This is the kind of revisionism spewed by Democrats on a daily basis, and unfortunately the media and other so-called watchdogs are so apparently ignorant of American history, Democrats continue to LIE through their teeth to their constituents, and via academia, to our kids. Despite the truth being out there for years, it’s probably not going to explode until some big shot news anchor gives us an “exclusive expose” bringing us all those facts first, so he/she can proudly receive a Pulitzer…

While I have only scratched the surface of civil rights history, remember, Democrats claim THEY “are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws”…

February 22, 1856
The Republican Party is officially founded as an abolitionist party to slavery in the United States.

May 2, 1856
Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten with a cane in the Senate chamber by Congressman Preston Brooks (D-SC) in retaliation for a speech Sumner previously made against slave owners. The Massachusetts Legislature refused to replace Sumner during his near-three year recovery and his Senate desk was left empty until his return in 1859 as a public reminder of the attack.

October 13, 1858
During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) said, “If you desire negro citizenship, if you desire to allow them to come into the State and settle with the white man, if you desire them to vote on an equality with yourselves, and to make them eligible to office, to serve on juries, and to adjudge your rights, then support Mr. Lincoln and the Black Republican party, who are in favor of the citizenship of the negro. For one, I am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form. I believe this Government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity for ever, and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent, instead of conferring it upon negroes, Indians, and other inferior races.”. Douglas became the Democrat Party’s 1860 presidential nominee.

April 16, 1862
President Lincoln signed the bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. In Congress, almost every Republican voted yes and most Democrats voted no.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democrat opposition, the Republican Congress passed The Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”.

April 8, 1864
The 13th Amendment banning slavery passed the U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition.

January 31, 1865
The 13th Amendment banning slavery passed the U.S. House with unanimous Republican support and intense Democrat opposition.

April 14, 1865
President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by pro-slavery, anti-abolitionist John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. Lincoln died at 7:22 am on April 15th. Booth was later killed on April 26th by a trooper with the 16th New York Cavalry while hiding in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia. Lincoln was the first Republican president to be assassinated.

November 22, 1865
Republicans denounced the Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting the “black codes” which institutionalized racial discrimination.

February 5, 1866
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduced legislation (opposed successfully by Democrat President Andrew Johnson) to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

March 27, 1866
Democrat President Andrew Johnson vetoed the law granting voting rights to blacks.

May 10, 1866
The U.S. House passed the Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens. 100% of Democrats vote no.

June 8, 1866
The U.S. Senate passed the Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens. 94% of Republicans voted yes and all Democrats voted no.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

July 16, 1866
The Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting the voting rights of blacks.

March 30, 1868
Republicans begin the impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson who declared, “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men.”

Summer 1868
With the help of tens of thousands of black citizens who finally had the right to vote, Republicans handily won local and state elections that spring. Henry Clay Warmoth, a Republican, won the race for Louisiana governor, but the votes African-Americans cast for those elections cost them. Over the summer, armed white Democrat Klansmen harassed black families, shot at them outside of Opelousas (the largest city in St. Landry Parish), and killed men, women and children with impunity.

September 12, 1868
Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and 24 other blacks in the Georgia Senate (all Republicans) were expelled by the Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by the Republican Congress.

September 28, 1868
St. Landry Riot: Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout. 

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

October 7, 1868
Republicans denounced Democrat Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule.”

October 22, 1868
While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) was assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan. Hinds was the first sitting congressman to be murdered while in office.

December 10, 1869
Republican Gov. John Campbell of the Wyoming Territory signed the FIRST-in-nation law granting women the right to vote and hold public office.

February 3, 1870
After passing the House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment was ratified, granting the vote to ALL Americans regardless of race.

February 25, 1870
Hiram Rhodes Revels (R-MS) becomes the first black to be seated in the United States Senate.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

May 31, 1870
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Republicans’ Enforcement Act providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights.

June 22, 1870
The U.S. Department of Justice, the inspiration of Republican Ohio Rep. William Lawrence, was created to safeguard the civil rights of blacks against Democrats in the South.

September 6, 1870
Women voted in Wyoming in first election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell.

February 1, 1871
Rep. Jefferson Franklin Long (R-GA) became the first black to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

February 28, 1871
The Republican Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 providing federal protection for black voters.

April 20, 1871
The Republican Congress enacted the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871 (also known as the “Ku Klux Klan Act”) outlawing Democrat Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed blacks and all those who supported them.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

October 10, 1871
Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto was murdered by a Democrat Party operative. His military funeral was attended by thousands.

October 18, 1871
After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses S. Grant deployed U.S. troops to combat Democrat Ku Klux Klan terrorists.

