MLK is Rolling in His Grave
I apologize that it’s been a while since I’ve written anything. I’ll chalk it up to a combination of family obligations, the holidays, and writers’ block. My four-year podcast/blog journey has given me a deep respect for journalists and bloggers and podcasters, who turn out daily and weekly content. It’s not easy. But as I have said before, I only want to write when I believe I have something compelling to say. I will try to up my game going forward, because there is so much important stuff to talk about these days. Things like:
· Highest inflation in 40 years.
· Crime.
· Unsustainable federal deficits.
· Deglobalization.
· Drugs, terrorists, and millions of illegal aliens pouring over our southern border.
· Full societal infiltration of woke culture.
· Broken public education.
· Economic and societal implications of going “all-in” on climate change policy.
· The War in Ukraine.
· A waning US military in dangerous times, and of course,
· Chinese spy balloons and maybe alien space crafts 😊
The list is long, and I want to kick it off by addressing two of the items on my list: Education and Woke Culture. First, I’ll l start with a story.
My favorite music streaming station is WERS, a public radio station run by Emerson College, a premier music and arts school in Boston. Most of the DJ’s are students and their musical mix is simply divine. I get the best of new music from artists that are usually less than half my age which makes sense given their core Boston market with its 250,000 college students. But they also include lots of music from older generations which suggests kids are listening to that stuff too. Young people liking some their parents’ music, and parents like some of their kids music is a great way for generations to better understand each other, which is healthy for society. WERS also mixes things up with their evening segment of slow jam romantic R&B, Saturday with nothing but insanely excellent a cappella groups (many from local colleges), and Sunday’s Broadway showtunes. Music freak that I am, I think it is the most diverse and pleasant musical experience available anywhere. I recommend it highly.
But this article is not about music so I will get to the point. I was driving on MLK day a few weeks ago, streaming WERS and the daytime DJs were playing stuff that celebrated the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. They played some really great oldies like Sam Cook’s 1964 hit, “A Change is Gonna Come,” which was a soundtrack to the great civil rights movement of the 1960’s. But it was the great 1988 U2 hit, “Angel of Harlem”, that really got me thinking about the meaning of MLK Day. U2 is band of white dudes from Ireland, a country with no discernible history of systemic discrimination based on skin color. Sure, Irish history is full of violence based on religious and tribal affiliations, but none of the violence was based on skin color. Maybe that’s because there were hardly any black folks in Ireland for most of its history. But the thing that made me think is that the progress the United States has made on trying to live up to the lofty ideals of its Constitution, only could have happened because of white folks. I can see the eye rolls now. OMG what is this racist BS. Well let’s look at the facts. The percentage of the US population that was black in 1860, either slave or free, was 13%, slightly less than what it is now. Of course, the southern US states had a higher percentage of population that was black (about 30%) owing, to the tragic use of human slaves for the agriculture industry that drove the Dixie economies.
But until the start of the Civil War in 1861, we were still a “United States” of America. The recognition of the evil of slavery didn’t happen overnight. For the most part, our founders knew slavery was evil, but to get the consent of southern states for the establishment of a new country and constitution, those that opposed slavery had to hold their noses and look the other way. Horrible I know, but I wonder what would have occurred if the founders decided to exclude the southern states from the union. Who knows how long it would have persisted. It’s likely that the southern states would have not agreed to a constitution that outlawed slavery and they would have declared their own sovereign nation or remained part of the British Empire. No matter how it turned out, slavery would have persisted for much longer. That’s even more horrible. So really it was baked into the cake that America would eventually have to reckon with this human tragedy.
And so it was that the Abolition movement in the United States became an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States. The first leaders of the campaign, which took place from about 1830 to 1870, mimicked some of the same tactics British abolitionists had used to end slavery in Great Britain in the 1830s. Though it started as a movement with religious underpinnings, abolitionism became a controversial political issue that divided much of the country. Supporters and critics engaged in heated debates and violent— even deadly—confrontations. The divisiveness and animosity fueled by the movement led to the Civil War and the end of slavery in America.
