Saturday, August 27, 2005

This Day in Republican History 08/28/05

August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King delivers “I Have a Dream” speech in front of memorial dedicated to Republican President Abraham Lincoln "I have a dream," he boomed over the crowd stretching from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, "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.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. 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. 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. I have a dream today." Of course, Democrats and self-appointed black leaders have wildly distorted that dream. Forty-two years after that speech, the color of a person's skin has been put at the very forefront in discriminatory racial preference and affirmative action programs. And the content of a person's character? Liberals sneer at any judgments of their character. "Who are you to judge me?" Race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson become wealthy by fomenting racial hatred. Character counts for so little that the left twice elected a president who dodged the draft, lied, assaulted women and committed adultery in the oval office. I wonder what Martin Luther King Jr. would have to say if he saw how his dream has become a nightmare.

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