November 18, 1872
Susan B. Anthony was arrested after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket — straight”

April 13, 1873
150 black men and three white men died in the Colfax massacre: a fight for control of the Louisiana St. Landry Parish’s first courthouse after a disputed statewide election where even though Republican nominee Ulysses Grant won, not a single Republican vote was counted. About half of the black participants, and maybe more, were killed later that day after they surrendered.

January 17, 1874
Armed Democrats seized the Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate.

September 14, 1874
Democrat white supremacists seized the Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow the racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg. Twenty-seven were killed.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

March 1, 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, was signed by Republican President Ulysses S. Grant and passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition.

January 10, 1878
U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduced the Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage. The Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it four times before the election of a Republican House and Senate that guaranteed its passage in 1919.

July 2, 1881
President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, on September 19, 1881. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield’s murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Garfield was the second Republican president to be assassinated.

February 8, 1894
The Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland joined to repeal the Republicans’ Enforcement Act which had enabled blacks to vote.

January 15, 1901
Republican Booker T. Washington protested the Alabama Democrat Party’s refusal to permit voting by blacks.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implemented a new state constitution condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing black voter registration by almost 90%.

February 12, 1909
On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, black Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

January 12, 1915
Democrats Vote Against Women’s Suffrage Amendment

May 21, 1919
The Republican House passed a constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans and only 54% of Democrats in favor. In the Senate 80% of Republicans voted yes and almost half of Democrats voted no.

September 6, 1901
Republican President William McKinley was shot twice in the abdomen by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley died on September 14th of gangrene caused by the wounds. McKinley was the third Republican president to be assassinated.

August 18, 1920
The Republican-authored 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote became part of the United States Constitution. Twenty-six of the 36 states needed to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures.

January 26, 1922
The House passed a bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime. Senate Democrats blocked it by filibuster.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill passed by the Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans.

October 3, 1924
Republicans denounced three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invited the wife of black Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL) to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country.

August 17, 1937
Republicans organized opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black who was later appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by FDR. Black’s Klan background was hidden until after confirmation.

June 24, 1940
The Republican Party platform called for the integration of the Armed Forces. For the balance of his terms in office, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) refused to order it.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

August 8, 1945
Republicans condemned Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. It began two days after the Hiroshima bombing when former Republican President Herbert Hoover wrote that “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”

May 17, 1954
Republican Earl Warren, three-term California governor, 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, and Supreme Court Chief Justice delivers the landmark decision “Brown v. Board of Education”.

November 25, 1955
Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration banned racial segregation of interstate bus travel.

March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemned the Supreme Court’s “Brown v. Board of Education” decision and pledged (Southern Manifesto) to continue segregation.

June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson ruled in favor of the Rosa Parks decision striking down the “blacks in the back of the bus” law.

November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy voted for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President.

September 9, 1957
President Eisenhower signed the Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats including Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Eisenhower deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate their public schools.

May 6, 1960
President Eisenhower signed the Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming a 125-hour, round-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats.

May 2, 1963
Republicans condemned Bull Connor, the Democrat “Commissioner of Public Safety” in Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 black schoolchildren marching for their civil rights.

September 29, 1963
Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defied an order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson (appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower) to integrate Tuskegee High School.

June 9, 1964
Republicans condemned the 14-hour filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who served in the Senate until his death in 2010.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticized the Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act and called on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists — one of them being Al Gore Sr. (D). President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

August 4, 1965
Senate Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcame Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act. Ninety-four percent of Republicans voted for the landmark civil rights legislation while 27% of Democrats opposed. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent blacks from voting, was signed into law. A higher percentage of Republicans voted in favor.

February 19, 1976
President Gerald Ford formally rescinded President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order 9066 authorizing the internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII.

September 15, 1981
President Ronald Reagan established the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities to increase black participation in federal education programs.

June 29, 1982
President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

August 10, 1988
President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for the deprivation of their civil rights and property during the World War II internment ordered by FDR.

November 21, 1991
President George H. W. Bush signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation.

August 20, 1996
A bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ “Contract With America”, became law.

Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws…. On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.

July 2, 2010
Clinton says Byrd joined KKK to help him get elected
Just a “fleeting association”. Nothing to see here.

Summer, 2020
NY Times ignores 18 deaths, nearly $2 billion in damage when bashing GOP bills targeting rioters
Democrat “mostly peaceful” rampage “resulted in $350 million worth of property damage in the Minneapolis area and nearly $2 billion nationwide” (disproportionately in black neighborhoods).