The Abolition movement was led almost exclusively by white folks who knew slavery was a moral evil that couldn’t be allowed to persist. It officially emerged around 1830 with ideas from the Second Great Awakening religious movement, which inspired abolitionists to rise up against slavery. This Protestant revival encouraged the concept of adopting renewed morals, which centered around the idea that all men are created equal in the eyes of God. Abolitionism started in states like New York and Massachusetts and quickly spread to other Northern states. Reformers like William Lloyd Garrison (who established the American Anti-Slavery Society) and authors like Wendell Phillips, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Harriet Beecher Stowe spearheaded the white abolitionist movement in the North. They joined former slaves like Frederick Douglass and free blacks like Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston, who founded the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. But the Abolition movement would have died on the vine if the significant amount of the overwhelmingly white majority population did not support it. Indeed, one of the most important catalysts of the Civil War, was the emergence of white people willing to die for the cause. People like John Brown, a militant abolitionist who was captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, VA in 1859. During the Civil War from 1861-1865, there were over 1.2 million casualties, of which there was about 40,000 black soldiers or 3.3%. This means that about 1.1 million white people fought and died to make black people free.
Why Am I telling You This?
Because the woke “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)” culture that is infiltrating our media, schools, workplaces and government will destroy our country if allowed to continue. It divides us by social groups, ranks those groups on privilege and power, and excludes those who don’t bow to the new religion. Rather than being equally endowed by our Creator with dignity and fundamental rights as humans, we are supposed to discriminate and confer status based on race, gender and sexual identity. It is a poorly disguised version of revenge against white people, the lowest rung on the new DEI ladder. White people, who admittedly held most of the power for much of our history, who also shaped America into the most egalitarian and prosperous nation this world has ever seen.
Never mind that only a very small percentage of white US citizens have ancestors who owned slaves. My ancestors came from Italy and Canada at the beginning of the 20th century. No slave holders here. The idea that all white people carry an original sin that requires revenge might sound like hyperbole, but the examples keep piling up. The list is depressingly long, with outcomes ironically hurting the minority communities they are intended to help.
Take the living-wage mandates that price poor minorities desperate for employment out of jobs. Or bail-reform measures that make bad neighborhoods even more dangerous by going easy on repeat offenders. Open-space zoning laws, supported by environmental zealots, have limited the construction of affordable homes and thereby decimated the black population of major cities, such as San Francisco. But I want to start with the root cause of the problem, which is the indoctrination of our young people in this divisive and evil DEI propaganda, within our public schools and universities.
Discrimination of Problem Students in Public Schools
A study recently released by the U.S. Education Department suggests that policies being advanced by the DEI crowd are hindering getting our kids back up to speed academically from the destructive pandemic school lockdowns. According to an annual survey of school administrators by the federal Institute for Education Sciences, schools saw a 56% increase in “classroom disruptions from student misconduct” compared with a typical school year before the pandemic. Actual “physical attacks or fights between students” have risen by 33%, and threats of violence have increased 36%.
Whatever the effects of pandemic education policies, student suspension edicts pushed by the political left are making things worse. Under President Obama, the U.S. Education Department released a study showing that black students are suspended from school at higher rates than white students and concluded that the only possible reason for the disparity was racism. Similar studies have shown that whites are suspended at higher rates than Asians, but the left-wing authoritarians stop reading when they find the statistic that fits the story they want to sell you. So, armed with their cherry-picked data, Obama issued “letters of guidance” to schools that said federal officials would consider higher discipline rates among blacks to be evidence of racial discrimination. Wow!
The response from public schools controlled by the teachers’ unions, was a reduction in suspensions. This predictably led to more disruption and bullying and students feeling less safe—especially black students. A federal survey from 2017 found that 37% of black students nationwide reported being bullied, the highest percentage of any racial or ethnic group. A policy intended to fight racism wound up harming black kids the most. More Critical Race Theory please!
President Trump revoked the Obama rules, but in 2021, the Biden Education Department and Justice Department reinstated their version of the Obama guidance urging schools to discipline students in a “nondiscriminatory manner” which means basing discipline on racial balance instead of the actual behavior. Racially equal disciplinary outcomes are more important than effective education for kids. Got it.
