The Trashing of Dr. King's Dream

Today being the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech it's appropriate to revisit part of that speech and see how his dream has progressed. The full transcript of his speech can be read here. I am going to focus on one tiny part.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Have we as a society reached the point where we do not judge people based on the color of their skin? One need look no further than at all the affirmative action programs in the last fifty years to see the answer is clearly no. Racial preferences are nothing more than judging people based on the color of their skin. But, there are different opinions about the need for and effectiveness of affirmative action. Here are just a few pros and cons that I have found on affirmative action programs:

There are, of course, many who believe affirmative action programs are needed and should stay in place. To those people I would say, you are trashing Dr. King's dream. If you truly believe in the ideals he espoused in his speech then you cannot support affirmative action. His dream and affirmative action are inconsistent. If you favor affirmative action then you are one of the people to whom Dr. King was speaking. Fifty years later, you are still keeping his dream from becoming reality.

I had the honor calling Jesse Helms my friend. When I was in the Air Force I wrote him a few times and he always replied back. Not some form letter a staffer sends out. I finally got the chance to meet him at his office in Raleigh years ago. He was as humble and they they come and he wanted to know about my life, my parents and the military. About the only time we talked politics was when I brought it up. I thanked him for being so supportive of the Armed Forces. I also told him I grew up a fan of his in the 60s when he a commentator on WRAL TV. He was always talking about communism, the danger of affirmative action and homosexuality. Glad he’s not around now to see how the homosexuals have taken over the military.

From Dr. Don Boys-----

"Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a powerful speech with one major, incredible, and admirable thought: we should judge everyone by his character not the color of his skin. That is one of the most important thoughts anyone has ever considered. The media are all discussing his "ad lib" and while it was not an ad lib, it was not in his text. However, he took a speech made by another preacher who spoke at the 1952 Republican Convention! King did not originate "I Have a Dream." It was Archibald Cox. No one ever mentions Archy. Isn't anyone interested in truth no matter what or who's bubbles get burst?

"It is now known that King plagiarized portions of his Nobel Prize lecture, his “I have a Dream” speech, and his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” The close of his famous “I have a Dream” speech was plagiarized from black preacher Archibald Carey who delivered it at the 1952 Republican National Convention! Carey and King had corresponded. King’s books were written by others but he got the credit and the cash.

"So how did the radical leftists and King worshippers explain King’s propensity to steal the work of others? Well, they dallied, denied, and distorted the facts. Various King defenders, with a straight face, suggested that King was only doing what blacks do. That is a slander of all black scholars. Others called his thievery by such labels as borrowings, voice merging, resonances, intertextualizations, and ghost writing. Ghost writers are common (although I can’t understand why a man would put his name on a book that he did not write) but are paid for their original work.

"It will be interesting to see the reaction to this information. It always happens: People get angry with me for providing the facts (!) instead of adjusting their attitude toward a flawed man. They never deal with the facts but always with me! Strange world, especially when Christians are so bigoted. We should be committed to truth whatever the consequences. My book, “Martin Luther King: Judged by His Character Not His Color!” is available on Amazon.com for $4.99."

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives, author of 15 books, frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. His shocking book, ISLAM: America's Trojan Horse!; Christian Resistance: An Idea Whose Time Has Come–Again!; and The God Haters are all available at Amazon.com. These columns go to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations and may be used without change from title through the end tag. His web sites are www.cstnews.com and www.Muslimfact.com and www.thegodhaters.com. Contact Don for an interview or talk show.)

http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/news/ajc030203.htm

Actually New England had plantations but as immigrant labor came in such droves they displaced the slaves

Plus the heat at indigo, rice, sugar and cotton farms down South were better suited to African labor accustomed to the heat

And believe it or not many slaveowners down here were small farms or mills or cattle and hog operators like my great great grandfather etc...there were more small guys than great estates though numerically the large estates held the majority of slaves

He had one slave family on his 600 acre Leaf river bottom cattle works in Mississippi

And they were generally treated better given they were a bigger investment for a small guy and the master and slaves worked side by side

Above is a link to plantations in New England once upon a time:

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