report Post »Beckaj
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:32pmFunny, I don‘t remember any of that in MLK’s big speech.
Report Post »DVT
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:31pmSure is under attack…by jackson and sharpton!
Report Post »britnanny
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:31pmDid MLK also tell folks not to have children out of wedlock.
Report Post »Angeld
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:30pmJackson and Sharpton will NEVER carry the Legacy of MLK. Neither men have yet to teach their black Followers how to grow up into Responsible, Self Reliable and Family Nurturing people! All Sharpton and Jackson know is keeping them on welfare!
Report Post »So
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:16pmPlease. J.J. and Al wouldn‘t know MLK’s dream if it bit them on the buttocks.
Report Post »They are hustlers. That is all.
cuencaecuador
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:30pmIf that was truely Martin’s dream then he had an unrealistic dream. Sorry Jesse looks like you’ll have to get over it.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:29pm…. pass the plate.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:29pmActually according to a number of King’s friends that were there with him when it happened that; yes, Jackson was there but he was more of just one of the groupy type hanger-ons and that King really didn’t have anything to do with him. Just one of those people that were trying to make a name for themselves using King to do it and the only way that he was able to get known was by King being shot. Hmmm, makes me wonder, did he know anything about it ahead of time?
Report Post »Eagle07
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:17amHe was there but not on the Balconey.
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:53pmI think the term we’re looking for here is “leech”.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:27pmAlso….for days…….to keep the drama going……. JJ wore the same shirt ….he had on when MLK was shot.
Report Post »jinxx0r
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:29pm“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Try that one first…
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:28pmI wasn’t aware MLK’s dream had an amendment process.
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 9:42pmhow observant?
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:27pmNo Jessie, you have let down the AA community because you will attack a man like Bill Cosby who speaks the truth. Why have you never spoke up on Gangsta Rap?Multiple baby daddies?Drop outs?If you don’t keep them in poverty,you won’t be able to shake down businesses.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:26pmMLK’s dream was not redistribution of health or an authoritarian government or relinquishing self reliance as Jesse Jackson seems to preach.
Report Post »MLK’s dream is indeed under attack…. by the likes of AL Sharpton.
TumbleBumble
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:26pmSame as always – Jesse must convince the masses that there is a lot more work to be done or he will become irrelevant.
If I didn’t already have so much other issues to research, I would look into what MLK actually said himself. It seems as though the left makes him out to be extremely liberal and the right ignores that he wanted social justice.
So who really was he?
Report Post »hiplainsdrifter
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:26pmWell, it is true that it is under attack. However it is racist, race baiting buffoons like the good reverends Jackson and Sharpton who are undermining it.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:25pmJesse Jackson is 100% correct that MLK’s dream is “under attack”. He’s just not honest enough to admit that he and Sharpton is leadind the attack!
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:40pmOooohhh, bullseye!
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:10pmMind your violent rhetoric, Taquoshi! ;)
Report Post »texbroker
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:25pmPoor Jesse……MLK was dreaming then….and you’re dreaming now………….
Report Post »handsoffmystuff
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:24pmMLK’s dream of a person judged by the content of their character was abandoned by this man who several minutes after the shots were fired lied about being there at the time. He lied then and he’s been lying ever since. Jackson is not a person of character. He is a simple minded, self involved opportunist. Period. The preservation of King’s purpose and the modern day Jessie Jackson differ sharply.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:24pmOf course he does, if he wasn‘t you’d should be checking him for a pulse!
Report Post »Takeoutthegarbagenov2
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:23pmHey Je$$e-“The rich got richer”? LIKE YOU!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:23pmI guess since MLK isn’t around to defend himself, Jesse can put any words in his mouth that he wants to. What an embarassment to Black History this man is, looking for his 10 mins of fame and his place in history. Sorry, Jesse, but you can’t hold a candle to MLK so give it up.
