Today, hundreds of articles, broadcasted stories, comments and pundits will consume the airwaves and the internet celebrating Martin Luther King Day. TIME magazine’s newest star commentator, Kareem Abdul Jabbar opined “Why I Have Mixed Views About MLK Day”.
His article is typical of how MLK will be described today. Kareem writes over one thousand words and yet he includes not one mention of MLK’s motivating force and how he defined himself: as a Christian. Kareem dares not include any of the hundreds of quotes Dr. King stated celebrating and bestowing his faith and Christianity. After all, he was a minister so his main influence was Christ and the gospels. His faith was firmly planted in Jesus’ greatest commandment of loving your neighbor as yourself. Kareem conveniently mentions only secularly acceptable quotes from King that do not expressly proclaim his faith and most of the words and ink spilled today will follow this same motif.
One contemporary secular, liberal darling and all-around genius, Bill Maher, who deems himself smarter than the rest of us plebes and dolts in the citizenry, recently said that anyone who believes in religion is an idiot. Therefore, on this, Martin Luther King Day, I am waiting for him to say the same about the great Reverend. But alas, he won’t because, in this matter, his arrogance is exceeded only by his cowardice.
Segueing to another narrative most likely to be fervently deliberated today will be King’s political affiliation. So please allow me to quote his own words in answer to that shall we? In a 1958 interview, he expressed his view that neither party was perfect, saying, “I don’t think the Republican Party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic Party. They both have weaknesses … And I’m not inextricably bound to either party.” He never publicly supported a political party or candidate for president.
However, make no mistake, dear reader; the Republican Party and the church are the main reason for his successes. Who organized many of his marches? Churches and organizations like The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. And who signed the law making this day a National Holiday?
The man pictured below, President Ronald Reagan, whose Republican Party authored and introduced the 1960 Civil Rights Act, and saw it through to passage, supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and who during such supported it overwhelmingly, and by much higher percentages in both the House and Senate than the Democrats. And who, by the way co-founded the NAACP.
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