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Rethinking Martin Luther King Day in 2023—with VDARE.Com’s Own Never-Sealed MLK Archive [61 Items]
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We first posted VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow’s Time To Rethink Martin Luther King Day in 2015, and we intend to repost it until we have, so to speak, Overcome.

Peter’s fundamental point was that the cost of the King Cult to White America, especially to white children, was too high. Rather than repost it in full, we’ll let you go to the link above and/or watch the video version below:

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VDARE.com has been writing about Martin Luther King, Jr. for years, because worship of him is now more or less mandatory in American schools, and a “career test” for Conservatism Inc. types. You won’t get this kind of content from National Review, although while MLK was alive, William F. Buckley, who had not yet surrendered to the Civil Rights Movement was very critical of King’s pro-Communism, pro-riotism, and “civil disobedience”.

While we have lots of fascinating stuff about MLK’s plagiarism, pro-Communism ( King “colluded” with Russia during the Cold War and especially the Vietnam War) and his personal life, which included adultery and rape, his aims and methods in fighting Southern segregation and Northern poverty weren’t that good either. The FBI had him under surveillance (because of the pro-Communism, and the nationwide “Mostly Peaceful” demonstrations of the time) and in 1977 a Federal judge had those records sealed for 50 years, which runs out in 2027.

For some of the details, see Helms, Jesse. “Remarks of Senator Jesse Helms.” Congressional Quarterly, based on Sam Francis’s research and information about King that the FBI was willing to release to a Senator. The late Senator Helms also circulated a 300 page document with more details, that Daniel Patrick Moynihan called a “packet of filth” and physically stomped on.

What the late Senator Helms was arguing for was the idea that a man with the content of MLK’s particular character was unworthy of a national holiday [Helms Stalls King’s Day In Senate, By Helen Dewar, Washington Post, October 4, 1983]. Was he right?

See for yourself:

(Republished from VDare by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Even if one wants to put a positive spin on King, at the end of the day, what did he reallt do for black people. OK, Jim Crow was done away with, so blacks could use the same toilets as whites etc etc -but did their lives collectively improve? Unfortunately, with LBJ’s Great Society, a good portion of blacks were all about collecting entitlements (otherwise spelled welfare). Yes, some knew how to make the new system work for them, but too many took the other route. Myself as a “European-American, if I” wanted to pay any homage to an “African-American”, it would be to Malcolm X rather than MLK. King was already in the grips of the Jewish communists who knew that he was a lusty SOB who could be blackmailed. If he had lived into old age, I really wonder if he would have changed his tune? I think not, because he was already too far down the road where the powers that be wanted him.

  2. Happy MLK Blvd day. No matter what strange city I find myself in I am comforted by the fact that if I find myself on MLK Blvd I know that I am in the wrong part of town.

    • Agree: A. Clifton
    • Replies: @Carroll Price
  3. A. Clifton says: • Website

    truly a real…… {{{NIGGER}}}..!

    Matthew 13:39-43….The Eternal “OVENS”…of Truth.

    Economic Justice…..is coming.

    • Agree: Legba
  4. In the current year we find ourselves with two African holidays including the comically, ebonically named Juneteenth. In a nation founded by white people we have zero holidays commemorating their achievements. You can’t even count Presidents Day for that since we’ve had a mulatto president. That will probably be jettisoned anyway to make room for an inevitable beaner holiday. Maybe Cinqo De Mayo? The Asians will probably start screeching too, but no one cares what Asian-Americans want since they are too close to white.

    • Agree: Pastit
    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
  5. @Jim Richard

    When you’re lost and cross MLK Buelevard, keep going. Likewise, if you innocently enter MLK Buelevard, make an immediate u-turn and head in the opposite direction.

  6. Pastit says:

    When I think of MLK I think “Fraud”.

  7. We need a statue of MLK on the National Mall in Washington D.C. of him behaving as he was known to do. I think a nice statue of him beating up and brutalizing a whore would be appropriate- strictly in honor of the abusive sex parties he liked to have in his hotel rooms, of course.

  8. Happy #MeToo Day!

    Also, #Happy Charlie McCarthy Day!

    And also, #Happy MeToo, and MeToo, and MeToo, and MeToo, and About 97 Other #MeToo Days!

  9. @Semi-Employed White Guy

    Serious question: What date does Cinqo de Mayo fall on this year?

    ¿Como?

    I want to make sure I am stocked up on Mayo.

    OK, not that serious …

    Thank you for featuring the VDare writers, Ron Unz! (Even you might learn something, if you’re not careful…)

  10. @Non PC Infidel

    We need U2 to write an updated, accurate song about him: Pride (In the Name of Rape).

    • LOL: Non PC Infidel
  11. Stogumber says:

    Isn’t MLK as a personality taken too seriously? Shouldn’t be the focus – or the blame – more on the (often white) Christian churches who formed his character? Weren’t those churches already looking for a black saviour type and MLK was successful only because he matched the expectations?

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