January 14, 2022
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Martin Luther King Day
and the Destruction of the American Republic
Friends,
As is my
custom, each year for the Federal holiday celebrating Martin Luther King (whose
birth date in January 15), I send out a cautionary essay I first began researching
back in 2018. What I was attempting to do was urgently remind readers,
specifically so-called “conservatives,” that King and his holiday are
emblematic of the ongoing radical transformation of the American republic: the mindless canonization and glorification of
King, especially by the conservative movement, only advances this project. And
the fact that most Republicans and “conservatives” now buy into it illustrates
their puerility and abject surrender to a Leftist agenda. The resulting revolutionary
destruction of the United States, our traditions, and our history cannot be
overstated.
For in
placing King and his legacy on a pedestal, alongside George Washington or
Ronald Reagan, conservatives—whether they intend to or not—buy into that radical
agenda. You simply cannot create a legitimate opposition to the madness that
currently afflicts us by accepting the essential principles and foundation of
our enemies.
King is now the salutary, untouchable, indeed, indisputably
holy and magical American talisman—an Icon—whose legacy cannot and must not be
questioned. To do so means you are by definition a “racist,” a “white
supremacist,” probably a “fascist,” as well. And from the usual Progressivist
voices to almost the entirety of the pundits on FOX (can you find an
exception?) and in the Establishment conservative media, King is the newest
Founding Father who confirms the imposed narrative that “America was founded on
the ‘proposition’ of Equality’.” The problem, however, is that this historical
template is false, undone by a serious and thorough examination of history and
the documentation available. But it is used by both the Progressivists AND the “Movement
Conservative” advocates to advance an agenda that in the end leads irreversibly
Left…and the destruction of our Western civilization.
*****
Once
again on the third Monday of January, Federal and state offices and many
businesses either close or go on limited schedules due to Martin Luther King
Day. We are awash with public observances, parades, prayer breakfasts,
stepped-up school projects for our unwary and intellectually-abused children,
and gobs and gobs of over-the-top television “specials” and movies, all geared
to tell us—to shout it in our faces, if we don’t pay strict attention—that King
was some sort of superhuman, semi-divine civil rights leader who brought the
promise of equality to millions of Americans, a kind of modern St. John the
Baptist ushering in the Millennium. And that he stands just below Jesus Christ
in the pantheon of revered and adored historical personages…and in some ways,
perhaps above Jesus Christ in the minds of many of his
present-day devotees and epigones.
It
may seem to do no good to issue a demurrer to this veritable religious “cult of
Dr. King.” There are, indeed, numerous “Christian” churches that now
“celebrate” this day just as if it were a major feast in the Christian
calendar. In short, Martin Luther King has received de facto canonization
religiously and in the public mind as no other person in American history.
Mention
the fact that King probably plagiarized as much as 40 % of his Boston
University Ph.D. dissertation [cf. Theodore Pappas, Plagiarism and the
Culture War: The Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr, and Other Prominent
Americans, 1998 and Martin Luther King Jr Plagiarism Story, 1994],
or that he worked closely with known Communists throughout his life, or that he
advocated American defeat in Vietnam while praising Ho Chi Minh, or that he
implicitly countenanced violence and Marxism, especially later in his life
[cf., Congressional Record, 129, no. 130 (October 3, 1983):
S13452-S13461]—mention any of these accusations confirmed begrudgingly by his
establishment biographers David Garrow and Taylor Branch, or mention his
even-by-current-standards violent “rough sex” escapades which apparently
involved even under-agers (cf., Cooper
Sterling, VDare.com, January 13, 2018) and you immediately get
labeled a “racist” and condemned by not just the zealous King flame-keepers on
the Left, but by such “racially acceptable” Neoconservatives as Brian Kilmeade
and Dinesh D’Souza who supposedly are on the Right.
Indeed,
in some ways Establishment “conservatives” such as Kilmeade, Rich Lowry (National
Review), D’Souza, Glenn Beck, the talking heads on Fox, and many others,
not only eagerly buy into this narrative, they now have converted King into a
full-fledged, card-carrying member of “Conservatism Inc.”—the (contemporary)
“conservative movement”—a “plaster saint” iconized as literally no one else in
our history.
Celebrating
King becomes a means for these ersatz conservatives to demonstrate their “civil
rights” and “egalitarian” bona fides. The Neoconservatives—who
dominate modern conservatism—with their philosophical and ideological origins
over on the Trotskyite Left of the 1930s and 1940s, when they made their
pilgrimage towards conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s brought with them a
fervent believe in a globalist New World Order egalitarianism that
characterized Trotskyite Marxist ideology, and the determination to redefine
and re-orient the traditional American Rightwing, and to re-write, as well,
American history.
