The Absurd Report

No one can or should diminish the soaring social and civic impact that MLK Jr. had on America. But the sense of his magnitude today is all the greater due to the stature, achievements and integrity of the black leaders whom have followed behind Rev. King. None of these has effectively demonstrated a similar commitment to the cause of equality, for equality’s sake. Some have been earnest in their intent, but lacking in he dynamism required to call a people to a cause, greater than themselves. Too many of them though, have merely substituted their own racism, while falsely conjuring mindless bigotry on every corner. These have been and are, little more than tawdry racial con-men, hustlers, and masters of, ” the blame game. It’s impossible to believe that the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. would be pleased with how his legacy has been carried across the 4 decades, since the tragic assassination.

Small point: You will note that we do not use the “Dr.” honorarium, when writing about King. This is not a cheap shot intended to discredit the King PhD., that was bestowed by Boston University. Though that degree was apparently tainted, it is also of little consequence in any analysis of this great man, and it is absolutely not related to my rationale. Rather it is due to Mrs. King herself, who went out of her way on several occasions to thank speakers, for referring to her late husband as, “Reverend King”. She explained that Martin always considered himself a Minister first, and only wished to be called, “Reverend” or “Pastor”.

I can’t prove it, but my guess is that the standard usage of the “Doctor” appellation is just another insidious device of the Left. It seems an blatant attempt to separate King from the Theology, that inspired his every move. They couldn’t be promoting a man, who unabashedly proclaimed his Faith and the Scriptures as the spiritual guides for his very existence. They just can’t have people thinking that God, had anything to do with it all. Of course not.

King put it thusly: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” In his speech the other day, Barack Obama re-stated King’s “dream” by calling for, among other things: affordable housing, decent jobs, and access to health care. It is obviously very uncomfortable for people like Obama to cling to Rev. King’s dream that people be judged only by, “the content of their character”.

How can we judge this favorably in a community wracked by a 70% rate of out-of-wedlock births, where almost 70% of children will not finish high school, where crime, shiftlessness, and immorality run rampant? And where the loving ministrations of the beloved Rev. King Sr., and thousands of black clergy like him, have given way to the ranting anger and hostility of pulpit thugs like the Rev. Wright, and Minister Farrakhan. Men whose mission it is to fan the flames created by the failures of black leadership, into a conflagration of hatred against the U.S.A and whites in general. The very same whites who have picked up the tabs of the black underclass, over which these racial swindlers have so lucratively presided.

As for Obama’s “things to do list”, a few questions. What has he to say about, “the affordable housing”, that has been continuously delivered, and then systematically left in ruins by its inhabitants, especially the criminal marauders? And what, “decent jobs”, might the Senator have in mind for belligerent, high school dropouts, who subscribe to the prevailing black culture, including its antagonism against whites, learning, hard work, and “the establishment”?

With respect to, “health care”, doesn’t Obama know that most members of his constituency, especially the unproductive, have full access to Medicaid. What further “care” does Barack have in mind? First class transportation to the Mayo Clinic?

The nation would surely be well-served if this “racial healer”, Sen. Obama, saw fit to address the following: Since Rev. King’s murder, both through legislation at every level, and countless favorable legal decisions, we have witnessed the massive overhaul of U.S. law to correct prior injustices. Trillions have also been spent to establish racial equilibrium. In this connection, endless set-asides, affirmative actions, affordable housing provisions, jobs training programs, and numerous “reverse racism” initiatives have been enacted. Almost without exception, these programs, and the cities of urban America have been administered by your fellow, liberal, Democrat politicians, and these city schools have been controlled by Leftist teachers unions. So Senator, despite all this, can you explain what has happened to the black family, especially under the leadership of strutting demagogues, who cynically pretend to walk in the Rev. King’s footsteps? What has their, and your, “gospel” of entitlement, resentment, and irresponsibility done for its practitioners?

Sadly, the real “dream” of Martin Luther King Jr. actually died for most blacks, when those gunshots rang out 40 years ago. It will remain dead, until people like Obama are willing to courageously discuss the greatest current threats to African-Americans. They would be its wholly disingenuous, “leadership”, and the so-called “black culture”. To this we might add, the presence of 15 or 20 million illegal aliens, who continue to siphon off millions of jobs which might be available to certain, young, black citizens. What about it, Obama?

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