Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
As a nation, we have a tendency to sentimentalize cultural icons in death in a way that renders them non-threatening, antiseptic and easily digested by a society with an acute intolerance for anything controversial, politically incorrect or marred by imperfection.
This revisionist history has proven to be a far more effective means of neutralizing radicals such as Martin Luther King Jr. than anything the NSA, CIA or FBI could dream up.
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This was a man who went to jail over racial segregation laws, encouraged young children to face down police dogs and water hoses, and who urged people to turn their anger loose on the government through civil disobedience. King called for Americans to rise up against a government that was not only treating blacks unfairly but was also killing innocent civilians, impoverishing millions, and prioritizing the profits of war over human rights and dignity.
King actually insisted that people have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
This is not a message that the government wants us to heed.
No, the government wants us distracted, divided, warring against each other and helpless to free ourselves from a lifetime of bondage and servitude to the powers-that-be.
It’s working.
In life, King was fiery, passionate, single-minded in his pursuit of justice, unwilling to remain silent in the face of wrongdoing, and unafraid of offending those who might disagree with him.
In death, King has been reduced to a lifeless face on a stone monument: mute, immobile and powerless to do anything about the injustices that continue to plague the nation.
America hasn’t learned a thing.
The “giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism“ that King railed so passionately against have yet to be conquered.
In fact, the evils of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism have got us in a death grip.
America is still waging endless wars abroad, prioritizing profit margins over principle, and adopting institutionalized racist policies that result in a disproportionate number of people of color being stopped, searched, raided, arrested, thrown in jail, and shot and killed by government agents.
Fifty years later, we have compounded the evils of racism, materialism and militarism with ignorance, intolerance and fear.
Callousness, cruelty, meanness, immorality, ignorance, hatred, intolerance and injustice have become hallmarks of our modern age, magnified by an echo chamber of nasty tweets, government-sanctioned brutality, and “the politics of exclusion.”
“We the people” have become “we the police state.”
By failing to actively take a stand for good, we have become agents of evil.
None of us who remain silent and impassive in the face of evil, racism, extreme materialism, meanness, intolerance, cruelty, injustice and ignorance get a free pass.
Those among us who follow figureheads without question, who turn a blind eye to injustice and turn their backs on need, who march in lockstep with tyrants and bigots, who allow politics to trump principle, who give in to meanness and greed, and who fail to be outraged by the many wrongs being perpetrated in our midst, it is these individuals who must shoulder the blame when the darkness wins.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that,” King sermonized.
The darkness is winning.
It’s winning in our communities. It’s winning in our homes, our neighborhoods, our churches and synagogues, and our government bodies.
It’s winning in every new generation that is being raised to care only for themselves, without any sense of moral or civic duty to stand for freedom.
We are on the wrong side of the revolution.
“If we are to get on to the right side of the world revolution,” advised King, “we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.“
Freedom demands that we stop thinking as Democrats and Republicans and start thinking like human beings, or at the very least, Americans.
Freedom demands that we not remain silent in the face of evil or wrongdoing but actively stand against injustice.
Freedom demands that we treat others as we would have them treat us. That is the law of reciprocity, also referred to as the Golden Rule, and it is found in nearly every world religion, including Judaism and Christianity.
In other words, if you don’t want to be locked up in a prison cell or a detention camp—if you don’t want to be discriminated against because of the color of your race, religion, politics or anything else that sets you apart from the rest—if you don’t want your loved ones shot at, strip searched, tasered, beaten and treated like slaves—if you don’t want to have to be constantly on guard against government eyes watching what you do, where you go and what you say—if you don’t want to be tortured, waterboarded or forced to perform degrading acts—if you don’t want your children to grow up in a world without freedom—then don’t allow these evils to be inflicted on anyone else, no matter how tempting the reason or how fervently you believe in your cause.
As long as we continue to allow ignorance, intolerance, racism, militarism, materialism and meanness to trump justice, fairness and equality, there can be no hope of prevailing against the police state.
Martin Luther King Jr. dared to dream of a world in which all Americans “would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
He didn’t live to see that dream become a reality.
It’s still not a reality. We haven’t dared to dream that dream in such a long time.
But imagine…
Imagine what this country would be like if Americans put aside their differences and dared to stand up—united—for freedom…
Imagine what this country would be like if Americans put aside their differences and dared to speak out—with one voice—against injustice…
Imagine what this country would be like if Americans put aside their differences and dared to push back—with the full force of our collective numbers—against the evils of the police state…
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, tyranny wouldn’t stand a chance.
Excellent article – so true. Hard to change though with such a dumbed down populance.
Amazing that there’s not another single comment at this stage. What does that say for your readers?
Never go full cuck.
Imagine a place where the following equation holds no sway:
Diversity + Proximity = Conflict
Now examine the immigration and domestic policies of this former nation at it’s founding, and compare that to the effects of the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights legislation.
Isn’t life so much better now that everyone from around the world except Europeans are allowed to come in nearly unlimited numbers and those that have been here for generations are not prioritized over the new, improved Americans?
How could anyone except a racist, homophobic white supremist argue that it isn’t a better, more cohesive, crime-free utopia?
King had the morals of a gutter rat. And there is a national day in his honor. And this asshat author uses him as an example for others. What a crock of manure.
What we need is honor, respect, honesty, family values, work ethic, a value of education and skills, a sense of personal,responsibility, and universal rejection of anyone and anything that does not follow suit.
