Time to Tear Down Some Statues and Rename Some Roads, Holiday? New mlk Biography

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@thinkingman

the only reason the deranged left wants to erase US history so bad lately is because they lost their asses on election day in 2016 to trump

Why does the south want to keep confederate statues so badly? Is it because they lost their asses in the civil war?

Yes. That’s exactly what it is.

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

There is zero indication that any of this is true (the affair part is well documented, more talking about the rape). We know that J Edgar Hoover wasn’t too fond of MLK and the way he rallied black people in the US.

#believethewoman

#believetheFBI

[Blackwolf]

@PurpnGold

playing captain save-a-con?

That’s a new one

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@ohknow35

Never have. Never said otherwise. Never will.

But as the article makes clear, it’s about more than his personal affairs. mlk was allegedly a direct witness to a rape and he laughed and encouraged it.

Of all the statues that the left wants to take down… how many of those statues are of adulterers?

All of them.

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@thinkingman

i wonder if the left realizes MLK was not aligned with democrats they would start tearing him down too

then again maybe they dont know it was the democrats all along who were the most racist

Proof of your first sentence?

Democrats before the 1964 CRA were the party of racists. That changed once the liberal side of the party took over an gave me and my parents more rights.

The democrats didn’t give you rights.

[WuWei]

@SottoVoce

Ah. So this is one of those threads where we dig up dirt, founded and unfounded, and use it as an excuse to overshadow any significant accomplishments a person may have had. How about we just get rid of all statues, dedicated holidays and history books? Then we won’t have these silly discussions.

Like a dossier. Made of steel.

[AngraMainyu]

@ohknow35

mlk’s philandering has been well known for a long time, but a new book by Pulitzer-Prize Winning biographer David Garrow is now claiming that king stood by and did nothing (well, he looked on, laughed and offered advice) as his friend raped a woman.

FBI tapes show Martin Luther King Jr had 40 affairs and 'laughed' as friend raped parishioner | Daily Mail Online

**WARNING, SOME GRAPHIC LANGUAGE IN ARTICLE

If true, this is horrific.

If true, tear it all down.

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

Grew up in the South.

So what?

[AngraMainyu]

@SottoVoce

Ah. So this is one of those threads where we dig up dirt, founded and unfounded, and use it as an excuse to overshadow any significant accomplishments a person may have had. How about we just get rid of all statues, dedicated holidays and history books? Then we won’t have these silly discussions.

This argument is used to justify Columbus day.

[noSpaces]

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@thinkingman

i really honestly hope you dont believe republicans are like that

my god

I never said ANYTHING about what I think republicans are or are not, in that post.

I simply stated that for some reason their policies and/or rhetoric speak to a wing of the party that doesn’t like me because of my skin color. However, I also have my own opinion of the current Republican Party and they do not speak to me.

Like I said, FOR NOW, I am good with siding with Democrats on most issues (not all).

Universally. Don’t forget universally.

[CanadianJudo]

They have always had rights? Outside the right to vote, own property, etc

[Guntsu]

Well this was one big fail of a thread

[WuWei]

@FloridaYankee

@thinkingman

but who was it with the dogs and firehoses on the school steps?

Conservatives.

No. They were (and are) totalitarians.

[WuWei]

@PurpnGold

@Axxowiz

They’re pandering to the black vote as they have always done. I highly doubt many give a crap about statues that are not going to be coming to life anytime soon to restart the civil war.

Even if that were true… if the republic wanted to maintain power for a very long time, why wouldn’t they just pander to the black vote?

And before you state that republicans are above pandering… they aren’t. The evangelicals say

What did LBJ say about the '58? CRA?

[Guntsu]

So is it “Time to Tear Down Some Statues and Rename Some Roads, Holiday?”

That was the point of this thread right?

[WuWei]

@SottoVoce

Allegations against Republicans (Moore, Kavanaugh, Trump) are obviously heinous attacks by the libs and fake news. Allegations about dead black civil rights heroes need immediate action. It’s simple.

Ooh, you brought up Kavanaugh! Shouldn’t do that.

[WuWei]

@CanadianJudo

They have always had rights? Outside the right to vote, own property, etc

They took them for themselves.

[CanadianJudo]

When why did they need to pass laws?

[WuWei]

@Guntsu

Well this was one big fail of a thread

No it’s not.