Finley is another fine representative of South Carolina, which is STILL cursed by being too small to be a nation and too big to be an insane asylum.
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That’s some heavy shit this early in the morning, Ghost. Pace yourself.
Yeah, the guy all about social justice and so on. The thing the Tea Party hates. He would be all about you guys. I am sure King had views that stretched the political spectrum of his day, but it would shock me if he would be anything like that.
Other famous people who would have been Tea Partiers, if only they hadn’t been highjacked and appropriated by Liberals:
Mother Theresa
Nelson Mandela
Robert F. Kennedy
Dorothy Day
Rosa Parks
Cesar Chavez
Coretta Scott King
John F. Kennedy
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The “states rights” crowd, the crowd that cheered Rand Paul when he said a business should have the “right” to put up a “Whites Only” sign, the crowd that likes to call Obama the “Affirmative Action President” and worse, and goes on and on about how he was elected strictly due to the color of his skin, those are the folks that Dr. King would have supported? The Dr. King that spent the '64 election all but openly campaigning for LBJ’s reelection, calling Barry Goldwater’s nomination a “marriage of the KKK and the radical right”?
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Well when you remember the words of King, you realize this cowboy has a point.
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves will serve the sons of former slave owners as the slave owners sit together at the table.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward white supremacy.”
Yep. King was a Tea Partier.
(I admit that it pains me to ruin those great quotes even in jest.)
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Because James Earl Ray was a flaming Liberal.
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Edit: meant [a] dream. oops.
Oh no guys! The Tea Party took MLK Jr., and they’re not giving him back! Oh man, this changes everything.
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The only way someone can believe this is if the only thing they know about MLK was that single line in the last 5 minutes of his speech - even a cursory glance at his writings and speeches will let you know which issues he’d align with today. (Spoiler: almost nothing from the Tea Party except perhaps some of their religious views, and we know no black religious types have ever identified as Democrats - riiiiight.) They do this on purpose though, it’s easy to marginalize and substantively dismiss the Civil Rights movement when you reduce it to that single line out of ONE of MLK’s speeches, and pretend he is the only voice from the movement, when in reality it wasn’t a whole lot different than it was today with dozens of different voices.
Also white people need to stop lecturing black people on what Dr. King would say if he were alive today. We would know if they hadn’t killed him, he’d be in his 80s about now. It’s cute how the same people who vehemently hated him during his life pretend like they loved him all along.
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Absolutely, MLK was absolutely hated by the conservatives of his day.
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Agree, and when MLK was killed he was in the process of organizing sanitation workers.
He also marched for jobs, opposed the Vietnam War, and took other stands that the Tea Party are still dead set against.
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I know he’s not a native South Carolinian and I don’t think he resides here or, at least, I hope he doesn’t live here. We have more than enough homegrown nuts without any being transplanted here.
You forgot one: Jesus.
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I’m gonna pull out Christopher Hitchens again: If you gave this guy an enema, you could bury him in a matchbox.
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Did Wild Bill just escape from the Insane asylum ?
I’ve always wondered - who financed James Ear Ray? Any ideas?
Thank you Saren Arterius !
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"It is the Tea Party where people are not judged by the color of their skin, and it’s Tea Party Americans who believe that character still counts.”
Yeah! Those pictures of that Kenyan socialist dressed up like a Witch Doctor? Those were liberals who did that!
And…and Benghazi!
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Tea Partiers are seriously deranged and live in a bubble of their own making.
This idiot’s risible comments about Dr. King prove it conclusively.
IF Dr. King were still around, he’d be leading the fight for equality of all kinds—income equality, marriage equality, economic equality and on and on-----just as he did when he was alive.
If you do any research on Dr. King and what he stood for, you’ll find that he always placed economic equality side by side with racial equality, because they were inextricably intertwined then and they are still today.
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