No Doubt A Great Man In His Time

Is "The Dream" Still Not Becoming A Faded Memory?

They evoke his name.

They evoke his words.

Unfortunately, I say that today those words are generally taken entirely out of context, and in the process their original meaning is lost as the words are used to not just right the wrongs addressed therein, but to unfairly tilt the table further and further in the opposite direction, under government mandate, in some misdirected effort to reach a minority of a minority which will not be saved from themselves.

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 one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

(Read the entire text here: http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html)

When Dr. King spoke those words his children, like those of most of Black America, lived in a home with both a mother AND a father present.

Today that number has sunk by some accounts to somewhere approaching 20% (single parent households.)

This is a tragedy for the black race here in the United States, and no amout of legislation, government programs, sensitivity training, and taxation is going to solve the problem....

and it certainly is a problem for you and me and the government, but it is also most certainly not our fault.

Only black MEN (and the women they neglect) can solve this problem--and in the process and the solution of this single issue I say 75% of their perceived inequality and "disadvantages" will evaporate in a single generation.

Black women could help things along by demanding some accountability of the so called gentlemen they choose to associate with, but remember this mean old white man's words on Dr. King's day:

You can't get a good job if you don't graduate from high school.

You can't go to college if you spend five of the first twenty years of your life in jail and government "juvenile facilities."

You can't expect kids to raise themselves or for kids less than 18 years old to responsibly raise their own kids or their siblings, and you can't expect women to raise children and earn a living while your punk black ass is out playing hoops or hangin with your "homies" and looking for your next young target to sexually exploit and impregnate.

And another thing...notice Reverend King said "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."

He didn't say that the government should get into the class warfare business where "color of their skin" was replaced with "contents of their father's wallet" when it comes to government taxation.

In Lincoln's time in this country only white people had the right to make decisions in life and enjoy the fruits of their education and earnings of their efforts.

Since King's time an overwhelming amount of time and money has been spent righting this wrong and leveling the playing field for people of all colors.

Somehow the government and "black leaders" can't be satisfied with simply having a level playing field--they have to rely on an never ending, ever expanding series of "preferences" and "set-asides" and programs for "working families" of all colors who still refuse to make good decisions and take advantage of things as simple as the twelve free years of education currently offered in every city and town in our nation.

As we watch the celebrations of Dr. King's life achievements and the inauguration of Mr. Obama as the first "black" president of our great Republic--it would be counter productive to wish for anything other than the very best results from the coming administration.

That said, I can only hope the current league of what I see as Impostors and "King Wanna-be's" can live up to half the standard which was set for them over forty five years ago in the very same buildings and lawns of Washington DC.