MLK Anniversary Speaker Compares Supreme Court Justices to KKK

[Jeff]

She says they are passing laws to make it so minorities and young blacks can't vote do to having to have I.D. well those same people need then ID's to by alcohol cigarettes .... ect so I don't think that dog will hunt


On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington on Wednesday, the president of a prominent organization dedicated to increasing black civic participation compared conservative Supreme Court justices to KKK members and said Voter ID laws are being enacted to prevent another black president. Melanie Campbell, the president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said though black Americans are not threatened by biting dogs and KKK members in white hoods, the “dogs are still biting in other ways” and there is still “racism and inequality.


http://patriotupdate.com/2013/08/mlk-anniversary-speaker-compares-supreme-court-justices-kkk/

[Larrymc]

She says they are passing laws to make it so minorities and young blacks can't vote do to having to have I.D. well those same people need then ID's to by alcohol cigarettes .... ect so I don't think that dog will hunt


On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington on Wednesday, the president of a prominent organization dedicated to increasing black civic participation compared conservative Supreme Court justices to KKK members and said Voter ID laws are being enacted to prevent another black president. Melanie Campbell, the president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said though black Americans are not threatened by biting dogs and KKK members in white hoods, the “dogs are still biting in other ways” and there is still “racism and inequality.


http://patriotupdate.com/2013/08/mlk-anniversary-speaker-compares-supreme-court-justices-kkk/


One of the dumbest excuses Yet, am i missing something? is there some conspiracy to stop blacks from getting a Drivers License or ID that i haven't heard of ??

[Fusco]

Ya know, I bet if they took all this energy and campaign money and investing in trying to get young blacks their ids they'd see true progress. Is something stopping them I'm unaware of?

[Thunderknuckles]

The anti-Voter ID argument is all based on passion and no substance. Hence the DOJ, with Obama's support, going after Texas for their new Voter ID law.
Nevermind the fact that Texas offers FREE Voter IDs to eligible voters.

[Gaffer]

They just don't want restriction put on dead voters, undocumented voters, multiple voters and fantasy voters. It might cut into their voting count.

[hjmick]

There is a stark contrast between those who speak for the "movement" today and Martin Luther King Jr...


Al Sharpton... Louis Farrakhan... Jesse Jackson... Michelle Williams... The list goes on...


I think he would be embarrassed...

[Fusco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

There is a stark contrast between those who speak for the "movement" today and Martin Luther King Jr...


Al Sharpton... Louis Farrakhan... Jesse Jackson... Michelle Williams... The list goes on...


I think he would be embarrassed... I know he would be embarrassed, I think he would be mad as hell!! --Tyr

[Larrymc]

There is a stark contrast between those who speak for the "movement" today and Martin Luther King Jr...


Al Sharpton... Louis Farrakhan... Jesse Jackson... Michelle Williams... The list goes on...


I think he would be embarrassed...I Truly believe that!! and i think he would agree Obama is a Disgrace to his race.

[Jeff]

They just don't want restriction put on dead voters, undocumented voters, multiple voters and fantasy voters. It might cut into their voting count.

Ding Ding Ding give that man a cigar , that is the truth of the matter, they couldn't cheat as much, hell Obama and the other idiots screaming could careless about the young blacks , many either can't vote or don't vote ( and yes they came out for Obama but again many can't vote due to arrest records ) no getting around that, I am sure there where many more dead or duplicated votes than there where of young blacks in the last couple of elections

[fj1200]

I think he would be embarrassed...

Why do conservatives have the sainted view of the man that he would be embarrassed by the civil rights movement today when the vast majority, all?, of his contemporaries are very far left? Everyone can agree with his dream but the reality is that we are nowhere near it being realized and every legislative step "forward" has only made it seem further and further away.

[DragonStryk72]

She says they are passing laws to make it so minorities and young blacks can't vote do to having to have I.D. well those same people need then ID's to by alcohol cigarettes .... ect so I don't think that dog will hunt


On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington on Wednesday, the president of a prominent organization dedicated to increasing black civic participation compared conservative Supreme Court justices to KKK members and said Voter ID laws are being enacted to prevent another black president. Melanie Campbell, the president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said though black Americans are not threatened by biting dogs and KKK members in white hoods, the “dogs are still biting in other ways” and there is still “racism and inequality.


http://patriotupdate.com/2013/08/mlk-anniversary-speaker-compares-supreme-court-justices-kkk/





Um... Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Supreme Court doesn't pass laws.

