Why Was MLK Jr. Assassinated?

Question

My theory is that he accomplished his job with exposing American racism which lead to the enactment Civil Rights legislation. Four years later,
"Higher powers" viewed MLK Jr. as a threat to the status quo. After King's death, the Democrats wilted and the GOP took over.

The FBI hounded MLK for nealrly 2 decades and set him up with numerous women, but his wife and family stood by King and his mission.

This question is a followup to a discussion regarding gay marriage where I was called a bigot for expressing my view that Dr. King opened the door for gay marriage. I mentioned the Stonewall riots which welcomed the gay rights movement, which has nothing to do with MLK Jr.'s non-violent civil rights movement.

Sorry for misspelling dearly.

I was aware that Malcolm X separated himself from militant Islam.

Dear JB_HR2007,

I don't believe I said anything offensive.

Republicans were not promoting racial equality either but sat in the background and did nothing. Since King was the minority, I'm inclined to believe that the majority and the GOP conspired to eliminate him.

Answer 1

Most of the time, the simplest explanation is the only right one. Like JFK being assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald--its the only sensible explanation, though I do believe Oswald was a Mafia tool who was wiped out by Jack Ruby after he was no longer useful.

Anyway, same thing with King--he was killed by a deranged bigot, though not necessarily by Ray, whose confession was probably coerced.

But these are some of history's unsolvaeable mysteries, especially if you subscibe to the myriad conspiacy theories. I don't. Again, the simplest explanation is usually the best.

As for your other theory, I don't think the Democrats are, or have ever been a Communist front. They lost power because their ideas became increasingly identified with the radical left following the laudable victories of the civil rights movement. But keep in mind that historically, the Democratic party was always the anti-civil rights party; the victory went with the courageous minority who decided it was time to defy the racists. Afterwards, many of those older Southern Democrats moved to the Republican party, where they found redemption and salvation. The Democrats, though, far from reversing the old racist tenets of their party, simply reworked them into a more benign image--it wasn't such a giant leap, after all, to move from "segregation" to "affirmative action;" it was the same concept, just with a better sounding name to pass constitutional muster.

The price, of course, is that they've fallen from grace in the last 40 years, a course which is continuing today, thanks to their continuing to cling to the old radical theology of racial seperation and segmentation through quota programs and welfare and such; on top of other destructive stands such as legalized infanticide--oh, I mean abortion. ( I could go on and on, but I won't.)

Answer 2

I sure the American Communist party would be surprized to find out the they took over the democratic party in the 1960's! True communists were then and are a fringe group in the US and have nothing to do with the Democratic Party. It is a tired right wing tactic to tarnish the democrats and liberals with the tainted brush of "communism" and it's a insult to all Democrats, who all believe in the american free enterprise system. There a big difference betwen a democrat and a communist or a liberal and a communist.

Also, Malcolm X did not "leave Islam" he left Elijah Mohammed's "Nation of Islam" which was basically a cult, never renounced Islam. He was killed by agents of the Nation of Islam.

Martin Luther King was probably killed for reasons similar to those the questioner and others have stated.

Answer 3

Of course there are the conspiracy theorist who would have you believe there is something more to the assassination of MLK. Like the notion of the bullet coming from a different location than where Ray was located.

"Many suspecting a conspiracy in the assassination point out the two separate ballistic tests conducted on the Remington Gamemaster had neither conclusively proved Ray had been the killer nor that it had even been the murder weapon. Moreover, witnesses surrounding King at the moment of his death say the shot came from another location, from behind thick shrubbery near the rooming house, not from the rooming house itself, shrubbery which had been suddenly and inexplicably cut away in the days following the assassination."

Of course this then gives way to what you are discussing in your question, the constant hounding of the FBI toward Dr. King. Could the FBI have conspired to assassinate him? This would have been for completely different reasons than Ray had to kill MLK.

Ray wanted King dead because Ray was a bigot, and a segregationist - killing him because of MLK's obvious work to combat racism in America.

I'm not one for huge conspiracy theories, so I think that I accept that Ray was a white supremacist who wanted MLK dead. He took his opportunity to kill him and did - unfortunately, just like many people would have if given the chance.

Answer 4

He was black. He was effective. He was making the average the average White american think that maybe he was not so scary. This scared the true hateful bigots. They hoped killing him would cause a "race" war, then they could wipe out what they feared. The problem was, too many people were apalled by the act, rather than angry about the riots. In the end, Dr King won the war by losing the battle.

Answer 5

My own theory behind this is that he was murdered by communists and/or islamics specifically to make him a martyr. They were wildly successful and his name has been used to advance a sinister agenda ever since. Same thing was done to Malcom X. Not many people bother to know this but Malcom X seperated himself from Islam and recanted his advocacy of violence in favor of King's non-violent activism. Soon afterward, he was murdered.

The reason I advance these theories (and that is all they are) is that the groups these two people were involved in have a long history of violence, crime and murder for political reasons. In short, they've done it many times before. And because they've done it many times before, whenever things like this look "hinky" as they do in the evidence surrounding both murders, they are the first place to look into.

As for the dems wilting and the GOP taking over, I would like to point out that the riots that took place after the murder of MLK was when the traditional leaders of the dems were ousted and the party was taken over, lock, stock and barrel by the communist left. Those riots were orchestrated specifically to engineer that take over and that time marks the beginning of the democratic party abandoning its traditional agenda and working toward the interests of the radical left ONLY. For an in depth analysis of this, read almost anything written by Horowitz.

Answer 6

I don't know much about it.

A few years ago, something funny happened. Some group was giving an award to James Earl Jones, and someone messed up the award and it said on it "To James Earl Ray - thanks for keeping the dream alive."

JEJ thought it was funny...

Answer 7

Or James Earl Ray was just a crazy racist.

Answer 8

He helped cause numerous riots and protests, he was considered a threat.

Answer 9

I don't like you!

Answer 10

no