Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Legacy of Martin Luther King
What is the legacy of Dr. King? Is it the Sen Clinton's speech in Detroit where she makes an obvious allusion to Republicans being rascist plantation owners? Or is it New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin commenting that New Orleans should be rebuild as a "chocolate" city?
Here I thought Dr. King wanted a color blind society where color didn't matter. Aren't the Democrats the standard bearers for the King legacy? Yet they don't seem to mind dividing society along racial lines. Is this the message Dr. King meant for us to hear today?
According to Rev Jeremiah Wright Jr's anti-war tirade, I obviously don't understand Dr. King's legacy.
Using King's A Time to Break Silence speech, delivered April 4, 1967, as the backbone for his own speech, Wright said King's legacy has been frozen in time around his 1963 I Have a Dream speech, tamed by "those who didn't hear him or who didn't want to hear him."According to Wright, the Silence speech, in which King vehemently lashed out against the Vietnam War, was far more important in terms of content than I Have a Dream.
Maybe its just me, but I prefer the legacy set forth in the I Have a Dream speech. That dream is much better than the real hatred and racial bigotry spewed forth by the left. But what do I know?
