The Message
They ask if our nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.
Martin Luther King, 4/30/1967
Comment by y81 —
January 21, 2008 @ 11:47 am
It would be nice if the self-styled supporters of Martin Luther King had raised their voices when 3 million Cambodians were killed, or had protested the gulag or the Berlin Wall or the political prisons of Cuba, or (today) complained about honor killings, but it’s hard for members of self-satisfied insular political movements to see the planks in their own eyes.
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January 21, 2008 @ 11:58 am
Obama Echoes King’s Message…
At Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s church, senator carefully draws comparisons to his own campaign….
Comment by Uncle Kvetch —
January 21, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
Happy to oblige, y81:
We’re not as bad as Pol Pot.
USA! USA!
Comment by joe —
January 21, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
Ah, so not only are people who opposed racial segregation guilty of not protesting the gulag, but the killing fields, the Berlin Wall, and Stalinism are the beam in THEIR OWN eye.
Sure, that makes perfect sense.
Comment by Pithlord —
January 21, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
It takes about two comments at Hit + Run before someone responds that MLK was a commie womanizing fag.
Comment by lemuel pitkin —
January 22, 2008 @ 10:31 am
womanizing fag
How’s that work?
Comment by The Modesto Kid —
January 22, 2008 @ 11:32 am
It takes about two comments at Hit + Run
So we totally beat them! Go us!
Comment by dhex —
January 22, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
How’s that work?
it’s much like being at a buffet.