Friday, January 25, 2008

I'm not a racist, but...


















If you enter Martin Luther King, Jr. into "the google" the eighth result that appears is the website www.martinlutherking.org/. It sounds innocuous enough. Kind of like www.family.org
which is host to Focus on the Family, one of the leading anti-gay marriage groups. A thirty second scan of the page reveals links to pages like "Black Invention Myths".

I haven't had the time to explore the veracity of the claims on this page but I am quite confident that there are better things to do than debunk any myths about things African-Americans have or haven't invented. I guess this author is in it for the greater good, though. I can't tell you how tired I am of blacks taking credit for everything white people do. I mean next thing you know they'll be staking claim to the idea to enslave themselves in order to benefit the U.S. economy.

My favorite section is the downloadable flyers list. Students are encouraged to download and distribute the flyers as well as use the information in school reports. The flyers include such gems as Martin Luther King, Jr. is a "sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist..." and quotes from upstanding, righteous America-loving freedom fighter, J. Edgar Hoover such as "King is a tom cat with obsessive degenerate urges."

This shit makes the internet as dangerous to the fresh-faced fifth grader as the guys who end up on "How to Catch A Predator."

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