Facts about Martin Luther King, Jr., which are ignored by the mainstream media:
1. In the summer of 1952, he wrote a letter to Coretta Scott in which he ran since spring. His conclusion of the letter: capitalism would no longer needed.
"You are probably already noticed that my economic outlook is influenced much more socialist than capitalist. However, I am capitalism against not so averse that I would not recognize its advantages. His original motives were lofty and noble, namely to combat the monopolies of the nobility. But - as is often the case with man-made systems - capitalism was victim of that thing which he was to fight. Finally, capitalism is needed nowadays no longer. It brought a system to which the masses took necessities and zuspielte the luxury of classes. "
2. In April 1967, Martin Luther King delivered a speech at the Riverside Church in New York City. He called the U.S. government the world's largest "supplier of violence" and denounced the use of napalm, and the formation of a puppet government in South Vietnam.
The establishment reacted angrily to King's speech. The editorial board of the New York Times criticized King vigorously, for said he connection between the war in Vietnam, the struggle of the Civil Rights Movement and poverty Bekämpfungen in the US. According to a New York Times "superficial link" with which he would cause to both matters damage, eventually would be no easy answers, neither the war in Vietnam yet to racial discrimination in their own country.
The editorial board of the Washington Post said, King had reduced its own benefit for that matter, his country and his people. A total of 168 newspapers the following day it have denounced.
President Johnson ended then his political relationship with King. "What is that goddamn nigger preacher doing to me?" - To Johnson have expressed in relation to the speech - "We have 1964's Civil Rights Act approved it, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the war against poverty proclaimed. What does he want to? "
