do u think Glenn Beck is hijacking martin luther kings legacy?
Some of the nation’s top civil rights leaders are angrily accusing right-wing media star Glenn Beck of "hijacking" the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech by planning to rally his conservative forces at the same Lincoln Memorial site on the anniversary date of Aug. 28 — and so they are planning a counter-rally and march of their own.
"Beck is hijacking the imagery and symbolism of August 28 and the Lincoln Memorial to promote an agenda of intolerance," said Marc H. Morial, the former New Orleans mayor who is now president and CEO of the National Urban League, one of the counter-rally organizers, said earlier tonight in a telephone interview.
The Morial-led Urban League is teaming with well-known activists such as the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network in planning a "mass rally" and march that will begin at a high school in Northeast Washington. Morial said that one of King’s surviving children, Martin Luther King III, is also on board. Less than three miles away, the Fox News Channel host and former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are headlining a heavily promoted rally called "Restoring Honor."
Morial said in the phone interview that civil rights leaders believe that "Beck is deliberately trying to poke a stick in our eye, or kick sand in our faces" by holding the rally on the 47th anniversary and at the spot of King’s most famous speech, at a massive rally to lobby support for what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that ended legal segregation in America.
Beck claimed earlier this month on his radio show that one of his goals is to "reclaim the civil right movement," saying that it should be about individual liberties and not social justice or supporting undocumented immigration, which he called "modern day slavery." But as Beck’s popularity has risen since launching his Fox News program the same week that Barack Obama became the nation’s first African-American president — angering many with attacks linking Obama to socialism or communism and also triggering outrage with his comment that the president has "a deep-seated hatred for white people."
Beck is not "high-jacking" Martin Luther King’s legacy… He is honoring it! In fact, MLK’s niece, who marched with Dr. King, and is a highly educated doctor in her own right, totally supports Beck’s activities. They have become great friends.
Actually when the August 28 date was first chosen, he didn’t even realize that it was the anniversary of the MLK speech… until someone pointed it out to him. But since his goals for the program are very compatible with the MLK speech and MLK’s entire message, he saw no disconnect.
But frankly even if he did, are you saying no one can have a rally on that day? Where does that come from?
Beck feels that today’s civil rights leaders have strayed away from the message of MLK. That was the point behind the recapturing the civil rights movement.
And don’t even try to say that Beck is a racist or a bigot. Because if you have watched any of his shows discussing the issues facing Blacks and the POSITIVE role of Blacks in history, you couldn’t possibly believe that bologna.
Beck has attacked Obama and the radicals whom he surrounds himself with on the ISSUES and uses their own words to prove his points. It’s amazing how people consistently ignore that rather important point.
July 2nd, 2010 at 1:02 pm
No MLK was not a loony conspiracy theorist.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Zer0bama does have a deep-seated hatred of whites.
He has made no secret of it and has written about it.
Is he lying?
Do you really accept Barrack Obama as the best foot forward for the African American Community or just a temporary champion useful toward an end?
In any case, what we have now, based on his speeches and writings, is nothing close to what Martin Luther King had in mind.
I suspect that he’s rolling in his grave.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Yes he is. Tolerance was a major part of King’s non-violence agenda. A point that Beck doesn’t get at all.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
No…MLK was a great man…..Beck is insignificant in comparison.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 2:13 pm
What legacy?
Plagiarism, adultery, and beating white women?
Martin Luther King was a willing dupe of leftist Jews.
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Please read the book:
THE MARTIN LUTHER KING jr PLAGIARISM STORY by Theodore Pappas.
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
I can’t stand Glen Beck.I despise him with a burning passion.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Hijacking? No, Honoring the man and his methods and his vision? Yes. Others have Hijacked MLK’s legacy and used it politically as a weapons against their opponents. Beck seems to me giving MLK the honor he deserves.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 4:28 pm
No. The so-called Civil Rights leaders are hijacking MLK’s legacy because they still emphasize everything on the color of one’s skin. The left is hijacking MLK’s legacy because they still play the race card.
MLK’s legacy is about judging a person based on CHARACTER, NOT A PERSON’S SKIN COLOR.
Beck is correct. MLK’s vision is still protecting individual liberties in a color-blind society. Social justice is not color-blind.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Beck is not "high-jacking" Martin Luther King’s legacy… He is honoring it! In fact, MLK’s niece, who marched with Dr. King, and is a highly educated doctor in her own right, totally supports Beck’s activities. They have become great friends.
Actually when the August 28 date was first chosen, he didn’t even realize that it was the anniversary of the MLK speech… until someone pointed it out to him. But since his goals for the program are very compatible with the MLK speech and MLK’s entire message, he saw no disconnect.
But frankly even if he did, are you saying no one can have a rally on that day? Where does that come from?
Beck feels that today’s civil rights leaders have strayed away from the message of MLK. That was the point behind the recapturing the civil rights movement.
And don’t even try to say that Beck is a racist or a bigot. Because if you have watched any of his shows discussing the issues facing Blacks and the POSITIVE role of Blacks in history, you couldn’t possibly believe that bologna.
Beck has attacked Obama and the radicals whom he surrounds himself with on the ISSUES and uses their own words to prove his points. It’s amazing how people consistently ignore that rather important point.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 4:55 pm
A major theme of Beck’s show is Faith, Hope and Charity. It’s only fitting that they are holding this rally on the anniversary of King’s I Have A Dream speech. Beck has admiration of King Jr. for all the right reasons. Support for the individual and equality for all people regardless of ethnicity, religion, race or sex. The current black activists like Sharpton and Rev. Jackson have strayed from the historical foundation of the Civil Rights Movement.
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