MLK’s unfinished legacy
A new CNN poll shows that a majority of black Americans now believe Martin Luther King’s dream has been fulfilled with the election of Barack of Obama:
More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found — a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008.
Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey was released Monday, a federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader and a day before Barack Obama is to be sworn in as the first black U.S. president.
The poll found 69 percent of blacks said King’s vision has been fulfilled in the more than 45 years since his 1963 “I have a dream” speech — roughly double the 34 percent who agreed with that assessment in a similar poll taken last March.
But whites remain less optimistic, the survey found.
“Whites don’t feel the same way — a majority of them say that the country has not yet fulfilled King’s vision,” CNN polling director Keating Holland said. However, the number of whites saying the dream has been fulfilled has also gone up since March, from 35 percent to 46 percent.
In the 1963 speech, delivered to a civil rights rally on the Mall in Washington, King said: “I have a dream that my four little 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.” Video Watch Obama speak at Lincoln Memorial on Sunday »
“Has that dream been fulfilled? With the election of Barack Obama, two thirds of African-Americans believe it has,” CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said.
“Most blacks and whites went to bed on election night saying, ‘I never thought I’d live to see the day.’ That’s what the nation is celebrating on this King holiday: We have lived to see the day,” Schneider said.
One of the areas of American life where the dream remains unfulfilled is public education. Teachers’ unions and government school protectionists have stood in the schoolhouse door, blocking innovation, competition, and parental choice — leaving minority children and their families to languish in some of the country’s worst schools. Donald Hense, chairman and founder of Friendship Public Charter Schools in D.C., reflects:
April 4, 1968, cast a long shadow in our nation’s history. As we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King on his birthday today, we are reminded of his legacy in so many ways.
Foremost among these, of course, is the historic election of the nation’s first African-American president tomorrow. But perhaps the most enduring lesson he still teaches us is to believe in the power of education to change our society for the better.
Dr. King never saw violence as a way to end the terrible injustices of segregation, despite the segregationists numerous violent threats and deeds. In the face of danger, he fearlessly educated African-Americans about their constitutional rights. He also educated poor whites that they had nothing to fear from their black brothers and sisters.
Eloquently stating his case in his book, Called to Serve, King wrote: “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and … critically. … Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” He understood the critical importance of education in achieving justice.
When Southern schools were segregated, poor black children were ill served by the public education systems they encountered. They lacked access to the job and career opportunities that come with access to higher education. The solution of many African-Americans at the time was the only one available: to move north, including to the District.
Sadly, D.C.’s public education system, like that in many parts of urban America, fell into decline, leaving many families with no alternative to the city’s failing public schools. Fortunately, enough people in the District’s various communities believed in education sufficiently to change the law, allowing public charter schools to set up and provide alternative public education options.
The charter school movement educated the city government about the need for choice as ever-increasing numbers of parents switched to charters. Today, more than one in three D.C. students are educated in public charter schools.
Not including Obama’s own daughters, whose parents were fortunate enough to have the choice to put their own children in one of the city’s most elite private schools.
School choice is a civil rights issue, as Ken Blackwell and Sol Stern have eloquently noted.
MLK’s legacy is not yet complete.
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This most familiar quote will always be misunderstood by the left, or totally left out of the discussion. MLK’s dream may never be realized at the rate it’s being hijacked.
As long as the race card is played for no other reason than for political gain, as long as unions continue to stifle opportunity for those of “minority” races–and this no longer involves just a white/black situation, as long as race-baiting black “leaders” are allowed to peddle their divisive wares, then Dr. King’s dream will continue unfulfilled.
I think Obama was elected more on the color of his skin than the content of his character. I’m cautiously hopeful that the election of the first black president will be a step in the process, that when a person of color being elected president is no longer a new, and widely believed unattainable thing, then other considerations will become more important.
wishful thinking. the democRATs would vote for Hitler if he had a D after his name…
race is too profitable not to exploit…
I am all for sending our children to schools of our choice-my wife and I did and now are helping our grandchildren avoid the public schools.
My worry is the vouchers-government money. Just how long can we expect these private or charter schools to survive on public money before
Fedzilla and her spawn at the local level start to interfere?
The innocuous sounding School Milk Program turned into the School Lunch Program and IT’S spawn. Federal Aid to Education has done as much to destroy some city schools as the Teachers Unions I would hazard a guess.