Thus,
the purges of the old conservative movement in the 1980s and 1990s—there was no
room for Southern conservatives like Mel Bradford, no room for traditionalist
Catholics like Frederick Wilhelmsen or Brent Bozell Sr., no room for
paleo-libertarians like Murray Rothbard, no room for Old Right
anti-egalitarians like Paul Gottfried, and no room for “America Firsters” like
Pat Buchanan…And those traditional conservatives who were too significant in
the “pantheon of greats,” like a Russell Kirk, they attempted to simply
whitewash and give them new, cleaned up images and identities (part and parcel
of their “rewriting” of conservatism). Thus, Kirk’s opposition to the civil
rights bills of the 1960s and 1970s, his staunch arguments against
egalitarianism, his willingness to debate cognitive disparities between the
races (publishing, for example, reviews of Dr. Audrey M. Shuey’s study, The
Testing of Negro Intelligence, in his publication, The University
Bookman—I know, as I was there in Mecosta, Michigan, working as his
assistant when it happened) are all swept under the carpet or carefully
ignored.
In
this, in fact, the dominant Neocons have joined with their cousins on the
“farther Left,” to the point that Bush consultant guru and Fox pundit, Karl
Rove, could boast that hardcore Marxist/Communist anti-South historian Eric
Foner (who lamented the collapse of Soviet Communism) was his favorite
historian (when examining Reconstruction) (See Dr. Paul Gottfried’s incisive
critique of Foner and those “conservatives” who have praised him, “Guilt
Trip,” The American Conservative,” May 4, 2009, pp. 21-23). And now
neo-Reconstruction historian Allen Guelzo is warmly welcomed in the pages of
establishment mainstream “conservative” publications.
King
Day has become, then, for the Conservative Movement an opportunity for it to
beat its chest, brag about its commitment to civil rights and the American
“dream,” the unrealized idea of equality (that is, to distort and re-write the
history of the American Founding), and to protect its left flank against the
ever increasing charges that it could be, just might be, maybe is—“racist” or
“white supremacist.”
And
for the “farther Left,” that catapulting cultural “woke” juggernaut that
continues to move the societal and political goalposts to the Left, King Day
becomes as a major ideological blitzkrieg, a weaponized cudgel used to strike
down and silence anyone, anywhere, who might offer the slightest dissent to the
latest barbarity and latest “advance” in civil rights, now expanded to include
not just everything “racial,” but also same sex marriage, transgenderism and
abortion on demand. Martin Luther King–that deeply and irredeemably flawed and
fraudulent figure imposed upon us and our consciousness—has become an icon, a
totem, who serves in martyred death the purposes of continuing Revolution.
The
heavily-documented literature detailing the real Martin Luther King is abundant
and remains uncontroverted and basically uncontested. During the debates over
establishing a national “King Day” in the mid-1980s, Senators Jesse Helms and
John East (both North Carolinians) led the opposition, supplying the Congress
and the nation, and anyone with eyes to read, full accounts of the “King
legacy,” from his close association and collaboration with the Communist Party
USA to his advocacy of violence and support for the Communists in North
Vietnam, to implicit support for Marxist revolution domestically. Ironically,
it was Robert Woodson, a noted black Republican, who highlighted in a lecture
given to honor the “conservative virtues” of King at
the Heritage Foundation on November 5, 1993, the difficulties in getting black
advocates of the older generation to respect King’s role as a Civil Rights
leader. According to Woodson, as quoted in an excellent essay by Paul
Gottfried,
“…when Dr. King tried to bring the Civil Rights movement together
with the [Marxist] peace movement, it
was Carl Rowan who characterized King as a Communist, not Ronald Reagan.
I remember being on the dais of the NAACP banquet in Darby, Pennsylvania when
Roy Wilkins soundly castigated King for this position.”
[Paul Gottfried, “The
Cult of St. Martin Luther King – A Loyalty Test for Careerist Conservatives?”
January 16, 2012]
Indeed,
as reported by The
Washington Post, at a celebration of the life of
W.E.B. Du Bois at Carnegie Hall in February 1968, King, while praising the
co-founder of the NAACP who became a Communist in his later years, declared
that America was possessed of an “irrational obsessive anti-communism.”
But
not only that, behind the scenes there were voluminous secretly-made FBI
recordings and accounts of King’s violent sexual escapades, often times with
more than two or three others involved in such “rough sex” trysts; and of his
near total hypocrisy when discussing civil rights and other prominent civil
rights leaders. It is, to put it mildly, a sorry record, scandalous even by
today’s standards…Indeed, King makes Harvey Weinstein look like a meek choirboy
in comparison.
