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Alexander (8) came home from school yesterday (January 18) and told us that he d been in some kind of play to dramatize an African American being turned away from a restaurant in the bad old days of the segregated South. In honor of Martin Luther King day. Sort of like a Christmas Pageant. (Remember Christmas Pageants?)
When John O Sullivan was Editor of National Review, I persuaded him to run an annual contest for the most egregious attempt to suppress Christmas. It s been abandoned now, of course. But VDARE would like to hear of the most pious attempt to sacramentalize MLK. Ask your children. Brace yourselves.
Ms. Hornaday’s thesis is that normal people (specifically white male Christians) are
bad. Her case in point: the FBI’s investigation of Martin Luther King:
In fact, the White, male, Christian version of normal was precisely what J. Edgar Hoover was going for when he recruited for the FBI, the investigative agency he ran with an iron fist for nearly 50 years.…
Hornaday [Tweet her] says of the 1965–1974 FBI TV Series
I certainly don’t remember any episode where they wiretapped and bugged Martin Luther King Jr. to gather salacious material that would disrupt his movement, destroy his reputation and neutralize his power.