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Martin Luther King’s Dream, Fulfilled?

This week, the U.S. commemorated the memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.  His dreams have been realized, as the detested practices of segregation and discrimination have been abolished at all levels of government. Yet while celebrating his memory, his victory, in our land now free of those terrible offenses for well over half a century, have not been equally recognized.

It remain almost taboo to state that MLK’s goals have been accomplished. Saying so, if one listens to many voices in media, academia, and politics, renders the speaker liable to charges of “racism.”

Doubtless, there are, within the hearts of some individuals or individual groups, disturbing pockets of hatred for those of a different religion, race, or ethnicity.  Examples can be found when people of various colors and creeds have been mistreated, and it is not just race that is affected. Consider that the anti-Semite Keith Ellison has risen to the level of vice-chair of the Democrat Party.  Consider the anti-Catholic aspects of Obamacare that mandated that religious orders such as the Little Sisters of the Poor commit acts that violated their conscience.

No legislation, no edict, no speech will ever eradicate the awful reality that bias thrives in the souls of some. And there are isolated occasions when a person so afflicted with that hatred may abuse their position to harm someone.  But when that occurs, the retribution, both from government and society at large, will be significant and determinative.

We are asked to believe, however, that singular misdeeds by errant individuals represent the whole of the nation and the nation’s government.  That is manifestly untrue.

Some self-proclaimed racial leaders supporting the current use of harsh and legally questionable tactics claim they are following in the footsteps of Dr. King. MLK certainly engaged in practices that some local officials claimed violated the law, or orders from relevant authorities.  But he had no choice.  Many of the acts he committed were against laws that were unjust and unconstitutional, enforced by those who sought to oppress freedom.

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Some have used racial animosity as a weapon to enhance their own fortunes or their careers.   Consider the inflammatory Al Sharpton, who became infamous for falsely alleging that a New York police officer raped a black woman, and later went on to instigate a massacre centered around a fairly standard landlord-tenant dispute  in Harlem.

Writing in the American Spectator, Aaron Goldstein notes: “if you believe a word that Sharpton says then Martin Luther King, Jr. never accomplished a thing in his life because Sharpton would have you believe that Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown are the present day incarnation of Emmett Till [A 14 year old black youth who was lynched in 1955 because a white woman claimed he acted offensively.]Racism, like poverty, will always be with us, but the world in which Emmett Till lived is long, long gone. But to say we’ve moved beyond the Emmett Till means less money in Sharpton’s pocket. Sharpton should have been ostracized the moment he was convicted of libel for falsely accusing Steven Pagones for raping Tawana Brawley. Instead, he has his own TV show and is feted by President Obama….”

Disparaging comments made about America, so common in the modern Progressive circles, were not part of Dr. Kings’ lexicon. John Blake, who is black, writes in a CNN report: “King grounded his appeals for justice in the language of the Bible and the nation’s founding documents. In his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, King told his audience that his dream was ‘deeply rooted in the American dream.’ In others he urged Americans to ‘be true to what you said on paper,’ referring to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.”

Dr. King used morally just tactics to attack terrible wrongs that were not consistent with the promise of America.  In doing so, he strengthened the nation. He did so in a spirit of unity for all, in a spirit of love.  The calls to hatred and violence endorsed by some on the left today are in no way part of his legacy, his message, his hopes, or his great dream. As he stated on that great day at the Lincoln Memorial:

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence… 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…”

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The political angst of America’s blacks

The long struggle through slavery and segregation is over, and, quite bluntly, more economic and political progress was rightly to be expected for America’s blacks following the civil rights legislation and court decisions of the 1960’s. Indeed, since 1972, blacks have experienced unemployment at roughly twice the rate of whites.

Many of those who blame continued racism for the poor results are themselves responsible. Rather than taking the politically appropriate and clever approach of continuously playing off the Democrat and Republican parties to gain goals, the black establishment sold itself in virtual lock step to the Democrats. It was an odd fit that never produced the necessary results. Those with a sense of history can rightly express confusion at the alliance of black leaders with the party that supported slavery and segregation.

