Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama

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18. If MLK were alive today he would be really disappointed in President Obama.

If you think MLK would support targeted assassinations, drone warfare, and indefinite detention, you obviously don't know anything at all about Martin Luther King.

If you think he would support cutting Social Security, Medicare and veterans benefits, you clearly know nothing about the man.

He would not remain silent on these issues. He would not be an MSNBC Obama cheerleader.

He would support protest movements in the streets. He would protest militarism and the loss of civil liberties. He would work for disarmament. He would physically support labor organizing and actions. He would join pickets against unlawful and unethical home foreclosures. He would support a people's movement for real democracy to take control of the country away from the big banks, oil companies, and defense contractors.

These are my opinions of what MLK would do if he were alive. I don't really know for sure because he's dead and nobody can know what a dead person thinks. However I think it's a pretty good guess based on his words and actions during his life.