Jan 18 - Str!p club apologizes for using Martin Luther King Jr.'s picture on flyer

MIAMI -- When Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream, this likely wasn't what he meant.
A flier promoting a Miami strip club's "I Have a Dream Bash" featuring MLK holding wads of cash next to scantily clad women has its creator taking plenty of flak.

Miami Beach graphic designer Jeffrey Darnell Paul says he didn't realize the flier, made for The Office strip club at 250 Northeast 183rd Street, would generate the controversy it has.
"I wasn't trying to disrespect anybody ... it wasn't on my mind that it would escalate to something like this," Paul told NBC Miami Monday. "It was just supposed to be a promotional thing, it wasn't about disgracing Martin Luther King, it wasn't about that."


Paul, who owns and runs South Side Graphix, said he makes fliers for the club every Sunday and that he made the King flier about a week ago for the club's promoters.
"It was proposed to me like a birthday bash for Martin Luther King, I put a flier together without thinking about the effects it would have," said Paul, who is also known as DJ Big Boy. "It's something that I really didn't think about."

Paul said the bash, which was supposed to begin at 8 p.m. Sunday and end at 6 a.m. Monday on MLK Day, was canceled after he realized the flier was inappropriate. He said by then, the flier was making the rounds on the Internet and he was getting lots of negative feedback.

"I got plenty of phone calls, plenty of phone calls ... people calling from Chicago, Ohio, California," Paul said. "If I could've, I would have taken it back ahead of time."
"What was I thinking? Promotion," Paul told NBC Miami.
The strip club's management sought to distance themselves from the promotional effort on Monday, however.

“This is the first time seeing it. This is the owner's first time seeing it," The Office manager Jermaine Robinson said. "So we don’t condone this. This is Martin Luther King. We respect what he did. Today is the day for us to honor him.”

Robinson said the flier is "definitely disrespectful, to be honest with you."
Paul said there's no one to blame but himself.

"I apologize about it, I'm taking full responsibility," he said. "I wish it could have gone down a different way but I'm learning from it and trust me, I'm not going down that route again."

Source: U.S. News - Strip club apologizes for using Martin Luther King Jr.'s image in flier

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I remember seeing that poster

I bet MLK woulda loved to see some !!s on his bday

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LOOL but they kept the number of the people who designed it

wow, y'all young mutha!!as keep letting people !! on your culture while !!ting on your own supporting self destructive ways of living. this really aint funny at all, its detrimental

the dude that made that is an idiot! How the hell did he think that was gone fly.

Its a strip club......and last I checked strip clubs are not black culture.......its male culture.......

To who? If these dudes are willing to pay and the women are willing to play, then I say who is the victim you speak of?

I see it as another form of stress relief for men and a huge step up from straight out prostitution for women. So where is the detriment you speak of?

i wanna get mad at this but the part of the picture where martin luther king is holding up the dollers has me dying

MLK is probably rolling over in his grave. WTF. People have no respect these days. Anything to make money. Wonder why this world is so corrupt with greed.

I swear it's like people don't have any common sense anymore

Cmon, Sears had a MLK day sale...its like he's a fictional character.
Damn shame.

!! aint that serious.
whats disturbing to me is the comments i see on the MSNBC or Fox News' remembering MLK news feeds from white folks on facebook.

still rolling with the watermelon and monkey jokes huh? -_-

that last flyer my city and I know who made it

This is what happens when you fight to be equal instead of fighting for knowledge of self and unity in your own community.

blatantly disrespectful. I know that like 5% of these coon knows who MLK is and what he's done but this is ridiculous

Is *****s serious??



My own dad would be appalled by this !!

@ the money in his hand