If Local Education remained Local I would think all would be better off. I do know that many of the Spanish speaking children here in Arizona are NOT doing well with this English Learners program that keeps them segregated from the English speakers-Federal Judge thank you. Thankfully Arizona did not have that when I went to school.
If parents want their children to do well then THEY need to do something; unfortunately all too many blacks and now others will sit on their butts and wait for the guvmnt to do something.
Some people are poor because of unfortunate circumstances beyond their control-mental, physical problems. In this country MOST of our poor are poor becasue they have been taught to sit on their ass and whine. I doubt very many of them came from harder circumstances than mine. Our parents WERE different.
I think if he were alive today Mr. King would be saddened by the state of race relations in this country. The left has successfully created a society where what you are (be it a woman, black, gay, etc) is more important than your character or your accomplishments – which explains how Obama got elected.
Race relations have been worsened by affirmative action, welfare, and the media.
We are further from Mr. King’s dream than we were when he gave that speech.
MLK made history in a great way. It’s sad that Jesse Jackson hijacked his legacy for personal profit while claiming to help others.
ArizoneNeanderthal – excellent post! Your concerns about vouchers are the same concerns I have. My kids go to private school and I am against school voucher programs that might send federal money into my private school. I don’t believe that the government would not start making demands of my private school if federal money was being used to send kids to it.
I have taught in the public schools and can honestly say that for the most part, there are good teachers there and most teachers want their kids to learn and succeed. It is the culture of the public schools that is so destructive and that I don’t want seeping into my kid’s private school. If vouchers send kids from public schools into the private schools, how are the private schools going to be any different or set themselves above the public schools?
I have issues with how public schools indoctrinate our kids, how dangerous our schools have become, how any reference to Christianity is gone, how the schools feel the need to teach morals and values, the loss of parental rights, the miseducation in history and science that heavily favors the leftist lies, etc. For these reasons, my kids won’t attend a public school. And we’ll gladly pay out of our pockets for it and make a 20 min drive to and from school; all the while paying the taxes for the public school that sits a 1/2 mile away that we don’t even use.
If people want their kids to go to private school, they have to find a way to sacrifice and pay for it. Not expect the government for a hand out to do it.
MLK had the courage of his convictions. He had the guts to face down the discrimination that was enforced illegally against “colored” people. Obambi’s experience, sheltered in corrupt Chicago, is nothing like MLK’s experience.
For one thing, MLK would have never tolerated the acceptance by Obambi of the abortion culture. MLK understood that Planned Parenthood was actually started to keep the minority population suppressed.
Obambi will risk nothing but, take credit for everything.
Dr. King actually wanted something better for the black people of this country, including the right to be able to work any type of job and get equal pay. He wanted better schools for blacks and did not want them segregated. The election of Obama has not made any of this come true. Blacks today have turned completely around from the time of Dr. King. They have changed from wanting better things for themselves to wanting the government to give them everything with nothing in return. How many more people are on the government giveaway now than back in 1968? If by chance Obama succeeds as president, we will hear that we oppressed minorities for too long and it should have been done long ago. If he doesn’t succeed, we will be blamed for that. Race relations now are at one of the worst points that I have seen.
Yet another indicator of our educational system being a laughing-stock. I’d bet $1,000 that 2/3 of all blacks couldn’t tell you THREE THINGS about MLK’s “dream.”
In fact, I’d bet that 50% of all blacks polled couldn’t tell you who Rosa Parks was.
Obama is Identity Politics come to life. Liberal Whites have projected their angst onto him, convinced that he will “save” them. Blacks of all political bents have projected their visceral need to see a black man sit in the Oval Office.
Nobody even *asked* about this man’s Character, which we all point to as proof-positive that “this ain’t no MLK dream.” In fact, they KILLED THE MESSENGER every time someone pointed out that this man has voted for infanticide. He hangs around with terrorists and thugs (Blagojovich, anyone?). His minister is a race-baiting hate monger.
It didn’t matter. Nothing mattered other than getting this (to use Biden’s words) “Clean,” “Attractive,” “African-American” into office. It doesn’t matter that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid – two widely detested (and for good reason) people are now unbelievably powerful. It doesn’t matter that Obama doesn’t know one thing about the job he now has.
This was, and is, about identity. Like their hero, Obama’s supporters will throw anyone and anything under the bus to “get what they want.”
