From this…
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 their skin but by the content of their character.
… to con artists like Shaun King pretending to be black because it’s a lucrative hustle.
… to race hustlers like Ta-Nehisi Coates growing wealthy pandering to white guilt and demanding, not reconciliation, but vengeance.
…. to pathetic whining that there aren’t enough Oscar nominations for black people.
… to a black president and his entire party embracing divisive racial rhetoric because it is politically advantageous to do so.
… to a city with a black mayor, a majority black city council, and a majority black police force that still blames white people for all of their troubles.
… to spoiled young black women pitching obscenity-laden hissy fits about emails about Halloween costumes.
… to whining that it’s racist for white people to cook collard greens with peanuts. (I am not making this up.)
I used to think that Millennials would be the generation that moved past racism and identity politics. Sadly, it looks like the Millennials are even more obsessed than their insane, Baby Boomer forebearers. What the hell happened?
Update: USA Today’s Racial Self-Flagellation: “Whites Killed Martin Luther King. Now We Honor Him.” Really? All white people everywhere conspired to kill Martin Luther King? Does this mean all Black people raped Bill Cosby’s women? Whatever, dude.
As I see it, Rev. King’s “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” got turned on its head almost immediately by the Jesse Jacksons of the world who preferred to race-bait for profit. I think that most people would be happy with Rev. King’s vision–and would if the loud voices would let them.
As for having the vapors over peanuts in collard greens, how silly can you get? Food has been one of the first places where different cultures come together to the betterment of all.
And I hope the author of the white people killed Dr. King article retires soon and no longer pollutes the minds of others. He has seriously mis-learned his history.
The last thing that the SJW’s and Black Grievance Industry want is for people to be judged by the content of their character. Their sinecures are based on demanding Free Stuff, to which they are supposedly entitled because of skin color.
I’ve never blamed all black people for a mugging or a carjacking, and I’ve never claimed that all Muslims were terrorists. But leftists now claim that all white people took part in the King assassination.
And the third Monday in January is a federal holiday so that yuppies can have a three-day weekend to go skiing in Aspen or Vail.
All the hopes and dreams that were achieved from the action and inspiration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, are becoming undone by Black Lives Matter, and Al Sharpton. The goal of an integrated society was fueled by Affirmative Action, school busing, and block busting. Now integration isn’t good enough, blacks must have their space, in other words, segregation. If necessary to show anger and the the apparent lack of justice, “let’s burn down our neighborhoods and maake whitey to feel guilty.”
Today, the Left demands that Whites flagellate themselves for the murder of a Black man, while ignoring his very real flaws. In a month, they’ll be demanding that Whites flagellate themselves over the actions of a White man who was actually progressive for his time, while ignoring all the good he did.
You just can’t win.
Good post, our universities continue to push identity studies.
I cannot imagine MLK would want young people to study these meaningless degrees and not focus on science, history, medicine, literature, discovery and ingenuity
Yeah, about the Oscars…
In the past ten years there have been 40 Oscars handed out for acting. Of those, 5 were won by black actors. That’s about 13%. Blacks make up 13% of the population.
Now, tell me again about #oscarssowhite.
Craig.. Like gay activists, black activists don’t want equal, they want special.
Here’s a sad irony: Sunday, a 14-yo girl was fatally shot in her house in STL. The shooter was a 14-yo boy who surrendered to the cops today. The latest is that the shooting may have been accidental – aside from the fact that the kid was carrying a weapon (and despite STL and Missouri law! I don’t understand!).
Her house was located near MLK Boulevard.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shot-that-killed-st-louis-girl-may-have-been-accidental/article_2381735c-329d-50fa-84e6-2e1145cbd048.html
The good reverend must be spinning in his grave.
GO GO NON ASIAN MINORITY LOGIC “Ramirez may also sue the student victim for invasion of privacy, claiming it was he who filmed their sexual encounter and then shared it”
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/01/18/texas-teacher-pleads-guilty-sexual-misconduct-charge-sues-students-mother-defamation/
Plus the millenials are so self absorbed due to their doting baby boomer parents. They have created a monster with the ego and selfie induced generation called the new brats born in the 1980s and 1990s.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
— Booker T Washington, _Up From Slavery_ (1911)