Paul Mirengoff’s is… easiest. We will take it first. In it — he purports to speak for a civil rights leader (perhaps THE civil rights leader) felled by an assassin’s bullet now 56 years ago. He purports to tell us that… Dr. King would have opposed BLM.
We need not give that even a moment’s thought. The author speaks of nothing he ever knew — or knows.
It is pathetic, actually. And yet so… “on brand“. A privileged older whyte Stanford Law grad telling us what a Black man who died among garbage workers in Memphis 50-some years ago would think? Hard. Pass. Nope. No thanks.
Elizabeth Stauffer (this morning) tries to sell us an eeriely similar a busload of nonsense — about a transparently partisan suit against the NARA, about a vice president’s email accounts… from now almost a decade ago.
How do we know it is a partisan stunt? Because this same strike plaintiff organization never filed suit against not just MISSING Trump emails… and NOT JUST off-grid cell phones he used on J6, AND NOT JUST money he openly stole in perks for the DC hotel he owned while at 1600 Penn… BUT ALSO NEVER FILED SUIT over the top secret documents he PLAINLY… STOLE.
C’mon Bitsy — this is a wildly-amateurish effort, even by your low bar for such BS.
Out.
Powerline Lies... 
As I’ve noted before, Mirengoff should never, ever write about race, because he’s at his absolute worst when he does. This post is remarkable for recycling racist interpretations of MLK’s speech that have been around for decades, but presenting them as if they were brand new irrefutable insights.
Mirengoff acts as if it’s unknowable what King thought about affirmative action, and that anyone claiming he would have supported AA is guilty of “revisionism.” He’s either ignorant of (or deliberately obscuring) the fact that King was on record as a strong supporter of affirmative action. In 1963, he argued that given the long history of American racism, blacks fully deserved “special, compensatory measures” in jobs, education and other realms. In 1967, he wrote: “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him.”
Does Mirengoff know this? You would think that if he genuinely wanted to write about a topic, he would at least do some cursory research, but I suppose only if that research supports his dubious thesis.
Never forget, Mirengoff is the man who once wrote the following:
“If Blacks want to live in upscale neighborhoods populated by Whites, but can’t afford to, we shouldn’t assume that racism is responsible. More likely, the Blacks in question haven’t done the things they needed to do — e.g., stay in school, avoid having kids too young, get and stay married — to afford the housing they want.”
In other words, the man’s a straight-up racist.
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Exactly! 100%!
Namaste…
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