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Additional food for thought.
INSIGHT
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’... I have a dream that my four 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... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Editor’s Note: Historian Shelby Steele observes, “There is an awful lot of conservative sentiment in black America, but at the moment, the party line is ruthlessly enforced.” Indeed, those who followed Martin Luther King when he was speaking of freedom, like Jesse Jackson, tolerate no dissension from their liberal ranks now. They have abandoned King’s dream, and aligned themselves with political and social agendas obsessed with color at the expense of character.
Black conservatives of national stature, like Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powel, Ward Connerly, Michael Steele, Jesse Lee Peterson, Alan Keyes, Don Scoggins, Alvin Williams, Ken Blackwell, Thomas Sowell, Star Parker and Walter Williams are routinely castigated by Jackson, et al., as “Uncle Toms” and “puppets.” Yet these are the men and women following the call of King.
Irrespective of one’s conclusion about Martin Luther King’s proper place in history (given the historical account of his personal integrity and character), the two texts cited below (from The Patriot’s Historic Documents section) are well worth reading—for each of them proclaim truth.
INSIGHT
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’... I have a dream that my four 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... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Editor’s Note: Historian Shelby Steele observes, “There is an awful lot of conservative sentiment in black America, but at the moment, the party line is ruthlessly enforced.” Indeed, those who followed Martin Luther King when he was speaking of freedom, like Jesse Jackson, tolerate no dissension from their liberal ranks now. They have abandoned King’s dream, and aligned themselves with political and social agendas obsessed with color at the expense of character.
Black conservatives of national stature, like Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powel, Ward Connerly, Michael Steele, Jesse Lee Peterson, Alan Keyes, Don Scoggins, Alvin Williams, Ken Blackwell, Thomas Sowell, Star Parker and Walter Williams are routinely castigated by Jackson, et al., as “Uncle Toms” and “puppets.” Yet these are the men and women following the call of King.
Irrespective of one’s conclusion about Martin Luther King’s proper place in history (given the historical account of his personal integrity and character), the two texts cited below (from The Patriot’s Historic Documents section) are well worth reading—for each of them proclaim truth.
21 January 2008 12:43:21
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Links to accompany my earlier post:
http://patriotpost.us/histdocs/HaveDream.htm
http://patriotpost.us/histdocs/BirmJail.html
http://patriotpost.us/histdocs/HaveDream.htm
http://patriotpost.us/histdocs/BirmJail.html
21 January 2008 12:47:28
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Happy Civil Rights Day
Happy Civil Rights Day.
Here is a video about a man who is more deserving of a holiday than any other civil rights leader.
In a free society, it is distasteful, to say the least, to name holidays after a specific person. It is certainly more distasteful when that person can be remembered by those who are still alive. Such hero worship should really be tested by the passage of time before evolving into a holiday.
Is it not more prudent to honor the idea of civil rights, for all humans, than to set aside a day named after a single man? After all, there were many civil rights heroes and they all stood on the shoulders of those who came before them.
Either way, civil rights are for everyone, not just a specific race. We should all ardently defend civil rights regardless of who the victim happens to be. After all, the government is increasingly violating the civil rights of all Americans, not just blacks.
category | Race
author | Lucente