[fj1200]

Um... Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Supreme Court doesn't pass laws.

Pesky details.

[Larrymc]

Why do conservatives have the sainted view of the man that he would be embarrassed by the civil rights movement today when the vast majority, all?, of his contemporaries are very far left? Everyone can agree with his dream but the reality is that we are nowhere near it being realized and every legislative step "forward" has only made it seem further and further away.King was not a race baiter, in his generation blacks were absolutely discriminated against, But while his dream has been realized, he could never have imagined that the very people he fought and died for them to have it would reject it. instead of taking advantage of the opportunity's afforded them today, sadly a majority would rather live on government hand outs, with their victim mentality.

[glockmail]

MLK was a Republican. Did she mention that? :laugh:

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Um... Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Supreme Court doesn't pass laws. ssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Don't tell tha masses!!!!!!!! da public skools gots dem jest as dumb and blind as needed to overlook such inkonsequencial detales.--Tyr

[Jeff]

Um... Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Supreme Court doesn't pass laws.

Correct you are my friend what she actually says is the judges in the black robes knock down the laws , yup I was in a hurry but posted anyway , MY GOOF UP again.... dang getting to many of them

[DragonStryk72]

Correct you are my friend what she actually says is the judges in the black robes knock down the laws , yup I was in a hurry but posted anyway , MY GOOF UP again.... dang getting to many of them

Actually, I was still referring to her. Whether she said that explicitly, she is still implying it by her wording. Also, you know this is a woman who has not had to face the specter of the KKK herself, because those that have would never see a connection there.

Whatever the SCOTUS justices are doing, it isn't tar and feathering black people, beating the shit out of them when they try to vote, or burning crosses on their lawns cause they had the gaul to live in white neighborhoods.

Actually, I've noted that most of the black folks of that time were trying to eschew the inner-city mentality, as opposed to the current glorification of it that is a constant of the current era. They worked on their manner of speech so that they didn't sound like hicks, dressed themselves well, and worked damned hard for what they had. This, I think, is because they had to earn what they had, and had true obstacles to getting ahead in life, not only for them, but their families as well.

[fj1200]

King was not a race baiter, in his generation blacks were absolutely discriminated against, But while his dream has been realized, he could never have imagined that the very people he fought and died for them to have it would reject it. instead of taking advantage of the opportunity's afforded them today, sadly a majority would rather live on government hand outs, with their victim mentality.

No question but what of his circle and others who shared his beliefs who ultimately fought for, and won, the Civil Rights Act and other legislation; What's to say that he wouldn't have shared the same trajectory of ideological thought that advocates for more government action. Once the CRA was passed, pushed through by LBJ, the black vote has gone Democrat and has hardly looked back.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

No question but what of his circle and others who shared his beliefs who ultimately fought for, and won, the Civil Rights Act and other legislation; What's to say that he wouldn't have shared the same trajectory of ideological thought that advocates for more government action. Once the CRA was passed, pushed through by LBJ, the black vote has gone Democrat and has hardly looked back. Yes, LBJ joined to get the credit and the votes but here is the true facts......
More Republicans than Democrats voted in favor of the 1964 bill. The most notable of the holdouts was Barry Goldwater, R-AZ, who didn't like all the pork in it. Goldwater did, however, co-found the Arizona chapter of the NAACP.

All the people trying to give libs credit are doing exactly what Johnson did, which is to hijack it because it's popular. Republicans got it passed....

Emanuel Celler proposed it as HR 7152.

yay-nay votes
Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)
Cloture in the Senate:[11]

Democratic Party: 44-23 (66%-34%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version:[10]

Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[10]

Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%) --------------------------------- --Tyr

[fj1200]

Yes, LBJ joined to get the credit and the votes but here is the true facts......
More Republicans than Democrats voted in favor of the 1964 bill. The most notable of the holdouts was Barry Goldwater, R-AZ, who didn't like all the pork in it. Goldwater did, however, co-found the Arizona chapter of the NAACP.

All the people trying to give libs credit are doing exactly what Johnson did, which is to hijack it because it's popular. Republicans got it passed....

I'm not disagreeing with that but it goes to my unanswerable, likely, question of who's to say he would have bucked the historical trends of his pals.

