And a very happy Dr. King Day to you too!

Apparently from an anti-Communist, anti-Semitic site called incogman.net that happily no longer exists.

And in That Corner, John Fund, ever the gentleman, spends his Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday not attacking Dr. King. Instead, he attacks the late Nelson Mandela who, unlike Dr. King, held some improper opinions:

“I hate all forms of imperialism, and I consider the U.S. brand to be the most loathsome and contemptible.”

Because our beloved Mandiba was actually totally a Communist conspirator secretly working to destroy America's freedom forever, or at least a member in good [jump]
standing of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party or, as Hugh Macmillan, who may be more familiar with the documentary sources than John Fund, puts it, maybe a kind of member briefly in 1961-62:

Mandela may have been co-opted on to the central committee in his capacity as commander of Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), which was set up as a joint venture of the ANC and the SACP in July 1961. People are frequently co-opted on to the committee of one organisation to represent another but co-option does not necessarily imply membership. Mandela and the SACP may both be right – he was not a communist but he was a member of the central committee. But it is better to admit that we don't know – in conditions of illegality, the boundaries between the two banned organisations became momentarily blurred. There were no party cards or party lists and few formal meetings.

No, for reals, the SACP has "admitted"* though without any supporting documents that Mandela was on the Central Committee, which comes as a total shock, since it's only several decades since we learned that the ANC and SACP cooperated closely in the struggle against apartheid and that the General Secretary of the SACP, Joe Slovo, was more or less Mandela's best friend. And not only that, says Fund, referring to shattering new discoveries by Stephen Ellis and Rian Malan:

A copy of the first draft of Mandela’s autobiography — written while he was in prison on Robben Island in the 1970s — surfaced just after his death last month and confirms that conservative fears about the ANC’s goals and methods were fully justified.

Or, as Malan himself puts it perhaps a tad more judiciously,

here was a rich new source of virgin material to be scanned for the smoking gun, the inside and untold story of Mandela’s secret life as a communist plotter. Alas, the smoking gun was not there. But the prison manuscript does offer insights...

Or, as King said on the subject of imperialism and the relative loathsomeness of the American brand,

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism..... Capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries.

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.”

*Shouldn't the verb be "boasted"? As in, "Yas admitted that TBogg read his blog on a daily basis." No, I have no reason to believe that that is the case, but you won't have to torture me to admit it if I learn different.

There can never be enough pictures of this man's smile. Image via HeadzUpHats.