But instead, society cheers the immoral Clintons, the immoral Trumps, hypocrite actors and politicians, and sundry scum.
To make a national holiday for a known adulterer, plagiarist, etc., is to demean all of America. The entire nation needs to be better than that.
Llpoh nailed it right out of the park!!!
There certainly is to much anti-white racism in this country.
Revisionist history written by the FBI, CIA and NSA has made a saint of that nigger MLK. This article is pure bullshit.
Guess you could call me racist. I no longer care. I’m in my late 60s and I’ve watched niggers be handed everyfuckingthing. And still, they couldn’t make a go of it. Keep giving, keep beating your fucking heads against the wall. Nothing’s going to change. Because they’re not equal. NOTHING IS FUCKING EQUAL. Get over it. Get real. And start taking care of your own.
//Further, All Self Hating White People Should Kill Themselves//
King was a highly flawed individual, but he about the best role model for Kneegrows that exists without reaching back to the 19th century, which is so remote that nobody reads about it and nobody cares anymore unless it concerns moar free shit, such as reparations from slavery.
So your point is yes he was a scumbag, but black folk need someone to look up to, even if he is a scumbag lowlife piece of shit.
Alrighty then.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. On the on other hand, how many scumbag lowlife pieces of shit do white people look up to? I couldn’t count them on a thousand fingers, maybe ten thousand…
My point exactly. We gotta recognize and acknowledge scumbags and treat them like the shitstains they are.
Anybody ever hear of Marcus Garvey?
Probably not, since St. Martin was elected to be patron saint of dindus…
Hey Pooh, he was referring to the people that you look up to.
“King was a highly flawed individual”. As we all are. “show me a hero and I’ll show you a bum” (Greg Boyington). or if you prefer “for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23)
What Whitless is demanding isn’t going to happen till Christ returns.
Blacks get pulled over more and arrested more because of choices they make. This isn’t the south in 1950. My black, educated, employed middle class in-laws and their offspring who have never suffered an ounce of repression, all feel they have a birthright to shoplift at will because Whitey owes them. Might be why we no longer talk.
What more can be done for the blacks in this country. Here and around the world they hang on the bottom rung of societies unable to compete, riddled with crime and poor life decisions. For Christ sake, enough. IQ matters and we all know where they reside on that hierarchical list.
I’m supposed to cry tears for Blacks? Racism today is probably 90% anti-White, 99% government required, 10 times more murders than in KKK days, has beat me down all my life, bad Blacks have been 5 to 1 in my life, 60% of the Federal Budget is Welfare, Blacks make every type of government and insurance more expensive, Blacks have destroyed the Public School System, Blacks have their own phony colleges, their own awards, business administrations, government for the deprived this and that, 30% of TV programs, Blacks are slowly destroying America and one day will rapidly destroy America like Zimbabwe, Congo (I remember the broad daylight rapes and murders of the Whites), Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, South Africa, etc. MLK Jr was a Low IQ Cunt-dog Commie Useful Idiot and I hope to live to see his statue dumped in a river too.
Huh.
I bet you think blacks were in charge of the NAACP until the 1970s and weaponized all them poor babies, too…
Whitehead is an example of the downright morons described by H.L. Mencken. A pathetic fool who refuses to face reality.
So . . . what else is new?
Oh, and BTW – said is NOT confined to just “Merkaa”.
Fuque Whitehead. Some of the comments are not the best work of the commenters either. He makes points we largely disagree with and then some of us go and provide a concrete example of what he said. Some days……
The Black goes all the way to the Heart.
nice play on words there mr never–
Fawning over MLK and praising his mythical society of Social Justice is a cring worthy mix of weakness and ignorance. I don’t actually like black communists and I have a fair amount of hatred for the black communist founding father of our current black communist society.
MLK is our Nelson Mandela, we are South Africa 2.0
The anointed saint MLK was a well known communist, sex fiend and a tool of various groups, especially the one no one is allowed to talk about.
As soon as the author got to the part about “racist government policies” I stopped reading. Racist against blacks? You can mean that seriously as we have had 60+ years of affirmative action and other slop.
Looks to me like racism against whites. Do you see any other ethnic group in this country that can be openly denigrated by the media and politicians. Do you see blatant bias against blacks in the media when every single commercial has a a white woman and a black man in it. Or the constant screeching about white privilege/oppression/whatever they dream up?
Save it. Sounds to me like this author needs a taste of diversity first hand. Move into a black area and let me know how it works out. I grew up in a town that went from majority white to majority black. You arent going to like it.
This article gave me straight cancer, and you’re obvious dialogue which sounds completely like reciprocal altruism, that if we just keep giving and giving and giving and throwing billions of dollars towards government programs specifically for blacks, that they will all of a sudden compete at the same level without one group dominating over another, whether it be socially, politically, economically, demographically. Also there is absolutely no evidence for equality for any people on the planet not one. What you promote is also what SJWs/elites would promote, which is essentially a leftist egalitarian utopian fantasy land, which has no history or foundation of reality to uphold those beliefs.
Let’s be absolutely clear: ‘Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that”, may be very well true; So with that in mind, my LOVE of 5000 years of Anglo-Saxon Germanic heritage supersedes the unbelievable amount of hate people direct at it, so until, and NOT until, I can live among my own White brethren will I accept a world of forced multicultural ‘integration’.
Bring on ALL the wars it takes for White people to live free!
Forever and Amen.