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Dr. Martin Luther King
Posted by Kevin

I have been very sick the last week, hence my absence from the site. But today is the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday and Dr. King is the perhaps the greatest American to ever live. He was the most effective civil rights leader to this date, and the struggle for civil rights is the most important struggle in American history. Civil rights are the political embodiment of the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. Without the enforcement of civil rights, this country has no special claim to decency or liberty.

Despite the work of Dr. King and the thousands who organized and the millions who protested, we are not a post racism society. We have come a long way, there is no doubt; the fact that an African-American could be one of two front runners for the Democratic presidential nomination speaks to that. But the fact that an unrepentant minority vote suppressor was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court until recently, the fact that the most popular political commentator on the right is an unreconstructed racist, the fact that the current President owes his position, in part, to a blatantly racist whisper campaign in South Carolina prove that we still have very far to go.

January 21st, 2008 General, Race | 6 comments

6 Comments »

  1. Morris writes:

    “the fact that the current President owes his position, in part, to a blatantly racist whisper campaign in South Carolina prove that we still have very far to go.”

    That is a blatant lie. You have no evidence to show that Bush won in part or in whole because of a “racist whisper campaign.” I dare you to prove your bigotted statement.

    Comment 1/22/2008

  2. tgirsch writes:

    If you don’t know the history of the 2000 South Carolina GOP primary, we’re not going to spell it out for you.

    Comment 1/22/2008

  3. Morris writes:

    “If you don’t know the history of the 2000 South Carolina GOP primary, we’re not going to spell it out for you.”

    In other words, no, you can’t prove anything. I live in South Carolina and I think I know a lot more about SC politics than you do.

    The man who probably did the dirty trick is not thought of highly in SC. I have had personal run ins with him and know him to be a lying creep. His influence is minimal and did not cause the defeat of John McCain. McCain and George Bush caused the defeat of McCain.

    Comment 1/22/2008

  4. Jesse writes:

    “Dr. King is the perhaps the greatest American to ever live.”

    LOL

    Comment 1/23/2008

  5. tgirsch writes:

    Morris:

    I guess the words “in part” don’t have much meaning to you…

    Comment 1/23/2008

  6. Morris writes:

    “I guess the words “in part” don’t have much meaning to you… ”

    Sure they do. Bush didn’t win “in part” because of what was said that your referenced. Does “truth” have any meaning to you? That is the question.

    Comment 1/24/2008

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