Report Post »lcassavaugh
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:32pmtotally agree! and how can employment be guaranteed?
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:00pm@lcassavaugh
According to Robert Bork, in his book, there are those on the Left who believe there are rights to food, shelter, education, clothing, energy, and jobs.The way that will be imposed is through the courts, which is why Bork was slammed so brutally; that agenda will never be legislated into reality. Lefties knew Bork would never give them those things, so he had to go.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:22pmMLK’s dream is being co-opted and stolen by Beck. Beck presenting a slanted and twisted version of history is distorting the truth, knowing his beckerheads won’t do the research.
MLK was for social justice, MLK would be opposed the policies of Palin, Beck and the Tea-Baggers, as he was opposed to the politics of the John Birch Society.
Report Post »bennoba
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 2:14amMLK’s niece seems to agree with Beck. Oops!
MLK was for EQUAL justice – not social justice!
Report Post »98ZJUSMC
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 4:08amIf by history you mean the history you learned from the writings of Howard Zinn, then I can see where accurate versions of history would seem warped to you.
Report Post »bennoba
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:22pmHucksters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are shamelessly trying to hijack MLK‘s ’dream’ for their own personal agendas.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:55pmpoverty pimps …..
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:45pmBennoba,
Report Post »You are correct!
Jackson and his ilk have tried to cheapen EVERYTHING that the good Doctor King stood for. They have done it for “FILTHY LUCRE”!
Thankfully, Dr. King’s message survives despite them.
It’s so sad. So many abettors of Jackson and Sharpton. Too many corporations willing to pay “BLOOD LIBEL” to these pimps!
Dr. King was a visionary. Dr. King made us a better nation. Dr. King was touched by God.
I think that Dr. King would give Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton short shrift had he been allowed to live to see his “DREAM”.
Yes, Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King! Some in America truly appreciate ALL that you sacrificed.
We are sorry that Jackson, Sharpton, and those like them have cheapened your message.
geminisailor
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 9:31pmYeah, Jesse’s “walking around (extortion) money” is the only thing under attack that he’s worried about!
Report Post »Angeld
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:22pmOh Jesse needs some attention!!!
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:38pmMLK’s dream no longer exists in the black community. They everything is defined by color, the content of ones character no longer matters. Everything is “colorized”.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
CatB
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:39pmUnder attack from the NAACP and people like Jackson and Shaprton .. those who have perverted it.
Report Post »solaveritas
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:40pmOK Jesse. MLK would be concerned about a lot of issues, though the ones you mentioned weren’t part of his dream. Lets see if you throw your support behind Herman Cain for President. A true black that (like the black population in general) is for personal responsibility, fiscal frugality, free enterpirse, and against abortion, homosexuality, and same-sex marriage. Jesse, check out http://www.RagingElephants.org and come home to YOUR social roots!
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:52pmOf course Jesse and his followers see his “cause” as being “under attack”. That is how hucksters operate. Every single one of you here honestly believe that Glenn Beck’s (and his followers’, i.e. YOU) “cause” is likewise “under attack”. It is the oldest and simplest form of control behavior: 1) Convince people that there are outside forces keeping them from being happy/successful/free, 2) Identify that force as a political/racial/religious group and 3) Rally your followers against that group in a way that both keeps them unfulfilled and angry while, most importantly, enriching yourself.
Report Post »Wake up Beck-Bots, you are exactly like Jesse’s-Bots.
KenInIL
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:54pmJesse Jackson needs funding not attention – maybe both. He and big Al keep trying to divide and profit.
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:57pmKnew it was only a matter of time till this RACIST would pop up! His competitor (to be the #1 racist in the country) Sharpton has been getting too much air time running his mouth so now this dolt is back on the scene.
And where is the violence really coming from Jesse? I love how he thinks how MLK would think and stand on issues today, why is this racist given air time? Whatever this fool says just do the opposite if care about this country. He and his ilk are about dividing the nation not bringing it together!
