Inviting comment on this graphic being circulated by conservatives re: MLK Celebration

[OmahaBlueDog]

PLEASE SHARE! Not one of these leaders, authors, activists or business executives was invited to yesterday's Martin Luther King celebration. These gifted individuals are the TRUE legacy of Dr. King's dream...

My first reaction is that even if none of them were invited to the formal ceremonies, nothing prevented any of them from attending.

My second reaction was that Republican Congresscritters who were invited, declined.

Ideally, it should have been a day that rose above politics, but these days, nothing can rise above politics.

What say the rest of DU?

[kelliekat44]

1. Anyone of them could have come had they wanted to. They considered MLK a whiner too.

Congrats to them for being able to live the dream.

Oh, and the GOP lie without reservation.

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. Jeeze - Clarence Thomas literally works down the street.

..and I don't judge them by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.









(in the cases of many in the graphic, that's precisely the problem).

[kentuck]

2. Tim Scott got an invite.

From what I have read.

Anyway, everybody that went to the ceremony did not get an invite. They went because they wanted to be there. We can only assume that the list of folks above did not want to be there. It appears that they now recognize what a political disaster they committed and are now attempting to cover their tracks?

[tanyev]

3. TPM: Tim Scott Didn’t Speak At MLK Event Because He Declined Invitation To Attend

A source connected to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington said Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the only sitting black senator, was not invited to speak at the event because his office had declined an invitation to attend the commemoration as a spectator, Roll Call reported.


http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/tim-scott-didnt-speak-at-mlk-event-because?ref=fpb

[winter is coming]

5. I do judge them by the content of their character, and so do the Republicans.

The difference is that I think a lack of character is a bad thing. They think it's a job requirement.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. They seem to be using a fairly wide definition of "leaders".

How many of those are among the "hundred most influential right-wingers in America?"

The only one who obviously is is Thomas, but I'm not enough of an expert on American conservatives to rule out some of the others being too.

[OmahaBlueDog]

9. Condi Rice would certainly fit into that category

Allen West is certainly beloved by the Tea Party.

Herman Cain is also pretty well respected in conservative circles.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. Still?

I thought Cain's presidential campaign left him a laughing stock, didn't it?

[arely staircase]

7. I think it is fucking awesome

how they got every single Black Republican on one poster, well, except for Colin Powell who had the nerve to vote for the first Black president, twice.

[kentuck]

8. None of them needed an "invitation"..

They could have gone like tens of thousands of others that went because they wanted to go. "They didn't get an invite" is only an excuse and a very poor one at that.

[Scuba]

10. Got at least two war criminals (West and Rice), a con man (Herman) a pundit I can't name, ...

... Clarence "Scalia Puppet" and a bunch of folks I don't recognize. So what's their point?