White Tea Partier Explains How MLK Would Tell Blacks That Racism Is Now Over
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we were treated to more daftness and idiocy from this county’s right-wing when it came to discussing racial justice and the legacy of MLK. Over at Liberty University, a school founded by a man who marched with segregationists, GOP Presidential frontrunner and hater of a variety of brown people Donald Trump was tapped to deliver an address to the school’s student body on the national holiday. The celebrity billionaire just delivered his normal stump speech and said very little about MLK, other than dedicating his “record crowd” to the late civil rights activist.
Elsewhere, another conservative blowhard used the day to whitesplain to black people just how much Martin Luther King, Jr. would hate the Black Lives Matter movement and would be on board with white folks shouting “All Lives Matter!” Former one-term Republican Congressman and deadbeat dad Joe Walsh, who now makes a living spewing garbage on the radio, took to Twitter on Monday to deliver his completely reasonable and well-researched thoughts about BLM and today’s racial climate.
Walsh first started with this little gem:
Martin Luther King, Jr would not approve of #BlackLivesMatter. Dr King was about bringing people together. He would say, “All lives matter.”
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 18, 2016
Glad to see that the Tea Part radio host knows that with absolute certainty. He then followed it up with a claim that MLK was about bringing all people together while BLM is only worried about skin color.
MLK Jr was all about “the content of our character, not the color of our skin.” #BLM is only about skin color.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 18, 2016
We then got Walsh getting all butthurt over a strawman, stating that black people are always telling white folks that they can’t comment on MLK because of their race.
Never fails: every MLK Day you get some black folk telling white folk they can’t comment on MLK & race cuz they’re “white.” Bull. Grow up.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 18, 2016
Hey, did you know that King would have totally led an All Lives Matter march in D.C. if he were alive?
In fact, if he were alive today, Martin Luther King, Jr would lead an “All Lives Matter” March on Washington, DC. Would be wonderful.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 18, 2016
Hell, not only would MLK be all in when it came to All Lives Matter, he’d also tell African Americans that racism doesn’t exist anymore.
If MLK were w us 2day he’d say: “Quit whining. We’ve made amazing racial progress. You’ll never know the racism that I knew. Celebrate that!
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 18, 2016
If MLK Jr were w us today he’d slap Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson & other so called black leaders upside the head for using race to divide us.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 18, 2016
MLK Jr would tell young blacks today to quit blaming racism for everything. He’d tell em they are in charge of their own lives & futures.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 18, 2016
Finally, MLK would make sure to lecture blacks today on the high rate of black on black crime.
If MLK were here 2day he’d be outraged at the level of black on black violence in our cities. He’d demand black America fix this crisis ASAP
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 18, 2016
It is always nice to get a history lesson on race from a guy who got kicked off the air because he refused to stop using the N-word.
