Dr Martin Luther King saved this country

[BackAgain]

Dr King understood the nature of the racists and terrorists he was dealing with.

He knew if he stood up to them, they would respond with violence. By refusing to respond with violence, he demonstrated for the nation what blacks were dealing with.

He admired Gandhi.

 

[rightwinger]

He admired Gandhi.

He patterned our Civil Rights movement after Gandhi

Both were assassinated for it

 

[rightwinger]

Denying reality again I see.

Most blacks were Republican until LBJ bought them off and destroyed black families and culture

Actually, Blacks turned Democrat during FDR

 

[BackAgain]

And the racist right seeks to return America to that immorality.

Spewed Adam_Clayton with zero factual support.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

It was the Democrat administration that conspired against Doctor King.

It was J. E. Hoover..a different thing entirely, as you should know~

 

[Polishprince]

He patterned our Civil Rights movement after Gandhi

Both were assassinated for it

No one can say why MLK was assassinated, the assassin never actually admitted to it.

Gandhi was clipped by a fellow Hindu who didn't like the fact he kissed up to the Muslims. King's assassin was a member of a different group.

The cases couldn't be more opposite to each other.

 

[Polishprince]

It was J. E. Hoover..a different thing entirely, as you should know~

Hoover was the Democrat's handpicked choice for FBI director that served at the Kennedy brothers' pleasure.

 

[rightwinger]

No one can say why MLK was assassinated, the assassin never actually admitted to it.

Gandhi was clipped by a fellow Hindu who didn't like the fact he kissed up to the Muslims. King's assassin was a member of a different group.

The cases couldn't be more opposite to each other.

Amazingly similar

 

[rightwinger]

Hoover was the Democrat's handpicked choice for FBI director that served at the Kennedy brothers' pleasure.

Hoover also spied on JFK and RFK

 

[Polishprince]

Hoover also spied on JFK and RFK

If Hoover wasn't doing the Kennedy brothers bidding, he would have been fired. Hoover served at their pleasure.

 

[rightwinger]

If Hoover wasn't doing the Kennedy brothers bidding, he would have been fired. Hoover served at their pleasure.

That is why he kept a file on their private lives

 

[BackAgain]

He patterned our Civil Rights movement after Gandhi

Both were assassinated for it

Nope. One was killed by a racist shit. The other was killed by a religious zealot shit.

 

[Polishprince]

That is why he kept a file on their private lives

The Kennedy brothers shouldn't have had threesomes with Marilyn Monroe if they didn't want people to find out.

 

[rightwinger]

Nope. One was killed by a racist shit. The other was killed by a religious zealot shit.

Same bigotry

Ray hated King trying to unify Blacks and Whores
Gandhi was killed for unifying Hindu and Muslims

 

[BackAgain]

Same bigotry

Ray hated King trying to unify Blacks and Whores
Gandhi was killed for unifying Hindu and Muslims

Blacks and whores? Are you high?

And the motives are obviously different.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Hoover was the Democrat's handpicked choice for FBI director that served at the Kennedy brothers' pleasure.

LOL! Hoover was not 'hand-picked'! He was a legacy holdover that no-one could get rid of. He ruled his roost without oversight. Robert Kennedy and hoover despised each-other.
Hoover became the FBI's first Director in 1935 and remained for 37 years more. The only thing that could get him out of office was death~
This was after he headed the FBI's predecessor, the Bureau of Investigation, in 1924.
Hoover was a law unto himself--and he did what he wanted.

J. Edgar Hoover - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In 1956, Hoover was becoming increasingly frustrated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions that limited the Justice Department's ability to prosecute people for their political opinions, most notably communists. Some of his aides reported that he purposely exaggerated the threat of communism to "ensure financial and public support for the FBI."[59] At this time he formalized a covert "dirty tricks" program under the name COINTELPRO.[60] COINTELPRO was first used to disrupt the Communist Party USA, where Hoover ordered observation and pursuit of targets that ranged from suspected citizen spies to larger celebrity figures, such as Charlie Chaplin, whom he saw as spreading Communist Party propaganda.[61]

COINTELPRO's methods included infiltration, burglaries, setting up illegal wiretaps, planting forged documents, and spreading false rumors about key members of target organizations.[62] Some authors have charged that COINTELPRO methods also included inciting violence and arranging murders.[63][64]

This program remained in place until it was exposed to the public in 1971, after the burglary by a group of eight activists of many internal documents from an office in Media, Pennsylvania, whereupon COINTELPRO became the cause of some of the harshest criticism of Hoover and the FBI. COINTELPRO's activities were investigated in 1975 by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the "Church Committee" after its chairman, Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho); the committee declared COINTELPRO's activities were illegal and contrary to the Constitution.[65]

Hoover amassed significant power by collecting files containing large amounts of compromising and potentially embarrassing information on many powerful people, especially politicians. According to Laurence Silberman, appointed Deputy Attorney General in early 1974, FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley thought such files either did not exist or had been destroyed. After The Washington Post broke a story in January 1975, Kelley searched and found them in his outer office. The House Judiciary Committee then demanded that Silberman testify about them.

