32 Replies to “I Have A Dream©”

  1. Reverend Martin Luther King was first and foremost a Civil Rights leader. Along with Reverend Adam Clayton Powell they were the 2 major leaders in the Civil Rights movement and brought about the greatest changes.
    Kings belief that all men should be treated equal regardless of the colour of their skin and Powells insistence that if you pay the taxes you can’t be denied the use. Meaning that if you pay taxes for the park down the street you can’t be stopped from using it just because of the colour of your skin. More importantly it meant that if you paid taxes you couldn’t be denied a job in the government. Post office, police, city etc.
    Unfortunately the Democrats/Liberals don’t believe in either of these things. If fact they are against both of these ideas. But still try to claim they believe in civil rights.
    I doubt King would be an Obama supporter. Either would Powell. If fact both men were so knowledgeable on the subject of civil rights that they still remember where the Klan came. That’s not something you can overlook to easily.

  4. “I doubt King would be an Obama supporter.”
    Conservatives co-opting King?
    What’s next, the Bushes disavowing Hitler.
    How do you deluded people actually function?

  6. You save your baloni Joe, like the Owe saved his nuts.
    Jesse Jackson said he wanted to “cut his (Obama’s) nuts off” but you go ahead and believe they’re on the same team.
    “Dr. King, a Republican?
    The women go on to say that Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan,”
    “I absolutely do not regret the ads,” said Rice, 62, a native of Atlanta, King’s hometown. He “absolutely was a Republican,” she insisted. “We were all Republicans in those days. The Democrats were training fire hoses on us, siccing dogs on us.”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801754.html

  8. joebaloni:
    All lovers of individual freedom certainly would reject the National Socialist Workers Party.
    Bear in mind the nature of the movement, where the populace were regimented into robotic trances by a charismatic leader.
    And, even though there was a semblance of private enterprise, all its actions were done for the glory of the Fuhrer.
    No need to be nostalgic about this totalitarian philosophy, just sing along to the tune of the Soviet national anthem.
    All hail the messiah
    Obama, Obama
    The path to the new socialist motherland
    Our savior, our savior
    Obama, Obama
    The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan
    Bow down and praise the one
    Give him your money and your guns
    Give us a country
    That makes your wife proud
    Lord Barry heal the bitter ones
    White and Clinging to faith and to guns
    Hope for the change of the hope of the change!

  9. I might add Joe that Hitler was a self admitted socialist.
    Thanks to Gore you can look all of this up on the web and see for yourself. Then you can comeback and retract your ridiculous statement. Until that time you are not Joe, you’re phoney.
    Phoneybaloni that is.

  10. “Conservatives co-opting King?”
    The Conservatives have always believed in Civil Rights. You should probably get dictionary out and look the term up. The Liberals dismantled Canada’s Civil Rights Laws then they brought in The Charter.
    “Democracy doesn’t work without strong civil rights laws” Thomas Payne. You should probably look him up. I bet Martin Luther King could quote chapter and verse of Payne’s work.

  11. Before the civil right movement was launched officially, racial equality was already being promoted.
    Groups of white and black sympathizers surrounding black intellectuals like James Baldwin already were on the move. Inevitably, the gains we attribute to the civil rights movement would have eventually come into fruition because of the momentum already being generated.
    The idea was to simply remove all segregationist laws and regulations, and then step back and let nature take its inevitable course.
    The civil rights movement of course officially came down with the heavy hand of government; however, it would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the laws been removed and racial equality begun to be promoted by good will and a desire for fairness.
    As it is, we got the equality, but at the cost of hostility, revolutionary movements, violence, and association with criminal elements.
    So in one sense the civil right movement made achievements, and yet at the same time hardened resistance in a lot of minds and hearts.

