Obama joins honors for slain civil rights leader
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama served plates of steaming hot lunches to the needy on Monday, one of several ways the nation’s first black president paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday that honors the slain civil rights leader.
Obama also scheduled a White House talk with black elders and their grandchildren about the movement for racial equality that King led until he was assassinated in 1968. The president also was to speak later Monday during a musical celebration of King’s legacy at the Kennedy Center.
His outing was part of an array of holiday tributes. Worshippers at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church heard Princeton University scholar Cornel West deliver a passionate keynote address in Atlanta, urging them not to “sanitize” King’s legacy.
In Washington, Obama spent the day with King observances.
“How are you sir? God bless you,” the president said, greeting one man among the dozens of men and women who filed into the dining room at SOME, or So Others Might Eat.
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Obama joins honors for slain civil rights leader
Well, isn’t that special?
Barack Hussein Obama joins honors for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King. This from a President of the United States that didn’t bother to attend ANY religious services over the Christmas Holiday in 2009.
I don’t know why this should surprise me, or anyone else, after all, Obama snubs Nation’s Heroes, becomes the first President to skip ball honoring Medal of Honor Recipients in over 50 Years. SOURCE
Actually, I sort of expected Barack Hussein Obama to jump all over the MLK holiday, for some reason, I honestly expected him to show adoration towards King. Obama can’t, or won’t show that same adoration towards this nation, our soldiers and our police officers.
Barack Hussein Obama won’t honor the flag of the United States or show respect to the National Anthem, but he has his hands on his crotch!
I use Facebook, a lot, I syndicate the blog and I have a Fan Page The TexasFred Blog Fan Page. Of course I have a HOME PAGE where I connect with friends and family, support the groups I have on Facebook and so forth.
Today however, I have dumped close to 70 people from a so-called *friends list*.
Happy MLK Day? Praise that bastard and make claims that today he’d be a conservative Republican? Bullshit! Today he’d be an Obama supporter and have his lips firmly attached to his *brothers* ass.
Praise King for some perceived wonderment? King was as big a racist as any to ever come down the line. King was ahead of his time, he knew how to work the RACE CARD!
Who do you think taught Je$$ie Jack$on and Al $harpton to be the abba-dabba scam artists THEY are?
I grew up in the era of MLK and my memories of him are not good. Here in Mississippi we do have a MLK day, but we also have a option—It is also Robert E. Lee day. Its the same in Alabama and Arkansas. I choose to honor Lee and not someone who I considered to be a communist as did J. Edgar Hoover. MLK never, never inpressed me, but I bet Chris Matthews got the wet leg when he listened. As you would say Fred, nuff said!
Can handle Robert E. Lee day. Great man.
You guys are gonna LOVE tomorrows post!!
I tried to post Pat Buchanan’s letter to Obama-the system saw it as spam. To bad. Pretty good letter.
Hi Fred. I lived in the Philadelphia,Pa. area actually in Montgomery County when king was assassinated. In fact I was in a bar called the “Hat Lounge” on Stenton Ave. in the Mt. Airy section of Philly. Anyway the Philly police came in about 8:30PM or so and advised the bartender to notify the owner that it would be best to close the place because the police where afraid people were going to riot in the streets and neighborhoods.At any rate there where only a few people myself included in the establishment at the time and we complied and ended up going to a private after-hours club in Montgomery County. We partied hearty.
I never did think he was so frikken big of a deal. The only REAL reason that the government and the news media fell all to pieces and made him a martyr was because they thought he was going to start a king(no pun intended) sized race riot and they couldn’t handle something of that magnitude. Maybe the country would be better off today if he HAD started one. Like the joke goes…If we get a holiday for him getting shot, too bad they didn’t get the other four, jackson, farakahan, sharpton, and malcom x, that way we could have gotten a whole week off, plus, lowering the welfare rolls. The racial tensions aren’t any better now. In fact, their worse with this bunch of cry baby pussies that play their race card every time they don’t get their way.They can stick their race card up their ass for all I care. They’er BLACK…I’m WHITE, we both bleed RED and shit BROWN. nuffff said.
LMAO at Vigilante. You are damn straight about that!! This racist crap needs to be told the way it is. It’s reverse racism. Others are racists towards whites.
The way BO is holding his cock says it all. One cocky son of a bitch who would piss on the American Flag rather than raise a hand to cover his heart.
He is the Lamisal scum. Or something more disgusting than that…..Does anybody get off work for Presidents Day anymore?? Again Vigilante, youre right. We all bleed the same, it’s just that the white ppl have to pucker up and kiss ass in many other races opinions. Hell, my ancestors died in the South during the CW fighting for what they believed was right. Im not going to kiss anybodys ass and dishonor my family. I wish ppl would just say American and get rid of the words black, white, mexican etc. That’s a screw up! The black man on Fox News is really cool, I forgot his name but he is a man of CHARACTER. I have the utmost respect for him and he’s working hard to educate those who need it…..Check him out sometime, he has class!! & hates BO!!
and Fred……this does NOT surprise me that Obama would celebrate MLK and no other Holiday. He’s the leader of rasicm in this country!
Nobody asks any more why a federal court order the FBI files on MLK sealed until 2027.
Bob, that’s because they figure all of that know the COMMIE BASTARD was a COMMIE BASTARD will be dead and gone…
2027?? For real? I didnt know that. Why are they sealed?
Annie Oakley, supposedly, there’s stuff on there that will blow the whole eacial equality movement of the 50’s and 60’s off the map…
Just like the JFK files being sealed until 2017 so I hear..
Hope I’m around to hear what it is……….have to tell our kids, and eventually grandkids to pay attention!
Well said Texas Fred I agree with you!!!
Annie, by time 2027 comes around, another judge will order them sealed again.
Today he’d be an Obama supporter and have his lips firmly attached to his *brothers* ass.
True.
Good point about Jackson and Sharpton too.
Since his death, MLK has been virtually canonized and a lot has been glossed over.
MLK was a card carrying Commie and a womanizer… and our gooberment thinks we are all too stupid to know that. To be honest, I have more respect for Malcolm X, as he wasn’t one thing on the surface and another in reality. In fact he was killed by his own because he didn’t fit the mold like others. JMHO.
I wouldn’t give you a penny for any of the “race card players” and I agree with the thought that if MLK were still alive, he’d be right in there with the other race baiting ObamaZombies.
You all have great points on the issue, the biggest being they dedicated a holiday to a first rate hypocrite!!!
If you call me a bigot, I probably am, but I am an equal opportunity bigot, I hate everybody, equally. On MLK my belief is that he was just another race baiter. Everywhere he went, trouble always erupted while he was there or soon after. Hell, blacks didn’t need a reason to riot they just did, and still do today. Look at Memphis during the garbage mens strike MLK was supporting. Look at the Rodney King riots in LA. What was the difference. When MLK was shot down didn’t they have riots all over the country, burning down their own neighborhoods? A good idea it seems, I don’t think comming to my hood would have gotten them anywhere but dead.
Then you are in good company!