Reaction to civil rights groups​

In 1956, several years before he targeted Martin Luther King Jr., Hoover had a public showdown with T. R. M. Howard, a civil rights leader from Mound Bayou, Mississippi. During a national speaking tour, Howard had criticized the FBI's failure to investigate thoroughly the racially motivated murders of George W. Lee, Lamar Smith, and Emmett Till. Hoover wrote an open letter to the press singling out these statements as "irresponsible."[66]

In the 1960s, Hoover's FBI monitored John Lennon, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali.[67] The COINTELPRO tactics were later extended to organizations such as the Nation of Islam, the Black Panther Party, King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and others. Hoover's moves against people who maintained contacts with subversive elements, some of whom were members of the civil rights movement, also led to accusations of trying to undermine their reputations.[68]

The treatment of Martin Luther King Jr. and actress Jean Seberg are two examples: Jacqueline Kennedy recalled that Hoover told President John F. Kennedy that King had tried to arrange a sex party while in the capital for the March on Washington and that Hoover told Robert F. Kennedy that King had made derogatory comments during the President's funeral.[69] Under Hoover's leadership, the FBI sent an anonymous blackmail letter to King in 1964, urging him to commit suicide.[70]

King's aide Andrew Young claimed in a 2013 interview with the Academy of Achievement that the main source of tension between the SCLC and FBI was the government agency's lack of black agents, and that both parties were willing to co-operate with each other by the time the Selma to Montgomery marches had taken place.[71]

In one 1965 incident, white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo was murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen, who had given chase and fired shots into her car after noticing that her passenger was a young black man; one of the Klansmen was Gary Thomas Rowe, an acknowledged FBI informant.[72][73] The FBI spread rumors that Liuzzo was a member of the Communist Party and had abandoned her children to have sexual relationships with African Americans involved in the civil rights movement.[74][75] FBI records show that Hoover personally communicated these insinuations to President Lyndon B. Johnson.[76][77]

Hoover also personally ended the Federal inquiry into the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing by members of the Ku Klux Klan that killed four girls. By May 1965, local investigators and the FBI had identified suspects in the bombing and witnesses,[78] and this information was relayed to Hoover.[79] No prosecutions of the four suspects ensued, however, even though the evidence was reportedly "so strong that even a white Alabama jury would convict".[80] There had been a history of mistrust between local and federal investigators.[81] Hoover wrote in a memo that the chances of a conviction were remote and told his agents not to share their results with federal or state prosecutors. In 1968, the FBI formally closed their investigation into the bombing without filing charges against any of their named suspects. The files were sealed by order of Hoover.[82][83]

Hoover in 1970 personally authorized "black-bag" jobs against the Weather Underground per testimony from William C. Sullivan.[84]

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

If Hoover wasn't doing the Kennedy brothers bidding, he would have been fired. Hoover served at their pleasure.

Not exactly. Hoover had dirt on everyone..and he was untouchable.
Firing Hoover was a non-starter..especially for some-one with Joe Kennedy as a Father

 

[JimH52]

Dr King saved us from violent revolution and saved us from our own immoral treatment of blacks. We were not the great country we claimed to be.

He was a great American Patriot, as deserving of honor as our Founding Fathers.

MAGA will never accept this.

 

[JimH52]

Dr King saved us from violent revolution and saved us from our own immoral treatment of blacks. We were not the great country we claimed to be.

He was a great American Patriot, as deserving of honor as our Founding Fathers.

If he were alive...he would see right through the racism of trump.

 

[otto105]

Actually, it was the Kennedy Administration that had King investigated- not "conservatives" who were out of power for many decades at that point in time.

Libs preferred the rhetoric of the civil rights Left Wing led by Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown. MLK was looked upon as an Uncle Tom by his liberal contemporaries as he both dressed and acted white. Look at photos of the fellow, never wore hit pants "sagging", never called people "mutha fuckas" , never smoked newports or drank malt liquor in public.

Total white bullshit.