Remembering the REAL Martin Luther King Jr…
So, yeah, when Rush Limbaugh says that people tell him he “sounds like MLK” (or at least more so than the President), yeah, um, neither of y’all do…in Limbaugh’s case, I doubt he’s ever read a single one of MLKs books or listened to any speech beyond the “Dream Speech,” and even then he didn’t listen to the whole thing. He definitely didn’t listen to the part about America bouncing a check to black people. And I know damned good and well that neither he nor any conservative has listened to anything King said after 1963. Like, for instance…these things (below). Note to conservatives: MLK is not yours to co-opt or praise. You despised him when he lived, and you must deal with that shameful truth, not try and glom onto a legacy of which you played no part…
Especially pay attention in this first clip, to how King discusses the history of preferential treatment for whites, beginning around 1:20 or so…and the need for substantive repair of the inequity that resulted.
