“We don’t remember the (Martin Luther) King who was the critic of capitalism who said to Charles Fager when they were in jail together in Selma in 1965 that he thought a modified form of socialism would be the best system for the United States. We don’t remember the Martin Luther King who talked ceaselessly about taking care of the masses and not just dealing with the people at the top of the ladder. So we’ve kind of anesthetized him. We’ve made him into a different kind of person than he actually was in life. And it may be that that’s one reason he’s so celebrated today because we celebrate a different kind of man than really existed. But he was a bit more radical. Not terribly, terribly radical but a bit more radical than we make him out to be today.”
Julian Bond
Chairman of the Board — NAACP
I post this 3 days following Martin Luther King day because I got some push back for my views on Martin Luther King that ironically, Julian Bond, Chairman of the Board of the NAACP, happens to share with me. I said that King was a Marxist and Mr. Bond agrees that King advocated socialism. I said that the Martin Luther King that the nation celebrates is a myth and Mr. Bond agreed by saying that “that we celebrate a different kind of man than really existed.” Now y’all can keep on celebrating a man who was a radical and a socialist but as I know that Marxism is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of lives in the 20th century when you say “celebrate Martin Luther King day,” I’ll just keep sucking on my lemon while I rain on your parade.
