The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
OUR VIEW
Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:21 PM
OUR VIEW: The Liberal Left Has Done Nothing But Trash The Great Legacy Of The Late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
One has only to recall Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech in August of 1963 to understand exactly how deeply the American Left has rejected not just Dr. King, but in fact stayed true to the original racist roots of the Democratic Party.
Here’s Dr. King in his famous 1963 "I Have A Dream" Speech:
"In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
…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.
…And this will be the day — 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 Pilgrim’s pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
… And when this happens, 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!"
Did you notice that Dr. King saluted the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution in his speech? In addition, he hoped in 1963 “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.”
The American Left believes none of this today as its political party of choice was founded in the crucible of support for slavery, a party fueled by progressive policies of racism, segregation, lynching, and the Klan has now retreated to its origins. Dividing Americans by race, obsessing with race, and using race as the fuel for its agenda of the day, are all part of the Democratic Party playbook.
They do this, with the help of a dishonest media, to divide America by race in perpetuity. This modern-day version of reverse segregation is something I firmly believe that Dr. King would give his life fighting against to the end were he alive in 2018.
The very belief of Dr. King that men “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” is seen by the left as racist in itself.
The other day it was revealed that after one year of the Trump presidency black unemployment had hit its lowest level on record. Yet when the President announced he was attending the National Championship in Atlanta last Monday night the response from the NAACP was this:
"The Atlanta NAACP will not be officially participating in a protest outside at the game. Trump has made a terrible decision and is disrupting it with his presence. We respect those who choose to do so, and we fully expect some groups who will be protesting outside the game. We will not let the President’s visit go without a response. If you are lucky enough to attend the game, we encourage you to bring a white towel to wave simulating a blizzard while the president is in the packed stadium. Trump supporters mockingly call the opposition snowflakes, but when we come together we create a mighty storm. We are presently working with a number of civil rights/social justice organizations and we will share additional plans as appropriate. We urge you to pay particular attention to our Twitter feed during the game. You can follow us @naacpatlanta #GoDawgs!!! #AllTrumpsLies #ATL #NationalChampionship."
Richard Rose, president of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP told FOX 5 Atlanta late in the day last week quote, "the administration’s support for promoting off-shore drilling ‘could have a devastating effect in Georgia, Alabama, other states along the coast, and throughout the world.’”
That’s right. The African-American community is enjoying its greatest jobs boom ever under the Trump Presidency but yet, the NAACP is angry about...offshore drilling, which of course, would doubtless employ even more black Americans.
Look no further than this newly leaked memo obtained by the Daily Caller from ex-Hillary Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri, now President of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Addressed to “Interested Parties.” The subject:
Defending Dreamers is a Moral Imperative and a Defining Political Moment for Democrats.
Here’s the key line:
The fight to protect Dreamers is not only a moral imperative, it is also a critical component of the Democratic Party’s future electoral success.
And there it is. The Center for American Progress Action Fund admitting flat out that Democrats must play the race card — illegal immigration in this instance — to ensure “the Democratic Party’s future electoral success.” Just as Bilbo tied white racial identity to progressive politics now it’s the idea of tying brown racial identity to progressive politics for “future electoral success.”
Somewhere Dr. King is shaking his head in disgust. Having literally given his life to fight this kind of racist garbage, there, in 2018 America in the 21st century — a full fifty years after his death and fifty-five years after his “I Have a Dream” speech — the pitch is made in the Party of Race to ensure that America is always judging people by the color of their skin and not the content of their character in a colorblind America.
What a disgrace.
In our interview with Dr. Merisa Davis, she mentioned something about today that I had really never thought of. Today is the only celebration we have in this nation where we honor a minister of the gospel, a preacher, a born-again believer who never was ashamed to make it clear he believed Jesus was and is the Son of God. I wonder if Dr. King was alive today how these modern-day race baiters would handle that.
I submit to you today that Dr. King would be ashamed of how these race baiters, especially those in the media have drug his legacy through the mud.
Laura Ingraham said in
her "Ingraham Angle" monologue Friday night that when cornered,
Democrats have a nasty, predictable habit of "racializing everything."
"They did it to Reagan, they did it to Bush, they even did it to McCain
and, of course, they did it to Romney," Ingraham said. "And they've been
doing it to Donald Trump since the day he announced his candidacy."
She said the accusations of racism against Trump have grown louder in
recent days as the president works toward a deal on comprehensive
immigration reform.
She acknowledged that Trump's controversial comment about the U.S.
accepting immigrants from "s---hole countries" wasn't the best choice of
words.
"I would not have called these countries what the president did, but
they are rank with corruption, repression and ... they offer their
citizens little hope of a better life. In other words, they're
hellholes," Ingraham said.
The Democrats and their media allies, however, don't have time for facts
when they're consumed by "race-baiting the president," she added.
Ingraham said this was more evidence that Democratic lawmakers were
never serious about reaching a compromise on immigration reform with
Republicans in the first place.
