Martin Luther King Jr.

         We celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday.  He was a great American who led a peaceful movement for equal rights.  He was human and had his faults, as all humans do, but it would be as stupid to not recognize his accomplishments because of his faults as is to not recognize the accomplishment of our Founding Fathers because they were slave owners. 

        I saw King speak at a Luther League convention in Miami Beach, Florida during the summer of 1961.  He was the key-note speaker in a huge convention center.  His speech was that all white people were racist.  I did not consider myself racist and it made me so angry that I walked out on the speech.

        I was raised in a rural Norwegian/Lutheran farm community that had prejudices against the German/Catholics that farmed in the area.  At one time, the Norwegian/Lutheran town people would not even serve the German/Catholics.  I could not understand or agree with this prejudice.   It was even frowned upon for a Norwegian/Lutheran to date a Germen/Catholic in high school, which I did. 

        At the time of the convention, I did not know how  prevalent racism was in the south.  A few years ago I watched a documentary of the Freedom Riders in Mississippi during that summer in 1961.  King had been part of that movement and had left to come speak to our Luther League convention.  With the violence of whites against the Freedom Riders, I can now understand why he had the misconception that ALL whites were racist. 

        The biggest two things that made King a great American was that:

1.   He never advocated violence of any sort. 

2.   He asked for equality that was not based on skin color.

       

        MLK would be ashamed of the use of violence by Black Lives matter and ANTIFA.  He would have recognized how destructive to blacks and America this violence is. 

        King would be appalled at how the Democrat Left is using race to divide and destroy America.  King was opposed to any identity politics based on skin color. 

        There are still people who are racists in this country, but America is one of the least racist countries in the world.  Martin Luther King Jr. would be in the streets protesting the idea of Critical Race Theory and Systemic Racism.  It would make him sick to seeing how this race division is destroying what he gave his life for. 

 

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