No thread on him? It's his day!

>>2230541
Go to bed.

>>2230546
Bianca? (Mom)

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>>2230546
Come on now, Dr. King deserves some love.

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>>2230569
Haha very funny anon.

Tribute to MLK. One of the most recognizable faces from the 60's civil right movment. His work is long from finished, liberate PoC!

>>2230595
I read that as
>one of the most recognizable feces

>>2230541
He's cool.

Martin Luther King was a pretty great guy. America used to make pretty great men

>>2230671
Can we make America great again?

>>2230672
Maybe. Do we need more coal jobs?

>>2230724
I hope not.

>>2230724

"War on Cohl" hicks are holding this country back.

>>2230595
Bait

>>2230541
He was a good guy. Serious about obtaining civil rights but never anti-white. His problem wasn't just that blacks were denied their rightful freedoms but the amount of needless enmity that racism created between people.

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whites back then: MLK and his so called "non-violent" protests are the reason the KKK is resurgent! He's the real racist! He's a communist and hates America!

whites now: Why can't BLM be more like MLK jr?

>>2230541
He did a pretty good job for an Uncle Tom

You do know Mike King (there is no "dr." -- Boston University officially determined he plagiarized his thesis but refused to do anything about it). Also, there are FBI tapes from the night before his death from inside his hotel, with the sound of glasses clinking and, quote: "I'm f--king for God!" and "I ain't no negro tonight!"

If anyone doesn't believe any of this, I'd be happy to provide the sources.

>>2230995
Honestly, no one cares

>>2230995
>he plagiarized his thesis
>it's a theology thesis
and nothing of value was lost.

>>2230546
Make me

>>2230995
I recognize this paragraph, it's from that Stormfront website that has the name Martin Luther King Jr.urg or .com or something

>>2231078
Nope, actually from "Newsweek magazine"

>>2231033
>no one cares
I'd expect nothing less on here.

>>2230541
Noted plagiarist

>>2230541
>It's his day
Uh, no. It's Robert E. Lee Day.

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>>2230541
I think we can solve the worth energy crisis by attaching magnetic coils to his grave.

>>2230541
Don't thread on him.

>>2230995
wtf we need to scrap the civil rights act now!

here's some new info on his..colorful past. and it's not from Stormfront! fancy that!
Mrs King said she believed her husband was ‘no saint’ - but his but his faults were things like stepping out of his pajamas and leaving them on the floor.

The FBI did not share her views and at a press conference in 1964 its director Herbert Hoover called Dr King the ‘most notorious liar in the country’.

A few days later one of his deputies, William Sullivan, wrote a vicious letter to King and gave it to an agent in Miami to post to him in Atlanta.

It became known as the ‘suicide letter’ and called him ‘filthy’ and ‘abnormal’ and urged him to take his own life.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4122396/Martin-Luther-King-s-wife-convinced-stayed-faithful-despite-FBI-smear-tapes-having-sex-women.html

>>2231174
>A few days later one of his deputies, William Sullivan, wrote a vicious letter to King and gave it to an agent in Miami to post to him in Atlanta.
>It became known as the ‘suicide letter’ and called him ‘filthy’ and ‘abnormal’ and urged him to take his own life.
4chan-tier shitmailing.

>j edgar hoover, one if the most powerful men in the country, personally hates your guts for being a P-I-M-P
>sics FBI against you for years
>spend millions to confirm i lay white women and have no ties to communism

>civil rights movement happens any way

>>2231198
He was fresh as hell while the Feds watched

>I have a dream that my four little children will 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.

Most important thing he ever said.

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happy birthday is a pretty dope song tbqh

>>2230541
Is it true that MLK was turning into a socialist when he was murdered?

How credible are the rumors of state conspiracy?

>>2232624
>How credible are the rumors of state conspiracy
There's no evidence for it and the assassin's had no connection which seems to discredit the theory. The largest evidence people like to put forward was the civil trial the King family had against the U.S. government regarding a state conspiracy to kill King because of a book which did not contain any sources claimed that it was true. The judge ruled in favor of King on a technicality: The U.S. government failed to even show up because of how ridiculous the claim was. Keep in mind this was a civil trial, not a criminal one, and has no real claim on whether or not the U.S. government did anything because it has no authority on the matter. A Department of Justice investigation into the matter actually investigated the case and found that the King family's claims were completely unfounded and the author of the aforementioned book admitted that he made the whole thing up. Add on the fact that King was a very public and not very protected individual, it's easy to see how a poor Southern white guy could just shoot him after he walked out of his hotel room. Shit, some poor Southern white guys straight up executed Medgar Evars, the head of the NAACP, in his fucking drive way.

