Here's more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/16/black-lives-matter-activists-aim-to-reclaim-mlk-as-radical.html VALUES Black Lives Matter activists aim to 'reclaim' MLK as radical Published January 16, 2017 FoxNews.com What Martin Luther King can teach us about coming together The civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. famously pursued equality through peaceful protest, but many 21st century activists have said they want to "reclaim" him under a different image: as a forceful "radical." MISSISSIPPI MAYOR HOPES TO HONOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR 'RIGHT WAY' AFTER CONTROVERSY The Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter pushed the #ReclaimMLK hashtag on Twitter, claiming Martin Luther King Day would allow activists to "engage about the real radical King they don't want you to know about!" "We do King a disservice when we try to tell a flat story of turning the other cheek," said 31-year-old Charlene Carruthers, national director of the Black Youth Project 100 in Chicago. "It was never simply that." OPINION: CAL THOMAS ON 'BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK' King's niece, the activist, author and Fox News contributor Alveda King, said protesters should not push his civil disobedience successes into the background. "Let's discuss racism from a peace with justice perspective," she tweeted ahead of Martin Luther King Day. Younger black activists say they prefer the pointed, more forceful King to the Nobel Prize-winning pacifist who preached love over hate while leading nonviolent marches across the segregated South. They say they appreciate how the urgency exhibited in King's demand for equality in the years just before his 1968 assassination is in keeping with the Black Lives Matter rallying cry. "There is a Martin Luther King that is important to the resistance movement that we don't hear about," Abdul Aliy-Muhammad, the 33-year-old co-founder of the Black and Brown Workers Collective in Philadelphia, told The Associated Press. "We always hear about love and forgiveness. ... There was also a King who was radical." As Carruthers sees it, "agitation" was the core of King's work. "Their agitation shows up differently than how our agitation shows up today. However, I think King's work and the work we do are part of the larger tradition of black radical resistance." Several protests across the country, many of which targeted the actions of police, have sparked riots. King's response to such riots in 1967: "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars." Fifty years ago this month, King retreated to the Caribbean with his wife, Coretta, and a few friends to write his final book, "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" In the book, published in June 1967, King argued for racial equality for black Americans through the wholesale embrace of social and economic reform. During the book's promotional tour, King spoke out against the Vietnam War and criticized U.S. leaders for allowing slum conditions to persist in the cities. "Everyone is worrying about the long hot summer with its threat of riots. We had a long cold winter when little was done about the conditions that create riots," King said in June 1967. King fought to end public segregation and pushed for the right to vote. But he also advocated for a living wage and worked to close the employment gap for blacks and spoke out against discrimination in policing -- to which rioting was a common response. King reacted to the Feb. 29, 1968, release of the report by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission, by noting that the solutions suggested "have been made before almost to the last detail and have been ignored almost to the last detail." It's a familiar climate for many in the Black Lives Matter movement who see their efforts in cities like Ferguson, Missouri; Chicago, Baltimore and Cleveland on a continuum that reaches back to King. They identify with the fact that King was only 26 when he was thrust into a leadership role in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. When he died at 39 in 1968, before he could launch his Poor People's Campaign, King was still far younger than civil rights establishment figures such as A. Philip Randolph and Adam Clayton Powell. Remembering King as a community organizer places his movement alongside contemporary activism, said Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter. "He was really focused on poor black people," Cullors, 33, said. "Let's remember the King who was invested in changing the country that he loved so much, who called out elected officials who continued to endanger black people." The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Oh look, white guy from Texas thinks civil rights not "significant." Who'd have thought. - - - Updated - - - Stop being scared of science.
Since when is saying something is crapola being scared of it? Oh well, libs define everything in skin color and emotion so why would we expect different.
LOL, so stop beating around the bush and just say you don't think Dr. King was worthy of a holiday. Well too bad a lot of other folks believe he does. The problem with that is............................. I don't have a problem with that. BS, you definitely care or you wouldn't be doing so much (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing and moaning about it. Sounds like something you need to take up with the company, just because you don't think Dr. King was worthy of a holiday doesn't mean everyone else agrees with you.