Without having a stinking clue as to what they actually want.
Dr. King is crying this day. He is looking down on what has become of his dream and he sees a nightmare.
The fact that so much attention is paid to the first BLACK president shows how far the left needs to go. I don’t hear conservatives even mention his color. We are worried about his policies and his views on the power of government, not his skin tone.
Apparantly part of MLK’s dream was to add 10% to the national debt in less than a month.
I had a great talk with both my nieces yesterday. Both are going into medicine and have scholarships that will pay all their education, thanks to::::
Home Schooling. Never did they have to “dummy down” with no child left behind. Instead they left all the public schoolers behind.
NO IT’S NOT!There is no rights to an education in our constitution. The government schools are broken and if we are going to educate our children, a voucher system, without restrictions, is the only long term solution.
Vouchers without restrictions are the same as cash. Can’t be any less discriminatory than that.
BUT, it would require that parents actually pay attention and read. They’d have to get up off of their butts and research. They’d have to get involved.
To most liberals, that seems to be discriminatory. I have no idea why…
This has not been about justice and equality for quite some time, but rather entitlement and the subjugation of the American republic to the will of the Socialist intelligencia. The hatred and animosity of the Left will never end until Lady Liberty is completely and irretrieveably “kicked to the curb.”
The only unfinished business I see of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy is the failure of the black community to rise up and help themselves. Instead with a few exceptions they sit on their butts with their hands out always wanting more largesse from the public treasury and more rights than the average citizen without ever being able to produce anything in return.
As far as school disparity goes the children in the schools rule them now instead of the administration and the teachers fearing little Johnny or Jane playing the race card or leveling a false charge of inappropriate touching along with other made up abuses (not that enough educators haven’t been found guilty of misusing their positions preying on children). The destruction of the American family with too many absent fathers especially in the black community has contributed greatly to turning our failing public schools into holding areas or day cares. Their objective is to keep the savages off the streets and enrich the school districts by claiming more taxpayer funds strictly on head count. The tried and failed liberal maxim of throwing more money at a problem has pissed away more public funds per student in history with absolutely nothing to show for it. The liberal long game of the past 50 years has worked well in the destruction of American morality and dumbing down of our children with the collusion of the NEA and PTA. It is not just the black community suffering from this insidious destruction of our public schools driving many of us to consider vouchers for private schools or home schooling to save our children and grandchildren from the indoctrination by the state.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
Rob – liberals believe the average person is incompetent and unable to live his own life without their (the enlightened government) help. Conservatives believe that people will do just fine with little or no “help” from the government. It isn’t just education that has been dumbed down – it’s life in general.
Slight correction – the average person cannot be trusted to do the ‘left’ thing, thus the current tactics prevail.
I BELIEVE IN FREEDOM
All societies need to educate their children for its survival. Without a doubt, we have a failed public education system. Look at the graduation rates. Look at the test scores. No amount of money will fix it. The only solution is an unregulated , no requirement, open ended voucher system. Yes I know there will be dreadful experiments and many children will initially be damaged. But that’s happening now.
I don’t care if a child is taught that swinging a dead chicken over their heads will bring them understanding of geometry. The “cream will rise to the top”, and the most successful solutions will prevail.
I BELIEVE IN FREEDOM
Obama’s election is ALL about race. He has no character. Oh, and he is only half-black. So I guess you could say MLK’s dream is only partially fulfilled. No, actually, NONE of it is fulfilled. He was voted because of the color of his skin. Period. Everyone knows it…no one will say it.
My oldest daughter graduated in the top 2% of here class of 600. She did not know what the Federalist Papers were.
Public schools.
GEEES!
Thank you for saying it. I’m also saying it now. He is our presIdent
BECAUSE HE IS BLACK.
MLK, Jr’s idol worship grows every year and it has become such a propoganda campaign that you would think he was the only person in our history worthy of honor.
He is the only individual that has a holiday in this country. Yet we only hear of his civil rights battles. We never hear of his adultery, his violence toward women or how he put children in harms way to protect himself. Why?
I believe he made the biggest difference in the struggle of civil rights. That is a worthy cause. But he was far from perfect and by no means a saint. Like all people he should be shown in a true light and not as some infallible being, which is is brainswashed into our children from kindergarten in our schools and in the media.
MLK Jr. laid out his challenge and vision to America when he made those infamous words.
