The Hijacking of Dr. King’s
Dream
Patriot Update – David L.
Goetsch
The civil rights movement was able to overcome enormous obstacles
and eventually win because people of good will—white, black, brown, and
yellow—agreed that Jim Crow was wrong. The black leaders who followed Dr.
King’s philosophy of non-violent dissent held the moral high ground and every
person with an ounce of decency in his hearts knew it.
The most debilitating problems faced by black Americans today are
no longer the work of bigots in white sheets. Rather they are the result
of drugs, crime, violence, fatherless families, a crippling high school dropout
rate, and crushing levels of unemployment.
These problems . . . are indigenous and require a different kind
of leadership and different solutions than were required in the days of Jim
Crow. Unfortunately, too many people who claim to be black leaders are
still stuck in the 1960s.
In view of the current disappointing state of race relations in
our country, Americans would do well to ask:
As a pastor, Dr. King believed that all men—black, white, yellow,
and brown—are children of God and as such stand equally before God. He
also knew that the overwhelming majority of Americans, in their heart of
hearts, believed this too. This being the case, his demands for equality for
black Americans represented a moral imperative, not a demand for special
treatment.
In the wake of his death
King’s dream was soon hijacked by racial hucksters who capitalized on the great
man’s martyrdom to create a civil rights industry that has fed them and many
others since King’s assassination. The civil rights industry has also
served to encourage, promote, and ignite racial divisiveness.
Dr. King’s message of fairness, equality, and justice was clear
and compelling. It meant that in a nation founded on the principles of
freedom and liberty Americans of all races should be able to expect fairness,
equality, and justice.
It did not mean that black Americans would be set apart by the
government as a special category of citizens eligible for government
entitlements distributed on the basis of race.
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