56 men, our Founding Fathers, knew what had to be done and do what’s right, what about you? http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »Deuteronomy22
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:08pmCatB
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 6:39pm
Under attack from the NAACP and people like Jackson and Shaprton .. those who have perverted it.
——————-Yeah, what would Jesse Jackson know? He not only was a confidante of Martin Luther King Jr but present on the balcony when he was assassinated. Now Glenn Beck, he knows what was in Martin Luther King’s mind. While Glenn was smoking weed in his 20s Jesse was right in the middle of The Civil Rights Movement, literally right alongside Martin Luther King Jr. So as time went on Jesse Jackson’s views are much more reflective of where King would stand on issues today than all of you who are condemning him.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:09pmIf Jesse makes it to Heaven, MLK will have some choice words for him!
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:15pmDeuteronomy22
Jesse’s message now a days is nowhere near what Martin Luther King jr.s was back then.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:17pmBROKER0101, 1. Not unhappy 2. Not unsuccessful 3. Not angry 4. I’m free 5. I am not against a group, I am against what they are trying to do. I believe in MLK’s message and his vision for this country and his people, which begs me to ask, “If you are sticking up for Jesse Jackson and his propaganda, are you prejudice against MLK and his vision for the country and his people?”. Where do you fit in?
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:18pmA quick Google search of the US Murder Rate in 1968 (The year MLK was killed) Compared to the US Murder Rate in 2008 shows the percentages of murders, per capita, is actually down. So what is Mr. Jackson basing his statement on?
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:18pmJesse has been attacking MLK‘s dream since the latter’s assassination. If Jesse were to live the dream in his own life, he’d be out of a job race-hustling.
Report Post »Also, @Broker. Your willful ignorance is matched in error only by your moral equivalence argument. Beck isn’t arguing that there are OUTSIDE forces that keep us from being happy, although he does point out connections between forces that are colluding to undermine the foundations of freedom and individual responsibility in this country. He is, rather, arguing that we each need to change ourselves and become better than we are as individuals. A critical mass of us accomplishing this goal would not only make us more fulfilled individuals, but overthrow whatever colluding forces there may be out there. His is not a message of anger, but of hope. And I’m sorry your brain seems to be refusing delivery on this because it seems so plain to everyone else who listens to him (except Beckisnuts, of course). You’re like the rebellious teen who drops out of school just because his father told him education is good, and then wonders why he can’t get a job. Silly Broker, it‘s not hucksterism if it’s true.
Deuteronomy22
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:23pmDashRipRock
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:15pm
Deuteronomy22
Jesse’s message now a days is nowhere near what Martin Luther King jr.s was back then.
Report Post »———————— Yes that is why I wrote ” So as time went on Jesse Jackson’s views are much more reflective of where King would stand on issues today…”. You see views can evolve as circumstances change. Who do you believe King would side with today, Beck/Palin or Jackson/Sharpton?
Rogue
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:28pm@ Dueter – Jesse has had decades to make a difference in black communities around the nation, and what exactly has he done? Nothing but continue to keep his community segregated through fear, racism and hatred. MLK strove to enrich and enlighten his kind to be better people through personal responsibility and character. Jesse has absolutely no interest in that type of solution. MLK worked tirelessly for equality, and achieved his goal. Jesse Jackson works tirelessly for continued racism and oppression of his own people, so that he can personallty benefit. If he and Rev Shaprton really gave a damn about the black community, they would be in those communities day in and day out, denouncing gang violence, drug use, drop out rates, lack of responsibility of black fathers, and would be teaching members of the community more personal responsibility. I don’t care whether he was with MLK all those years ago – his dream and MLK’s are far from being the same.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:28pmThe biggest problem with the 13% minority that causes 50% of our social problems
Report Post »is the lack of Black leadership and the you need me Demodopes.