He asked that we treat others with dignity, respect and offer justice to people – not because of their race/ethnicity – but in spite of it. I, for one, lived through his rise (and fall) and still remember it (I was young, but have a good memory!). I live these words, how about you?
But, the other side to this is that American HAS grown, HAS developed and progress HAS been made. At what point can we forego the bean-counting mentality and tokenism and begin the serious business of treating people as, well, …people.
Apparently, not yet.
Obama is more Arab than Black. Heck, he’s half white.
…I just don’t get it (maybe because I’m not black) – it seems to me that the teachings of MLK took a giant step backward in this election. Content of Character is what matters and not the pigment of skin! Content of Character! 53% of the voters (and 90% of blacks) flipped MLK the collective bird this election by electing someone solely because of the color of his skin. Voting for someone because of skin color is every bit as racist as voting against someone because of skin color.
What I find fascinating is the attempt to now meld together the results of the election and the teachings of MLK. Again, maybe I don’t get it because I’m not black but I am so disappointed – I really believed in “the dream” but it looks like it was all an illusion now.
Just a thought…what if Obama had chosen to embrace his white half, and marry a white woman. Would he still have been elected POTUS? Somehow, I doubt it. Which leaves the conculsion…it IS his blackness that got him elected.
People forget that MLK was banned from Chicago. After leading a march at Marquette Park on the southside of Chicago, Democrat, Mayor Daley publicly banned King from EVER coming to Chicago again.
Competition needs winners and losers. we can have no losers when it comes to education, when it comes to children. No child, no school, can be allowed to fail.
Here on Martin Luther King day and tomorrow on Coronation day there will be an ungodly number of pundits with something crawling up their legs ala Chris Matthews all drawing parallels to Martin Luther King and Barak Hussein Obama.
Quick show of hands: How many here think that these mental giants of the telecommunications industry will bother to mention that Martin Luther King was a registered Republican.
the only way for that is for there to be no winners either…and that gives us PUBLIK EDUKASHUN!!!
good job libs!! everything you touch is ruined…
Nobody wins unless everybody does. Call it whatever you want, but that’s what’s right. We’re all in this together, and yes, you are your brother’s keeper. Unless you’re an evil, selfish #$%^.
My first thought upon reading your post was that I agreed with you for once in my life. But on re-reading it, I realized I totally disagree. We must allow a child or a school to fail, if they don’t have what it takes. Why should we push along anyone or anything if it doesn’t have enough “stuff” to make it? Eventually, there WILL be failure, no matter how much we push. You can’t keep promoting a child who refuses to learn…or is unable. We have those who excel and those who fail. That is a fact of life, no matter how much you wish it wasn’t so.
Pure, unadulterated bullsh$%!
So, Eaglehasfarted, both teams are going to win the Superbowl? Tell that to the actual winning team. Geez!!
Well, the majority of kids my mom teaches, their parents really don’t care about their education and the kids who get free lunch and medical services have parents who drive lexis suv’s and of course, their children all have ipods and jordan shoes and or air force ones. the point is that the reason most children do bad in minority neighborhoods is that the parents think it’s the teacher’s job to “make them smart” and they don’t realize that their suburban counterparts have parents who take initiative and interest in their child’s education.
That’s a lot of prose and empty rhetoric unless you are actually putting a position out. However, outside of being anti-competition (and who knows to what type of competition you are really referring), what is your plan to ensure that no child fails?
My nomination for the oxymoron of 2009 made a Lefty commenter to this site!
The singular most frustrating thing to me about the MLK legacy is trying to understand:
WHY DO THE MAJORITY OF BLACK VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE DEMOCRAT?
Why you ask?
1. It was the Democrats that ran the south and kept the black population down all those years.
2. Although they like to claim it was the Democrats that passed the Civil Rights Act it was a Republican Congress that passed it and then held LBJ’s feet to the fire to make him sign it. The Democrats in Congress fought it all the way.
3. Last, but not least, Martin Luther King was a registered Republican, not a Democrat.
Just puzzles me … always has … always will …
Who is standing at the schoolhouse door?
Not the minorities who say to each other that education is a “white man’s act”.
Kudos to those in the minority culture who still adhere to the concept of a way up and a way out.
And kudos to Bill Cosby for berating the people in his own community for propagating the idea that something is still owed to them.
That was Martin Luther King’s dream. I admire the man for wishing upon his descendants the concept of utilizing all opportunity available, and not expecting all to be provided by the government (the liberal Massahs).
