Posted on 08/27/2010 2:32:21 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
When it comes to civil rights, liberals have been frozen in time since about 1965, rarely recognizing the progress America has made over forty-five years and never coming to grips with the fact that challenges remaining in that arena just might require different kinds of solutions than the sort of big government intervention that was employed four and a half decades ago. Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington D.C. this Saturday should not be a racially polarizing event by any stretch of the imagination, but the Left’s obsession with Beck, it’s desperation to maintain a pliant victim class in America and the date of the event – the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 – have combined to ensure that liberals will continue to play the tattered race card as often as possible in the run up to the rally.
“Whites don’t own Abraham Lincoln,” Beck said recently. “Blacks don’t own Martin Luther King. Those are American icons, American ideas, and we should just talk about character, and that’s really what this event is about. It’s about honoring character.” There is nothing about that statement that should cause any distress among anyone of good will. If liberals truly want to find common ground with the Right, that brief homage to the vision of a color-blind America is as good a place to start as any. Yet, what has been designed and billed as a rally to honor the men and women defending America and American ideals, has become a focal point for the many angry liberals who look at any idea emanating from the Right through racially-polarized glasses.
The off-the-chart liberals at Media Matters For America provide the most extreme example of this phenomenon.
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If only the naysayers really knew what was going on.
I blame the Media including FOX for giving the thugs Like Sharpton a Voice On TV. I Never See anyone From Project 21 a Black Coservative Organization. The Media is only interested in Confrontation,they are as Bad as The Government,pitting groups of people against each other.
Quit touting the race baiters and Cheap Poverty Pimps on TV
If MLK “belongs to blacks”, then can the rest of us go to school/work on that day? Unless, of course, you choose to celebrate Robert E. Lee/Stonewall Jackson Day...
Deneen Borelli is often on Fox.
I don’t get Beck’s infatuation with MLK and his out and out efforts to blacks on board his restoring America thing. He is rewriting the history of MLK. The guy made a speech and that’s it. Does Beck ever talk about his womanizing and his other activities? Beck, instead, should focus on individuals like a Thomas Sowell or the great Walter Williams. These two great Americans focus on being great Americans and not black Americans. Beck and the others need to get over the color of their skin and take part in the American dream.
really?
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