Posted on 01/18/2021 7:40:23 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s a shame that as we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, it is increasingly apparent that his dream for “all of God’s children, black men and white men… to join hands and sing… ‘Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last’” is more a pipe dream than an achievable goal.
The people of America have taken great strides to eradicate all types of racism and we tend to reject it when we see it. Yet, white America stands accused of being racist -- not because of our actions or pronouncements, but because of the poverty that continues to plague many black communities.
Gullible conservatives believed in King’s dream, rooted in the American dream, that all men are created equal. We thought we lived in a country that lived up to these ideals, albeit imperfectly. We don’t have control over everyone, but we thought we lived in a time when we wouldn’t turn our backs on clear instances of racial injustice. Indeed, when George Floyd died, the country condemned his death with one voice.
We intermarry. We live and work cordially amongst one another. We love and befriend one another. We worship together. We have biracial children. Our pop culture reflects this diversity and acceptance -- you cannot turn on the TV without viewing shows and commercials promoting interracial relationships of all combinations. Our sports and movies reflect this, as well. Our news is as diverse as can be. We thought the playing field had been leveled, at least for those who try to make a go of it.
No doubt, in what was once the wealthiest and freest country on the planet, there remains impoverished rural and urban black communities where opportunities are few, children grow up fatherless,
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MLK’s dreams were unconstitutional government interference with free choice (”discrimination”). I couldn’t care less about MLK’s dreams, and yes, this is the logical end-game of his “dreams”.
We have gone from the desire to have equal rights (which I believe everyone can agree with) to “equity” of outcome.
Equity of outcome means if I am naturally smarter than someone and I can perform better in the workplace or invent new things...I should be relegated to same outcome as a functional moron.
Or, worse, the functional moron should benefit from my extra output.
I know there are folks around here that see ME as the functional moron. If that is the case can you imagine sharing the fruits of your labor with ME?
Scary thought, isn’t it?
off topic, but when did we start referring to Martin Luther King as “MLK” using that shorthand of initials? Nobody referred to him as MLK during his lifetime. But in the past few years, I’ve noticed this designation more and more in the media. Just wondering what I missed along the way.
There are some things we aren’t supposed to talk about, which have contributed to the sad state of many black families.
A key issue, is that the vast majority of black babies are born out of wedlock. In 1960, the vast majority of black babies were born to married couples.
Another issue is education. I read an article recently about Dunbar High School in Washington DC, which was an all black school in the days of legal segregation. The student achievement of the students at Dunbar in those days exceeded some white schools. Nowadays Dunbar is a sad inner city school, with poor student achievement, but at one time, it gave black students a find education.
I saw an older black man on TV a few years ago, who said he got a better education in the Jim Crow South, than kids in today’s inner city schools are getting.
The state of schools in so many cities is especially galling, because in many places, black people are in charge of the schools. There are black mayors, black school superintendents, black school board members, black teachers, black principals, overseeing schools with big black student bodies. There’s no way you can blame racism for their problems when black people are overseeing those schools. Yet those problems persist, for whatever reasons.
Today, MLK’s repeated theme would be “I’m having a nightmare!”
He would ask, “How have so many people turned their backs on God, His Word, and the Faith of their fathers?”
He wouldn’t recognize this generation of self-indulged takers.
IMHO
“Content of character” has no baring in a communist society.
I think the best solution to most problems is just “less government”.
The Democrats put Jim Crow in placer and suddenly there were laws on the books basically saying “white people can do this” and “black people can’t do that” and so on. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn’t bad in so far as it took such laws off the books. Fewer laws. Less restrictions. More freedom. That’s what I’d like to see.
But hardly the world we live in today.
The Kenyan from Indonesia set race relations back 50 years.
Maybe even more.
The Kenyan from Indonesia set race relations back 50 years.
Today, the “People of Color” party will pretend that the “Content is Character” leader is their bestie.
I've changed my Tagline.
There is one person to thank for beginning this end to America and that is one Lyndon B Johnson. I hope that they buried the SOB facedown!
Biden is beholden to the teachers’ unions. He will do his best to see that poor black children have no alternative to a failing public school.
They were never interested in that. The modern “civil rights” movement is simply black supremacism.
Look what we have today.
Racism begets racism.
Please! Enough with the MLK worship. Wife beater, plagiarist, and possibly more.
When will the left say good things about Reagan? Ha!
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