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Title: Did anyone else know this about MLK? Post by: micfranklin on April 01, 2008, 08:11:23 AM Because I sure didn't:
Quote (CNN) -- The Rev. Bernard LaFayette Jr. was resting at his Chicago, Illinois, home one autumn weekend in 1967 when the phone rang. The caller didn't identify himself, but LaFayette immediately recognized the baritone voice. "Bernard, I need you," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said. "This may be my last campaign. We're going for broke." Most Americans think of King as the "I Have a Dream" preacher at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. But the man who made his final trip to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 had become radical, scholars and activists say. King was gambling his legacy on a final crusade that was so revolutionary, it alarmed many of his closest advisers. Some became concerned about his emotional stability. King called his crusade the Poor People's Campaign. He planned to march on Washington with a multiracial army of poor people who would build shantytowns at the Lincoln Memorial -- and paralyze the nation's capital if they had to. The campaign's goal: force the federal government to withdraw funding for the Vietnam War and commit instead to abolishing poverty. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/01/mlk.final.crusade/index.html?eref=rss_topstories Never heard of this ever in my life, and I have to admit it was a pretty amazing idea. It's not necessarily something I thought typical of MLK because it was pretty radical, but then so were other things in the 1960's. What say you all? Title: Re: Did anyone else know this about MLK? Post by: bringbackwigs on April 01, 2008, 08:25:32 AM Oh well.
Title: Re: Did anyone else know this about MLK? Post by: Ahkenaten on April 01, 2008, 08:38:14 AM It's going to be a very long time before we see someone with this level of credibility and integrity.
Maybe a hundred years. Ahk Title: Re: Did anyone else know this about MLK? Post by: Masterkoki on April 03, 2008, 08:17:41 AM I don't know much about Dr King, but a revolution is a revolution. If this is indeed true, then I don't think it should deter the image of Dr. King but actually uplift it as a peaceful crusader for civil rights and for peace
Title: Re: Did anyone else know this about MLK? Post by: JFree89 on April 05, 2008, 06:32:44 AM He was working for Communist Russia.
Title: Re: Did anyone else know this about MLK? Post by: Big Bear on April 05, 2008, 05:46:24 PM Mic: I'm not surpised by it at all. Today we tend to treat MLK as Saint Martin Luther the King. We get a distorted view of him taught in our schools because of the overwhelming good he did for racial equality in the US. That he would be against the Vietnam War should come as no surprise. The man was a controversial figure and he was just the man to take on institutional racism in America. We are a better country for what he did but, the man ws not perfect. We don't have to agree with everything he said or did to respect him and his memory. Check out the founding fathers. They were human beings, too.
There was only one perfect man and look what they did to him! :o Title: Re: Did anyone else know this about MLK? Post by: Artinam on April 07, 2008, 12:36:16 AM I agree with Big Bear, some politicians and now so called heroes often have a Darker side. A few generations have been raised with the idea that this guy is a saint and I doubt it will change all that quick.
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