The problem isn’t that school discipline policies are too harsh but that they’re too lax. Better to teach children to behave before they leave school than face much harder consequences as adults. Teaching kids the basics of public behavior should be the job of parents but unfortunately, lots of those parents were educated in these same failing public schools, and never learned those lessons themselves. String this unfortunate dynamic across a few generations of Americans, and you can see the problem here.
For the few parents fortunate enough to have access to public charter schools where the teachers’ unions have no control, this issue is almost non-existent. Charter schools, which have a disproportionately higher number of low-income black and Hispanic kids, have been pilloried for having stricter discipline policies. Yet academic studies have shown that charter students were less likely than their peers in traditional public schools to be incarcerated later in life. Not to mention, they have consistently higher educational achievement than traditional public schools controlled by the teachers’ unions. You may want to refer to one of my earlier articles, to understand why defeating the teachers’ unions is one of most important challenges we face in the U.S. if we care about our future.
Like so much of the left-wing utopian agenda, narratives matter more than results, even if those results leave the intended beneficiaries worse off. Lenient treatment for the small minority of problem students can make school a nightmare and learning impossible for the overwhelming majority of minority children who need a good education to make a better life for themselves.
Discrimination Against High-Achievers in Public Schools
Before the Supreme Court decides on the use of race preferences in college admissions, it might pay attention to what’s happening in its own neighborhood for evidence of how affirmative action, the federal law designed to stop racial discrimination, has morphed into an ugly war on achievement. In December of 2022, Asra Nomani, an India-born mom, wrote a piece for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal describing how her son’s Virginia high school never told him he’d been awarded a National Merit Scholarship. Other students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology—regularly ranked as America’s top public high school—said they had the same experience. So, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares launched a civil-rights investigation on Jan. 4, 2023. Days later, principals at two more Fairfax Virginia County high schools admitted they too didn’t inform student award winners. Mr. Miyares then expanded his investigation to all Fairfax County schools. As soon as he did, neighboring Loudoun County reported that three of its high schools had delayed notifying its students, insisting it wasn’t intentional. Shortly after, five more Fairfax high schools admitted they too delayed notifying students.
The National Merit Scholarship Program is a competition of 1.5 million students, based on their scores on the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. “Commended Students” rank in the top 3%, while “Semifinalists” test in the top 1%. It’s an achievement that can make a difference on a college or scholarship application. But the students who weren’t told they were National Merit winners, or were told too late, couldn’t include it on their college applications.
Considering public education in Fairfax County has become the front line for the Democrats radical DEI agenda, what really happened is that it is has turned into a war on high achieving children. In a 2022 case, a federal judge challenged the Thomas Jefferson schools admissions policy forcing them to get rid of the merit-based entrance exam to make room for African American and Hispanic students by reducing the number of Asian-Americans. Think Affirmative Action for public schools. I guess the judge’s decision worked. The class admitted before the change was 73% Asian-American, 3.3% Hispanic and 1.2% African-American. After the change, these figures went to 54%, 11% and 7%, respectively. The share of white students even grew from 17% to 22%.
Last fall the Loudon county school district signed a $455,000 contract for strategic planning with consultant Mutiu Fagbayi of Performance Fact Inc. In a presentation he delivered at a Fairfax County School Board retreat, he defines equity as “equal outcomes for every student, without exception.” Shawnna Yashar, a Fairfax mom, told school district officials that her son wasn’t told he was a commended student until after the deadline for his early admissions application. Ms. Yashar says that when she complained to Thomas Jefferson’s Director of Student Services, she was told that the school wants “to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements,” and that it delayed informing winners to spare the feelings of those who didn’t qualify.
Those who paid the price for this policy were overwhelmingly Asian-American who comprised 77% of the National Merit winners at Fairfax schools, 66% at Langley and 80% at Westfield. Asian-Americans make up about 19% of the student population of those schools. What makes Asian-American achievement so reviled by the DEI jackboots is that it exposes the false narrative about an irredeemably racist America where minorities can’t succeed. This epitomizes the soft bigotry of low expectations.
In Virginia, parents watched teachers’ unions fight to keep schools closed during the Covid pandemic. They found out the National School Boards Association asked the Biden Justice Department to consider angry parents who showed up to public meetings demanding accountability, as domestic terrorists. And they heard a school’s superintendent in Loudoun County lying to them about a brutal sexual assault of a 15-year-girl in a school bathroom. Now these same officials want Asian-American parents to believe that not telling their kids that they won a prestigious academic competition was an innocent oversight. Yeah right.
