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Dershowitz reasoned, “In the South, when they convicted black people improperly with an all-white jury or acquitted white people improperly with an all-white jury, that didn’t mean that those convictions were correct. It just meant that the jury didn’t reflect the values of our country, it reflected the values of a particular region of the country, in this case the region is a liberal region, New York, in the Southern cases, the region was the conservative region of the South.”

The biggest impediment to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, dream of a society in which color is not considered important is the continued used of the extremely racist term "African-American". The term implies the descendants of slaves are a separate race whose members belong in Africa rather than the United States even though many have ancestors who were living in North America long before the American Revolution. The term "African American" arbitrarily segregates people by skin color. The term treats people with dark complexions as if they only had African ancestors even if more of their ancestors came from somewhere...

RALEIGH, N.C. – A North Carolina substitute teacher has resigned after a student told his father that the teacher told his class that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was not assassinated but instead killed himself. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Billy Byrd also says his son told him the unidentified substitute music teacher told the class of minority students they were headed to prison because of their clothing. He said the teacher told the students they weren't real Christians if they didn't support President Donald Trump.

Treating the Confederate Flag as a hated enemy because some low life racists have misused it conflicts with Dr. Martin Luther King’s teaching that we should love our enemies. Instead of trying to ban the flag, black leaders should be embracing it so they can turn it into a symbol of racial harmony. Turning the Confederate Flag into a symbol of racial harmony would rob racists of an opportunity to misuse a popular southern symbol to further their goals

Rep. Bennie Thompson has covered himself, and the entire sweep of his brand of big government race-baiting liberalism, with another shroud of shame and ignominy. How, you ask? Or, candidly, how you ask could they have sunk even lower? Sadly, however, that is the case. He has not insinuated, but said, not retracted, but redoubled, his snide, sinister, and ignorant remarks about Justice Clarence Thomas, "...[he] doesn't like black people, he doesn't like being black." He also called Justice Thomas an 'Uncle Tom.' The levels of inappropriateness are staggering. First, there is the spectacle of a member of the legislative...

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism. It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the...

Every US president dreams of making a landmark contribution during his (or one day her) term of office. For President Obama, this contribution is "Health Care Reform." When the air clears, hopefully people will consider the ramifications of this decision. The Christian viewpoint: Queen Esther had her King Xerxes, Daniel faced King Nebuchadnezzar, Joseph faced Pharaoh, Moses faced another Pharaoh and Paul faced King Agrippa. Sometimes these kings feared God. Regardless, each Bible hero or heroine had a defining moment where the choice was to allow God to use them for His glory, or to judge the ungodly behavior of...

Looking at the pictures of Obama's "Temple of Dumb", it struck me that it looked a great deal like the Lincoln Memorial.Then I heard that Obama's speech is on the anniversiary of Dr. King's speech from 45 years ago today.Where did Dr. King give that speech? He gave it in front of the Lincoln Memorial.So we got it wrong. Obama does not think he is a Greek God, he really thinks he is Dr. Martin Luther King!The sweet irony of a Democrat who divides people on race, speaking on the anniversiary of the Dr. King speech, and in front of...

National Black Republican Association In her article, "A Covenant With Life: Reclaiming MLK’s Legacy", MLK's niece, Dr. Alveda C. King, affirms that her uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican   This appears in a Priests for Life Fall/Winter 2008 publication, linked as above from the NBRA website.A Covenant With Life:Reclaiming MLK’s LegacyBy Dr. Alveda C. King – Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.America has entered into a covenant or a culture of death.  May God have mercy, and restore us to a covenant of life!<snip>"My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., or “Daddy King”, was a...

Martin would have been repelled by Mr. Lee's remarks. I was his lawyer and one of his closest advisers, and I can say with absolute certainty that Martin abhorred anti-Semitism in all its forms, including anti-Zionism. "There isn't anyone in this country more likely to understand our struggle than Jews," Martin told me. "Whatever progress we've made so far as a people, their support has been essential." Martin was disheartened that so many blacks could be swayed by Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and other black separatists, rejecting his message of nonviolence, and grumbling about "Jew landlords" and "Jew interlopers"...

Thirty-nine years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and one year after his widow Coretta Scott Kings' passing, the prophetic message of the "drum major for peace" is as powerful and relevant as ever. In 2007 his words have incisive relevance for people all over the world from Iraq to Somalia, New York to Chicago and from Harvey and Chicago Heights to Country Club Hills. A bird's-eye view would show literally millions of people drawing inspiration from the life, work and message of Dr. King for their efforts to obtain peace, justice and equality at every level...

MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine goodwill and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference waves to the crowd before his famous "I Have A Dream" speech on 8/28/1963. REMEMBERING DR. KING: Many will have the day off today. For many it has become just another holiday to do nothing with but sleep in, maybe have friends over etc. But I do want to pay honor to a man who truly embodied the belief of the greatest aspects of our Constitution and Declaration of Independence..."All men are created equal"... and all men are given "divine freedom" from the God who made them....

When President Bill Clinton came to town on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, crowds poured into the streets to watch him lay a wreath at the foot of Dr. King's grave. On Thursday, President Bush is coming to town. And the streets may be full again. Many of Atlanta's civil rights leaders are outraged about Mr. Bush's planned visit to commemorate Dr. King's 75th birthday and are using the occasion for protests. Already, they have marched with bullhorns, signs and thumping drums, shouting for the president to stay away. "His administration has never supported anything to help...