How about staying in school – how about closing the females legs how about stopping the drug culture how about stop black on black killing how about getting a job etc etc.
I know that is very un PC but it is the truth – enough stop the welfare – prisoners should pay for their incarceration by working in prison and raising their own food – Stop the abortion for these people
If you think I am racist – think again – the only why the blacks will raise up is with tough Love!
RepubliCorp
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:33pmTwelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That’s 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001. This makes the 9/11 death numbers look small, we went to war over 9/11 and TSA feels us up at the airport…….wake up
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:34pmDeuteronomy22
Well who’s message today talks to taking individual responcibilty?
and who’s message is still judging people by the color of thier skin when it comes to individual responciblity?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:47pm@Broker0101
I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, and a lot “worse” than a Beck-Bot!
As for Jesse Jackson’s claim, it appears that everything the Progressives are hammering for comes under MLK’s “Dream.” What Jackson is trying to promote is a loss of our freedom, and control over WE THE PEOPLE.
I have never in all my 70 years heard so much hatred coming from what is supposed to be the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is now a Communist party. That’s the reason I left it after voting the Democratic ticket for 50 years.
And, Broker0101, I didn’t say “Beck” one time because Beck didn’t have anything to do with it.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:51pmMy guess is
Report Post »BROKER has a star wars bong to match his star wars jammies
Muslim in Chief
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:58pmYes, he saw Al Sharpton all over the TV, and got jealous, so not he needs some TV whore time
Report Post »Dandylyon
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:34pmIf these two are the best the black community have to offer they are in dire need of an upgrade.I could not help but be ashamed if I were black.
MLK has to be flopping in his grave.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:53pmDon’t you mean Beck needs some attention. After watching today’s show, Beck did nothing but lie for an hour in an attempt to twist history and the truth to make his message matches MLK’s. MLK was for social justice, he was for gun control and universal health care, MLK would stand with those that oppose the lies of the tea-baggers, Palin and Beck.
Beck’s attempts to co-opt this great man’s name and image for his onw political purposes goes beyond any sense of shame a normal person has. Beck is nothing more than a huckster, defacing history with every word that comes out of his vile mouth.
Report Post »mojorizin
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:56pmI remember that it was confirmed by the press in several ways that the “reverend” jackson wiped the blood of MLK on his shirt as he approached the balcony well after the tragedy and claimed he was there as MLK was shot. Typical… his only way to profit was based on a lie. he has no credibility to the well educated on this fact…lets dont get into the illegimate child as well as the corporate shakedown for $$. A shame he still has credibility in the press… WAIT… the press is liberal and does not really care about the facts… doesn’t fit their profile. If you are on the left fringe.. real facts are expunged. serves the overall good. Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good liberal feel good story. yea.. he is a hero and he played “a major part” in history. He makes me sick
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 9:33pmlets see who’s side would Martin Luther King be on in todays world…hmmm…I’m not sure…BUT…I know it wouldn’t be yours Jesse…
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 9:52pmLet’s give thanks today for the Reverend Martin Luther King, an advocate of social justice and equal right for all of us, who was shot dead by a man who was against changing our country and making it better than it was.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 10:09pmRev. King’s fight was never focused on civil liberties for blacks alone. If you listen to his speeches and sermons you will learn that his focus was on injustice. Contrary to populer fiction spread by the liberal community, he was a conservative republican. He did not talk against gun control, white people or rule of law. He spoke out against injustice in all its forms. The man who shot Rev. King was a southern democrat.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 10:11pmI forgot to mention that I am white and fully support Herman Cain for President in 2012.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 10:25pmI’m not a Jessie Jackson fan at all. I think the less he and Sharpton say, the better for minorities and the better for the country to be frank.
But there wasn’t a lot offensive even in this very edited clip, although Blazers can offense at anything. Dr. King’s life was devoted to social justice, something Glenn Beck says to flee from. Jackson spoke truly that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, and the poor, my fellow Blazers, is you and me.
