kingOne would think that with the election of President Barack Obama that Dr. King’s dream had been fulfilled. You’ll remember last year on the eve of his inauguration I wrote:

“That’s simply because King’s dream wasn’t just so a black could get elected President of the United States (in fact he never imagined so far), but that one day it wouldn’t make a difference what color someone’s skin was.

“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.”

It’s a forgone conclusion that the main reason that Barack Obama was elected president had little to do with the content of his character, but with the color of his skin. Blacks voted for him because he was black – period, and those who didn’t report they are looked on as traitors to the race. This is understandable in light of the past, but it’s a tragedy for the present as just to vote for someone on external appearance is a slander to the right to vote that many Americans fought and died for. It’s not a day of rejoicing, it should be a day of shame.

King’s dream was that one day we would get past skin color and social class. That it wouldn’t make a difference what race, creed, nation, all men – and women – would be on equal ground. So that in an election such as the one past it wouldn’t matter if Barack Obama were black, or Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were women, all would be considered on equal ground.

Instead we have plenty of divisions in our society, made that way in large part by the modern liberal movement which has now seized Washington. Liberals have divided this country along race and social class, the “two Americas”, the “haves and the have-nots”. They captioned ridiculous nomenclatures for Americans simply to reinforce their division. For instance the term “African American” would have angered Dr. King, for it too is a slander on the American dream and the fabric that makes us what we are. There are no African Americans, there are only Americans. There are no Asian Americans, only Americans. We are Americans. Barack Obama is an American and now the President of America, voted in by in large because of a false assumption that this fulfills Dr. King’s dream.”

I still believe that. Looking over the last two years we’ve seen – from the liberal world no less – a complete repudiation of this dream in so many ways. The lastest example being Harry Reid’s “negro” statement, as if one were black he would be more “acceptable” so long as he were “light skin” and didn’t speak with a “negro dialect”.

If you didn’t read that from today’s headlines you would have thought those words came from a man who lived fifty or a hundred years ago. The lasting question isn’t what Reid meant, the sorry excuses liberals and the media gave for it, but that the sentiment was there at all. In King’s dream we would have been beyond the question entirely.

Remember during the 2008 campaign season the issue of Barack Obama’s race came mostly from the liberal left and the media, “Is he black enough” asked Time Magazine, “Magic Negro” said the LA Times. Even Jessie Jackson invoked the “N” word in a statement relating to the severing of a portion of Obama’s anatomy. That’s as far from the dream of Dr. King as the Sun is from the Earth.

But this isn’t about who said what, but about whether or not that dream of Dr. King, of which I grew up with, and whole heartedly believe in, came true.

In many ways it has, but not through liberal policy, because as I noted before it’s through that policy that blacks are still kept in a vacuum, only relevant so much as their “keep” can be maintained by it. Though disputed, it is reported that King was in fact a conservative. I believe that because true conservatism teaches exactly what King dreamed, that no matter who you are, color, creed, tongue, you are able to reach your highest potential so long as you work hard and apply yourself.

There isn’t one example of success that I know that came from anything else, and that’s the substance of the dream that Dr. King had for America.

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