Today we reflect on the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr. I have to say that as a man of Hispanic ancestry my life is better, in part, because of him.
I never lived in a world where I had to use seperate rest rooms or water fountains. I never lived in a world where I may have had to ride in the back of the bus. I never lived in a world where certain schools, places or things were off limits simply because I am not white. That era was before my time. To that I owe to the civil rights movement during his time.
I think that Dr. King would have been seen today as a left-of-center moderate. While he rejected traditional capitalism, he also rejected communism because communism rejects any and all religion. This is something that modern liberals are perfectly comfortable with.
Dr. King’s bravery in a time when such bravery could, and ultimately did, get you killed has made life better for us. His dream, however, has not yet been fulfilled.
Tomorrow Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. He will be sworn in as the first man who is not white to hold this position. This does not, however fulfill Dr. King’s dream. Dr. King wanted everyone to be equal. He wanted everyone to co-exist peacefuly without prejudice. I believe that he wanted an America that is truly color blind.
Liberals would go out of business if that were to happen. It is liberals that segregate everybody in to groups: blacks, whites, women, gays, straights, latinos, etc. the list goes on and on. Liberals go out of their way to create new victim
groups every day. They tell people what they want to hear instead of telling them the truth. It works, and it works well. Liberals have convinced people that the Government, under the direction of Barack Obama, can provide everything for them. Jobs, healthcare, money you name it, Uncle Sam will take care of you from cradle to grave. This is not what Dr. King wanted. He wanted equality for everyone, so that everyone would have the opportunity to make of their own lives the best that it could be. We, as a country are not there yet. It is liberals who have created slum inner city schools, and instead of fixing them, they just throw more money at them. It was liberals who created the projects, so that minorities could fester and children could grow up in fear; growing up to repeat the cycle. It was liberals who created entitlement programs, essentially absolving men of thier responibility to care for, provide and raise their children. It has been liberals who fight to make admission tests for schools and jobs easier for minorities, in essense telling us that anyone who isn’t white isn’t smart enough to pass them.
I refuse to believe it.
Liberals see color first.
I, and I know other conservatives, see individuals first.
Dr. King said:
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.
With liberals acting the way they to toward blacks, hispanics, women, etc., I’m left to wonder, once again, “Who are the real racists?”