>>2231174
>>2231192
>‘most notorious liar in the country’.

He denied communist involvement in the Civil Rights movement despite surrounding himself with avowed communists. That couldn't be a more baldfaced lie.

Coretta Scott King also covered for him in his rampant intellectual piracy, so in a sense, they're birds of a feather.

I wish King hadn't been assassinated. Time would eventually prove him to be a massive fraud.

Why are his anti-war stance and left-wing economic views almost completely ignored today whenever he's celebrated?

>>2232786
>He denied communist involvement in the Civil Rights movement despite surrounding himself with avowed communists. That couldn't be a more baldfaced lie.
And yet the FBI monitored the hell out of him and found no evidence of direct involvement from the American Communist Party or the Soviets. Really makes you think.

>>2232835
>And yet the FBI monitored the hell out of him and found no evidence of direct involvement from the American Communist Party or the Soviets. Really makes you think.

If it makes you a Nazi merely to surround yourself with Nazis, then MLK was a communist purely by dint of cramming his entourage with communists. His longtime advisor and secretary Bayard Rustin was an organizer of the Young Communist League. His speechwriter, book editor, event organizer, PR handler, tax advisor, and fundraising kingpin Stanley David Levison was a Communist Party USA leader in the 1950s who reportedly received huge subsidies from the Soviets. King also openly decried the “capitalists of the West,” things such as “profit motives and property rights,” and encouraged his listeners to “question the capitalistic economy.”

What's the deal with Martin Luthers and ruining everything?

>>2232857
>If it makes you a Nazi merely to surround yourself with Nazis
but it doesn't. King took help where he could get it.

>King also openly decried the “capitalists of the West,” things such as “profit motives and property rights,” and encouraged his listeners to “question the capitalistic economy.”
What else would you expect when it was under capitalism that the injustices he was fighting had thrived? Money is the root of all evil, after all. Doesn't mean he was a communist or that le great proletarian revolution was on the agenda.

>>2232931
>Money is the root of all evil, after all.
Opinion discarded.

Come back when you've abandoned these retarded moralistic platitudes.

>>2230541
"I am not, never have been, and never could be a communist. Communism promotes a moral relativism and metaphysical materialism that I just can not abide."

He btfo of communists. But people still accuse him of being one.

>>2232976
>"I am not, never have been, and never could be a communist. Communism promotes a moral relativism and metaphysical materialism that I just can not abide."
>He btfo of communists. But people still accuse him of being one.

Source? Google returns nothing.

>>2232996
Posting from phone, hopefully this link works for you. If not, searching "mlk interview part 3" ought to bring it up.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DtvB5a9_XJ3I&ved=0ahUKEwiQzpufusfRAhVHxGMKHTCBBG4QwqsBCBwwAA&usg=AFQjCNFO3njphC-PjKREXS9tn-ktYO9b2g

Quote is around 7:00 of the video. Been a long time since I'd seen the interview, so I didn't get the quote exactly right from memory. Very close though. You can see for yourself. I think it's a great line and have no idea why it isn't well known.

>>2233116
Thanks for that.

At the very least, it can be reasonably inferred he was a Christian Socialist. Keep in mind the second Red Scare was still quite fresh in people's minds, so coming out as a Communist would be career suicide.

>>2233177
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShbhepwieA

>>2233177

Let's not forget "kiddie diddler".

Why does this guy have a federal holiday again?

>>2231524
>I have a dream that my four little children will 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.
too bad the two are correlated and genetics is a real thing

>inb4 "he is so whitewashed and watered down" complaints from marxist fanboys that pollute humanities departments everywhere

>>2233789
>melanin=behavior
This is what /pol/ users actually believe.

>>2233934
>there is no biological difference between whites and blacks other than melanin

>>2230541
Reminder American history is miniscule in the scale of human recorded history

Reminder black history is only a sliver of that.

