Glenn Beck's Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King's Dream

[Joanne98]

Rewriting history is one of the many offenses that political conservatives are constantly accusing liberals of committing. But no one is guiltier of this transgression than conservatives themselves, who have a particular fondness for rewriting the history of the civil rights movement, especially their opposition to its most visible leader - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

From the moment Dr. King stepped onto the national stage during the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, until he fell to an assassin's bullet in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, political conservatives despised him. In the South, they hated him for trying to end de jure discrimination, and outside of Dixie, they loathed him for trying to end de facto discrimination. As the leading voice of the civil rights movement, Dr. King represented everything that political conservatives opposed.

In the 1980s, political conservatives began to embrace Dr. King, turning to him for moral cover as they waged war against affirmative action and other race-based efforts designed to remedy past and present racial discrimination.

Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech, which he delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington, was the key to their about-face. During Dr. King's most famous speech, he articulated his dream of a colorblind society, one in which his children would "one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hasan-kwame-jeffries/glenn-becks-attempt-to-ba_b_696866.html

[Bitwit1234]

1. Any body with half a brain knows exactly why

Beck picked August 28th to do this. He wanted to smear Martin Luther King, and the blacks in this country. That's all the republicans want to do. They think by smearing Martin Luther King they can some how smear our President.

[Gman]

2. Still, this is nothing more than red meat to the 30%

that they need to turn out in huge droves in November. That's all this is. However, ethically and morally bankrupt Beck's farce is, it does not mean people will say, "You know, he's right!". This is a huge present dropped into the laps of everyone on the side of right to turn it against them in November. They have so many "strengths" like this that can and should very quickly become huge weaknesses. I still maintain, the Democratic Party losses in November will be about the statistical average for the party in the WH. Nothing more. There is no tidal wave coming.

[Old Troop]

3. Why is anyone given this cretin the attention he lives for? Ignore him

and he WILL go away