Martin Luther King was going to propose a separate black nation just before his assassination
The word “dream” in relation to Martin Luther http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2816. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered at the 1963 March on Washington, with the full backing of the United States government and a coalition of special interests. The end result of the speech was the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which ushered in a new era of multiculturalism and began the death of the United States as it once was.
Far from being a courageous radical, King was an establishment icon. His http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3092 and close relationship with Communists attracted the attention of J. Edgar Hoover, but King got a free ride from the mass media and the interests they and he represented. Even the fact that King plagiarized not only his doctoral dissertation, but twenty percent of the “I Have a Dream” sermon itself was ignored. (The last two minutes of King’s speech mirrored a 1952 Reverend Archibald Carey, Sr. address to the Republican National Convention).
But King was no longer of much http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=316 to the rulers after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and he began to flounder for relevance, eventually becoming a nuisance to his former owners.One year to the day before he was killed, King delivered a speech on Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, breaking ranks with the Democrats and their war in Southeast Asia. Attacking America as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” he also stepped on more dangerous ground, calling for economic changes that threatened the vast wealth and power of his former patrons: “A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: ‘This is not just.'” King also maintained that America was “on the wrong side of a world revolution.”
King’s alignment with the Communists of North Vietnam, who, he claimed, were only responding to US aggression, was seen as a reflection of the influence of Communist advisers and the training he underwent at places like the Highlander Folk School, alleged to have been a “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3243." In 1966, King gave a talk to his staff where he openly advocated socialism: “You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong… with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”
The year of his death saw King getting even more bold as he searched for an issue to catapult himself back into the headlines. He and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized his last great push, the “Poor People’s Campaign.” The PPC called for an “economic bill of rights” that would have bankrupted corporate America, as King acknowledged, saying that “reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced.”
While special interest groups often appear to outsiders to have monolithic organization and goals, they compete fiercely among themselves, and the black movement is no exception. King faced vocal opposition to his “Poor People’s Campaign” from other “civil rights leaders,” those creatures whose positions have evolved into the race hustling of today. These leaders also knew that by calling for fundamental redistribution of wealth King had crossed the line. King called the PPC the “second phase” of his Civil Rights battle and threatened to use “civil disobedience” and mass “nonviolent protest” to shut down America if his demands were not met. This put the liberal status quo in a bind. Having granted King the mantle of moral authority for his actions in pursuit of their civil rights goals, they were fearful of having the same tactics used on them.
King did garner support from white leftists. The PPC grew out of a failed effort led by lawyer William Pepper, who helped to build the National Conference for New Politics (NCNP) in league with King, which planned to run King for the presidency on a Third Party ticket with Benjamin Spock. COINTELPRO was a government program to disrupt political dissident movements in the era, and the NCNP was a target. Members of the Blackstone Rangers street gang on the government payroll threatened to take the “Uncle Tom” MLK hostage, while a “Black Caucus” proposed various anti Jewish and antiwhite measures.
One of King’s problems was that his earlier, government sponsored successes had emboldened blacks, who saw that if “whitey” was weak enough to kowtow to demands made “peacefully,” much greater gains could be taken with force. The Black Panthers and a newly radicalized Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3584 X (who called the March on Washington “the Farce on Washington”) and the Nation of Islam gained increasing acceptance among blacks. (Part of the reason for Malcolm’s success was the fact that the “mainstream” media made use of his “white devil” histrionics to scare whites into accepting King as the lesser of two evils, and to make King’s stance seem moderate).
The pressure of black radicalization led to King’s final shift in ideology. According to black lawyer John Watkins, King was preparing to dispense with his calls for integration and demand racial separation, which would have been a disaster for those who invested so much in using “civil rights” to change America. The Augusta Chronicle ran an article on March 23, 2008 about a visit King made to the Georgia city only 12 days before he was gunned down: “Dr. King’s death also stopped him from carrying through on a plan that would have charted a new and highly controversial course for the civil rights movement, according to Mr. Watkins. In his book, he wrote that Dr. King shared his frustrations about the economic inequities blacks faced in America over dinner at a hotel after his speech. He then whispered to Mr. Watkins what he hoped to eventually do, something the former Augustan decided not to put in his book.
“But after 40 years of secrecy, and initially saying he would probably take it to his grave, he revealed what it was: Dr. King was going to propose a separate state for blacks so they could eventually achieve economic parity that he believed wouldn’t happen on its own in America.
“It nearly scared me to death,” Mr. Watkins wrote of the idea.”
William Pepper, who had hoped to recruit King to a political campaign represented the King family after MLK was slain. His work on the case led him to finally believe that King was the victim not of lone gunman James Earl Ray, but of a government/special interest conspiracy to kill MLK. Pepper was so convinced of his belief that he eventually became the lawyer for Ray, and his 1995 book, Orders to Kill, presents a convincing case. Pepper paints a picture of a US government in 1968 in a state of siege. Race riots and enormous Vietnam war protests had the government on high alert. Not only was MLK ideologically outflanked by black radicals and no longer able to keep blacks in line, but he was openly threatening to wreak havoc on the status quo. Newly revealed information about King’s potential alignment with black separatism may well have proved to be the final nail in his coffin.