To the readers of this thread: Your guess is as good as mine as to what my white liberal guilt riddled friend just said, but my guess would be something along the lines of...
So, being unable to address a simple question, aCW chose, instead, to call me a name no more supportable in fact than the inference he advanced against MLK, Jr. I am neither liberal nor conservative and I have no reason to feel guilty over treatment I never engaged in or supported, as some did and still do, directly or indirectly.
Here was the question aCW asked:
Why would a supposed man of God associate with someone like this?
He followed that with a picture of Planned Parenthood founder (Sanger) at a Klan rally.
So I noted:
That's the question you'd have to answer
Why?
to sustain the irrational notion that a man who died in the struggle for civil rights for his people would knowingly associate with someone who felt right at home among the Klan and who thought of abortion as a means of racial genocide.
aCW didn't try to answer that because there's no reasonable way to connect the dots he wants to. There's no reason a black man would pal around or give any support, accept any support, from the Klan. And that's what his "point" boils down to.
He meant to demonize King in every possible way and in his rush to do that tried to make the sort of connection/association that simply doesn't withstand any sort of thinking the point through.
There are any number of legitimate criticisms of King, however inappropriately raised on a day commemorating his accomplishments, but they don't do the hack job aCW wants to see done, so he can't help himself.
Was King a plagiarizer? I think it's hard to argue against it. Was he a womanizer? There's every reason to believe so.
Was he also (and this is the point of the day honoring him) a fearless advocate of non violent civil disobedience aimed at the end of social justice and a reformation of tyrannical and evil law and exclusion? Yes, he was that too.
But he lived in an age that didn't have internet geniuses "discovering" any number of facts about people like Sanger and trying desperately to cobble an irrational point out of the information. King saw the public face of Planned Parenthood and took its recognition, thereby putting even more attention on his cause.
All of which is why I concluded:
See, a reasonable person could only come to one conclusion. That you don't is the best argument against ever taking you seriously.