#34 …
sorry to repeat about MLK being Republican … gott interrupted while typing and by time I finished my comment yours was in there first …
I believe the reason blacks vote mostly democrat is that democrats are more welfare oriented. Now, that is not meant as a racist statement, but just a fact. The blacks in this country still have a large portion of their population on the dole. It is getting better, but old habits die hard. Once a democrat, usually always a democrat, even though it makes no sense. I imagine, if you have ever been on welfare, you never lose that empathy for the underdog. Of course, these folks do not realize how much republicans do for them also. But repulicans expect something in return, like effort to do better for themselves. The brainwashed masses will always vote democrat, just the way it is. They can’t be confused with facts.
We all know you are the people who fought against MLK, Nelson Mandela, Frederick Douglas, The Union Army, School Integration, Barack Obama, The Civil Rights Movement, Equal Pay for Women, Environmentalism, anything that brings about equality is your enemy.
Your soiling of MLK on his birthday is just another indication that the bigots in this country remain firmly entrenched in the Republican Party.
Sir/Madam, I am not and never have been a Republican. And, further, in my post above, I was nothing but respectful of Dr. King. You need to think more completely and clearly before casting aspersions upon groups of people.
At the same time, I don’t expect people like you, to have the testicular fortitude to apologize either – so I won’t wait for one.
OMG! Could you be any more misinformed? Read a book once in a while. Grow up.
MLK was all about education. That dream has not been fulfilled. In fact, I dare say it’s gone backwards thanks to the usual liberal suspects.
MLK – Republican
Nelson Mandela – Not American
Frederick Douglas – embraced by Lincoln, Republican
The Union Army – No such thing, it was and is the United States Army
I could go on but I tire of you easily.
you equate equal pay for women (who decides what is equal btw?) with emanicpation of slaves??
too funny..
oh yeah the people who emancipated the slaves would be what you call radical right-wing CHRISTIANS…WILBERFORCE LINCOLN..
get a clue.
PKAmmoTroop said: (#34)
Thank you. I had not realized that.
(Thanks also DesertLover, although I did know that it was the Republicans who pushed through the Civil Rights Act.)
I could use a few bucks…why don’t you send ME some of YOUR money??
put your money where your mouth is…unless you’re an evil selfish #$%^.
but you won’t cause you only want to send OTHER people’s money…not yours…cause you ARE an evil selfish #$%^.
just like OBAMA who leaves his brother in a shack in kenya and doesn’t help him out….probably because he can’t use OUR money to help him, instead of his own
Yes it can. It all depends on your definition of failure. Government mandated curriculum is dangerous because of the totalitarian nature of those that may be in power at a given time. Let an unregulated voucher system prevail and the “cream will rise to the top”.
and John Brown, evangelical preacher and absolutionist.
Idealistic utopian BS
and there were no atheist abolitionist societies…
That was a bigoted remark sport.
Ha! Yes it was!
You have only to laugh at his ignorance until you realize he honestly believes what he’s spewing. He’s got his talking points all confused.
FamilyMan, happyscrapper, etcl –
Indeed it was. I want a person with those sorts of views to explain to me what it means to have ‘no tolerance for intolerance’. Hmmm, the contradiction(s) just kill me.
I wish charter schools would become the law. I the northwest, despite their claims of high achievement and intelligence, the government has done nothing more than lower the bar. And don’t let the number of Ph.D.s fool you; most are from foreign countries with H1-B visas working as migrant labor for the tech companies here, under threat of deportation if they lose their job. The other half of the Ph.D.s are from out of state, people who never went through the local schools.
I guess that is the liberal tactic; lower standards or eliminate the standard, i.e. get rid of standardized testing.
I find that liberals are the biggest hypocrites when it comes to race.
In lily white, ultra liberal Seattle, they voted down affirmative action so their privileged white kids wouldn’t have to compete with minorities. Liberals are the true bigots.
Oh… by the way… how is it diverse and tolerant when Bainbridge Island, the rich ultra liberal enclave, is nearly 99% white. I guess you don’t want minorities in your neighborhoods.
I wrote the following over six months ago:
It appears that many of the commenters both here and at HotAir feel the same way.
What does this mean exactly? Does it mean Marxism?
Good job, ITTRP! You are spot on.
