Posted on 08/27/2013 5:48:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Here's a case of the fruit falling and rolling a long way from the tree.
Last Saturday, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King III spoke. He echoed his father's words from fifty years ago about people not being judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
In the words of MLK III:
"The task is not done, the journey is not complete," he said. "The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
To that end, I would say that Dr. King was wildly successful. Certainly, Dr. King's children -- post 1964 -- have, increasingly, lived free from the pernicious discrimination (legal and social) that his father -- and his father's generation -- knew all too well.
But then MLK III, in step with race industry propaganda, which is encouraged by the nation's white liberal power structure, said this:
"However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin's mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character," he said, calling for "stand your ground" self-defense laws to be repealed in states where they have been enacted.
MLK III isn't a naïf. He knows better about Trayvon Martin's "character," given the details that have surfaced about Martin. What Martin's intentions were that awful night he was shot and killed as he passed through George Zimmerman's neighborhood are at question.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin’s mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one’s skin remains a license to profile”
...replace “Trayvon Martin” with “Chris Lane” and “profile” with “kill” you race baiting son of a bitch!
Aside from the obvious low grade pander fest that his speech demonstrated, I was struck by the contrast between his and his father’s rhetoric. MLK Jr impressed me as an orator. He spoke standard English well.
His son - not so much.
Maybe MLK III is going to join the other “real” Uncle Tom’s, (Uncle Tom Jessie and Uncle Tom Sharpton) in keeping the blacks on the democrat plantation and ensuring their place in ‘the house.’
MLK did a pretty good job of disgracing himself without any help.
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