February 2, 2023
Sayreville NJ GOP Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour shot and killed in possible targeted attack outside her home
Scant national coverage of the assassination

And let’s not forget the words of liberal icon Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood…

The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
— 1939 letter by Sanger

So the next time any Democrat claims they’ve been supportive of civil rights in America (and been so all along), ask them to explain their past. “We’ve grown” is not gonna cut it, considering they continue to lie about their past to this day.

I say again, I’m not anti-Democrat, I’m not anti-Republican, I’m not anti-anything. I’m just questioning their sincerity, and some of the strategy that they’ve been using on our people by promising them promises that they don’t intend to keep.
— Malcolm X, 4/3/64

Only a willing fool (and there are quite a lot out there) would accept and recite the nonsensical: one bright, sunny day Democrats and Republicans just up and decided to “switch” political positions and cite the “Southern Strategy” as the uniform knee-jerk retort. Even today, it never takes long for a Democrat to play the race card purely for political advantage.

Thanks to the Democrat Party, blacks have the distinction of being the only group in the United States whose history is a work-in-progress.

* In 2010, the Democrat Party website received a face lift and the erroneous statements regarding their so-called civil rights advocacy were removed, that is until 2020….

For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights…. Take a look at some of our accomplishments, and you’ll see why we’re proud to be Democrats. From America’s beginnings to today, people have turned to Democrats to meet our country’s most pressing challenges—and pave the way for a future that lifts up all Americans.

The lie has returned for the benefit of the ignorant, with careful nuance.

A “proud” history.

Watch the video HERE!

It prompted me to make a call to someone I know in D.C. to find out what Dr. King’s party affiliation was. One would think someone who is “owned” by the Democrats would be one. Conversely the argument can be made that children tend to share the same values as their parents.

However, my research came up dry, which puzzles me. If Dr. King were a Democrat, it would be in our face. But no such pronouncement has ever been made. I suspect Dr. King was an Independent purely for the appearance of neutrality.

On its 50-year anniversary, I will attempt to interpret Dr. King’s legendary speech. I am not an Ivy League scholar. I am not an African Studies laureate. I am not a famous historian. I am just a black conservative who just may see things a bit differently than liberals would allow if they could stop me.

There are certain phrases in the “I Have A Dream” speech that could make the argument that Dr. King was conservative. So I won’t be accused of taking something out of context, I examined the entire speech….

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

The “great American” Dr. King is obviously referring to was President Abraham Lincoln, a Republican.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

Dr. King delivered this speech during the tail end of the Civil Rights Movement and on the eve of the Republican-led passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Until then, unbridled discrimination against Blacks was real. But if he were to deliver this speech today, that paragraph would acknowledge that legalized racism is a thing of the past. No one is forcing Blacks to live on the “lonely island of poverty”, although that’s where some white liberals would expect to find us.

Even though most liberals picture Blacks as poverty-stricken and down-trodden despite the “vast ocean of material prosperity”, many Blacks today own at least one color television, one car, stereo system, have air conditioning, private bathroom, nice clothes, jewelry, a computer, and at first glance seem fairly well fed. The people who bewail American Blacks as some of the most impoverished in the world are simply ignorant, liars, or maybe a combination of both. Sure, things could be better but for the most part, opportunity is there for whoever applies themselves.

Instead, liberals have been allowed to segregate Blacks into the housing project mindset. We as a people are expected to bow down and kiss the feet of a liberal government massah who feeds us with degrading notions like food stamps and provides our “expected” illegitimate children with a substandard education that would never be tolerated in white communities.

Liberals always claim to want to “help” us but their overall success track record really sucks. They play on emotion by pointing out racism whether real or not in an effort to give us just one reason to “need” them.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check – a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

For the most part and thanks to many people fighting many little battles, the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness are pretty well attainable. By the way, attainable means earned. Although it’s there, it takes longer to secure any of those things if you wait for them to come to you.

America hasn’t defaulted on the promise. Liberals have, and have done so ever since they’ve successfully rewritten their history (and voting record) by self-proclaiming themselves as the “Party of Civil Rights”.

It can be considered “insufficient funds” when certain people promise Blacks the answers to problems they don’t intend on delivering. It can be considered “insufficient funds” when certain people treat Blacks like children that can’t take care of themselves and should be pitied. It can be considered “insufficient funds” when certain people forgive bad behavior as they would that of their dogs: “They don’t know any better.” It can be considered “insufficient funds” when certain people spend decades promising a gradualism resulting in our present-day formula of segregation.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

That day came, Dr. King would be proud, and deservedly so. But we should now resist the temptation to succumb to the squealings of those who think we can’t handle our liberties unsupervised.

Sometimes I think it’s the determination of the Negro that scares liberals. Los Angeles talk show host Larry Elder has quite accurately reminded us (and I paraphrase) that blacks have come the furthest forward from the farthest behind, or something insightful like that….

