Ken Burch
1 min readJul 23, 2021

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Here's why white conservatives are not entitled to quote MLK against the Black community: MLK never agreed with any of the white conservatives who quote him against the Black community; when he walked this earth white conservatives hated MLK and did all they could to bring his nonviolent movement to a halt, because white conservatives never actually accepted that Jim Crow was wrong and because they never accepted that Black resistance to Jim Crow was in any way legitimate; and when he was murdered by a right-wing white man- possibly in conspiracy with others- most white conservatives were actually relieved.

And just as is the case with BLM, white conservatives almost universally accused MLK of being a "Communist"- a term that was never really part of political reality in this country and a party which was totally irrelevant in the 1950s/60s black freedom struggle- simply because he denounced the Vietnam War for what it was, an immoral, unwinnable and essentially imperialist endeavor.

BTW, there is nothing "un-American" in using words like "anti-imperialist", since this country was born of a violent anti-colonial revolt against the British Empire.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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