Re: IP Addresses / split personality

From: Bill Cole <bill_at_scconsult.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2005 20:28:08 GMT

-stayed the
course-- -- keeping God at the forefront of the movement through
maintaining exclusively Christian leadership by Christian leaders
(ministers and pastors) in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(I mean, duh) -- the outcome, I suspect, would have been very different.
Alas, such was not to be the case.

It amazes me that, even with the religious experience in his kitchen in
1957, so much of Martin Luther King's efforts remained wholly and
completely secular, humanist and socialist in nature. In his meetings
with Vice-President Richard Nixon and Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and
Johnson, his tone is always that of a Labour negotiator, a
quasi-socialist, with nary a word said by him about God, nary an effort
made to communicate as a minister of the Gospel to wayward Christians
(Kennedy and Johnson being rather more wayward as Christians go, one
would guess, than were Nixon and Eisenhower). Had Nixon, as an example,
been addressed as a Quaker: --Mr. Vice President, how can you as a white
Christian gentleman deny to your black Christian brothers the rights and
freedoms which you enjoy?-- it seems to me that it would have left a
good deal less --wiggle-- room. --Let my people go.-- Reverend King as
Aaron, addressing Richard Nixon as Pharaoh. There were any number of
approaches that made more sense when standing on the moral high ground
(as Martin Luther King surely was) than to function as a
secular-humanist-quasi-socialist mouthpiece for a run-of-the-mill
Marxist like Bayard Rustin. Certainly, Martin Luther King had
demonstrated, time and again, his oratorical skill in the striking --
just so -- of the --right note,-- le mot juste -- and nowhere more
exaltedly than in his --I have a dream-- speech delivered in front of
the Lincoln Memorial in the summer of 1963.

I have a dream that, one day, every valley shall be exalted, every hill
and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain and
the crooked places will be mo
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