The words of Dr. Martin Luther King:
[Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, 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 their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is 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 languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.] MLK
King's contention was correct, in 1963, but is it still valid today? I don't think so. I think for the black man, or any minority, this is about as good as it gets. Equal opportunity, not necessarily equal results must be the primary guarantee of a nation, and its citizens, to all citizens. Discrimination can be outlawed but prejudice and bigotry cannot be cured through legislation. I think Martin Luther King understood that and sought equality of opportunity for his people, and all people.
The right to not be denied a higher education, for those who are academically qualified and are willing to seek it and work for it, is fundamental to the spirit of this country. What is done with that education and the results of the implementation of it are not guaranteed and success is still the sole responsibility of the individual receiving it. He/she must not, of course, be prevented by a society inculcated with pre-conceived notions, biases or quotas. The path to success should be open to all and available to all based on the degree of their own efforts and the application of their knowledge and skills.
It may seem unfair that those who may seem undeserving often succeed while those who we may think deserve success often fail. It may not seem fair, and it may not be fair, but it is stark reality. Still, the role of government should be to ensure that the right to try is guaranteed to all.
In the United States of America the son or daughter of a janitor will almost certainly have to work harder to achieve the American dream than the children of the banker; but it can be done if the desire is there and if society does not commit itself to destroying that desire. In most countries of this world the son of a janitor will be a janitor and the son of the banker will own the building in which the poor man works.
Now comes, Barack Obama with a different dream, a dream to fundamentally change the United States from what it is and what it was intended to be to something we will not recognize, do not want and will forever regret if we allow it to happen. Americans are starting to ask themselves…What have we done?
The relinquishing of national power to a gang of Chicago hoods, and why that turnover occurred, is a mystery that can be explained only by understanding the psyche of a people who have conditioned themselves to expect that their government’s role is to provide for them cradle to grave security. We have become a nation of whiners. We get offended very easily. The truly needy remain so while the loud and demanding are paid off in order to avoid confrontation. Everyone expects something for nothing, without work or investment of capital or time. Lifting one up by one’s own bootstraps has become demanding that everyone be furnished with free boots.
A nation of welfare cheats, and ne’er do wells, as well as crooked politicians and public servants on the take, prepared the United States of America for Barack Obama. Obama came into a perfect storm of a society primed for buying into a dream, and for being deluded, by one given to spinning delusionary dreams.
The stage was set by the leaders of both political parties, Wall Street Bankers, and Corporate Raiders and CEO’s, and the disease was fostered by such unbridled greed and excesses that People who, under normal circumstances, would never have taken a second look at a man who kept as his closest friends, mentors and advisers, individuals with terrorist ties, extreme Marxist radicals, racists and bigots and common criminals. Instead they elected him to the highest office in the world.
Barack Obama, and his puppeteers, very cleverly rode this wave of anger into a completely incongruous outcome. His dream, unless he is stopped by the American people, will destroy this country and its constitution. Obama’s dream is not a dream, it is a nightmare.
Health Care reform is not about providing health security to all Americans. It is an attempt to consolidate power and make every American totally dependent on government. If it passes, government bureaucrats will control every aspect and facet of our lives.
The fight has begun. Will the dream of Martin Luther King, to win equal opportunity for all people, die on the alter, of redistribution of wealth (read stolen wealth) and guaranteed results, as a reward for those who earned nothing but merely voted for the correct candidate?
Obama’s is his own, and that of his cabal of criminals, incompetents, liars and thieves. It is not the dream of Martin Luther King and it is not the dream of the American people.
In the wake of the Nixon resignation, President Gerald Ford said, in his inaugural address: Our long national nightmare is over. In 2009, our long national nightmare has just begun.
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Jack Dallas