What makes them liberal cities and what does that have to do with minorities? Dr. King was an American or is it you don't see him as such.
you're onto something and don't even realize it. The cesspool crime, drug infested cities of this country are run by liberals, without exception. Why on earth any African American especially would vote democrat is beyond me. hoodwinked is not a virtue
Saying climate science is crap is saying you understand it and found it to be false. The average idiot denier holds no such knowledge, yet holds stupid political beliefs that tell him ed-u-ma-ca-shun is bad and science is wrong cause jesus. Fear of the unknown, plain old ignorance, and political bias is what drives the denier. It was MLK day, so a comment on race was appropriate.
MLK did some very nice things, but they don't compare to the contributions of Washington and Lincoln who don't have a holiday on their birthdays. Try not to see every issue through commie lenses.
Sounds like you need 2 take your own advice. The only folks who try 2 make light of his work are the ones who hate the change he brought about.
Republicans treat blacks as equals. Democrats treat blacks as a pathetic group, in need of indefinite assistance because they're incapable of managing their own affairs.
True MLK would hate BLM's, the calls for POC meetings or groups, safe zones, calling "White lash", or for the end of "whiteness".
I have no problem with MLK having his own holiday. But it's absurd that he does and both Washington and Lincoln do not.
MLK has a holiday on his birthday. That's something Washington and Lincoln do not have. That situation is ridiculous.
White guys kvetching about a national holiday honouring Martin Luther King only affirms the validity of Martin Luther King and the propriety of such a holiday. (I'd like to nominate Benjamin Franklin as a worthy as well.)
Not as ridiculous as thinking this is something to be upset about, especially when the average person never really cares until the day comes. In any case, Washington's B-Day and President's Day are pretty much synonymous with each other. Columbus Day also still exists as its own day, even though a handful of places wanted to change the name.
MLK doesn't need a holiday. When you objectively look at his brief efforts you see they pale in comparison to the work of others. Hes just put up as a figurehead for the identity obsessed Leftists to use to constantly shove things down our throat. Every year the manufactured illusion of grandeur grows. And not only should he not have a holiday - he should not be somebody that American school children have to bow down to and subject their minds to the manipulative dogma of liberalism every single year.
So Obama was such a weak President a local talk show host could overcome any "improvements" Obama was trying to make? Well it certainly wasn't his experience in life, his qualifications or accomplishments so what was the driving force that got him elected? First that is a Democrat myth in an attempt to excuse their own and Obama's failures they were more than willing to work with him and met with him only to be told they lost the election and "I won" so go to the back of the bus and then in his first SOTU address asked Ryan to sit up front only to then chastize him like a school teacher would a disruptive child. And can convince me the Democrats wanted Bush41 and Bush43 to be two term Presidents and how they worked for that. Then can you post exactly what you are talking about the Republicans stating they wanted him to be a one term President. Who are you talking about uttering those words, what was the occasion and to whom was he speaking and what was his entire statement in context. Who is this guy you are talking about that must have all this promience you are assigning to him and if you are going to use him as your example how about some actual quotes and not your take on them. And, as usual, he obviously has not a clue as to what MLK stood for yet he is willing to use him as a political pawn to further his own bigotry: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/...g-are-we-celebrating-today.html?_r=0&referer= Yes lots of people on both sides began to turn against that horribly run war the Democrats started. And how much have we spent on such policies and what good have they done? And DUH a guaranteed income IS a basic socialistic principle.
The major dispute over this was not about having a holiday to celebrate his birth and his life, it was whether it should be a full blown federal holiday with mandated days off for government workers and others especially unions who have it their contracts to be off on all federal holidays, the banks being shut down, the markets being shut down and on and on. So when you say this Republican or that Republican or whomever opposed a MLK holiday without stipulating the reason for that opposition especially as a FEDERAL full blown holiday you are certainly leaving out pertinent details, why is that? - - - Updated - - - That is for all the persons who have served as Presidents not an individual but since we now have had a black President perhaps we can get rid of MLK day as a federal holiday, just leave it as a noted holiday, and call it even now.
Uh Dr. King wasn't a President, so now we will keep it for now. Trump will be in office on Friday and since Repubs control the Congress let them know you want every white president's birthday to be a holiday.
If celebrating MLK's life as a civil rights leader makes black people feel more like Americans, I am all for it.
