The MLK they don't want you to know about.

Yeah. Sure, you were told about MLK. You think you knew everything about him? Think again! Martin Luther King JR was an anti-war leftist, and, he was very politically involved. I think that he could have really helped our nation out during the Vietnam war and help heal the nation if he didn't get shot. But. That's not how things went.

This is an excerpt from one of his speeches where he spoke out against the Vietnam war. In beyond Vietnam...

The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality...and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing "clergy and laymen concerned" committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.

And so, such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God.

In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past ten years, we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which has now justified the presence of U.S. military advisors in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru.

It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

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This is the speech in audio format, in case you're interested



Now I know many of you might be asking yourself... just hold on a second. I thought that MLK was just some dude talking about racial equality. Now you're telling me that he was really a radical anti-war leftist? What's wrong with you? Are you on drugs?

Actually, MLK in fact was quite an anti-war and pro-peace kind of guy.

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It is important that we recognize not just what he did for civil rights but also for the anti-war movement. It would be in my mind a crime against history to only remember him in one way. The establishment doesn't want you to know that he was an anti-war leftist because they don't want you finding out the bad things that the state has done. If they told you everything... they would be exposing you to their true crimes. And they don't want you to know them. That's why we need to remember MLK for who he really was, and, not just part of what he really was.

I'm not disparaging his accomplishments for civil rights. I'm just saying, that, he has done other important things too. And we should remember him for that.

I must say that MLK is a striking figure to say the least.

To read his speeches, even now, gives me a sense of timelessness.

Am amazing man.

this isn't anything new, in fact, hasn't it always been suspected that his stance on the war was why he was shot? At least from the perspective of the conspiracy crowd.

I think one of MLK's most profound and thought provoking quotes on Anti-war and pro-peace was;-

“Through violence you may murder a murderer but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that."

MLK is a hero to me... what a brave and proud American!