Blacks deserve the same options and roadmaps to prosperity as everyone else. For example, one good first step is school choice. Education is the ticket; vouchers are a means; that is if liberals will ever allow us permission to access them.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. 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.

Someone need read that paragraph to the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Tavis Smiley, Danny Bakewell, Julianne Malveaux and all other pissed-off blacks of influence who perpetuate the black inferiority notion while enjoying their own lives of equality and opulence.

It’s like they drool, waiting to pounce on the Trent Lotts while turning a blind eye to the Robert Byrds. They wish to destroy their established enemy while smiling and joking with the one wearing the same uniform.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. 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, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

“No justice, No peace!”
– Congresswoman Maxine Waters on the eve of the Los Angeles Riot

I still believe to be a good Black Democrat in today’s America you must believe “All white people are racists… except the ones you know.” The “ones you know” are usually white liberals who always seem to feel our pain, yet do little to alleviate it. To free Blacks would mean to lose that one group they constantly use, yes — USE, to equate historical persecution with contemporary inconvenience.

Some of the whites who marched with Dr. King are now the very ones (quite liberal) denying Blacks freedom by treating them like soulless pets.

Ironic.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Civil Rights is a business. There are some that earn a living finding racist bogeymen around every corner; thus they cannot afford to be “satisfied”.

Blacks today have unfettered access to motels, and can vote fairly-easily except in districts run by Democrats (see Palm Beach, Florida 2000). Also, Blacks have little to complain about justice-wise. O.J. was found not guilty and Rodney King still has a driver’s license.

Things aren’t so bad.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Deep.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

It’s so easy to contrast the attitude displayed by Dr. King in this speech. He, like most conservatives, tells Blacks what they can do instead of what they can’t. He exuded faith in a positive outcome, not fear of an imaginary negative predetermination.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

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.”

It’s funny: these are the most recognizable and quoted lines from the speech. But of all the words of wisdom contained herein, it was the obvious that had the most impact.

And if Dr. King delivered that speech today, modern-day activists might have called him naïve and a sell-out. He definitely would be regarded a sexist neocon for granting only men as being created equal.

The rest of the text would’ve been rendered irrelevant.

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

Doable.

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

Doable.

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.

Not while there is such an embraced concept like “Affirmative Action”.

This is where Dr. King could be exposed as a potential conservative. There are very few statements that bare the very essence of true equality, not vengeance. Today’s so-called Civil Rights “leaders” claim that only redirection of inequality is a remedy, and claim so with a smile.

I have a dream today.

If not copyrighted by the King family, those five words might’ve already appeared on an ad for Sony, or Nike, or Microsoft, or Lexus.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

George Wallace was that governor of Alabama. He was America’s poster boy for Civil Rights-era racism, and a typical 60’s era Democrat. He just didn’t hide it.

It always amazed me how easily little kids, who are unacquainted with the ways of racism, play and get along. Racism is taught and is not intuitive. I’ll even go out on a limb and declare that a fact.

Even so, there are those on both sides who teach hate and bigotry for a variety of motives. Some people seek isolation. Some seek to earn a living, and people have died because of both. People who lynch are as much killers as those who incite riots where innocents and participants die.

Think about it.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

Dr. King was a genius and a man ahead of his time. He left out all reference to the Ten Commandments….

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

Okay, he’s skillfully building to a crescendo, but what’s up with the “go to jail together”? He’s not very clear about being a visitor or a resident.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

There are those today who regard that song as racist since it’s an anthem that celebrates a bunch of white, genocidal pilgrims. It’s a shame that portions of one of the greatest orations of all time might be whittled down so it could be delivered on a super-sensitive, politically correct, pro-Affirmative Action college campus.

All references to a god or supernatural lord would have to be removed, and all references to a person would have to be gender neutral to include all possible variations.

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!

I don’t mean to sound disrespectful, but was that line about California a double entendre?

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

Dr. King didn’t seem to leave out any major groups, ‘cept Muslims and Palestinians.

Of course, that wasn’t intentional….

So much of his message was of hope and not condemnation. This was not the kind of speech a liberal Black person could deliver today as is. It would be focus-grouped within a demographic, and the Republican Party would be the preferred villain.

Today, old Black men and women in $1000 outfits are perpetuating victimology so they can personally stay in the good graces of a Party, which can also be personally lucrative. I could never understand preaching about the inequities of life and being driven off in a limousine.

But maybe one day, Blacks will be blessed with options. They will have a choice of where and how to educate their kids, who they can vote for, how much money they can make and not be limited to what the government grants them. They will be considered full Americans and not a hyphen thereof.

I have a dream too.