Am I the only one who noticed this?

On Monday, Oliver Willis (Occupation: Tool) posted about right-wing bloggers pointing out the good Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s conservative ideals. He called it (to accurately paraphrase ) ‘funny that the righties are trying to make Martin Luther King a right-wing icon’.

Geez Oillie, I see nothing of the sort. What I saw were the mere pointing to facts that King held some ideals that are thought of as ‘conservative’ more often than not.

He then goes onto say this,

“No, I’m sorry. We get Dr. King.”

I’m sorry Ollie, I may be mistaken here, but I didn’t think that anyone or any group could ‘OWN’ someone. Even as intellectual property.

I’ll have to go back and check my Constitutional Law, but calling someone ‘yours’ is akin to treating them as property, and if I’m not mistaken, we outlawed that a while back.

Now, I understand that you are of small mind and that you probably wouldn’t remember any of that, but you should be more sensitive to people’s feelings on this very touchy subject.

If you are going to deny that King never had one single thought along the lines that the people you pointed to were speaking of, you may very well be a fool.

But if you are going to try to say that those topics are of no consequence and that you and those on your side of the political ailse are the only ones who can claim to understand Dr. King’s work, I believe that I am going to have to ask you for an explanation as to your claim to ‘ownership’.

I always thought that King’s work was one that we all had to share.

And please, don’t bother bringing the race card in here, I didn’t.