Apparently the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) likes to trash the deeds and memory of great men.  Just Monday they likened Martin Luther King to Robert Mugabe.  There is no question that MLK was no saint.  It is hard to be a mortal man and be perfect.  But he had a vision - a dream - that America does try to emulate in many ways today.  And like another great man, Mahatma Ghandi, he wanted to enact social change through peaceful means, and not through violent upheaval.

But according to Salsa, he is like Mugabe - the raper of Zimbabwe.  Who turned a prosperous country with race problems - into a basket case where all races are indeed equal - dirt poor.  Except for Mugabe and his ilk.  Who feed on the country like a leech feeds on its host.

Comparing King to Mugabe would be akin to comparing Truman to Mussolini.  Hey!  They both rebuilt countries that had been devastated and got people back to work (Truman - Western Europe, Mussolini - Italy).  But that would be like saying that oatmeal and fillet mignon are both food.  Sure.  But a world apart.  Mugabe tried to redistribute the wealth (and like most thugs, keep his percentage of all transactions) through often violent means and instead destroyed it.  King tried to force America to accept the belief that "All men are created equal" through the force of peaceful protest and holding a mirror to the face of a nation that had not really looked into one in a long time.

No, Salsa, King is not a demented thug who tried to destroy America in order to gain equality for all peoples.  He wanted to build America up to a great nation where all people were equal.  Mugabe decided the easiest way to make all people equal was to bring them all down to the lowest common denominator.  And you Salsa are a bunch of morons for even suggesting a connection.