A Good Day for Remembering
Jan 18th, 2010 by David Anderson
HP has a Martin Luther King day sale. So it begins. Before we succumb to commercialization, I would love to keep the focus of the day on the advance of freedom, the courage of everyday heroes, and the legacy of a great leader.
Dr. King did not create a novel issue. He was not the first or only one standing against the injustice of segregation. He was an individual with the same flaws as others. Some wonder why the focus on him.
The answer is simple. He changed the world more than almost any private citizen in the twentieth century. Before Dr. King, one reality was assumed. After Dr. King, that same reality was unimaginable. Almost 200 years of a philosophical system which dominated the intellectual culture had fallen into disrepute. He did it without violence. He did it with the power of ideas and the courage to invest everything he had, even his life, to achieve it. He did it by not being a lone ranger. He built a movement. He did it by bringing people to his side that others assumed could not be persuaded because of cultural influences.
Dr. King laid claim on the American system. He lived the American values. He built bridges based upon our common heritage. Most importantly, he did not think he could do it by himself. He relied upon GOD. The scripture tells us that with GOD all things are possible. Dr. King showed us that when a life is given to Him, it can make the world a little more like GOD intended and less like the mess that we made it.
Dr. King was the light in the darkness. He shone through at a time when the darkness consumed all light. It’s hard for us to imagine a man like him these days.
Dr. King laid claim on the American system. He lived the American values.
‘American values?’ Like plagiarism, infidelity and possible ties to the CPUSA? The first two are known facts.
The deification of this man has reached absurd levels. Sure, he did fine work in the area of civil rights; everything else he touched was corrupt.
I, for one, do not consider King to be a Saint; and the fact that he has a holiday, and George Washington, the greatest man in American history, does not, is, to me, appalling.
Martin Luther King Jr’s Niece: Dream Includes Protecting Unborn From Abortion
LifeNews.com ^ | January 18, 2010 | Steven Ertelt
Martin Luther King Jr’s Niece: Dream Includes Protecting Unborn From Abortion Washington, DC — On a day when Americans across the country are celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his desire to regard all people as Americans worthy of equal treatment, his niece says King’s dream, if announced today, would also include protecting unborn children from abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/nat5888.html
Beatification maybe, deification not even close. Plagerism is such a joke that it is not worthy of mention. Sometime in any educated person’s life they did not credit someone properly or could not even remember where they heard it.
As for the CPUSA, he had the nerve to meet with representatives to see if they were as bad as portrayed by the same establishment that attacked him. They were and he did not ally with them. If he had, Hoover would have known.
Infidelity is a real sin. Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, and others of our greatest generation (the founding generation) succumbed to it. It means the man failed his family. That does not eliminate everything he did. It means that he was a flawed human. The greatest King Israel had (David) had the same issue.
I think it is valuable to look at a person’s entire life including flaws because it reminds us that redemption is the most important feature of greatness. Without GOD’s grace, we are nothing.
Plagerism (sic) is such a joke that it is not worthy of mention..
On a doctoral thesis? Verbatim?
Your response is a joke.