Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, January 19, 2009 6:30:25 PM
Since you are reading this, you have been online today – and since you have been online today, or if you turned on a radio or a television set, then you know that we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on the eve of the "historic inauguration" of Obama. (of course,
ALL Presidential Inaugurations are historic, but this one is breathlessly esteemed as HISTORIC because of the pigmentation of Obama's skin).
I am thankful for King's contributions to our society, and I note that he was a REVEREND who constantly appealed to Biblical principles. Yet, I don't hear the radical secularists denouncing him for this.
However, as I predicted
here and
here, the election of Obama is not going to stop the victicrats from yelling and screaming about how unfair and racist we all are.
Associated Press writer Deepti Hajela reports.
The focus of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 wasn't what had been accomplished — but rather his view of what still needed to be done.
More than four decades later, King scholars say he would take the same approach at this historic moment — the inauguration of the first black president at a time when the nation is facing its greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.
I can't wait for them to claim that MLK was concerned about global warming and talk radio without a Fairness Doctrine.
The crisis could widen the already large financial gaps between whites and blacks and make it more difficult to attain King's dream of economic equality in America.
What does that mean? People are willing to pay more for some goods and services than others – and people buy certain goods and services more often than others. How that can there be "economic equality" between, say, a plastic surgeon and a part-time library docent? A dollar from a black hand is just as valuable as a dollar from a white hand.
"I believe that Dr. King would caution us not to rest on the election of a black president and say our work here is done," said Kendra King, associate professor of politics at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.
Of course. The work will never be done. If the work was done, then a lot of people who make their livings stoking racial strife and class warfare would be out of jobs.
While the election of Barack Obama is a huge step toward King's dream of a time when people are judged on the content of their character and not their skin color, economic data shows racial disparities are still pervasive when it comes to financial equality.
Does anyone else find it to be a paradox to extol judging people on their character and not their skin color, and then cite statistics that separate people by their skin color?!?
Going beyond those simple statistics, studies show that economic mobility and the passage of wealth from one generation to another is more of a reality for whites than it is for blacks.
We live in a free country. In a free country, there is going to be inequality in outcomes. Notice that people of Asian origin and descent have traditionally faced intense racism in our country, but as a people in general, they have taken advantage of the freedoms we all have and have prospered. Perhaps there is something to be learned there.