Brett Reese, Greeley School Board Member, Broadcasting Attack On MLK Jr.

KMGH Denver:

GREELEY, Colo. -- A member of the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education is broadcasting an attack on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on his radio station.

Brett Reese reads a listener's letter on 104.7 FM Pirate radio that calls the slain civil rights leader a sexual degenerate, a communist and modern-day plastic god.

Read the whole story: KMGH Denver

Comments

[michnied]

12:56 PM on 01/11/2011

This guy homeschools his kids. :/

He also announced that he is now carrying a gun to school board meetings because he's received death threats.

He's also allegedly the driving force behind a recall vote of all of the other school board members.

[redd35]

05:55 PM on 01/10/2011

African Americans, we need to look to the people of southern Sudan, because this marriage has come to an end! They never wanted us here and they surely don't want us here after the election of the first black president

[MaryJane Colorado]

12:38 PM on 01/10/2011

OK people... are we going to learn anything about hate from the Arizona tragedy? This stuff is out of control in this country.

[Olderandwiser55]

12:23 AM on 01/11/2011

And voting. How did he get on the school board? Voting on local issues are important

[wslope]

10:48 AM on 01/10/2011

This is exactly the deranged rhetoric that, left unchallenged, leads to events like we have witnessed over the weekend. This man is just another mental case inflaming other nuts.

[LMPE]

08:21 PM on 01/09/2011

This has got to be the worst that an individual can be.

[kareemachan]

06:18 PM on 01/09/2011

'"His name isn't really Martin Luther King Jr.," Reese continues.'

'King's father was born "Michael King", and Martin Luther King, Jr., was originally named "Michael King, Jr.," until the family traveled to Europe in 1934 and visited Germany. His father soon changed both of their names to Martin Luther in honor of the German Protestant leader Martin Luther.' - Wikipedia

What a db.

[salsmom]

05:25 PM on 01/09/2011

Stupid is as stupid does.

[mjonz]

03:28 PM on 01/09/2011

Many people here in Greeley are disgusted by this. How can he represent a diverse student population if these are his views?

http://www.buildbetterschools.com/

[zombywulf]

02:41 AM on 01/10/2011

then stop voting for these RepubloTerrorists.

[drauz]

03:04 PM on 01/09/2011

"Was he a perfect man? No, but who is?"
Born-again Dominionists, political demagogues, wackos in general.

It is a symptom of intellectual weakness to be unable to distinguish an individual's personal flaws from their positive (or negative) influence upon the broader world. Evidently, critical reasoning is no longer common.

[Airek]

03:00 PM on 01/09/2011

I would encourage anyone living in Weld County to boycott his sponsors of Pirate Radio. A list can be found on their website (http://www.pirate1047.com/). Hit him in the wallet

[eesparky]

11:43 PM on 01/10/2011

Fanned.

Tx for being proactive.

[shthar]

02:53 PM on 01/09/2011

He's been running that clip for 3 years.

Why give him publicity now?

[mjonz]

03:27 PM on 01/09/2011

Because this is his first year on the school board

[onwisconsin]

02:06 PM on 01/09/2011

I was just viewing a powerpoint presentation my husband is giving tomorrow to students in the high school where he teaches. I'm reminded that FBI director Hoover said many of the same things about the Rev. Dr. King many years ago. There are people who would like to go back to the "good old days" when white males held all the power and all others knew to stay "in their place". Too bad for them. Dr. King brought a message of freedom that cannot be denied and must continue to be expanded. Was he a perfect man? No, but who is?
As a feminist, I would have preferred that his movement would have been more inclusive of women but I also realize that it started something grand. I now have friends of all races who work beside me and went to school beside me. We're not at the promised land yet, not by a far piece, but we've made great strides.

[zombywulf]

02:42 AM on 01/10/2011

was Hoover wearing his red dress at the time??

[onwisconsin]

11:55 AM on 01/10/2011

Funny, that's another thing we talked about. These students have no idea who Hoover was, let alone any parts of his life. My husband had 289 slides in his ppt presentation before he started cutting (for an hour presentation to about 1/3 of the school). I think he cut about 45 slides but it will still be tight even though some are just title slides. I helped with sound editing yesterday, putting in clips of speeches so that they get a good sense of the man and the words he used to inspire others. There are sections on the FBI both when Dr. King was alive and after he died as Hoover frustrated the investigation of the assassination, against the family's wishes. I think it's a fantastic presentation of the Dr. King's life, his work, his death and the aftermath of that tragedy, and the legacy of Dr. King (the true legacy and the corrupted legacy as well).

I couldn't be more proud of my husband today if he had been elected president. He's a social studies teacher in a Wisconsin high school and today he'll make sure that these young people, separated by geography and over 40 years, begin to see the struggle for civil rights for all people for what it really was and maybe understand for the first time truly why we honor Dr. King for his legacy.