America can be a country of, by and for the rich. We can get rid of anti-trust laws, so that a single, giant company can take over any industry then charge us whatever they want for their products and pay you the minimum you will take before you decide stealing is easier. We can get rid of the EPA and OSHA and minimum wage, so that companies can maximize profits at the expense of you quality of life – and have flammable rivers from polution and chemicals in the water that give your children cancer and the smog blocking the sun in industrialized cities (like half of China and like some cities in the US before the EPA) and businesses where minorities can’t enter (ironically funny when whites become the minority in some states, which they will). Yes, we can have that by getting the government the heck out out of, not “our” way, but out of the way of company profits.
We can have a country without Social Security where old people, if they haven’t saved enough, simply die in poverty when they can no longer work. Actually we’ve had that country before, that’s why we have Social Security. Yes, we can regress to the era, but I’d ask all you Blazers if you have 20 X your yearly salary in the bank to retire from and live for 20 years after you retire.. The answer is no, you don’t.
Be careful what you wish for Blazers. Many of these roads, we, as a country have already traveled down.
Report Post »LadybugsTX
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:05pmYes sir. It certainly is under attack, by folks like you. MLK wanted EQUAL justice, not social justice. He wanted a world where people of all skin colors could live together in peace. Where all people were judged by the “content of their character” not the color of their skin.
Folks like you and Sharpton (I refuse to use the word Reverend) exploit race to maintain your own personal enrichment and to divide Americans more than segregation ever could. You’ve so completely reduced an entire sector of our population to bowing and scraping to the government for support that it would take generations to get them out provided they got the kind of REAL support they need.
You have systematically removed any chance for these people to rise up from their situation and say the words “I can” by institutionalizing poverty and victimology and hate. Lots of things have been put in place to give minorities a chance, such as education and affirmative action, yet black statistics such as graduation rate, two parent home rates, employment rates and median income rate are still on the decline. The only black statistics that are on the rise are abortion rates, crime rates and unemployment rates.
Shame on you Sir. You should be out there teaching impoverished black Americans how to be responsible with the money they do have, encouraging them to reach for the stars, that all things are possible and helping them to learn self-pride through accomplishment, and individuality instead of hunkering down in their low income communities, separated from main stream life, waiting for a self-esteem killing welfare check. Why? Because there would be no need for race-baiting shills like yourself. You would become as irrelevant to them as you are to the rest of the world. Any credibility you had left is long gone by now.
I have a question. Was anyone here ever guaranteed a job? Are you suggesting that black people should be guaranteed jobs? White people aren’t. Is that EQUAL?
Report Post »LadybugsTX
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:22pmWhat a silly boy you are JZS. You only get about 20% right, the rest of your posts are pure ideological propaganda and is pretty much the exact same tripe that the left say regardless of what site you’re at, or what decade you’re in for that matter. You cherry pick the parts of history that suit your diatribe and ignore the rest. And your examples are in now way based in reality. MLK was NOT for social justice, I’m sure because he knew that hoisting one sector of society on the backs of the rest would only cause more division and resentment. He was for EQUAL justice, meaning that minorities would get a seat at the table, afforded the SAME opportunities as whites, to be allowed to ACHIEVE just like whites. Social justice or socialism does nothing for the have nots. Do you really think that taking from one and giving to another who did nothing or very little to deserve or earn it helps them? How does that work on the taker’s self-worth?
Step back from your mantras, diatribes and chants and think that one through. Put yourself in a poor person’s shoes for just a minute. How does intitutionalizing people to take money they didn’t earn help them? You’re basically telling them, ok, you suck, but it’s ok, take this free money so I’ll feel better.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:23pmHere is a flash for you Mr Jackson. For the most part your dream has taken root in the white community.