When I was a bleeding heart lib, I thought much the same way as “ilovemycountry”. These stereotypes have been deeply ingrained into the mind and hearts of the American people and are next to impossible to debunk. It takes effort and desire to read and find out the truth.
Coming out of my educational indoctrination and stupor was not easy, but I have managed to shake off the liberal mindset.
Here’s an example of how bad I was.
When I was president of the PTA, one of our things was to take orders and money for the 5th graders’ DARE t-shirts. I noticed that not all of the kids ordered shirts and believed it was because some of them couldn’t afford the cost. So, I suggested that the PTA pay for all of the shirts so that everyone could have one and no one would feel left out. All the kids had to do was let us know what size they wanted and we did the rest. We couldn’t even get some to do that and had to guess on the sizes. When the shirts came in, those who had not given us their size complained that the size we ordered for them was wrong. What a nightmare, but I was sure I was doing something “for the kids”. Of course, most of the kids never wore their shirts on the assigned day, some of them ripped them up, and some of them gave them away.
Also, as the “lunch lady” I knew who received school lunches for free. I agree with the earlier poster, most of the those kids had nicer clothes and shoes than my kids. They constantly complained about the food, and would sell their lunches to the kids with snack money instead of eating them.
That job was a real eye opener for me.
It means just what he said it means…no one wins. No one loses. No one is better, more intelligent or better looking. It is a level playing field. We are all exactly the same with the same abilities, and if there are some who don’t live up to those abilities, we must make up for it by helping them along, especially if they are too lazy to do it themselves, which covers the vast majority of the “downtrodden”. I believe in helping those who CAN’T help themselves. But there are relatively few of them, compared to the ones who take advantage of it. If these liberal idiot trolls can’t see that, there is no sense wasting our time with them.
Another political science major (you can tell by the final sentence)
Another liberal history major. Why is it that liberals know nothing about history, especially the history of their own party?
Everything he attributes to the Republican party is the historical shame of the Democrat party. Ok, ilovemycoutry – lets see how much you love your country after you face some accurate historical facts:
Frederick Douglass (a personal hero of mine) was a proud Republican
The party of freedom and progress. – I like that. I wish more Republicans would remember that.
Nelson Mandela is not an American. However he was released from South African prison under pressure from the Bush administration. In 1992 President George Bush and Nelson Mandela worked together to have the suspects of the Lockerby bombing to be tried in a third, impartial country. Most countries agreed but Tony Blair shot the plan down in 1994. President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton III did nothing to help and effectively handed Mandela a humiliating political defeat. Democrat love.
True, the Union Army was a tool of the Republican party. They did horrific things at the whims of their Republican Masters like maintain the union and free the slaves. After the war the Union Army’s largest foe in the south was the KKK – a militant branch of the Democratic party who was formed by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The KKK’s primary goal was to kill or drive off black politicians that came to power in the south after the civil war. The Union Army’s efforts to stop the KKK were hampered by president Andrew Johnson – a life long democrat.
School Integration was enforced at the point of a gun (National Guard) by President Eisenhower, Republican. It wasn’t Republicans standing in front of schools and universities blocking the admission of black students, it was the same fine folks that gave you Jim Crowe laws and lynchings: The Southern Democrats.
The Civil Rights movement was almost killed by the Democrats. The Civil Rights bill was passed by a majority of Republicans. In fact the Republicans lead the way in Civil Rights.
In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.
Barak Obama is nothing. He’s worked on no significant legislation, he’s lied to the American people on any number of issues from his father, to his associates, to public funding of his campaign. His appointments have been horrific – especially his Secretary of the Treasury. He’s the perfect symbol of the Democratic Party: All Symbolism No Substance.I contend that Barak Hussein Obama sullies the memory of Martin Luther King more than you in your fevered hallucinations could ever imagine.
In fact, to associate Martin Luther King with the foul, devious Democrat party is the same as spitting on his grave.
ilovemycoutry: how can you say you love your country but you know so damn little about it?
Actually it does not mean helping those who can’t help themselves, it means dragging everyone else down to the lowest common denominator like Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”
Oh… I have one more for the liberal bigots.
They love to say the military is racist, but in my experience the liberals are lying. When I was in, my boss was African-American, his boss was Hispanic, the Deputy Commanding General was African-American, I’m a minority, and my co-worker was Hispanic. All officers.