Discrimination in Colleges and Universities
James Madison tells us in Federalist Papers 10 that the first job of government is the protection of “the diversity in the faculties of men.” By diversity, Madison meant diversity of opinions that preserve liberty. Unfortunately, “diversity” is no longer a word to describe the scope of our differences but a mandate to grant privileges to supposedly oppressed groups. Equity assigns desirable positions based on race, sex and sexual orientation rather than character, competence and merit. Inclusion now means creating a social environment where identity groups are celebrated while those who disagree are punished. There it is. DEI defined.
DEI initiatives have also proliferated in higher education. There are offices, deans and vice presidents of diversity, equity and inclusion at most colleges and universities. One review of top universities found an average of 45 DEI staff members at each school (about one DEI staffer for every 30 professors). Another study found that 20% of academic job postings require DEI statements (think religious pledges) as a requirement of employment or promotion.
College is a partnership between faculty and students focused on learning and pursuing knowledge and truth. It’s ultimately about the enduring question of human flourishing. Freshman orientation shouldn’t be a re-education session. DEI may be the heart of the woke movement, but its effect is destroying the academic mind.
A recent report from the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education speaks of “creating a framework for diversity officers to advance anti-racism strategies, particularly anti-Black racism, at their respective institutions of higher education.” How? Through curriculum, admissions, campus culture, institutional structures, policies, hiring, promotions and employee training. Really, everything. DEI is an effort to shape the whole institution and all its activities according to this toxic ideology. DEI is essentially the gatekeeper for entry to college faculty, staff and students. Requiring DEI statements as part of faculty hiring discourages those who may not agree from even applying. It stifles open and free discourse by keeping dissenting viewpoints out of the classroom.
College DEI policies attack the integrity of academia at large. Instead of listening to divergent voices, kids get indoctrinated. Instead of the free expression of contrary opinions, chilling self-censorship takes place. A campus open to all is replaced by a narrow doorway through which only an approved few may enter. Those who don’t observe these religious doctrines are ostracized and excluded. Charles Orwell warned us about this 73 years ago, in his masterpiece, “1984.” I recommend that we all re-read this book.
Woke Ideology is Not Just a U.S. Problem
If you are thinking woke culture is just an American phenomenon, think again. It is being used by powerful elites like the Davos crowd, as a tool to expand their control over every aspect of all western societies. British Satirist Konstantin Kisin, recently delivered a speech to the Oxford Union Society on woke culture and how it is has trained young minds not to work, create, and build. The speech is definitely worth watching here on Youtube. It is so powerful that I am including a transcript of the speech here.
"We on this [conservative] side of the house are not on this side of the house because we do not wish to improve the world. We sit on this side of the house because we know that the way to improve the world is to work, to create, to build. And the problem with woke culture is that it has trained too many young minds to forget about that.
We are told that your generation cares more than any other about one issue in particular and that issue is climate change. We are told that many of you suffer from climate anxiety. You wish to save the planet. And for tonight, and tonight only, I will join you. I will join you in worshipping at the feet of Saint Greta of Climate Change.
What are we to do about this huge problem facing humanity? What can we in Britain do? We can only do one thing, you know why? This country is responsible for 2% of global carbon emissions, which means that if Britain was to sink into the sea right now it would make absolutely no difference to the issue of climate change. You know why? Because the future of the climate is going to be decided in Asia and Latin America, by poor people who couldn’t give a shit about saving the planet. No thank you.
It's going to be decided by poor people in Asia and Latin America who don't care about saving the planet. You know why? Because they're poor. Because they're poor. I come from Russia, which is not a poor country. It's a middle-income country. 20% of households in Russia do not have an indoor toilet. What they have is an outdoor toilet. And I don't mean one of those nice port-a-loos that we get here. I mean a wooden shack with a hole in the ground that holds the collective fermented memory of the last 10,000 visits. How many of you are going to go home tonight and say let's rip out our bathroom and erect a Siberian shithouse in the back garden? And if you're not, why should they?
