A recent episode of Glenn Beck featured as his guests conservative Americans of African heritage. One of Beck’s guests, a young woman made a very interesting statement about civil rights and liberal politics, stating that “If we had been liberals during the Civil Rights Era, there would have been no Civil Rights Era”.
We have all heard Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech. I was recently reminded of this defining moment in history by Jesse Jackson’s recent remarks when criticizing Rep. Artur Davis’ vote against the House health care bill, “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama, You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
Upon hearing that, I could not help but wonder how Jackson, a self-described civil rights leader, justifies his remarks with those of Dr. King, “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 interpret this to mean that the ideal of the civil rights movement was for a man of color not to be seen as a man of color, but as a man, to be judged on the merits of his deeds. Enter Jesse Jackson, liberal, Democrat, telling us that Dr. King’s dream was wrong, that a man of color should be seen as a man of color, first, last, and always.
Now I completely understand the remark of the woman on the Glenn Beck show. Liberal politics, of any era, are predicated upon the existence of people within our society that liberals may classify as victims. Progressivism requires an uninterrupted stream of victims, victims of racism, victims of global warming, victims of oil and insurance companies. Without victims for political cover, liberal agendas are exposed as the power grabs and special interest subsidies that they are. Jesse Jackson is a liberal, and also requires victims to exploit. Because of this, he tells us that Dr. King’s dream never happened.
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Excellent post. Wow.
He HAD HAD a dream. We however, have been had.
Jessie “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man” Jackson is an idiot.
Being black must now be some sort of fraternity thing, where you get to join or not join, depending on how much you suck up to the powers that be. Don’t tow the line and you can be thrown out of the ABF (Amazing Black Fraternity).
If the ABF is leading black folks down the road to being managed and controlled by a system that could (and has) done this, then there should be a lot of black men abandoning that idiotic group:
http://tinyurl.com/yhz7p35
http://tinyurl.com/yj6ywd4
Since the ABF is an arm of the Democratic Party, it’s only natural that Jackson would speak loudly and derisively to keep the brothers in line. If he didn’t, he’d likely lose what little influence and leverage he has with the higher-ups.
I enjoyed the local papers when Jim D’ella (from Purcellville)argued that only democrat’s suffered racism, and Clarence Thomas and Corrie Rice didn’t meet the criteria, because they were republicans.
Well, Jessie practices what he preaches. Remember some years ago when he offered a scenario in which he was walking down a dark street at night and heard footsteps behind him? When he turned and discovered it was a White man instead of a Black man behind him, he breathed a sigh of relief. Jessie talks color all the way.
One of the best speeches I’ve ever heard on the subject of Dr. King and his dream was given by Joe’s friend Ms. Randall.
I went to that MLK day more just out of curiosity then anything else, but was happy that I did. She made a compelling case for why black people need to take responsibility for their own actions. I wish more people could have heard her.
I’ve been told that many blacks are fairly conservative, but the MSM really don’t cover those voices, opting instead to cover the Jackson’s and Sharpton’s.
However we Republicans are just a guilty, I mean who among us don’t think that Michael Steel is anything other that the GOP version of an Affirmative Action Program. If he were not black would he have got the job? I said at that time the only reason Steel became the RNC chair was because Obama was elected and Republicans wanted to prove we are also “pro minority.” Steele sucks,and we all know it.
The majority of local and state governments within the U.S. with high minority populations, have been under the control of the Democrat party for the better part of the last century.
The larger percentage of the U.S. poor have been locally governed under the control of the Democrat party for the better part of the last century.
How’s this working ? Have they lived up to a century of promises ?
I remember those who joyously felt in 2008 that Obama would pay their mortgages and fill their gas tanks. Hoorah, no more worries! Easy Street here we come!
In Detroit the unemployment level is somwhere around 30 percent — higher than during the Great Depression. Things are so bad that people cannot even afford to bury their dead, and bodies are collecting in the central morgue. Burial comes whenever a local philanthropist ponies up some cash for the pine box and the grave digging. But, then, we can blame it all on Bush — especially for not getting that stimulus money where it was really needed.
Good post, Ship. (Sorry I have been out of town for a while). Ric James of HoodaThunk wrote about it. I let him know that you were the one who wrote it.
http://www.hoodathunkblog.com/2009/11/a-dream-worth-living/