Yesterday was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day. And while most of the country was off from school and work celebrating the life and legacy of the civil rights icon, one Colorado man was busy stirring up hate.
Brett Reese is a member of the Greeley, Colorado school board and is owner of local radio station KELS-FM 104.7. In the lead up to King Day, Reese used the occasion to broadcast hateful anti-King material many are calling “hate radio.” Reese used his station’s holiday broadcast to call Dr, King a “plastic god,” a “sexual degenerate” and “an America hating communist,” among other things. Interestingly, this is not the first time Reese has chosen to broadcast material denouncing Martin Luther King Day and the man himself.
Reese claims he has lost sponsors over the broadcasts, but was undeterred, saying he could operate indefinitely without sponsors. And in defense of his decision to target Dr. King on the very day celebrating his life and civil rights accomplishments, Reese said, “I support the idea of being able to talk about historical facts. If these facts are out there, then we should be able to talk about them. There should not be a taboo on an honest discussion of history.” But Reese’s school board colleagues were quick to distant themselves from the controversy, calling his actions “inflammatory and detrimental to our district and community.”
CNN's Anderson Cooper did an entire segment on this story last evening and all I could do was sit and shake my head in total disgust!I've never felt the least bit put off by people having a different views from mine. I'm an *independent* thinker by nature so I welcome a give-and-take environment where the exchange of ideas, thoughts and opinions Freely flows…AS LONG AS they are rationally and Civil expressed. I draw the line at "Carriers of Hatred." The *disease* they carry is like a Cancer of the mind, body and Soul. The *disease* is highly contagious, should be quickly identified and AVOIDED_at ALL costs. Mr. Reese is but one more pathetic_but dangerous_ example of what such a Carrier looks like_smh.