120 million people in China do not have enough food. I don't mean that they don't get dessert, I mean that they suffer from malnutrition. That means that their immune system is breaking down because they don't have enough food. You're not going to get them to stay poor. Imagine you're Xi Jinping, the leader of China. When you were 10 years old there was a revolution, a Cultural Revolution in your country. And people came and they put your father in prison. Your mother had to denounce him. Your sister killed herself. And you, no longer enjoying the protection of your former powerful father, were sent to a village where you lived in a cave house. And here you are, decades later, you have clawed your way up the bloody and greasy pole of Chinese politics to be the undisputed supreme leader of the very Communist Party that destroyed your family. And you know that the main thing that you have to do to survive and stay in power is to deliver the one thing that the people of China want: prosperity, economic growth.
Where do you think climate change ranks on Xi Jinping's list of priorities?
Now if you said to me that I had a choice: either my son had a serious risk of starving or dying from a preventable disease in the next year or I could press a button and he would live. He would go to school. He would bring his first girlfriend home. He would go to university and graduate. And then he would get a job, get married, have children, and become a man. But all I have to do is press this button and for every day of my son's life a giant plume of Co2 is going to get released into the atmosphere. Now, you're all very young and most of you are not parents. Let me tell you something, there is not a parent in the world who would not smash that button so hard their hand bled.
You are not going to get these people to stay poor. You're not even going to get them to not be richer. And so, I put it to you ladies and gentlemen, there is only one thing we can do in this country to stop climate change and that is to make scientific and technological breakthroughs that will create clean energy that is not only clean but also cheap.
The only thing wokeness has to offer in exchange is to brainwash bright young minds like you to believe that you are victims, to believe that you have no agency, to believe that what you must do to improve the world is to complain, is to protest, is to throw soup on paintings.
And we on this side of the house are not on this side of the house because we do not wish to improve the world. We sit on this side of the house because we know that the way to improve the world is to work, is to create, is to build. And the problem with woke culture is that it has trained too many young minds to forget about that. Thank you very much.”
There is Hope
As you look around you and see the infiltration of this woke DEI culture into nearly every aspect of our lives, it is tempting to lose hope and revert to simply enjoying the freedoms we still have, as we wait for darkness to descend our proud land. Think of Rome in its final days.
However, we should never discount the resilience of the American spirit and the ability of its citizens to see through the scam and right the ship. There is a growing number of voices among black leaders who see Critical Race Theory for what it is. Like the co-chairperson of the 60,000 member Project 21 Black Leadership Network, Stacy Washington, who says:
“Critical Race Theory is like cancer, metastasizing over the American cultural landscape. The remedy is eradication through a focus on true black history. Black Americans have made rich historical contributions beyond slavery and the peacefully-executed Civil Rights Movement. True black history connects us to our past and each other, while CRT only divides us and leaves destruction in its wake.”
Then there is the eminent Thomas Sowell, who was born poor in 1930 in the segregated south, raised in Harlem, and served as a Marine during the Korean War. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1958, and then earned a doctorate in Economics at the University of Chicago in 1968 under his mentor Milton Freidman. He served on the faculties of several top colleges including Stanford and Cornell, is the author of 45 books on economics, politics, education and race, and became a syndicated columnist in 150 newspapers. Sowell saw through the false narratives of racial grievance. Here are some of his great quotes:
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
“The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
“The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.”
In 2021, The Manhattan Institute surveyed adults in 20 metropolitan areas with the largest numerical population growth from 2010 to 2019, to understand their priorities and opinions on key policy issues. That survey found that fifty-four percent (54%) of black parents’ support eliminating the CRT curriculum. This statistic emerged from the survey questions of school system quality and opinions on the option of allowing public school choice.
Speaking of school choice, the Governor of my home state of Florida, has become a leader in the effort to improve public education by expanding charter schools, which overwhelmingly serve poor people of color. He became governor in 2018 by getting much higher support among black (14%) and Hispanic (44%) voters than a Republican had received in many years. He did this by promising to fix Florida’s many failing, teachers’ union-controlled public schools. He did such a good job on this and other issues, that voters returned him to office last November by the largest margin (19%) in 40 years. He won in traditionally Democrat counties like Palm Beach. He maintained his share of the black vote while increasing his share of Hispanic votes from 44% to 65%. How did he do this?