This was a good read:

WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS REPUBLICAN (http://www.humanevents.com/2006/08/16/why-martin-luther-king-was-republican/)

[Larrymc]

No question but what of his circle and others who shared his beliefs who ultimately fought for, and won, the Civil Rights Act and other legislation; What's to say that he wouldn't have shared the same trajectory of ideological thought that advocates for more government action. Once the CRA was passed, pushed through by LBJ, the black vote has gone Democrat and has hardly looked back.Because King did not seek government hand outs, his fight was to give the black man the same chance at the American dream as any body else, and though now it seems it was in vain, at the time because he and any notable black had to fight his way up through bias and discrimination, he believed in his people and was sure if the obstacles were removed they would thrive, we had never seen an unrestrained black community, and could not have known that instinctively as a whole they would chose to live a more primitive lazy uneducated life style. But i have to say we have seen many reach out and grab it, as is evident in all sectors, now of those you will find many Republicans.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I'm not disagreeing with that but it goes to my unanswerable, likely, question of who's to say he would have bucked the historical trends of his pals.

This was a good read:

WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS REPUBLICAN (http://www.humanevents.com/2006/08/16/why-martin-luther-king-was-republican/)

I did not disagree with your evaluation that MLK would possibly have agreed with what many of the current black leaders are doing. I do not hold MLK AS A SAINT OR A PERFECT BEING. I do however know King was a Republican and was most likely to have disagreed with much of this socialism that is so avidly embraced by the blacks and their leaders today. Whose to say how much of it he would have voiced strong objections to? King did tell his people to work for what they get. He never advocated a free ride that I have ever seen in looking at his words. His definition of EQUAL was far different than what is being glorified and demanded today!--Tyr

[fj1200]

Because King did not seek government hand outs, his fight was to give the black man the same chance at the American dream as any body else, and though now it seems it was in vain, at the time because he and any notable black had to fight his way up through bias and discrimination, he believed in his people and was sure if the obstacles were removed they would thrive, we had never seen an unrestrained black community, and could not have known that instinctively as a whole they would chose to live a more primitive lazy uneducated life style. But i have to say we have seen many reach out and grab it, as is evident in all sectors, now of those you will find many Republicans.

I don't disagree with the bold but who didn't think that back then?


The radicalism of the 1967 speech didn't just extend to Vietnam. King called for the U.S. to "undergo a radical revolution of values," saying that "we must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society." He continued:

When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/the-martin-luther-king-nobody-s-talking-about-20130828


Poor People's Campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People's_Campaign)

The Poor People's Campaign was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States). It was organized byMartin Luther King, Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference), and carried out in the wake of King's assassination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.).

...

The Committee demanded an Economic Bill of Rights with five planks:[78] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People's_Campaign#cite_note-78)


"A meaningful job at a living wage"
"A secure and adequate income" for all those unable to find or do a job
"Access to land" for economic uses
"Access to capital" for poor people and minorities to promote their own businesses
Ability for ordinary people to "play a truly significant role" in the government

[fj1200]

I did not disagree with your evaluation that MLK would possibly have agreed with what many of the current black leaders are doing. I do not hold MLK AS A SAINT OR A PERFECT BEING. I do however know King was a Republican and was most likely to have disagreed with much of this socialism that is so avidly embraced by the blacks and their leaders today. Whose to say how much of it he would have voiced strong objections to? King did tell his people to work for what they get. He never advocated a free ride that I have ever seen in looking at his words. His definition of EQUAL was far different than what is being glorified and demanded today!--Tyr

I'm not convinced... though I would like to be.

[Truth Detector]

"....a land where a man is not judged by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character."

The black community has failed miserably in this regard. They still judge by skin color and blame based on their views of "white privilege."

Trayvon Martin was a case in point. When you elevate a young thug to the level of Sainthood while trying to destroy someone because they wanted to protect their community, the dream is very distant.

The savagery in black communities of young blacks murdering other blacks, black teens murdering a white jogger for jogging, black teens murdering an 88 year old white WWII veteran for some pocket change, are all a testimony of the failures within the black community and moral decline that exacerbates this descent.

Detroit is the future destination that is gauranteed by Liberal Democrat ideology that requires one to stick ones head in the sand of blissful ignorance and avoid personal responsibility for ones actions.