Today is the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday. The following is a syndicated piece I wrote in 2007. I re-share it because it is as relevant today as it was five years ago. The misrepresentation and distortion of Dr. King’s message knows no boundaries and it is practiced knowingly and shamelessly for the express purpose of fomenting victimology. Dr. King was anything but a victim. A victim wouldn’t have waged the battle he did to stir the conscience of America to do was right. A victim would have wrapped themselves in a vestige of pity and resentment, the two things Dr. KIng was highly critical of.
Dr. King’s Dream Today A Nightmare:
Jan. 15, 2007, is the annual commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Signs, posters, radio/TV ads and the all-inclusive holiday sale will remind us that it’s time for America, as a nation, to remember the injustices he fought.
Preachers will preach special sermons, teachers will have special lesson plans, and politicians, coupled with the usual colliers of immiseration, will pose for photo-ops. All will reference how he fought for the freedom, equality and dignity of blacks. There will be marches, chants and choruses of “we shall overcome” – all of which will be carefully designed and presented to omit the fact that we have “overcame” [sic].
Sadly, but certainly not unexpectedly, Dr. King’s day of national commemoration has devolved into a day of misrepresentation of what he actually stood for: “blame the white capitalistic system” in general, “white conservatives” specifically, and “immiseration rallies” ad nauseam. I submit it is time to honor his memory in truth and honesty. I am long since wearied of the dissociative falsities surrounding his life and words.
Speaking of his life – it is enough to say he put it on the line, literally, every day. He didn’t retreat – he didn’t apologize. He didn’t distort the truth – he instead offered it up for America and the world to see. Presentation of the undiluted truth was a sulfuric colonic to the racist elements of his day. It was reality TV before islands, desperate wives and trying to impress casino owners.
Dr. King didn’t need to invent injustice – being denied the right to vote, eat, purchase and live where he chose didn’t need inventing. Same was the zeitgeist of his environs. Beatings, fire hoses and attack dogs in the hands of the hate-filled didn’t need embellishing – it needed only to be seen every night on the evening news for the conscience of America to demand change.
Truth can be denied by the darkness of hatred and by the recalcitrant, but it can never be disproved, nor can it ultimately be diminished. But some forms of truth are less transpicuous than others, thus the reason uninformed and uneducated people are so easily misled.
While there are any number of scholarly positions that would be open to cogent and reasoned debate were Dr. King still alive, what is not open for debate are his position on segregation, be it codified or self-imposed, or his position on drinking from the cup of bitterness and resentment that so many blissfully imbibe from today. And when we read:
“In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggles on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. …The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers … realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedoms. …” (I have a dream speech, Aug. 28, 1963)
It gives us some indication of what he may have thought or said to the Jacksons, Sharptons, Farrakhans or Julian Bonds of today. Who cares to speculate per his opinion of the National Urban League president, Mark Morial, who praised Planned Parenthood as a “good organization,” even though the Ugandan parasite, Idi Amin, murdered fewer Africans during his entire bloodthirsty reign than the number of black babies Planned Parenthood casually murders annually with the blessing of so-called black leadership.
What would he say of his dream today – when we examine the devastating effect personal and social irresponsibility has had on the black family? We can but wonder how he would feel about black gangs, drugs, educational largesse, generational welfare and the damning results of the Great Society Initiative.
Perhaps instead of preening for photo-ops, the feckless fantasia called liberal politicians and black leadership would better spend their time trying to remember exactly what Dr. King’s dream was – because their version of same more closely resembles the nightmare of nocturnal occlusion. (WND.com; 1/9/07)
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Martin Luther King : a Great man with a Dream to better Humanity, and he was killed for that. Our Half and half POTUS has no concept and couldn’t hold a candle to MLK. And his angry wife Mochelle is a joke…
henry yipp: you echo my sentiments…
Today, Dr. Alveda King told Fox that, if alive today, her uncle would be a pro-life, social conservative.
editor: I don’t doubt that…keep in mind that even the original black panther party opposed abortion…because they were smart enough to recognize it would be used to systematically exterminate blacks…
I wish i could’ve been the one to say, “Mr. Obama, I knew the honorable Dr. King, and you are no Dr. Martin Luther King”.
