Liberal Espoused Martin Luther King, Jr is not the Real MLK

On Martin Luther King (Jr) Day, I thought it important that we take a moment to reflect upon the man. Not the distorted politically-correct, left-leaning concoction the Left has invented, but the real man and his real cause.

At the risk of dating myself, I was born into the tail-end of his life. Only months old when he was assassinated, the world I came into was a very different place from the one we live in now. The things Martin Luther King, Jr and others like him did blessed me with a world that was changing for the better.

Fast forward to 2008. Having lived in a world that had changed so much from the one I was born into, several years ago I was shocked and dismayed to see an uprising of the darkness of racist hate that had so largely been defeated prior to that. Prior to that, the racial fight had been taken to South Africa to fight apartheid. There were no big civil rights movements in the United States as the racism of decades past had been largely eradicated.

During the 2008 campaign season, false claims were made that the world was still the one I was born into, and those claims were made in order to push political agendas that would actually revert the world back to that place.

Yes, racism still exists, but my experience over the years has been that it is strongest amongst those with a liberal or progressive agenda to push. I rarely see anyone on the Right being racist, but I see it on the Left on a regular basis. It seems to be part of the requirements of being on the Left to either push a racist agenda or to naively believe that it will somehow make things better.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his infamous “I have a dream” speech in Washington, D.C on August 28, 1963. In this speech, he stated,

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.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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.

I have a dream today!

He had a dream that one day whites and blacks would be seen for who they were as people, and not be judged simply because of their skin color. His dream was not that of black superiority or of white castigation, but of brotherhood and equality among all people, regardless of skin color. His dream was of “slaves and slave owners” sitting together in peace. This is not the ‘dream’ of the Left, nor is it the manner in which they use his name, his speech and his legacy.

But, today’s discussion is not only one white woman’s viewpoint on the racist hate spewed by the Left and how Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy is being distorted. Some conservatives who happen to be black have shared their thoughts on the matter, too.

Rep. Allen West tweeted

Mr. President, please don’t play race card in 2012. It’s a dishonor to Dr. King to do so, read more of my thoughts: http://t.co/AfByWsVC

Alfonzo Rachel posted on Facebook

For MLK Day observed: Who made it legal for women like Rosa Parks to have to give up her seat for white people? Democrats. Who was bombing black churches? Democrats? Who imposed segregation? Democrats. Who was hosing blacks, and releasing dogs on them? Democrats. Who arrested MLK? Democrats. MLK Was fighting the institutionalized bigotry of DEMOCRATS. But nah, the idea of him being a republican is just ridiculous. Happy birthday Dr. King.

From the Left we do not have supportive statements that add to the good reverend’s cause of erasing racial boundaries, but statements that promote and strengthen racial division, and push self-serving agendas:

Reverend Jesse Jackson stated that

We must revive Dr. King’s war on poverty.

What war on poverty? Dr. King did not push for “economic justice” or “redistribution of wealth.” His uses of economic terminology was in reference to freedom and justice, as in “great vaults of opportunity” and “riches of freedom” in his “I have a dream” speech. He never pushed for handouts, much less handouts based on color, social status or political affiliation.

North Carolina NAACP President William Barber used the day to speak about voter identification, claiming that Dr. King fought for all blacks to be able to vote, and voter identification prevents that.

Apparently in his mind, blacks do not have the same capacity as whites do to walk into a driver’s license division to obtain a driver’s license or state I.D. card, and have no need ever in life to have one.

Raise your hand if you have never needed a photo I.D. for any reason, ever. I have needed one as part of being hired for jobs, to get security clearance for jobs, to cash paychecks, to buy nutritional supplements (apparently some ingredients trigger this), to buy DVDs (ratings issue), to play nickel slots in a casino for five minutes (I was 28 at the time and thought it was really funny), to get a library card, to apply to be a volunteer at the city animal shelter, to buy my home (with mortgage), to open bank accounts, to get married, when pulled over by police officers (I had a little lead-foot issue when I was 21), to use debit or credit cards when making purchases at the store and more.

But the misuse of the man’s name and legacy is not reserved for Martin Luther King Day. The Left continually spews revisionist history and falsely insists that it is the Democrat Party who is supportive of blacks, while it is those nasty Republicans and Tea Partiers who hate them.

Let’s review some true history:

First, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a registered Republican. His niece Dr. Alveda C. King has stated

My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., or ‘Daddy King‘, was a Republican and father of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican.

When the 1960 Civil Rights Act was signed by President Eisenhower, it was only after it had been through a five day, five hour filibuster by Democrats in Senate to stop it. These senators included Lyndon Johnson.

When the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson [yes, the same Lyndon Johnson who as a senator filibustered against the 1960 Civil Rights Act], it had gone through a 14-hour filibuster by former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd. Nay votes from 22 other Democrat senators also failed to stop it. One of those senators was Al Gore, Sr., father of the “internet inventor” and Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore, Jr.

When the act made it to President Johnson’s desk, it was a matter of political expediency for him and the Democrats for him to sign it. More on this can be found in David Barton’s book, American History in Black and White.

In October 2011, President Obama dragged the good reverend’s name into his own political game-playing. As reported on The Blaze

President Barack Obama said Sunday that Martin Luther King Jr. would have approved of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement.

Speaking at the dedication for the late civil rights leader’s memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Obama drew parallels between King’s sense of justice and the demonstrations in New York City against corporate greed.

So, tell me again, who understands and honors the MLK legacy and who undermines it and/or distorts it to push their own twisted agenda?

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