“I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.”
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”
“We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.”
“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”
“If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
“Early morning, April 4, a shot rings out in the Memphis sky…”
And Jesse Jackson immediately painted himself with MLK’s blood.
Physically and metaphorically…
We have had some tremendous black Americans in our history, true contributors to the greatness of this nation.
We have also had W.E.B. Du Bois, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton,…
I had the Ouija board going the other night.
MLK asked, “Jesse who?”
You get the feeling that Jackson was a hanger-on that King probably used to go out and get the donuts.
I definitely wish MLK had not been murdered. Sadly his sentiments about content of character over skin color have gone straight out the window since his untimely demise.
Loco, Bono was deep into personal stash when he wrote that.
King was killed in the evening.
Hoo, boy, I do remember, I do remember. I was living in Washington, DC, on Kenyon St. about a block and a half west of Mt. Pleasant St. Mt. Pleasant was the centroid of the riots, looting, and burning following King’s murder. I could step out my front door, look to my left, and see two National Guard machine gun emplacements at the corner of Kenyon and Mt. Pleasant, and the horrid smell of burning everything hung over the neighborhood for days, no it was weeks.
To our right (west), was the National Zoo a couple of blocks away. The animals in there went pretty crazy, and made a heck of a racket with their hoots and calls. It wasn’t that much different from the hoots and calls from the animals to our east.
Just another black man who couldn’t keep it in his pants.
I was on Guam when it happened and therefore it meant nothing to me.
Yes JohnS, MLK was shot at 6:01 PM CDT.
In Bono’s defense, Wikipedia didn’t exist when he wrote the song.
Also, “early evening” didn’t sound as good.
Thank God his death is rarely mentioned.
Loco, had the Wanker been around he probably would have gotten more things wrong.
I am 61, so I have lived most of my life pre-Wankerpedia. Believe it or not, we got along fine and, in my opinion, were better at fact checking than the current crop.
We were trained to upload information to our brain and retain it there. Considering that the story was told every year in school probably also made it easy to retain.
I have nothing against the guy, when he does it live he usually uses the word ‘evening’ (unless he is too high and forgets), even though it took him years to start doing so.
Damn JohnS, you cut zero slack to anyone.
You must be insufferable to live with.
Bono was eight years old when it happened and he lived in Dublin, Ireland.
He likely heard about it early the next morning.
I doubt they taught MLK in his school back then.
Now? Who knows?
Sorry Loco, I take personal exception to anyone suggesting that I get information from Wankerpedia.
Look into it. Bono was informed and produced the song anyway because the cared more about how the lyrics flowed than the facts and didn’t want to rework the song.
That he is a leftist pushing the myth about MLK rather than the truth doesn’t put me in his corner either.
JohnS, the Wiki statement wasn’t even about you.
I have also lived so many years without it.
It would have been handy though, I had bets with people at work regarding certain trivia.
The only way to resolve it would be to acquire an expert or check out a book in a library.
Now you can simply research in a manner of seconds.
To not appreciate this or not take advantage due a certain stubbornness, well, I guess you just proved my first point.
I was 15 in 1968 and at the end of my Sophomore year in HS when MLK was killed. I remember my Dad keeping a very close eye on my brothers and I after this happened, he was afraid that some thing bad was going to happen even here in Spokane.
OK Loco, you like Bono, he can be stubborn as long as you can call me stubborn.
Carry on.
I was at Camp Bearcat in Vietnam when both MLK and RFK were killed. Neither incident had a lot of impact on us because we had other things to worry about at the time.
Yes, it’s very tragic Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and even more disturbing assassination is the leftist go to when they feel threatened politically.
MLK was a liberal with conservative moral leanings. Not unlike black Hellary supporters. In today’s lingo, he was a RINO, as illustrated by these two quotes;
“We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.”
– Liberties were guaranteed. They were being suppressed by leftist, Democrats.
BTW, the majority of black fathers were still in the home – even in Harlem in the 60s.
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
– Quite conservative, in general. Meals can’t be legislated.
What is very telling, is how popular MLK is with leftist groups. The respect he receives from conservative is because of his moral code, but conservative need to examine more closely his political influences.
Morals can’t be legislated. Meals are legislated by progressives and leftists. Unintentionally profound spell check fix.
99th; MLK was a far different man near the end than he was most of his life, I would hope that he had seen the light, but his death will mean that we will never know
JohnS. MLK was inspired by communist doctrine as a young man and his politically leftist ideology didn’t change near the end. He railed against the Vietnam war for liberal reasons, as reflected in the above quote.
MLK had many flaws, in general a decent man, but he perpetrated a disservice on behalf of black Americans by attempting to incorporating communist doctrine with Christian ideologies. They are diametrically opposed ideals.
Agent99; I understand your attempt to walk the tightrope.
MLK was not a good man. His late turn toward nonviolence was an attempt to escape the noose tightening around his neck.
Had he not been shot, he would have died in prison.
JohnS, I’am definitely not a fan of Martin Luther King, Jr. The “tightrope” you may be sensing is an attempt not to offend those who might consider MLK heroic. He was too influential to live, so I doubt he would have survived a prison term. MLK was always non violent, thanks to his love for Ghandi.
BTW, funny you should mistakinly use, Agent 99. “Get Smart’s” Agent 99 and the 99th Fighter Squadron, Tuskegee are the inspirations for my reader moniker.
Is anyone aware that his real name was Michael King (no Jr.), that whole Martin Luther shtick was just something his disreputable preacher dad; “Daddy King,” made up to sound more legitimate.
Then there’s the gross plagiarism, brazen cheating, and outright fraud associated with his so-called credentials. In fact he wasn’t a legitimate reverend or PhD.
And does anyone know who Myles Horton, Don West, Abner Berry, James Dumbrowski, Bayard Rustin, or Jack O’Dell were? The communist party sure as hell knew them!
How about Stanley Levison, the Soviet agent assigned to “handle” King?
Want to know the truth? Check this out:
http://www.martinlutherking.org/thebeast.html
Ask me if I give a shit.
Ray shot the wrong guy, he should have got Jesse Jackson.
At approximately 6:03 PM, in front of room 306, MLK was shot with a 30 aught 6…
306 Truthers unite!
I was living in Oxon Hill, MD at the time, and remember a TV reporter asking a looter if he was looting because he was so upset about the “assassination” of MLK Jr. and the looter, holding a television set (which was huge) exclaimed “Martin Looffah Who?” and ran off.