A Sad Observation

I apologize for missing the fact that yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech at the Lincoln Memorial. This is a late but important observation about that anniversary, which got very little attention. 

On August 28, 1963, Reverend King addressed a massive crowd of 250,000 Americans and delivered his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. But four years and seven months later, King was assassinated. 

Had King lived, his Christian message of racial reconciliation would have been a balm for the country. Here are some excerpts of his powerful address:

“So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.  It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.  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 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. I have a dream today. . .

“This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. . .

“And when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last.  Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”

You’ll note in these passages that King did not attack America or our Founding Fathers. He embraced America and our founding documents. 

But if James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King’s body, the woke neo-Marxist left killed King’s dream. 

If you say today that you believe in judging people based on the content of their character, the left will call you a bigot. If you say you believe in King’s dream of a colorblind society, the left will call you a white supremacist. (Here and here.) 

The left insists that everything must always be about race. The neo-Marxist left is obsessed with dividing the country along racial lines, obsessed with fanning racial tensions at every opportunity.

There is precious little evidence that the billions of dollars spent by the race-obsessed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” industry are reducing racial tensions in America. 

Martin Luther King Jr. is significantly less of an icon among the today’s left because he rejected racism of any kind. The left also doesn’t like his Christianity, his message of racial reconciliation, and it really doesn’t like his embrace of our founding documents and America itself, which the left deems “systemically racist,” “deplorably irredeemable” and in need of “fundamental transformation.”

Today’s left rejects Martin Luther King’s teaching and has turned his dream into a nightmare.