Maybe Rep. King was for racism/sexism/etc.-ism before he was against them.

Didya ever think about that?

He meant to say "my voting record in this Congress is more consistent with equal opportunity than anyone I know in my Klavern."

See, now it all makes sense.

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Martin Luther King never asked for this. I've read almost every one of his speeches and many of his writings. I can think of nothing in his writings and his speeches that I disagree with.

Steve King is a liar or he has a bad memory! Here is an excerpt from MLK's I have a dream speech:

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." That is why we need an Office of Negro Inclusion established as part of a Wall Street reform initiative.

See. It's right there in his speech. So which is it Rep. King? Do you agree with MLK or don't you?

Steve King = Martin Luther King! HA!

gridlock, you get to the most amusing quality here.

steve king opposed the war in vietnam?

steve king believed in organizing garbage workers in memphis?

steve king believes in black and white poor people working together to advance their common economic interests?

steve king believes in civil disobedience?

i never....

First, if the ridiculous congressman could resist the urge to speak for Martin Luther King, I know I'm not the only one who'd appreciate it.

If by "ridiculous" you mean "ignorant, morally reprehensible and disgusting," I agree completely.

Rep King is the brave defender of all the white people who want an equal opportunity to have an advantage because their skin is white. Is that asking too much?

Here's the quote that lets you know this is a joke: "I've read almost every one of his speeches and many of his writings."

The only thing this King read about the great King was probably a report on his shooting. Instead of Raquel Welch, or some other pretty picture on his wall as a young man, he probably had a poster made of MLK bleeding to death on the balcony and hung that up.
This is another person who proves that recently, the human species is devolving.

I feel like you've posted the exact same post about King before. Then again, he does this a lot.

you all misunderstand - Steve wasn't referring to that Martin Luther King (Jr.). He meant Martin Luther King, Steve's lily-white great-great grandpappy, a snake-handlin' preacher from rural NW Iowa who railed that Iowa had turned traitor when it abolished slavery. All of his writings (and those he collected from the John Birch Society) are passed down through the family, and little Stevie clearly has read 'em all.

So?

As I posted in the Ben Nelson thread below, there will be no consequences for King for acting (or not acting, just being) the consummate @sshole he is.

He will be re-elected comfortably.

As long as he keeps taking credit for those nice, fat farm subsidies that his constituents get, he's safe.

Unfortunate but true, although I apprecieate Steve pointing the @ssholery out, just the same.

Iowa Republican Steve King has always been a racist scum-bag and an abhorrent embarassment to the great state of Iowa.

But Republican Steven King is a perfect embodiment of the modern-day neo-Konfederate Republikan Party.

If by "ridiculous" you mean "ignorant, morally reprehensible and disgusting," I agree completely.
Posted by: dr. bloor on July 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM

In any consideration of Rep. Steve King, not only do all four of those descriptors apply, they all apply at once.

Steve King isn't the only wingnut who says shit like this; the idea that Dr. King opposed affirmative action has become firmly established in the wingnut mythology.

Reading between the lines, "I've stood up and defended equal opportunity, and my voting record in this Congress is more consistent with equal opportunity than anyone I know -- certainly anyone on that side of the aisle, because they vote for preferences. [...]" means "everyone else votes for the n*ggers, so when I vote for white folk, I'm leveling the playing field. Equal opportunity. I believe white people should get all the same breaks and benefite the coloreds get."

Sad thing is, he really believes it.

MLK--The Martin Luther King of 1968 was calling for and leading civil disobedience campaigns against the unjust war in Vietnam. Courageously describing our nation as 'the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,' he was urging us away from a dependence on military solutions. He was encouraging young men to refuse to serve in the military, challenging them not to support America's anti-Communist crusades, which were really destroying the hopes of poor nonwhite peoples everywhere. This Martin Luther King was calling for a radical redistribution of wealth and political power in American society as a way to provide food, clothing, shelter, medical care, jobs, education and hope for all of our country's people.

"I've read almost every one of his speeches and many of his writings. I can think of nothing in his writings and his speeches that I disagree with. "

I guess he missed King's call for a radical redistribution of wealth and an end to imperialistic wars (like the Iraq occupation).

You don't understand Iowa. The eastern part of the state and a few of the larger urban areas tend toward liberalism. The more rural areas are very conservative.

The part of the state that elects King has very few cities over 70,000 and is mostly rural areas. Many people there are or German or Scandinavian decent. Other than the Hispanics who work in the meat packing plants there are very few minorities.

My wife's family is from a rural part of Iowa and she was 13 before she saw a live black person. When I visit her family I only see white faces everywhere.

I'm not excusing him, but the people he associates with back home are largely just like him. So it's not suprising he says things like this. Compared to back home, he is fairly liberal.

Someone should tell Stevie that MLK was specifically in favor of racial preferences and affirmative action.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1292

In Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities, King staffers gathered data on the hiring patterns of corporations doing business in black communities, and called on companies to rectify disparities. "At present, SCLC has Operation Breadbasket functioning in some 12 cities, and the results have been remarkable," King wrote (quoted in Testament of Hope, James Washington, ed.), boasting of "800 new and upgraded jobs [and] several covenants with major industries."

King was well aware of the arguments used against affirmative action policies. As far back as 1964, he was writing in Why We Can't Wait: "Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic."

King supported affirmative action-type programs because he never confused the dream with American reality. As he put it, "A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro" to compete on a just and equal basis (quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound, by Stephen Oates).

In a 1965 Playboy interview, King compared affirmative action-style policies to the GI Bill: "Within common law we have ample precedents for special compensatory programs.... And you will remember that America adopted a policy of special treatment for her millions of veterans after the war."

In King's teachings, affirmative action approaches were not "reverse discrimination" or "racial preference." King promoted affirmative action not as preference for race over race (or gender over gender), but as a preference for inclusion, for equal oportunity, for real democracy. Nor was King's integration punitive: For him, integration benefited all Americans, male and female, white and non-white alike. And contrary to Gingrich, King insisted that, along with individual efforts, collective problems require collective solutions.

Like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, King viewed affirmative action as a means to achieving a truly egalitarian and color-blind society. To destroy the means, the gradual process by which equality is achieved, destroys the dream itself. And the use of King's name in this enterprise only adds derision to destruction.

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