  12. It’s trite to resurrect this; but, King’s nemesis was Democratic Bull Connor.
    King named the white liberal as his and his race’s biggest enemy.
    Specimens of white liberals? Ted the Kennedy in the USA, Iggy/Dionky of the Liberal Party in Canada.
    “May 02, 2007
    Bull Connor, Democrat
    Michael Zak
    On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama — under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene “Bull” Connor — attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. Connor’s men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and police dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children. More here from the Grand old Partisan blog.”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/05/bull_connor_democrat.html

  13. nationalization of private resources began in the w. bush regime with the supremo kangaroocourt eminent domain ruling; get them in the habit of being forced to hand over personal assets by authority of the state.

  14. began in the w. bush regime with the supremo kangaroocourt eminent domain ruling…
    True.
    But the Majority court ruling(Kelo decision) was Democrat/Liberal and the Minority dissenting position was written by a Conservative.
    The good that came out of it was to raise gemeral awareness of property rights and the rise of a new State’s Rights movement:
    Prior to Kelo only eight states specifically prohibited the use of eminent domain for economic development except to eliminate blight: Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, South Carolina and Washington. By July 2007, 42 states had enacted some type of reform legislation in response to the Kelo decision. Of those 42 states, 21 enacted laws that severely inhibited the takings allowed by the Kelo decision, while the rest enacted laws that place some limits on the power of municipalities to invoke eminent domain for economic development. The remaining eight states have not passed laws to limit the power of eminent domain for economic development.

  15. Dr. King could do whatever he wanted with his intellectual property. One would think, however, that the family would gladly give permission to schools and charitable organisations to use even fragments of the delivered speeches (correct me if I’m wrong).
    And yes, Republicans were/are the reason why black Americans aren’t indentured servants. I know it’s the custom to paint Republicans as racist monsters but the historical facts are there.

  16. joebaloni
    They say ignorance is bliss. You must be very, very, blissfull.
    Ever heard the term Dixiecrats?
    Funny how leftards think all they do without recourse to history or fact.

  17. Civil Rights Act of 1964 voting record by party:
    The original House version:
    Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
    Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)
    The Senate version:
    Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
    Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
    The Senate version, voted on by the House:
    Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
    Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)

  18. adam clayton powell. a corrupt black politican who used to drink cow bells. for those who are not aware of the drink it is whiskey and milk.

  19. say what. you don’t know shit from tar or your arse from a hole in the ground. it is time that thinking people became really, really rude to the very stupid.

  21. Top (CURRENT) Democratic Senator Robert Byrd:
    Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan when he was 24 in 1942. His local chapter unanimously elected him Exalted Cyclops.
    In 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo:
    “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”
    — Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944, [6][10]
    …in 1946 or 1947 he wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”
    Byrd joined with other Southern and border state Democrats to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[18] personally filibustering the bill for 14 hours, a move he now says he regrets.[19] Despite an 83 day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Act, and President Johnson signed the bill into law.[20] He also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 2005, Byrd told The Washington Post that his membership in the Baptist church led to a change in his views. In the opinion of one reviewer, Byrd, along with other Southern and border state Democrats, came to realize that he would have to temper “his blatantly segregationist views” and move to the Democratic Party mainstream if he wanted to play a role nationally.
    Because of his opposition to desegregation, Byrd was often regarded as a Dixiecrat, a member of this Democratic Party wing that opposed desegregation and civil rights imposed by the Federal Government. However, despite his early career in the KKK, Byrd was linked to such “Dixiecrat” Senators as John C. Stennis, J. William Fulbright or George Smathers, who based their segregationist positions on their conception of states’ rights in contrast to, for example, James Eastland, who held a reputation as a committed racist.

  22. old white guy is correct.
    Adam Clayton Powell was charged with various specifics related to financial malfeasance and theft.
    He escaped to the island of Bimini where he lived on his misgotten gains, out of the reach of US extradition.
    And of course old white guy is completely right. He soothed himself with his favorite drink of scotch and milk, a favorite in some jazz circles during the period.

  24. more historical lessons for joebaloni:
    Although there’s admittedly some extenuating circumstances, t’s generally acknowledged Lincoln ‘freed the slaves’ after the Civil War.
    Lincoln, the man Obama claims to be emulating, was a Republican.
    Obama’s personal history, particularly his attendance at Rev. Wright’s church and its preaching of Liberation Theology means he was influenced and indoctrinated in marxist thought at both his church and through the community organizer concept of avowed marxist Saul Alinsky.
    Explore the facts and the truth will always be apparent.

