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15 Jan 2021
The civil rights movement was a communist front and Martin Luther King Jr. advocated violence while publicly promoting nonviolence for public relations reasons.

His first book is called Communist Revolution in the Streets, which is all about how the civil rights movement is actually secretly a communist front. That sounds like a better dance party, though. The book was published by Western Islands, which is the John Birch Society publishing imprint, and it has a foreword written by W. Cleon Skousen, another of Alex's heroes, and the uncle of his regular InfoWars guest, Joel Skousen. The book has a slightly different take on Martin Luther King and goes out of its way to suggest that he was a violent revolutionary who only said things about nonviolence to appear acceptable in public. In a caption on a picture of Martin Luther King on page one of this book, Allen writes, quote, although King talks nonviolence, many of his alliances are formed with Negro leaders who advocate violence and give the movement its quality of revolution. Jesus. This is an important idea of the anti-communists, that the entirety of the civil rights movement was a communist facade and that Martin Luther King was essentially there to trick white people into thinking it was a peaceful revolution. From page two, quote, King closed his talk by declaring that, of course, he meant this should be done nonviolently. Many in the crowd laughed openly. They felt the term nonviolence was a sham and it was being used by King primarily for public relations reasons.

09 Oct 2017
James David Manning falsely attributes a quote about judging by the color of the cream inside an Oreo to Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm not thinking that got them there because the Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he not the color of his skin. And in fact, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, judged a man by the color of the Oreo on the outside, but judged a man by the color of the cream on the inside. He did not say that. No, what are you talking about?