Republican connection with the black community extended beyond those twin evils. As noted in a Guardian  review, “With Republicans having trouble with minorities, some like to point out that the party has a long history of standing up for civil rights compared to Democrats. Democrats, for example, were less likely to vote for the civil rights bills of the 1950s and 1960s. Democrats were more likely to filibuster.”

There is more to Republicans and civil rights as well.  Rather forgotten is the fact that 57 years ago this month, Republican president Dwight Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Democrat social welfare policies do not envision blacks as equals, with the same capability to advance economically and politically as all other ethnic groups. Rather than embrace policies that provided more opportunities, the Democrat leadership opted instead for social welfare programs that provided no path to economic equality but did buy votes from those at the bottom of the economic ladder who saw no other way to increase their standard of living. That strategy remains a hallmark of the Obama Administration.

Those policies, and the federal budgetary and economic spinoffs they produced, hold significant responsibility for the roadblocks blacks have faced in moving into the economic mainstream (after segregation was ended) in the same manner that other ethnics groups have.

Some prominent Democrats understood the folly of this approach. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote about the devastating effect on the black family that these policies produced.

The mainstream media, which has generally tilted towards the left, has opted to give the mantle of “black leaders” only to those public figures who give their support to the Democrat Party. Accomplished figures in government and politics such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Alan West, and others, who are Republicans, are largely overlooked as “black leaders,” while ignoble figured such as Al Sharpton get abundant airtime.

The counterproductive nature and, some would say, hypocrisy of adopting social welfare policies in combination with die hard loyalty to the Democrat leadership can be seen, oddly enough, in the antagonistic relations between the radical group Black Lives Matter and the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Sanders’s positions represent the ultimate of what the black leadership—at least, the portion of it that gets publicity and wields political power—wants. He says the correct things, according to their left-wing viewpoint, and rarely misses an opportunity to blame racism or capitalism for their complaints. He is the most stringent advocate for the “progressive” policies that guide them.

The assault on what would appear to be their ideological ally highlights unfortunate personal opportunism on the part of some black leaders. Sanders is outside of the mainstream of Democrat leadership, and is therefore open to attack.

Barack Obama, as the first president from the black community, shares the hard-left ideology that characterizes his party. His policies have harmed, according to financial planner and radio personality Charles Butler (A black American) the black community more than any other group. Butler particularly points to the President’s immigration policies, which has added to the unemployment woes of the black community, particularly those of young people in inner cities.

The harm from progressive policies is also seen in education.  Policy.Mic  notes:

“In the 2012 election, minorities turned out in droves to vote for progressive Democrats. But have progressive policies really served to benefit minorities? In the field of education, the answer is a resounding no. Progressives have long opposed school choice. In 2009, Obama and other Democrats killed a program which gave low-income Washington, D.C. students money for private-school tuition, leaving only existing scholarship recipients to continue. Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan actually rescinded 216 scholarships. Imagine how those parents and students felt when they received word from the Department of Education.

“In 2011, Republicans in Congress introduced a bill re-authorizing the program. The White House opposed the bill because it expanded private-school voucher programs. They argued that the ‘private school vouchers were not an effective way to improve student achievement.’

“It seems the Obama administration didn’t bother to read its own Education Department’s study which found ‘a positive and statistically significant impact on the average reading test scores of the students in the study,’ while performing on par with public-school students in math. The voucher students graduated at a rate of 91%, more than 20 points higher than those who sought a voucher but either didn’t get one or didn’t enroll in the program after being accepted.” The White House was eventually pressured to relent.

According to Deneen Borelli (who is black) writing in the Washington Times  “Objective analysis would conclude that President Obama’s progressive policies have failed blacks, leaving them frustrated and vulnerable to the social agitation by Mr. Sharpton. The sad truth is Mr. Obama’s agenda includes policies that preferentially harm blacks.”