Happy MLK Day

Happy Monday and a special happy birthday to that great Republican Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King was that rarest of men, a man with a vision and the guts to see that vision come to reality. He sacrificed all for the good of the many and paid the ultimate price for it.

Sadly we have not yet got to the point that a man is judged by the content of his character but still the color of his skin. His goals and aims were achieved, as racism was greatly reduced (on all sides) and we now live in a country where you are free to do anything you wish. Except, it was taken way too far over the line where the color of your skin now dictates a lot of things: college acceptance, the amount of money that goes to our schools and the job you have or don't.

And why do I say MLK was a Republican? Because the forces of evil he was fighting were the entrenched Dixiecrats in the South led by Al Gore, Sr, William Fulbright, to a lesser extent JFK (who opposed the March on Washington and voted against Civil Right legislation) and that most hated Democrat Bull Connor.

According to my understanding, Doctor King wanted African-Americans to be equal to white Americans and in many respects we've gotten to that point, however many of the policies that were instituted in the name of civil rights ended up retarding the climb to equality. Welfare, food stamps and other "entitlement programs" have only caused urban America to whither and decay. We've now had three successive generations of failed liberal policies that have benefited no one and have left us with more poor and unemployed black men then ever before.

In America in 2013, we have an America where all are equal but where we are separate. This is not what was intended and it's not because of racism. Dr. King believed in us as one but his poorly qualified successors in the push for freedom made it all about us versus them and bastardized what MLK was saying.

I write this while an African-America is about to be inaugurated for a second term. I write this while charges of racism are hurled for even questioning what that president does while in office. Is this what MLK wanted? Is this the America he envisioned?

Doctor King had a dream and that dream was pissed on and twisted around by hucksters like Jesse Jackson who took the words of MLK and used them to not help those in need but to enrich themselves at the expense of those they purport to help.

Too bad Dr. King did not live.

The Trayvon Martin Case and the MSM

The death of Trayvon Martin is a tragedy no matter how one looks at it. Regardless of how the facts may turn out, one man is dead, ones life is ruined and two families have been irreparably changed.

The last thing I wanted to see was Trayvon's life spelled out in the media. He was a 17-year old boy who said things teenagers say and write things teenagers write. My own son puts lyrics on his Facebook page that could be construed in a million different ways if the media was interested.

That said, if Sharpton and the racial zealots hadn't convicted Mr. Zimmerman in the court of public opinion without the facts being known, we'd not be where we are today. The media lynched Zimmerman and gave him no chance to speak his peace. The police had yet to finish their investigation before the NAACP, NBP and Jesse Jackson screamed racism and thus forced Zimmerman and his lawyer to launch their own media barrage.

Add to that the fact that going off half cocked as Sharpton did probably hurt Martin's case because their was a witness who said he saw Martin attacking Zimmerman and it may lend credence to Zimmerman's side.

Aside form that part of the case, the media has shown themselves to be insanely liberal at every step. When they realized they didn't have the classic white man kills black man story, they concocted a new race in America...the White Hispanic to fit their meme. Zimmerman's dad is white and his mother is Peruvian. Interesting, Obama's mom was white and his dad was Kenyan, is he a White African-American?

Anyway, the media's playbook was blown out of the water today when it was revealed that the Hispanic Zimmerman was not the gun-toting, evangelical, cracker clinger they wanted but was, in fact, a registered Democrat. I swear I heard a million liberal heads explode at that news.

This is definitely not over but as I wrote previously, this may hurt Obama is more ways then he knows.