But
you won’t hear any of that mentioned by the falling-all-over-itself Mainstream
Media or the media mavens on Fox. In fact, such comments will get you exiled to
the far reaches of the Gobi Desert and labeled a “racist,” quicker that my
cocker spaniel gobbles down his kibble.
Rather
than rehash and restate all the various accusations, backed up with substantial
and overwhelming documentation, let me offer something of an annotated
bibliography and history of MLK Day. Almost all the material is now available
and accessible online, including material from the Congressional Record.
First,
essential to understanding the background of just how we got King Day, the late
Dr. Samuel Francis’s account is critical. Originally written to preface the
publication of voluminous testimony and documentation placed in the Congressional
Record by Senator Helms, Francis’s essay and the Helms’ dossier were
eventually published in book form. A few years back Dr. Francis’s introduction
and his detailed background essay and the lengthy Congressional Record material
(which he prepared for Helms) were put online. For a complete understanding of
King’s association and cooperation with American Communists and his endorsement
of Vietnamese Communism, as well as his putative endorsement of Marxism here in
the United States while condemning the free enterprise system, these two items
are essential reading:
Dr.
Samuel Francis, “The
King Holiday and Its Meaning,” February 26, 2015.
Dr.
Samuel Francis, “Remarks
of Senator Jesse Helms. Congressional Quarterly,”
February 26, 2005.
To
fully understand the serious plagiarism charges leveled against King and the
academic and politically-correct skullduggery that surrounded Boston
University’s decision not to rescind his doctoral degree, Theodore Pappas’s two
detailed studies, cited above, offer fascinating and scandalously revealing
details. But other writers, also, upon cursory examination, have found numerous
other instances of his plagiarism.
Remember
the “I Have a Dream” speech? Well, as Jim Goad wrote in Takimag back
in 2012:
“…the
immortalized in MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech in the part where he beseeches
God…to “Let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia.” King stole
that passage about Stone Mountain from a 1952 oratory delivered by another
black preacher at the Republican National Convention. He also allegedly
plagiarized parts of the first public sermon he ever delivered back in 1947.”
[Jim Goad, “I’m So Bored with MLK,” Takimag, January
16, 2012]
But,
say the Neocon scribblers at National
Review and the pundits on Fox, wasn’t King really a conservative at heart,
an old-fashioned black Baptist who believed in the tenets of traditional
Christianity? Shouldn’t we simply overlook these all-too-human foibles?
To
answer that I should mention VDare editor Peter Brimelow’s superb essay which
offers additional insight on the King Day holiday and which summarizes much of
the information, ideological uses, and controversy surrounding him and his holiday.
It was originally published in 2015, but he has republished it each year to
coincide with this annual national paroxysm: “
‘Time To Rethink Martin Luther King Day’–The 2017 Edition.”
Finally,
I can think of no better summation of the real meaning of King Day and its
bare-knuckled ideological use to deconstruct, dissolve and obliterate American
traditions and heritage than to cite, again, Sam Francis:
“[T]he true meaning of the holiday is that it serves to legitimize
the radical social and political agenda that King himself favored and to
delegitimize traditional American social and cultural institutions—not simply
those that supported racial segregation but also those that support a free
market economy, an anti-communist foreign policy, and a constitutional system
that restrains the power of the state rather than one that centralizes and
expands power for the reconstruction of society and the redistribution of
wealth. In this sense, the campaign to enact the legal public holiday in honor
of Martin Luther King was a small first step on the long march to revolution, a
charter by which that revolution is justified as the true and ultimate meaning
of the American identity. In this sense, and also in King’s own sense, as he
defined it in his speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, the Declaration of
Independence becomes a “promissory note” by which the state is authorized to
pursue social and economic egalitarianism as its mission, and all institutions
and values that fail to reflect the dominance of equality—racial, cultural,
national, economic, political, and social—must be overcome and discarded.
“By placing King—and therefore his own radical ideology of social
transformation and reconstruction—into the central pantheon of American
history, the King holiday provides a green light by which the revolutionary
process of transformation and reconstruction can charge full speed ahead.
Moreover, by placing King at the center of the American national pantheon, the
holiday also serves to undermine any argument against the revolutionary
political agenda that it has come to symbolize. Having promoted or accepted the
symbol of the new dogma as a defining—perhaps the defining—icon of the American
political order, those who oppose the revolutionary agenda the symbol
represents have little ground to resist that agenda.” [January
16, 2006]
I
will not be celebrating this day; rather, it is for me a mournful reminder of
what has happened and is happening to this country.
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