I wont argue the points of my post any longer because I have already stated my stance on the matter.

Okay now .. another quote.
Who said it?
(hint: It isn't Obama!)

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Today the poor are less often dismissed, I hope, from our consciences by being branded as inferior or incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.

The problem indicates that our emphasis must be twofold. We must create full employment or we must create incomes.



Now our country can do this. John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here on earth.

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On second thought .. I wont fault you for saying Obama!

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TM. I guess the question is do you believe it? Does it even matter to you if there is truth to the reports of his abusive behavior?

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TM. I guess the question is do you believe it? Does it even matter to you if there is truth to the reports of his abusive behavior?

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Such presents an unbelievable picture, that's all. The flyer alleges there was a Communist plot behind the "racial agitation" and "racial nationalism". Show me that in his speeches.

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When one advocates a 'guaranteed income' from the government (Taking from the producers) .. how else do you interpret it?

" New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available."


"Social good". What did he mean when he said that?

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When one advocates a 'guaranteed income' from the government (Taking from the producers) .. how else do you interpret it?

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While some will argue that King himself was not a communist, he did business with communists and was influenced by them. This delicate subject, made more so given the martyrdom and subsequent lionization of King, should nevertheless be broached as a means of providing insight into some of the darker forces that worked their way into what was essentially a pro American, conservative, Christian civil rights movement.

King surrounded himself with communists from the beginning of his career. His closest advisor Stanley Levison was a Communist. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, formed in 1957 and led by King, had Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth as Vice President who was at the same time president of the Southern Conference Education Fund, an identified communist front according to the Legislative Committee on un-American Activities, Louisiana (Report April 13, 1964 pp. 31-38).

The field director of SCEF was Carl Braden, a known communist agitator who was also involved in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which counted Lee Harvey Oswald, the communist assassin of President Kennedy as a member. King maintained regular correspondence with Carl Braden. Bayard Rustin, a known communist, was also on the board of SCLC.

Dr. King addressed the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn., 1957, previously known as the Commonwealth College until the House Committee on un-American Activities sited it as a communist front (April 27, 1949). HCAA found that Commonwealth was using religion as a way to infiltrate the African-American community by, among other techniques, comparing New Testament texts to those of Karl Marx. King knew many communists associated with the Highlander school.


King hired communist official Hunter Pitts O’Dell, 1960, at the SCLC. The St. Louis Globe Democrat reported (Oct. 26, 1962) “A Communist has infiltrated the top administrative post in the Rev. Martin Luther King’s SCLC. He is Jack H. O’Dell, acting executive director of conference activities in the southeastern states including Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.” Dr. King fired O’Dell when this became public but subsequently rehired him to head the SCLC New York office.

King himself expresses a Marxist outlook in his book “Stride Toward Freedom” when he stated, “in spite of the shortcomings of his analysis, Marx had raised some basic questions. I was deeply concerned from my early teen days about the gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty, and my reading of Marx made me even more conscious of this gulf."

Although modern American capitalism has greatly reduced the gap through social reforms, there was still need for a better distribution of wealth.

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" New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available."


"Social good". What did he mean when he said that?

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" New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available."


"Social good". What did he mean when he said that?

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I don't know. What do you think? Was he speaking to racial equality or to economic policies?

His politics may have been ascew but I daresay nobody but the Communist sniffers know squat about MLK Jr's politics.

His memory is cherished for his civil rights struggle against a segregationalist environment that sought to ensure that a race of people remained as second class.

At the right time he spoke God's truth to that beast and it crackled.

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Sometimes I find myself wondering if I can fully understand King, only because he died too soon. I wonder what the world would look like today if he had lived longer.

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" New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available."


"Social good". What did he mean when he said that?

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I don't know. What do you think? Was he speaking to racial equality or to economic policies?

His politics may have been ascew but I daresay nobody but the Communist sniffers know squat about MLK Jr's politics.

His memory is cherished for his civil rights struggle against a segregationalist environment that sought to ensure that a race of people remained as second class.

At the right time he spoke God's truth to that beast and it crackled.

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I think it is one of those terms that could mean anything. Like "common sense" or "general welfare". I don't have enough context to understand it.

Sometimes I find myself wondering if I can fully understand King, only because he died too soon. I wonder what the world would look like today if he had lived longer.

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Sometimes I find myself wondering if I can fully understand King, only because he died too soon. I wonder what the world would look like today if he had lived longer.

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Palinista

We have, I believe a perfect example of what King would be like today.
Look no further than the White House itself!

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Sometimes I find myself wondering if I can fully understand King, only because he died too soon. I wonder what the world would look like today if he had lived longer.

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Sometimes I find myself wondering if I can fully understand King, only because he died too soon. I wonder what the world would look like today if he had lived longer.

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Palinista

We have, I believe a perfect example of what King would be like today.
Look no further than the White House itself!

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You judge with such faulty confidence. No way would MLK have been a politician like Obama.

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We have, I believe a perfect example of what King would be like today.
Look no further than the White House itself!

King .. Knowingly or Unknowingly was a tool of the Communists movement of the 60's.

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