I now work in the legal field in “liberal” or “progressive” Seattle. Of course, the legal field is filled with “liberals”, but in the last three places I’ve worked, there was not a single minority lawyer!!!! How’s that for liberal diversity.
Law Firms in Seattle at the partnership level are almost exclusively white. Bigots indeed. In the military, I couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a minority senior officer. It only takes 7 years to make partner; it takes decades to make General.
So what is your excuse liberals? Put up or shut up.
PKAmmoTroop
HERE, HERE! Thank you for that.
“The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.”
off topic…I just heard that Bush has commuted the sentences of Compean and Ramos!! Why the he$$ did he wait so long? My husband says it is because he would have gotten so much flack if he had done it sooner. Since when has he ever cared about that???
On January 19th, 2009 at 12:42 pm, happyscrapper said:
Thank you for your kind words.
happyscrapper
As i said on another thread .. commuted is not pardoned … big difference to those men and their families futures …
didn’t the kennedy’s have the FBI SPY on king???
HEY eaglehaslanded where are ya???
I’m YOUR BROTHER, and I NEED KEEPING!!!
where’s MY MONEY!! huh????
looks like you’re a SELFISH EVIL &*^%^&.
but you’re a democRAT, no surprise!!
You’re right. But at least they will be out of prison. Too bad Bush couldn’t do it right. I admire a lot about that man, but some things are just beyond my comprehension. His way of thinking is really strange.
DeserLover, at least they will be at home with their families working and supporting them while they work their way through the appeals process to have the convictions overturned.
Well said and factually based, PKAmmoTroop.
Unfortunately, I doubt that someone so drunk on the Kool-aid will even bother to read or research your points himself. He’d much rather hang on to his anti-conservative hatred and spew confused talking points. He’ll do this while claiming that conservatives are the ones who hate and are intolerant and fail to see the irony.
Rorschac …
True … out of jail March 20 is obviously better than an jail at any time …
but can they afford good attorney representation at this point to conduct the appeals? …
They lost their homes (repossessed) … and all the other ramifications of going bankrupt and no money coming in the door …
Black colleges
Black fraternities
Black soroities
Black social groups
Black political groups
Frankly, I believe that blacks in America have turned their backs on MLK.
I don’t think you can make a sound agrument against black fraternities & soroities since MLK was an Alpha.
DesertLover, I’d be willing to bet that at a minimum, they won’t have a problem feeding their families. This is what some of my friends here in Houston did for Gary Brugman.
You folks are full of it – The Republican party started their Southern Strategy in the late 40′s.
The strategy was to co-opt poorly educated whites who were ardently opposed to civil rights (out of fear that one day a black person would become President) – for a while that strategy was successful. Everything MLK stood for – you people fight against.
MLK’s vision has won.
Fortunately, our country no longer has time for you people: the bigots, the liars, the drunks, the idiots, the homophobes, the leaches.
Ihatemycountry, Keep telling yourself that, but you are wrong, and I can prove it.
Lets start with this link.
After you’ve had time to digest that and throw off the effects of the kool-aid, come back with your questions and I will further educate you.
After you’ve chewed on that link for a while and started seeing the cracks in your logic, try this link. It is chock-a-block full of actual words that came from Dr. King’s mouth surrounded by an explanation of how they relate to the situation of today.
Hey Dummy at 88.
How about reading my posts at #63-65; #73.
You probable don’t know anything besides the crap propaganda they teach you in public school. You are incapable of rational thought. MLK is a Republican. He believed in a color blind society; only Republicans believe that. Democrats believe in slapping a label on everyone, and awarding special rights based on arbitrary labels. Open your eyes dummy.
The only reason the Democrats perpetuate the racial tensions is due to POWER. Imagine if all of the sudden the races got along… a major source of their power would be gone.
Does it make sense to you that a blond hair, blue eyed person from Argentina would have more rights than any other person, just because he/she can claim he/she is hispanic? That’s not color blind like MLK wanted.
“I have a dream that my four little 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.”
Then abolish Affirmative Action.
No, MLK’s vision of America hasn’t and WON’T be realized–essentially because of the race pimps and liberals (all 100% supporters of Obama) who are more than content to keeping blacks in their places. There’s a reason why MLK wasn’t a Democrat.
But look what happens when conservatives, not liberals, run schools of mostly underprivileged children…
Oakland charter school for poor kids a spectacular success teaching hard work, discipline, capitalism