Dusting Off Dr. King’s Great Message
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Dusting Off Dr. King’s Great Message
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We celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January — this year, Jan. 17.
On Aug. 28, 1963, King delivered one of the great speeches in American history, popularly known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. It is a speech that must be dusted off and studied anew today, because it contains the very message that our nation sorely needs to hear and digest now. A message that has been tragically lost and buried and replaced with great and destructive distortions.
Two things jump out when reading through that speech.
One is how this Black preacher captured in his words that day the heart and soul of America.
Second, how King’s great message that day stands in total contrast to the rhetoric peddled by today’s progressives as the remedy to our racial strife.
The indictment of the woke movement is that America is the problem.
King offered up America as the solution.
He talked about the “magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.”
“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.'”
The problem, as King explained, is not America or the eternal truths that were brought to bear in its founding.
The problem was the failure of the nation to live up to the challenges of its great founding principles.
This was the heart of King’s message that day.
He appealed to the nation to realize the dream of its founding fathers. Not to crush it and bury it, as we hear today.
The problem is not white people.
“The marvelous new militancy … must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,” he said.
And, of course, the most memorable and oft-quoted line of the speech, “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.”
What has happened instead? Where has this great message of King gotten lost?
In the name of racial justice, our race campaigns today are defined by selection and placement based on race, based on the color of skin, and not based on the content of character, as King implored the nation to do.
King’s speech is divided into three parts.
Part one is an appeal to the nation to live up to its great founding principles.
Part two is an appeal to Black Americans to rise up and act accordingly in the noble cause of the pursuit of liberty and justice. Let’s not drink “from the cup of bitterness.”
Part three is an appeal to the ideals of the Christian soul of the nation.
He quoted the prophet Isaiah that “the crooked places will be made straight … and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”
Biblical truths and ideals have been sadly lost to wokeism, which has for all practical purposes become a religion in itself.
Let’s honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now, as we come out of COVID-19 and enter 2022, by revisiting and taking to heart the great truths he spoke on that summer day in Washington, D.C., 1963. Great truths that have very sadly been cast to the side and replaced with the religion of politics and power.
Let us honor King by seeing America as he presented it then, as embodying the ideals of a free nation under God.
And then we can join hands and sing, as King appealed, “the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Let’s honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now, as we come out of COVID-19 and enter 2022, by revisiting and taking to heart the great truths he spoke on that summer day in Washington, D.C., 1963.
Indeed. A truly great man!!!
But of course Dr. King did not do it all by him self. Let us also remember the thousands of others who also risked their lives to make it possible. And here are three who were so deeply committed to equality that they risked their lives-- and were brutally murdered for it!
Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner - Slain Civil Rights Workers in Mississippi
By all means we should remember all who stood with him and his methods to achieve civil rights who made the ultimate sacrifice to make the great progress they achieved.
Tomorrow we honor the memory of a great American. MLK had the right message here and it still is the right message for America and all people here of all races. It was great that Ronald Reagan signed his birthday in to law as a national holiday to honor this fine man of God for his contributions to our great exceptional nation.
It is absolutely shameful that, after 58 years, we still see a racist and divisive executive branch administration who denies him and all Americans the fulfillment of his dream for us. Biden proved it in his ranting, yelling, racist, and false theatrics in Atlanta this week.
My experience has been that those who complain about reverse racism are often racist themselves.
He was not talking reverse racism at all. The reference was to Brandon’s ridiculous comparison of today’s mainstream conservatives and our positions on key issues to that of white democrat racists from the past. That was pure demagoguery on his part.
You dont know what you are talking about.
No one has mentioned or complained about reverse racism except you. My comment 4 referred to the seeded article and Reverend Martin Luther King's dream of colorblind equality and success for his children and all of us.
For decades, Joe Biden has expressed his racism, and it continued in his Atlanta speech this week. Period.
My experience is most white liberals that claim other whites are racist tend to be the racist themselves.
And as usual on a serious seed paying tribute to the strong contributions of a great civil rights leader to our exceptional America, the left changes the subject to make personal attacks on the seeder rather than contributing a thing to the tribute to MLK Jr.
That’s my personal experience as well.
Joe Biden has been either an open or closet racist his entire adult and professional life.
Such deep confirmation bias ... just incredible. To get things right, one needs to be at least somewhat objective. To wit:
Please let's not deface Dr. King's legacy by turning to petty politics-- let's remember that the the topic we are discussing here is:
Dusting Off Dr. King’s Great Message
Thans for posting that!
(Surprisingly. a lot of people aren't aware of the facts...so its good to present them!
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Amazing how some refuse to see the actual history/facts of DJT.
'Amazing' is is right. It is also delusional ... living in an alternate reality that denies the most basic of facts.
Really. Brandon didn’t compare mainstream conservative ideas and issues today to Jim Crow, Bull Conner, and Jefferson Davis?
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The facts are that Brandon is and always has been a bigot and a racist and his comments to support such an assertion are legion.
Too few people know the true nature of Joe Bidens racist and bigoted past. He’s the most racist president since LBJ and Woodrow Wilson, such towering progressives in their own time.
Your comment made me think of this quote from Dr. King:
Flags dismissed @4.1.8, @4.1.10, and @4.1.11. Either both Biden and Trump are off topic, or neither are off topic.
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If MLK Were Alive Today
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President Biden is the ultimate in racist bigotry among Presidents past and present who happened to be democrat leaders. Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, LBJ, and worst of em all Biden.