Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King On the Hollowing Out of America’s Soul
by Matthew Payne on January 17, 2012
In a belated Martin Luther King Day post, let’s remember that the man has largely been domesticated by his sanctification. Most Americans lionize him, if they are not quite sure why–something about being a moderate who had a dream about equality (of course, back in the day he was deeply unpopular with White America as a “radical”). Even conservatives allege to see in him a guy on their team (see …
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Martin Luther King–Militarist
by Matthew Payne on January 15, 2011
This twisting of history by Obama’s Defense Department is an abomination. While Jeh C. Johnson, the DOD’s General Counsel, bases this interpretation on a tortured reading of King’s reference to the Good Samaritan in his last speech (yeah, ‘cuz the Good Samaritan was packing military grade heat!), this is really typical for an America that has been defined more and more by the sort of bellicose militarism Dr. King …
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