As Martin Luther King day approaches, this is a perfect opportunity to enlighten the liberal Democrat leadership about what Dr. King said about skin color and the content of one’s character.
My question is, “how would Dr. King handle the controversy over Harry Reid’s ridiculous remark about Barack Obama and the color of his skin and the undetectable dialect of a black man (whatever that means)?’
What would Dr. King say to the first black President, Bill Clinton and his cold, and callous remarks to Ted Kennedy, “Hillary needs your backing, and remember, just a few years ago, he (Barack Obama)would be serving us coffee.”
There have been questions about Dr. Kings integrity and his morality for years. Some have been proven and much has been set aside unproven or not enough information to make a determination on the truthfulness of the accusation.
This post chooses not to go there knowing it would cloud the relevance of remarks that have been documented to be true by Harry Reid and Bill Clinton in the book Game Change by Mark Halperine. These crude and distasteful remarks shine a light into the darkened hearts of some of the most important white leaders of the Democrat party today and yesteryear, and what they really believe about those they are supposed to be serving.
First and foremost, I believe that if Dr. King was alive today, he would be a Conservative. He would never have lowered himself to playing a bit part, liberal panderer like some black leaders have become overtime.
He surely would not allow a political party he was a member of to spoon feed blacks, manna from the hill (entitlements) in return for a bloc of votes. He would have refused the temptation to become materially wealthy on the backs of those who were in despair in their community.
He would have used his position to further the cause of civil rights for all men. If he had to leverage the black voting bloc for a seat at the table of power, then upon arriving, realize, he would be the one serving coffee, he would know that nothing had really changed in the 42 years he had been gone and quickly excuse himself.
How would Dr. King handle Harry Reid and Bill Clinton’s remarks about blacks if he was living today? I picture him courageously asking both men together in a private room without any media, “why are you still judging us by our skin color, whether it be light or dark?” He would go on to say, ” I thought we had put this to rest ages ago?” “Is not the content of one’s character more important than the God given pigment of one’s skin?”
He would probably go on to say to these men, ” you have brought judgment down on you from God almighty as he examines your heart in the darkness of your being.” ” I am not here to judge you, but on one hand I will not allow you to sit in judgment of my brothers and sisters, and hold the reins of power, and laud over the heads of those you deem worthy and unworthy to be in your presence.”
What would be different about black leadership in this country today if Dr. King’s life had been spared? He would never have succumbed to the temptations of power, money and control like some of his fellow brethren have.
Jackson and Sharpton et al have made a nice life for themselves. What these 2 men have accomplished corporately in 45 years, is completely overshadowed by the brightness of Dr. King’s achievements in 6 years .
Dr. King was a man of passion, vision, temperament that served him well and successfully in such a short period of time. King’s accomplishments are innumerable and his words are immeasurable. He refused to allow boundaries placed on his life by man or mammon. His discernment was second to none and his passion for good and decency swallowed up those he touched.
In all of these attributes, I have yet to see any black leader who can even begin to touch the hem of this man’s garment, then be tall enough to reach King’s hand without Dr. King respectfully bending down to meet them where they are.
What would Martin Luther King do? Probably more than any member of the Democrat party of today would have ever allowed him to do if he was here with us now.
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