If MLK had been president, it’s a sure bet that his wife would not have preached “goodwill” while taking multi million dollar vacations on the same taxpayer that he is promising to protect. It’s a sure bet that he would not have fomented racial warfare because he had the power of the presidency and national news programs behind him. It’s a sure bet that he would not have turned tailed and offered blacks the notion that the white man created all his problems. And, it’s a sure bet that he would not have had the audacity to commit hundreds of billions of dollars to distort the same economy that he wanted to include black talent and prospoerity within.
Mr. Obama, you are no Dr. King. We must apologize to all blacks that they have been misled as to what their real “hope and change” should include.
Extremely commendable remarks Mr. Bulskoski!!! You have said it the best!!!
betsy: indeed…
dave bulskoski: mentioning obama in same sentence w/ Dr. King should be punishable by horse whipping…
Martin Luther Kings family does not agree with all this hoopla either.
He had a dream and that dream was peace and equality, it wasnt a dream for Al Sharpton, Jesse jackson and all those idiots to claim racism. It wasnt for our own President to spew hate around the world as he does. A President that clearly show how disgusting he is when you dont agree with him. God help us!!
As a young girl growing up, I saw racism first hand. I went to Mississipi where my father was born and was standing in the grocery line with my fathers family and there was a young man about 13 yrs old- my age at the time who was bagging groceries and my sisters and I said hello to him. We were shocked when my aunt yelled at us and said ” dont talk to that N—a. I was humiliated and saddened and that poor young man heard the hatred from the ignorant uneducated people. I wanted to go home after that and never forgot it.
I grew up in South Texas, my father was white, my mother hispanic. Both of my parents in the military. I had best friends that were black,3 of them and I can still tell you their names. They were good friends- There was no color when I was growing up. We were all friends. If we keep hashing up this race thing, it will never go away- NEVER. It has now become an excuse to fight, to spew hatred, all thanks to our President.
Being half hispanic and white, I myself could feel in situations that I was not equal to others, financially,but I know who I am.
I am just a woman, a mother, a wife trying to live life and leaning on GOD for my strength. Not being jealous of things or people or status.. I have a loving spouse and a happy home.
Isnt that all anyone wants?
fishfam: this issue didn’t start w/ obama…he simply used it as a tool like any good corrupt evil opportunist would…I do not feel unequal to others because I am comfortable in my own skin…a feeling of inequality based on material attainment is not in my lexicon…
Why do we never see the fact stated that both MLK Sr. and Jr. were
Republicians?!!!!!!!!!!!
12thgenerationamerican: actually you do see it…just not on the popular news sites…
Thank you Mychal. Martin Luther King and my father shared the same birthdays. My dad always said that he was so proud to share his birthday with such a wonderful man. Fishfam> As for Oprah, Martin Luther King’s words fell on her deaf ears.
I agree Marilyn.. I agree. Anyon who gives Rosie ODonnell her own show.. Hum…. Ratings must be bad.
fishfam: she is closest thing to michelle obama angry, loud, uncouth, vulgar, harridan…
marilyn: ronald reagan and I share the same birthday…I don’t mind admitting that he was born first…lol…
Right on, Michael. Dr. King did not use any violence, nor did he have any self pity, but look what he accomplished!
oldnurse: amen…
Mychal, while i have more to say,I have a question. I do not wAtch Oprah I just heard hers
Say during a channel change that she would not be “who she is” if
It weren’t for Martin Luther King.
I’d like to know how you feel about That comment?
fishfam: I’m not sure what point she was making…I didn’t hear it or read it in context…so I’m at a lost to address it accurately…that said: if she meant it in the context that many who say same mean it…I am uncomfortable to putting a man over God…she should be giving thanks to God for her success and that said…God is a jealous God and doesn’t share praise…that’s my opinion…
Thumbs up, thanks Mychal
dave m: thk you much…