That any conservatives would today praise MLK is evidence of the failure of our school system to teach him accurately, or the utter venality of those conservatives. Not ONE movement conservative supported King while he was alive. They detested him...
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2/ The National Review — the main organ of the movement — condemned the civil rights movement he led and actually claimed “crazed Negroes” might have bombed the 16th St Baptist church in B’ham themselves, just to cast aspersions on sweet little segregationist whites...
3/ No conservatives or right wingers marched with him. And please, don’t say “but Charlton Heston!” That was actually when Heston was a liberal, so...
4/ Just once I would love one of these conservatives to say, ya know, our side was wrong back then, whether represented by southern democrats or western republicans (Goldwater, Reagan, etc). “We should have listened to what progressive and left voices were saying...”
5/ ...but they cannot bring themselves to say it; to admit that at the defining moment (to that point) in American history, they were on the wrong side. Because to admit it would be to open themselves to the criticism that they still are...
6/They have to elide the truth because deep down they know MLK would support BLM, for instance. If you don’t believe me, ask his children, who know quite a bit better than most. John Lewis, who knew him better than any conservative supported BLM and knew King would have as well..
7/ The right, by virtue of siding w/segregationists in the 50s and 60s, have forever forfeited their right to be taken seriously on anything of substance again. They are a movement to defend and protect white male power and dominance. Always have been, always will be
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