Opinion ID: 2342172
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Heading: King Gets Shot

Text: In our opinion, Martin Luther King was nothing more or less than an African witch doctor in the image of a Father Divine, or a Daddy Grace, or an Elder Michaux, or a Malcolm X, or an Adam Clayton Powell. All of them have bilked large numbers of black followers less intelligent than themselves. King was attempting to extort $20,000,000,000 from the white taxpayers by means of his poor march on Washington. Everyone knew this. He threatened to strangle the economic life of this city if they failed to surrender to his demands. He urged his black followers to disobey those white man made laws that were in violation of their conscience. This is preaching anarchy. We knew all of this too. King, while in Europe prior to getting shot, likened the United States in Vietnam to Hitler's Germany and their murder of the Jews. He urged young blacks to refuse to fight in Vietnam. We knew this to be unAmerican and would not wish you to believe that we supported it. King twice signed his name to resolutions committing black political power in the United States to work toward the destruction of the white Governments in Rhodesia and South Africa. We recognized this as black racism directed toward the murder of whites in these two countries. King served time in jail for contempt of court and had publicly declared he would ignore an injunction against his Memphis march. Although he preached nonviolence, he was actually the biggest trouble maker in the United States for violence followed the man everywhere. He incited to violence. We knew all of this and the facts are indisputable. Don't ask me why we let the kids at Duke place this enemy of America in a position of martyrdom. We are supposed to teach. We just slipped up, I guess. Anyway, like the black rioters in some 125 of our nation's cities, our kids felt compelled to use this opportunity to take off on the demand spree once again. About 200 of them marched on the home of Dr. Knight and forcibly took possession. They stayed there, too, day and night, and ultimately forced the Knights to get out. Maybe we should have called the police and maybe we should have expelled all 200 of them. With the climate of permissiveness we have established and with our own surrender of moral principle, how can we get tough with anyone? It's a lot easier just to forget about the whole sorry mess. Don't you agree? Dr. Knight held a eulogy wake for King in the Duke Chapel and we felt this was a sort of a placating gesture. It wasn't this to Dr. Knight tho. Our young militants put him into the hospital in a state of exhaustion.