Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

Hundreds gather to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. at... | www.ajc.com

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Political, community and faith leaders are gathering this morning to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been the civil rights icon’s 85th birthday.

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And I always play U2's tribute every year on his birthday


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Sleep
Sleep tonight
And may your dreams
Be realized

If the thunder cloud
Passes rain
So let it rain
Rain down on him

Mmm, mmm, mmm
So let it be
Mmm, mmm, mmm
So let it be

Sleep
Sleep tonight
And may your dreams
Be realized

If the thunder cloud
Passes rain
So let it rain, let it rain
Rain on him

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Every year, my City has a parade....

I noticed the article I posted stating how a church service was turned into a political circus.


It was supposed to be a MEMORIAL FOR DR. KING!!!! Not a bully pulpit for political agendas!!! And the agenda was all from the left, the same left crying separation of church and State every damn time!!!

There was even a person claiming/presuming that Dr. King would have approved of a "gun buy back program" in order to stop violence. These gun buy back programs have always been promulgated from the left when they push for more gun control measures.

Except, what they failed to mention, was that gun control had racist roots, and that Dr. King was a gun owner. And because gun control had racist roots, he was denied a concealed carry permit when he applied for one in Alabama. It was the NRA that fought the racist gun control laws of that era.

Saying this in general, not to anyone in particular ...

let the man rest in peace, and I am only going to say this one time ... stop making up shit about him to assert political social agendas ... for the love of GOD!!!


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/mlk-and-his-guns_b_810132.html

Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

A recipient of constant death threats, King had armed supporters take turns guarding his home and family. He had good reason to fear that the Klan in Alabama was targeting him for assassination.

William Worthy, a journalist who covered the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, reported that once, during a visit to King's parsonage, he went to sit down on an armchair in the living room and, to his surprise, almost sat on a loaded gun. Glenn Smiley, an adviser to King, described King's home as "an arsenal."

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"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.