As long as people like MLK’s family can exploit racial tensions for personal gain that’s “true.”
Wow, a rebuke of “The Great One” from a source that is hard to slap down. If only her message is truly received.
Hear hear!
Good for her.
On the abortion issue, Dr. Alveda King is a real mench.
God Bless Dr. King. You can be sure, Martin L King,Jr would not have endorsed President-Elect Obama!
I see her picture at one of the pro-life websites, I forget which.
I think she has been in the movement for a long time.
As said the other day, the abortion lobby has a lot of money, so I think this is a definite credit to her whereas it has phased others.
I love Alveda King. She is a true voice in the wilderness!
No dream ever is fulfilled. That’s why Jefferson wrote “pursuit of happiness.”
I thought McCain, especially Sarah, was our answer to our pro-life prayers. But today I realized that we would take the credit. Now a true miracle is at hand. Man your battle stations, get out the knee pads, sweep the floor (or not) where your face will touch. Watch the LORD God at work. Give Barack Hussein Obama and his cabinet into the hands of God. Give the house and the senate into the hands of God. Give the Supreme Court of the United States, into the hands of God. Sacrifice with prayer, praise and fasting once more. Do not lower your arms from above the Red Sea, do not stop circling the walls of Jericho, listen to the enemy as they fight each other blinded in the night. Who will wake in the morning to victory? The LORD God of righteousness.
Praise the Lord, and pass the ammo, Alveda! God bless you.
She is the only King living up to the praise heaped on MLK. She is a wonder. God bless her.
Alan Keyes: “I reject the concept of race”
Dave,
Barak Obama is black like me only in the sense that we both have dark skin- I.e., a purely physical characteristic. To expect me to identify with him on that basis would require that I validate the concept of race ( i.e., grouping people based on physical characteristics). I have written and said over the years that I reject this concept, and that the only way to overcome racism is to reject the concept of race.
Because human beings are not stones, but persons, our communities are not the result of merely physical characteristics. The very idea of race in this sense is a modern lie tied to the dogma of evolution. I believe that human communities reflect the moral nature of our humanity. They are formed therefore by adherence to common moral principles, as that adherence is developed and reflected in the course of shared historical experience. Understood in this proper sense, Obama and I are not part of the same ethnic group. My heritage includes the experience of slavery, the moral sensibility to injustice and to the importance of respecting the premises of human dignity and freedom. Obama looks back to a heritage that probably includes forbears who were part of the Afro-Islamic groups of Africans who were active in the slave trade. By itself that might be of only superficial importance, but his views on the fundamental moral issues of the day (like the taking of innocent human life) mean that he rejects the premise of God-given moral equality for all men that I hold to be the true soul of the black American identity. The notion that I should take special pride in the election of such a man simply because of his skin color implies that I put the false and humanly contrived category of race above the category of common moral principle that is the true basis for human community. I do not and never will.
The tragic irony is that people whose feelings and reactions are shaped by racial solidarity implicitly validate the concepts that were the basis for racist views and discrimination. They implicitly reject the hope that Martin Luther King expressed that someday people would be judged for the content of their character not the color of their skins. As they do so, they destroy the moral substance that is the true and righteous legacy of the black American heritage in order to revel in the triumph of the very racism that was used to justify the enslavement of my ancestors. This is a desperately sad self-contradiction. I will be no part of it.
This quiet validation of the premise of racism is far from being a good thing . It betrays the suffering and nobility of all those black Americans who fought for justice not only for themselves, but for all, by appealing to the truth of the ideals stated in the Declaration of Independence. This betrayal tips the scales of history back in the direction of regimes based on inequality, elitism and oppressive abuses of power.
I have by the way made these points many times, starting with the Senate race in Illinois.
Godspeed,
Alan
Ladies and Gentlemen, behold: The only quote of a King family member that will never see the light of day.
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