  25. joebaloni wrote: How do you deluded people actually function?
    Well, seems to me they’re kicking your ass pretty good. Try reading history for a change instead of making it up to ‘feel’ superior.
    Your left wing heros are some of the dirtiest, vilest, murderous people that ever walked this planet. You better think hard about whose team you play for.

  26. Greg in Dallas “Adam Clayton Powell was charged with various specifics related to financial malfeasance and theft.”
    Powell was not without his problems. He was an alcoholic and probably did do some dirty business on the side. I seem to remember some tax problems.
    He made some enemies because he used to take “junkets” to do research in Paris and take girlfriends etc. But he was very public about it and joked about it. All the other guys in congress were taking the same junkets but were pretending they were actually doing real research. This stuff still goes on to this day. He just made a joke of it. Some people didn’t appreciate his humour.
    Having said that. Yes he messed up badly and it was a shame the way his career bottomed out. He also tried to sabotage Martin Luther King. But he did do one thing and to me it was a great thing. It was the corner stone of the Civil Rights Movement. He made it so that all tax payers had a right to anything taxpayers money went into. That opened up the swimming pools, parks, and especially jobs for everyone. That was the tipping point of the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King got them to the lunch counter at Woolworths but Adam Clayton Powell got them into City Hall.
    He may have been a bastard but he is my kind of bastard.
    Yes I know King did more than that I just like the way that sentence sounded.

  27. Greg in Dallas said “He soothed himself with his favorite drink of scotch and milk, a favorite in some jazz circles during the period.”
    Being from Harlem he presided over many funerals of jazz musicians. My memory is fuzzy but I think his father, also a preacher. presided over Charlie Parkers funeral. Like I said it’s fuzzy. I’m mixing my scotch with 2% where everyone knows it only really works with skim.

  28. joebaloni
    I see you’ve fled the battlefield faster than the French.
    I’m also willing to bet you learn slower than your average meth junkie trying to break the habit. Good luck on your recovery to truth and reason.

  29. “The Klan were all registered Democrats.”
    The same democrats who now turn the south red, you mean the DIXIECRATS. You know they found an agreeable home in the modern Republican Party of course. Is that fact not convenient to your argument, or obvious to your audience?

  30. “The Klan were all registered Democrats.”
    The same democrats who now turn the south red, you mean the DIXIECRATS. You know they found an agreeable home in the modern Republican Party of course. Is that fact not convenient to your argument, or obvious to your audience?

  31. joebaloni, is that all you’ve got?
    Nothing along the lines of, ‘Oh, gee, I was wrong about Conservatives co-opting MLKjr and I’m wiser today?”
    The Klan are still all registered democrats.
    Robert Carlyle Byrd(D) senior United States Senator from West Virginia and “former Klan Kleagle”(recruiter).
    Byrd, still a sitting senator, has since explicitly renounced his earlier views on racial segregation.
    Byrd said that he regrets filibustering and voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
    IF BYRD HAD BEEN A REPUBLICAN HE WOULDN”T BE A SENATOR today, he would be a nobody.
    Byrd, far from being a nobody, has held many leadership positions: Senate Conference Secretary, Majority Whip and twice Majority Leader.(Pelosi’s current position which is 3 steps from the Presidency)
    He is the only former party leader currently in the Senate.
    As explicitly as Byrd has “renounced” his earlier views on racial segregation, Byrd has not exposed or renounced those he knew in the KKKlan or recruited to the KKKlan so the idea that he has changed his views is, shall we say, suspect.
    And last but not least, the KKKLan is out of fashion now, though still registered Democrats they are few in number, which explains why the Southern States are Red States today.

  32. “O” likes to compare himself to a$$inated leaders – MLK, JFK and Abe Lincoln.
    When the going gets tough for “O” – when it looks like he may fail – he will fake his own a$$ination and resurrection and his followers will declare he is God.

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