Conservatives keep watering down MLKs message for their own agendas
Conservatives — especially white conservatives — like to argue that there’s a right way and a wrong way to protest. The right way, they argue, is any quiet, silent demonstration in which activists mostly do nothing and disturb no one. The wrong way is everything else.
To explain what the “right” kind of protest looks like, white conservatives often co-opt the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr — whose method of nonviolence and peaceful boycott is, in their eyes, correct, wholesome, and majority-approved.
Most recently, a version of that message has been used to criticize the NFL players and other professional athletes who have taken a knee during the national anthem in support of justice for the black community.
“The civil rights protests led by Martin Luther King Jr. were a case study in disciplined political campaigning,” The Federalist’s Mark Hemingway wrote on Tuesday, bemoaning the ongoing racial justice protests, which were started last fall by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. “I regret to say that what’s going on in the NFL is destined to agitate rather than accomplish, because no one seems to have learned the lessons of civil rights protests.”
https://thinkprogress.org/conservatives-water-down-mlk-message-5bc06907f6ce/
Hey, Mark Hemingway, you and your right wing organization have no message, except one thing, racism makes you money, and you have no concept on the CONSTITUTION, have you read the Framers Coup, looked it up and you will see the difference in the Antifederalists and the Federalist positions on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Taxes etc.............. and learn, something, your organization is nothing more than an extension of right wing hate, you have no concept of the message of Dr. King............ none, we are not going to let your side co-opt the vision of Dr. King..............never
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