Reminder /his/ is the containment board for /tg/ reject threads such as:

>Rome v Han roleplay
>anglo-germanic autism wars
>china shitposting

etc

That's why there's little to no interest in MLK and theres literally nothing wrong with it

>>2233947
But that's what you were implying.

>>2233968
No, MLK was implying that and anon was building off of it

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>>2230541
Ahhh kang day..
the celebration of some guy who said he had a dream instead of any long term sustainable plan and fucked over both blacks and whites in one life time, truly an American hero.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Reminder that only the fattest lil' contrarians hate him.

Same tier as people that hate Washington, and Charlemagne tbqh

>>2234045
>HOLY

>>2234059
>ROMAN?
>EMPIRE?

>>2233976
Kys

>endure years of the FBI trying to make you out to be a pervert homofag

MLK Jr had balls of steel. If that happened to me, I would've lost my shit and castrated some FBI fucks.

>>2233982
MLK never implied that either...

>>2234032
Why does the british guy look like a slav from that one slav picture.

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>>2234102
Brits are island Slavs according to Kaysee.

>>2230973
Underrated post

>>2230541
Malcolm X > MLK
MLK was a Zionism supporter.

>>2234167
Because the British and Early Americans literally imported boatloads of them. How the fuck did someone think that was a good idea?

>>2232931
>Money is the root of all evil, after all
Nah, Money's just ability to buy material goods and improve material conditions. Nothing evil about that, just a means of credit.

>>2234188
>British, Americans and Jews
FTFY

It was a fucking tragedy if you ask me, importing loads of hyper violent, unintegratable people just so a handful of rich fucks can make some more cash.

>>2234188
>Tons of land
>No landed peasant class
They had to import their feudal class from somewhere, the natives weren't bitches.

>>2234203
>no landed peasant class
Effectively more than 80% of Americans were landed peasants until the mid 1800s.

>>2234196
>Jews

There were very, very few Jews in America at the time and most were petty merchants with no interest in the slave trade.

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>Try to have a civil discussion about MLK
>Every other post is /pol/ shit

Fuck this board

>>2234208
Yeah, but the amount of people who were there compared to the amount of arable farmland, they needed forced importation

>>2230995
provide the sources then

>>2234387
No, they did not "need" forced importation

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this is first thing i think of when i see his face and it makes me ashamed

>>2232931
>Be poor and colored
>Rich, white capitalists treat you and your kind like shit even when you only want equal opportunity
>Capitalists have an enemy that prides itself on everyone being equal under the state and said enemy started out as for the poor and working laborer
>Capitalists are surprised when the people they treated like shit finds them as a friend
I hate communism but h o l e y m o l e y, everything happens for a reason

>>2235100
What cancerous addon lets you disable the dates so now we have no fucking idea when that post was made.

>>2235131
4chan x, use it so I don't have to think about whether or not a post is old by the military clock time
I have taken to putting the date in the file names now

>>2230595
Proud of you.
>>2230781
If that's what triggers you people, the moral high ground was lost a while ago.

>>2235011
They did if they wanted to make profits.

>>2234088
Anon he aged a fuck ton during the 13 years of activism he did. When he died his autopsy revealed that he had the heart of a 60 year old man at age 39.

>>2235138
>so I don't have to think about whether or not a post is old by the military clock time
You have to think about how old a post is based on what time it is now? Are you retarded?

>>2235281
Yes and half yes

>>2230541
Dying was MLK's single greatest accomplishment. No, really. If he had lived, he would've been disgraced and forgotten.

On another note:
>The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political “football game” that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.
>Politically the American Negro is nothing but a football and the white liberals control this mentally dead ball through tricks of tokenism: false promises of integration and civil rights. In this profitable game of deceiving and exploiting the political politician of the American Negro, those white liberals have the willing cooperation of the Negro civil rights leaders. These "leaders" sell out our people for just a few crumbs of token recognition and token gains. These "leaders" are satisfied with token victories and token progress because they themselves are nothing but token leaders.

>>2235365
History continues to vindicate Malcolm X. The vast majority of Black people have not economically advanced in any significant way since the Civil Rights movement. Worse yet, they keep voting for the same party which sells out their plight to business interests, protesting the same issues all while their purported champions abandon any pretenses of leadership save the occasional act of blatant tokenism like putting Tubman on $20 bills.

