Posse Incitatus

Reflecting on MLK's Legacy

In recent years, I have written numerous blogs on MLK Day to laud the civil rights leader and point out how some of his qualities -- being a Christian minister whose beliefs stemmed from scripture, being a gun owner and striver toward a color-blind society -- fly in the face of today's progressive left.

I have acknowledged that there really was discrimination and racism in American society in the 1960s, but it was beginning to crumble by that time. Contrast that with today, when the United States offers more opportunity and potential for prosperity to blacks than any other country in the world. Yet the Marxists on the left try to shove a phony "systemic racism" narrative down our throats, and peddle lies about police being racists who believe it's open season on black people. They don't want a color-blind society; they favor discrimination against whites, even though they try to wrap it up in Critical Race Theory and other leftist creeds.

The left also won't acknowledge that trillions of dollars spent on the so-called Great Society have not done much good. The root of the problems plaguing black America is that about 70 percent of blacks are born out of wedlock. When there is no father to serve as a disciplinarian, role model and mentor, young black men often go astray. It's a national tragedy, but it's not the Republicans' fault. You can't blame the KKK, Donald Trump or white Christian males. That's part of what makes progressives so full of rage.

I hate to bring up this last point, but I must. For years, we have heard about plenty of immoral activities in which King engaged. Marital infidelities are bad enough, albeit commonplace among high profile politicians and religious leaders. But King biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Garrow wrote that King engaged in even worse activities than we had ever been led to believe.

Garrow is renowned for his thorough, diligent research. Among his allegations: King engaged in sex orgies, encouraged a minister in the church to commit a rape, and accepted cash payments from communists.

Said Garrow: "There is no question that a profoundly painful reckoning and reconsideration inescapably awaits." Indeed. It will be interesting to observe whether the SJW puritans (veterans of #MeToo and the cancel culture) will begin demonizing MLK like they have the Founding Fathers. Will they demand that Uncle Sam remove MLK Day as a holiday? Doubtful.

King, like all humans, was a complex and flawed individual. He certainly is not the paragon of virtue he's been made out to be. Perhaps the one lesson we can learn as the ugly truth comes out about King's bad qualities is that it is unwise to accept a groupthink narrative when someone is lionized to an unreasonable and extreme level -- to the point where anyone who dares object is himself ostracized, threatened and canceled.

But then, asking progressives to be reasonable and rational may be asking too much.

The left also won't acknowledge that trillions of dollars spent on the so-called Great Society have not done much good. The root of the problems plaguing black America is that about 70 percent of blacks are born out of wedlock. When there is no father to serve as a disciplinarian, role model and mentor, young black men often go astray. It's a national tragedy, but it's not the Republicans' fault. You can't blame the KKK, Donald Trump or white Christian males. That's part of what makes progressives so full of rage.

I hate to bring up this last point, but I must. For years, we have heard about plenty of immoral activities in which King engaged. Marital infidelities are bad enough, albeit commonplace among high profile politicians and religious leaders. But King biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Garrow wrote that King engaged in even worse activities than we had ever been led to believe.

Garrow is renowned for his thorough, diligent research. Among his allegations: King engaged in sex orgies, encouraged a minister in the church to commit a rape, and accepted cash payments from communists.

Said Garrow: "There is no question that a profoundly painful reckoning and reconsideration inescapably awaits." Indeed. It will be interesting to observe whether the SJW puritans (veterans of #MeToo and the cancel culture) will begin demonizing MLK like they have the Founding Fathers. Will they demand that Uncle Sam remove MLK Day as a holiday? Doubtful.

King, like all humans, was a complex and flawed individual. He certainly is not the paragon of virtue he's been made out to be. Perhaps the one lesson we can learn as the ugly truth comes out about King's bad qualities is that it is unwise to accept a groupthink narrative when someone is lionized to an unreasonable and extreme level -- to the point where anyone who dares object is himself ostracized, threatened and canceled.

But then, asking progressives to be reasonable and rational may be asking too much.

The left also won't acknowledge that trillions of dollars spent on the so-called Great Society have not done much good. The root of the problems plaguing black America is that about 70 percent of blacks are born out of wedlock. When there is no father to serve as a disciplinarian, role model and mentor, young black men often go astray. It's a national tragedy, but it's not the Republicans' fault. You can't blame the KKK, Donald Trump or white Christian males. That's part of what makes progressives so full of rage.

I hate to bring up this last point, but I must. For years, we have heard about plenty of immoral activities in which King engaged. Marital infidelities are bad enough, albeit commonplace among high profile politicians and religious leaders. But King biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Garrow wrote that King engaged in even worse activities than we had ever been led to believe.

Garrow is renowned for his thorough, diligent research. Among his allegations: King engaged in sex orgies, encouraged a minister in the church to commit a rape, and accepted cash payments from communists.

Said Garrow: "There is no question that a profoundly painful reckoning and reconsideration inescapably awaits." Indeed. It will be interesting to observe whether the SJW puritans (veterans of #MeToo and the cancel culture) will begin demonizing MLK like they have the Founding Fathers. Will they demand that Uncle Sam remove MLK Day as a holiday? Doubtful.

King, like all humans, was a complex and flawed individual. He certainly is not the paragon of virtue he's been made out to be. Perhaps the one lesson we can learn as the ugly truth comes out about King's bad qualities is that it is unwise to accept a groupthink narrative when someone is lionized to an unreasonable and extreme level -- to the point where anyone who dares object is himself ostracized, threatened and canceled.

But then, asking progressives to be reasonable and rational may be asking too much.