Joe Doakes from Como Park continues:
The most famous American Black Man’s Dream was, of course, brilliantly articulated by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who said:
“I say to you today, my friends, 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, 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.”
Look at the headlines: can any Black civil rights “leader” honestly claim to share Dr. King’s dream? Does any politician? Hollywood? The Media? Or isn’t it more likely “Black Lives Matter” would find his dream to be patronizing, judge his goals too modest? Wouldn’t Al Sharpton still insist on a Token Black in the Academy Awards? Wouldn’t Democrat staffers lump Dr. King with Dr. Carson as Oreos, Uncle Toms, House Negros, wanting to act White?
Modern White Americans proved they have embraced Dr. King’s dream by electing a Black man President not just once, but twice. But what dream do modern Black Americans embrace?
Joe Doakes
Historically speaking, it’s kind of an anomaly…
King believed that a just people can create unjust laws and institutions. Get rid of the unjust laws and institutions, and everything would be okey-dokey.
Today’s civil rights leaders seem to believe the opposite. People are inherently unjust (‘structural racism’, ‘white privilege’), but they can create just laws and institutions, and these just laws and institutions can make everything okey-dokey.
I would grant that the “race hustling poverty pimps”, as Dr. Williams would call them, do not have the same vision that Dr. King did, but it strikes me that what we’re doing here is counter-productive. Again, the question is not what blacks want being different than what others want, but rather whether what we’re doing is the way to achieve this. Let’s go to where the community organizer in chief worked (so to speak) and ask “how’s this working out for the residents?”. Obviously the answer is “not too well”, and that opens up the question of “how can we fix this? What is our example to follow?”.