Dr. King's Legacy

From yesterday's Federalist Patriot, this short commentary on Dr. King and some of those now carrying his torch of freedom and equality.

"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 my four 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... And if America is to be a great nation this
must become true." ---Martin Luther King, Jr.

Editor's Note: Martin King asked that his children "not be
judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character." Yet Jesse Jackson (one of King's lieutenants during
those tumultuous '60s civil rights protests), Cynthia McKinney,
Louis Farrakhan, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Harold Ford, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee and most other black political and
social leaders today, advocate for government programs and policies that judge by skin color alone, regardless of character. The
Democrat Party has, in effect, inculcated many black folks with
the notion that they can't make it on their own, that they must
rely on Democrats for their welfare---relegating these constituents
to a different kind of "plantation," but enslavement just the same.

As for the expanding list of conservatives who have gained
national stature (and happen to be black)---Justice Clarence
Thomas, Secretary of State Colin Powell and his successor,
Condoleezza Rice, Ken Blackwell, Michael Steele, Thomas Sowell,
Walter Williams, Alan Keyes, Ward Connerly, Don Scoggins, Alvin
Williams, Star Parker, Jesse Lee Peterson, Larry Elder, etc.,
they are castigated by the Left as "Uncle Toms" and "puppets."