Report Post »It is been a complete failure within many in the black community. Many of my black friends and work partners if asked see me first as white.
broker0101
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:34pmSorry folks. I’ve got to admit, I WAS WRONG.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:38pmBROKE…1
Report Post »We already knew that.
seeker9
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:54pmJZS
You really have a problem with big companies and profits. Might I suggest you learn to invest instead of wasting your time here? I do invest and am doing quite well, certainly not broke. Well past 20x salary.
Report Post »Sorry for the folks that decided social security would be their main retirement plan. The only way all the obligations can be paid is with printed dollars. Bad for inflation.
Government does not always get it right. They decided people that can’t afford a house should have one. Banks were pressured to lend, sold the mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack, sold to Wall St, rating agencies gave high ratings to worthless securities, and sold around the world. We all know what happened then. (Libs will blame Wall St).
Government should stay out of social engineering!
click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:00am“Jesse Jackson Claims MLK‘s Dream is ’Under Attack’ Media”
Truth >>> Dr. King is NOT under attack by me, Conservatives, the Tea-Party, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, etc. Instead we have been warning people that his dreams are being hi-jacked and re-packaged by the progressive/commies in the USA!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:10amLadybugtexas…thank you mam…the whole time I’m reading JZS post…thats not what MLK was all about..I believe he was true follower of Jesus, not perfect…a.man…but a good man…hey why do all these guys call themselves reverend(jesse, al)…kind of gives it a bad name..just sayin..
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:18amLadyBug I assume you part of the culture here and if you read the posts, you won’t find a single one honoring the memory of Reverend Martin Luther Kind, and I noticed you failed to use the honorific “Doctor” or “Reverend” in your post. If you disagree with 80% of my post, which referenced the choice Americans have between “We the People” and the rights of businesses to pollute the environment, poison our children, allow workplace death in the name of profit – that’s not hyperbole I take it you were born in the 80s after well EPA and OSHA – then I take it you didn’t read my post or you simply believe that the rich have right to do as they please to the poor.
Dr. Martin Luther Kind was in favor of racial equality, but he saw also the effects of social policy:
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.
You may believe, and I understand you are young, that without forced integration of school, and enforced anti-discrimination laws against minorities (Civil Rights laws) that the United States would be better off now rather than worse. But you’d be wrong. Without those laws we’d still be in the 50s with Jim Crow and “separate but equal.” The United States has made progress on racial equality not despite those laws, as you claim, but because of them. Like George Wallace, you may want to stand up in front of a school to prevent a black student to enter, and say “this isn’t their district and if they are worthy they will succeed without government help”. But your breed is on the way out. You may think the world would be a better place without Social Security, and believe that program prevents people from learning to save, and you’d see America as it was 80 years ago, with old people dying of poverty and beggin in the streets. We as a country have been there, and it was pathetic.
You may believe that without the EPA, businesses would stop polluting just because it’s the right thing to do even though it reduces their profits. But you’d be wrong. We‘ve tried that and it didn’t work. You may think that without OSHA businesses would just “do the right thing” and not allow short term (like death) or long term effect to the health of their employees. But you’d be wrong. We tried that and it didn’t work.
Your “diatribe” suggests that you are fine with a country where the rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer. And seem to associate that with “freedom”. Silly girl, carry that to the extreme, where we are all “free” but in poverty and working to support an upper caste consisting of 1% of Americans who run the country. We can have that in America, but we already have and the other 99% of Americans didn’t like it.
And you can hypocritically mock, as most do here, Americans like President Obama and Oprah, who rose from poverty and broken households to become successes, and when they support liberal ideas, call them ignorant and arrogant, but you might take a look at their lives and ask why it is that they, of all people, are liberal.
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:30amAgreed, but not by the Right, by the Left and every Liberal Professor, every 3rd Generation Welfare family and of course Mr. “Dreams of My Father” as he works to increase the Nanny State and government spending.
There is no excuse in this Country for families to be on Welfare for multiple generations without some crazy circumstances.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 2:22amNotice the conversion of King from the man of Faith namely the Rev. Martin L King to the Dr King.
