I realize that we celebrate the birth of Dr. King and comerrate it as an official holiday but you would think that the news media would have made some mention of his death on this date in 1968. At least for me I only saw two places, ABC News tonight on FB and USA Today online had articles and or videos.

Even the Detroit Free Press, the liberal newspaper here made no mention at least in the online version of it, instead they could editorialize how bad in the writer's view the new Roseanne Show is because she is a Trump supporter. Really.

Pretty sad IMO.

FWIW, it was all over my local news tonight.

They've been stroking it all day.

https://www.wsbtv.com/

My local PBS did a special last night on Dr.King's death and on James Earl Ray.

I remember that incident very well. I was working for a VW dealership at Bird road and US1 in Miami and carried a weapon to work for nearly a week. Most of the sales help were armed. The Lot boys (Cubans) were armed. Even customers were armed.

We were being shot at from the ghetto portion of Coconut Grove across the highway.

None of us were hit, but several VW's were damaged.

... because being judged by the content of their character mortifies them?

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Mike King.

Sadly his message was never passed along to the younger generations.

Oh, the message was passed along, but over time, it became nothing more than a slogan repeated in school during Black History Month.

I think anyone who expects leftists to have any idea that they have completely corrupted MLK's message, is giving them far too much credit for honesty, introspection and even a basic understanding of 20th Century American history.

I was kind of in a bubble today with traveling to and from medical tests and then on the way home getting a half dollar sized bulls-eye from a rock flung up due to freeze and thaw cycles and the resulting trip to and from the glass shop this afternoon.

Local Detroit radio stations, of the two I listened to, maybe I missed their coverage.

That's just about the only thing in today's Memphis paper. The whole front page was his picture.

I bet if he could see how shit has turned out, he'd probably say to himself, "I died for this shit?"

yes - a lot of his message was about change

but a lot was about accountability for your actions

the BLM-ers seem to forget the latter.

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Originally posted by Sig209:
yes - a lot of his message was about change

but a lot was about accountability for your actions

the BLM-ers seem to forget the latter.

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It's all about them being "victims".

Our local PBS station has had Black History Month since February. Now their milking the shooting by showing clips of march history with voice over commentary, from people I've never heard of ( I'm white)that aren't old enough to have lived through all that's happened since Dr. Kings murder.

Everybody's falling all over themselves to commemorate MLK's assassination 50 years later. I wonder if these people will have a single word to say about the 50th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's assassination two months from now.

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Originally posted by Expert308:
Everybody's falling all over themselves to commemorate MLK's assassination 50 years later. I wonder if these people will have a single word to say about the 50th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's assassination two months from now.

King was 10x the man any Kennedy was.

I did not notice any mention of the number of banks in which he had $100,000. and whose records the IRS were ordered to destroy by JFK upon his election. This from my Father's accountant who left the IRS after he personally destroyed the records from five Atlanta banks. Before you ask, I have no proof, only the word of a good man enrolled in a a large Southern Baptist Seminary.

Did not hear this on the talking faces programs re an "FBI document containing allegations about the sexual misconduct of Martin Luther King as part of its declassification of information relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." http://www.newsweek.com/declas...n-luther-king-701996 - interesting read.

Also did not hear about the white girl friend.

I had to fill my bird feeders, so I missed out attending any of the big parades yesterday - maybe next year.

I do not put much stock in his sayings - I wonder how many close associates of his kept a straight face?