After the establishment quelled the Civil Rights movement, White American liberals have done nothing for their Colored pets. The same Civil Rights Act, which got more congressional approval by Republicans much to the chagrin of Southern Democrats, has solved none of their problems. Remember the NAACP had to beg New York Democrats to stop building public housing in Yonkers. Remember that teachers unions funnel all the sub-par teachers into the poorest (and usually blackest) districts, and any opposition to their broken system is spun as a "war on education".

But perhaps I'm wrong. What would those poor downtrodden Negroes do without the proud and righteous White Liberals and trendy left-wing agitators to herald them into success?

>>2235365
Same with JFK and Lincoln, but here we are. Turns out turning someone into a martyr is the worst possible thing you can do.

>>2230995
>people are imperfect
Thanks for clarifying this.

I worry that we'll never have true liberals like MLK and JFK again. It's like we went from overt socialists like FDR to classical liberals like JFK to neoliberals like the Clintons.

There was some hope for a brief moment of time, but it will never be.

>>2235922
MLK was a Socialist.

>>2235373
if i'm a pet can i be a dog :3

>>2237004
No, chickenhead.

>>2236713
Wrong, MLK was a civic nationalist. Go back to your subreddit

>>2238717
No, he was a Socialist.

He wasn't a Communist, but he certainly was no Liberal or Social Democrat. It can be reasonably inferred he was a Democratic Christian Socialist.

>>2238728
Wrong again. He was a civic nationalist. Kill yourself dude.

>>2238775
Proofs?
>The "Beyond Vietnam" speech reflected King's evolving political advocacy in his later years, which paralleled the teachings of the progressive Highlander Research and Education Center, with which he was affiliated.[136][137] King began to speak of the need for fundamental changes in the political and economic life of the nation, and more frequently expressed his opposition to the war and his desire to see a redistribution of resources to correct racial and economic injustice.[138] He guarded his language in public to avoid being linked to communism by his enemies, but in private he sometimes spoke of his support for democratic socialism.[139][140] In a 1952 letter to Coretta Scott, he said: "I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic ..."[141] In one speech, he stated that "something is wrong with capitalism" and claimed, "There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism."[142] King had read Marx while at Morehouse, but while he rejected "traditional capitalism", he also rejected communism because of its "materialistic interpretation of history" that denied religion, its "ethical relativism", and its "political totalitarianism".[143]

>>2230995
>but refused to do anything about it
So if they refused to do anything about it, isn't it still technically Dr?

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>>2230541
t. FBI

>>2238809
Nah, bestowing the title of "Dr." is documented cases of fraud is just politically-motivated malpractice.

>>2238838
Fucking savage, how would he ever recover?

>>2238775
You dipshit, just telling him he's wrong does nothing for your argument

>>2231171
Not a bad idea.
It's (read: they've) really only been used to restrict the people, not the government.

>>2238728
His own words don't sustain the argument that he is not a social democrat.

>Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a capitalist economy, and a policy regime involving a commitment to representative democracy, measures for income redistribution, and regulation of the economy in the general interest and welfare state provisions.
From wikipedia.

He ticks every single one of these boxes toward the end of Where Do We Go From Here:
>Truth is found neither in traditional capitalism nor in classical Communism. Each represents a partial truth. Capitalism fails to see the truth in collectivism. Communism fails to see the truth in individualism. Capitalism fails to realize that life is social. Communism fails to realize that life is personal. The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of Communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

He sees 'capitalist' developments in the communist countries as progress toward this:
>We have seen some moves in this direction. The Soviet Union has gradually moved away from its rigid Communism and begun to concern itself with consumer products, art and a general increase in benefits to the individual citizen.

He considers social programs in the west equivalent progress:
>At the same time, through constant social reforms, we have seen many modifications in laissez-faire captialism.

>>2239005
While he is critical of capitalist excess, he doesn't suggest replacing the overall framework. He is consistently aligned with consumerism, which he sees as a tool for democracy - visible in his strategic use of boycotts. He says:
>The key word in Operation Breadbasket is "respect"; it says in substance, "If you respect my dollars, you must respect my person. If you respect my quantitative support, then you must respect the quality of my job and my basic material needs."

>We must create full employment or we must create incomes. People must be made consumers by one method or the other.

>Negroes, who have a double disability, will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.

>>2230995

kinky