Report Post »Why are the MSM drones calling him Dr. not Rev. For those of you who where alive at the time. What title do you thing Mr King would choose?
heyjim55
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 3:53amI agree Jesse is bored but on the other hand MLK death was a tragedy but his death doesn’t obligate the United States of America to become Communists.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:02amahha..one of the poverty pimps responds,we should be hearing from sharpton pretty soon,,,,,
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:46amI am sorry, Martin Luther King was a great man but it seems today that everyone just uses him as an excuse to push their agenda. MLK is not God and MLK did not found this country although many things he stood for are a part of the values and principles of this country. What is wrong period is that we need to focus on 2 things God and the Bible first and the wisdom he gave to us long ago in the constitution.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:44amMLK’s dream has been under attack by the likes of the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Shaprton, Lewis F. and many other groups of color within the black community for a long time. MLK wanted us all to walk as equals, not have special laws and regulations put in place to put certain groups above others. The black community as a whole truly needs to get back to what MLK’s dream truly was.
Report Post »RedWhiteBlueBlood
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 10:07amAnd yet if we did thid to one of MLK statues, OMG it would be the end of the world.
Report Post »Read this, it makes me so mad.
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2011/01/george-washington-statue-hidden-in-box.html
drphil69
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:18pmJesse is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! MLK’s dream is under attack… from the LEFT! The racist left keeps the black man down by giving him food, shelter and clothing. Welfare, Section 8, and food stamps are working like a charm to keep him down, poor, and unambitious. Meanwhile, Jesse gets rich by helping the racist left! Who is the real sellout?
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 12:48pmI hope everyone realizes that MLK has an actual holiday commemorated in HIS NAME “SPECIFICALLY”…George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are “lumped” together and it is called “President’s Day”…so, you need to tell me AGAIN why I give a rat’s behind what Jesse thinks about ANYTHING! Here in AZ we celebrate MLK’s B-Day as “Civil Rights Day”…I think that is more than appropriate considering that THAT is EXACTLY what the man LIVED and DIED for!
Report Post »blacksmith
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 1:06pm@D22
Report Post »Beck was about four or five when King was assasinated not twenty so I find it hard to believe that he was smoking dope then! Also Dr. Kings dream and message has not changed anymore than the founding fathers vision has changed! It has not changed because they all have one very important thing in common. They are all dead! Stop your revisionist history and stick to the facts at hand. The written word of those that came before us.
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Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 6:45pmAs he walks with the nation’s first black president, he still feels like MLK’s dream is under attack.
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:22pmYep! Al has been in the lime light and Jessie has been left on the side lines. Why do the have the title of REV. Neither has a church. They just cause problems and hate. They must belong to the Tea Party.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:25pmencinom, jzs, deutero, you guys talking about that black adulterer who impregnated his employee and paid her hush money under the table from tax free donations to his “ministry”.under the table until his wife found out? You mean THAT man of God? That’s not the kind of man that could even begin to know what MLK thinks. The two are on opposite ends of the universe (one being in heaven).
Report Post »Butter-Pants
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:17pmWhite America is under attack!
Report Post »Butter-Pants
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:22pmFor those of you who think MLK was such a great man, I say I doubt it, if he were still alive, he would probably be another Jessie & Al……Don’t kid yourself, it is all about the color to all of them!
Report Post »Curioso
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:03amAnd it is most under attack from those claiming to be it’s supporters. In other words from People like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farakan etc. The list goes on but they are the ones doing MLK’s dream the most damage.
Report Post »Curioso
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:17am@broker0101
Report Post »You start out making a good point then degress into name calling. Whats your problem. I agree that Jesse Jackson is a scam artist. Has been since the day he came on the scene. Content of character is where the emphasis should be not on who is killing (as in MLK’s Dream) what or who is racist or not.