Removing the Whitewash from Dr King

I heard on Glenn Beck yesterday that the head of the NAACP, Julian Bond, had proclaimed that Martin Luther King was in favor of this country being governed by "a modified form of socialism". It took me a long time of searching to find where Beck had come up with this information because not one media outlet, including Fox, has been willing to touch this one. I would guess there is some testing of the water going on by the progressives as to whether this admission will help or hurt their case and as such it is very deeply hidden and hard to find. But in any case and as is usually the case, Beck has facts to back up his statements. It is amazing to me that while many of us who were alive at the time of Dr. King were aware of this, the progressive liberals have managed to whitewash our memory and the history books in one generation and accomplish the combining of Washington and Lincoln's birthdays into a single Presidents day holiday so they could have a dedicated Martin Luther King day. Think about this, everyone and most importantly the NAACP has never admitted what we all knew because it would have tainted the memory and surely we would have not allowed such a major holiday in commemorating the birthday of someone who supported such a different form of government than our Presidents prior to the 20th century. But now that we have a radical socialist president who also just happens to be black, they can now come out of the closet and openly say what MLK stood for. It has now become cool to be socialist and they are using MLK and his memory to further add credibility to Obama's agenda.

Here is a youtube.com video of Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP making the King a socialist remark at about minute 3:05.



I hope you listened to most of this video and understood this is not some radical ranting and raving about Dr King's agenda. If not here is the transcript of Julian Bond’s remark regarding Kings view towards socialism:

We don't remember the King who was the critique of capitalism who said to Charles Fager when they (MLK) 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.

 This is the very composed Chairman of the NAACP merely stating historical facts. He has been a politician, professor and writer who is obviously very educated and deliberate in his speaking style. Since I think his credibility and position is what makes this story significant here a link to a wikipedia bio on his very admirable career and life. Julian Bond

There you have it. It gets more difficult to educate our children on the true history of this country when within our lifetimes we have managed to confuse the facts we are teaching them. How many facts do you think may be wrong or omitted from our history? A history we did not experience but only read about in school? How much history are we doomed to repeat because we are not aware of the true history not only of our country but that of the world.

Additional note on rewriting of history
I don't know what Beck is up to today on his show that he has billed as his first documentary called "Live Free or Die" but he says it will shock you and he advises to watch it once without your kids and then determine at what age you think your kids can handle the truth. He says it is very upsetting; the rewriting of history that has been accomplished by progressives and how he is going to expose that history using actual video and audio, a part of 20th century history you have never known. As usual the web site therightscoop.com will have the entire show without commercial interruption if you miss it.