"They had zero intention of negotiating in good faith, because somehow
they thought they could guilt the president into siding with them,"
Ingraham said. "They are out of ideas. And they have no solutions. The
race card is the only one they have left to play."
These seeds of discord are going to bring a bitter harvest to our nation and future generations if they continue to be planted by so called leaders of the black community. They are no better than the Jihadists teaching young Arab children to hate Israel in their schools based upon some of the stupid and demonic rhetoric I heard coming out of the mouths of some of these so-called leaders today in D.C.
That is basically what
Dr. King loudly proclaimed in 1963 when he said courageously, "hate
won't cast out hate, only love can cast out hate! " That memo of Dr.
King's sadly has never gotten to the modern crop of race mongers of whom
I know Dr. King would be ashamed to be associated with today.
Dr. King was a man who marched and sought racial justice for all.
He was marching for the black race but in effect Martin Luther King Jr. was marching for us all. Racism has always been a spiritual matter not a political one. King understood that.
I can assure you were he living today he would not be calling for gun control, but he would confront his own leadership regarding black on black crime that is killing more African American youth than white on black crime. He would never be calling his followers to take to the streets to destroy buildings, property and lives such as the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement do and Antifa.
Dr. King would fight for injustice against whites just as he did blacks if he were living today. The fact is there is racial injustice everywhere.
Ask the Australian baseball player Chris Lane who was slain by two black teens and one white last week in Oklahoma about racial injustice. His killers said they were "bored" and one of the black teens tweeted "I hate white people" a few days before the murder. Ask Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom of Knoxville, TN. about racial injustice who were brutalized by 5 blacks, 4 males and one female in 2007 after a car jacking and killed in a manner that had every markings of racial injustice yet the local and national medias ignored their story with only a few exceptions.
Geraldo Rivera picked up on it weeks after it happened and he himself felt the crimes should have been prosecuted as hate crimes. Because of fear of the black community they were not.
Ask scores of other whites and Hispanics who have been murdered by blacks for racial reasons, but yet over the past few years thugs like Michael Brown, who was beating a copy in the face gets shot in the process and killed, that he somehow becomes the poster child for all wrongs by police against black teens?
When crime is committed its not about the color of one's skin that is the problem, it's the problem of the color of one's heart.
During last year’s campaign former President Clinton embarrassed himself while campaigning for his wife and her 2016 aspirations saying that getting a weapon today is easier than being able to vote along with other diatribes about voter ID laws and other liberal ideologies that do nothing to honor Dr. King’s legacy.
Dr. King was not
promoting anarchy and corruption. He was promoting true justice.
Let me remind you that Cain killed Abel with a stone - the problem with
crime in the African American communities as well as all communities
across America is not the guns; the problem is the heart of men and
those hearts are evil and despicably wicked in nature.
Yes, there has been bigotry and racism in the past against blacks. There is no need to hide that or gloss over it. It's certain that Dr. King and others paid a high price to bring the African American community to where it is today. And yes, racism still exists today in the hearts of some, but not all, in the white community. But let's be clear and without hesitation declare that racism exists in the black community as well towards whites. While there are racists, I will never believe we are a racist nation in America unlike what you hear proclaimed over television and in print daily.
When the race peddlers spew their venom, and declare the enemies of the black community are big business, evil white people, any conservative who preaches personal responsibility, and anyone who seeks real solutions to real problems no one wins and Dr. King's legacy is drug through the mud of senseless ideology.
One of the most memorable quotes after the O.J. Simpson trial of 1994 was by Robert Shapiro who told reporters after the dust settled that the O.J. defense team's efforts to label Mark Furman as a racist cop seeking to plant evidence was the lowest form of legal practice by using race in order to win an acquittal.
As Shapiro said "we played the race card from the bottom of the deck" and we won the case. In doing so that defense team perverted justice for Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson and placed enough doubt in a jury's mind to acquit a killer.
To listen to the liberal left today in all facets of media the race card is played daily off the bottom of the deck of race mongering and it's a terrible shame. It insults a great man’s legacy who died still hoping that we would be united as one nation despite the color of our skin.
Fifty-five years ago a great man's legendary speech changed and challenged a nation. Nothing in today's rhetoric or political hack grandstanding does anything to inspire or change anyone - it simply seeks to divide us more.
We honor Dr. King's legacy today 55 years after one of the greatest speeches this nation has probably ever heard.
Our hope is simply we come to our senses and realize that the problems facing society today are not because someone is black or white - it's because men's hearts are evil and evil wicked people do evil wicked things - both black and white.
Personal responsibility was the clarion call to the black community in 1963 as well as all communities that day in D.C. In 2018, we need to sound that clarion call again. It's exactly what Dr. King would want to hear coming from the mouths of his followers and disciples - not a grievance list a mile long that only incites more failure, more hatred, more division, and more racism - all the things he stood up courageously to fight against in his historic legacy.
We salute you Dr. King.
Rest in peace and may God have mercy on our nation and heal our racial
divide with Your divine help. That is truly our only hope.
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Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge
Great Smoky Mountain Journal
