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lame54

(35,294 posts)
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 12:37 PM Jan 2015

Damn - We Just Lost MLK

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/tea-party-guy-takes-back-mlk-day-until

“We are the people,” Finley said, “who practice Dr. King’s dream. It is the Tea Party where people are not judged by the color of their skin, and it’s Tea Party Americans who believe that character still counts.”

“So today, I am officially announcing that the Tea Party is taking Martin Luther King away from the liberal left,” he said. “And to you race-baiting promoters of division and hatred, you’re not getting him back until you renounce your shameful skin-color politics and start practicing the politics of character.”
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Damn - We Just Lost MLK (Original Post) lame54 Jan 2015 OP
I like Rude Pundit's response to this kind of crap stevenleser Jan 2015 #1
So, the tea partiers think MLK is a commodity ??? Sounds like "old time thinking". isobar Jan 2015 #2
+1 lunasun Jan 2015 #4
LOL alcibiades_mystery Jan 2015 #3
Bu**sh*t! The Tea Party is a racist organization. sinkingfeeling Jan 2015 #5
you can't take back what you never had. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2015 #6
 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
3. LOL
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 12:44 PM
Jan 2015

Martin Luther King Jr. was a socialist who supported massive government intervention to correct social AND ECONOMIC problems.

These fucking people are morons.

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