Here’s an example. When parents complained that Critical Race Theory was creeping into their children’s classrooms, the FL Dept of Education rejected a planned Advanced Placement class in African American Studies because it “lacks educational value” and “is a vehicle for a political agenda.” Critics, like at NPR, argued that CRT is only college-level study and isn’t actually taught in K-12 schools. So, if that is true, why are the critics howling about blocking the AP course?
Here is an example of components of the AP framework that was leaked:
• “The Reparations Movement,” a topic that “explores the case for reparations,” in which students “may examine House Bill H.R. 40 and a text by Ta-Nehisi Coates.”
• “Movements for Black Lives,” which “explores the origins, mission, and global influence of the Black Lives Matter movement,” some of whose supporters call for the abolition of prisons and police, and whose founders are avowed Marxists.
• “Black Queer Studies,” which “explores the concept of the queer of color critique, grounded in Black feminism and intersectionality, as a Black studies lens that shifts sexuality studies toward racial analysis.”
• “‘Post-racial’ Racism and Colorblindness,” which “explores concepts such as post-racialism, colorblindness, race craft, or inequality.”
• “Intersectionality and Activism,” which “examines intersectionality as an analytical framework and its connection to Chicana and Asian American feminist thought.” Students “may explore a text” by Kimberlé Crenshaw, whose official Columbia Law School bio says that her work is “foundational in critical race theory.”
Predictably, the critics argue semantics and technicalities over whether asking teenagers to study intersectionality and read Ms. Crenshaw constitutes “teaching CRT.” Regardless, Florida’s assertion that there is an underlying political agenda looks quite reasonable. Does an AP class that explores “the case for reparations” also discuss the case against reparations, including the fact that 21% of black Americans are not descendant of slaves, and 18% of black newlyweds in 2015 married someone of a different race or ethnicity? The AP document has a topic on exploring the “diverse experiences and identities of Black communities in the U.S.” Somehow, I doubt that this includes readings from Thomas Sowell or Clarence Thomas.
Does anybody think that if this kind of curriculum were put to a vote in Florida, it would get anywhere close to majority support? Mr. DeSantis’s administration is responsible for overseeing what happens in the state’s public K-12 schools. “We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think,” the Governor said, “but we don’t believe they should have an agenda imposed on them.” Florida’s Education Department told the College Board, which runs the AP program, that it would consider an AP Black History course if the curriculum were changed.
Governor DeSantis’ critics argue that there’s an AP course in European History, which is OK. Maybe that’s because it covers actual European history like the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the World Wars. The point is that Black history is American history! Florida mandates instruction on “the enslavement experience,” “the civil rights movement,” and the contributions of black Americans. Three years ago, Mr. DeSantis signed a law to teach the 1920 Ocoee massacre, in which a white mob killed dozens of black Floridians. K-12 curriculum is always evolving, but the right approach is to teach the whole of history. African-American history is part of American history, and that’s how schools should teach it.
In Conclusion
For millennia, authoritarians of all stripes have used bogeymen to distract people from their real plan to consolidate power. The few ruling the many. It is the reason why the United States was formed to fight tyranny and return power to the people. Nazi Germany used the Jews as the excuse. Communists in Russia and China use “the morally depraved western democracies” to foment nationalism and distract from the murder of tens of millions of their citizens who they viewed as threats to their power. Once power is consolidated, wars become the tool to distract the people from the corruption and incompetence of their elite overlords. In the United States, we have the hubris to believe, just because we have historically defended freedom throughout the world, that kind of authoritarian hellscape cannot happen here. I regret to inform you that the once slow steady quiet infiltration of our treasured institutions has now accelerated to a point to where it is now obvious. Our schools, the media, federal government, the military, health care. Everywhere you look, there is a small group of powerful elites that want to tell you how you will live your life and what you will think.
I think it’s fitting to leave you with the most famous excerpt from one of the most iconic American speeches, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” address that was delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. We should all read the full transcript of this classic speech.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.”
May it be so. Until next time, United We Stand, Divided We Fall, Each for the Other and All for All.