Fr. Barron comments on Why Dr. King Still Matters
Matthew Schmitz, Who Gets to Use MLK’s Legacy?
Some use his authority to persuade others on questions like abortion. But it goes beyond that, when they accept his civil rights activism as the correct means for dealing with the problem of racism and injustice and see in him someone to admire and emulate. It is one thing to let non-Catholics have their heroes and figures; it is another to embrace those heroes and figures as one's own, even if only to try to facilitate dialogue and to be able to better identify with them. Maybe the division between groups is so great that this sort of cultural appeasement is necessary. But will it be successful in the long run? There are plenty who say the right things on race and engage in other PC grandstanding, but nonetheless will not accept "ractial integration" for themselves or their families. Can national myths and exaggerated sense of identity ever be wiped away, so that people can begin anew and deal with others as they are?
Paul Gottfried, The Cult Of St. Martin Luther King—A Loyalty Test For Careerist Conservatives?
(A reaction by Lawrence Auster to a talk Mr. Gottfried gave in NYC, based on second-hand info.)
Paul Gottfried, The Minicon Mind and MLK as Twentieth-Century Jesus
Marcus Epstein, Myths of Martin Luther King
Whiskey: Martin Luther King: The Return of Otto von Bismarck
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