Truths, Ideals of MLK’s Message Have Been Lost to 'Wokeism'
Star Parker / @StarParker / January 14, 2022
We celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday
of January. This year, that’s Jan. 17.
On Aug. 28, 1963, King delivered one of the great speeches in
American history, popularly known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. It
is a speech that must be dusted off and studied anew today, because
it contains the very message that our nation sorely needs to hear
and digest now.
It’s a message that has been tragically lost and buried and re-
placed with great and destructive distortions.
Two things jump out when reading through that speech: One is how
this black preacher captured in his words that day the heart and soul
of America. Second, how King’s great message that day stands in total
contrast to the rhetoric peddled by today’s progressives as the
remedy to our racial strife.
The indictment of the woke movement is that America is the pro-
blem. King offered up America as the solution. He talked about the
“magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.”
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-
evident, that all men are created equal.'”
The problem, as King explained, is not America or the eternal
truths that were brought to bear in its founding. The problem was
the failure of the nation to live up to the challenges of its great
founding principles.
That was the heart of King’s message that day. He appealed to
the nation to realize the dream of its Founding Fathers, not to crush
it and bury it, as we hear today.
The problem is not white people. “The marvelous new militancy …
must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,” he said. And, of
course, the most memorable and oft-quoted line of the speech, “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.”
What has happened instead? Where has this great message of King
gotten lost? In the name of racial justice, our race campaigns today
are defined by selection and placement based on race, based on the
color of skin, and not based on the content of character, as King
implored the nation to do.
King’s speech is divided into three parts. Part one is an appeal
to the nation to live up to its great founding principles. Part two
is an appeal to black Americans to rise up and act accordingly in the
noble cause of the pursuit of liberty and justice. Let’s not drink
“from the cup of bitterness.” Part three is an appeal to the ideals
of the Christian soul of the nation.
He quoted the prophet Isaiah that “the crooked places will be
made straight … and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all
flesh shall see it together.”
Biblical truths and ideals have been sadly lost to wokeism, which
has for all practical purposes become a religion in itself.
Let’s honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now, as we come out of
COVID-19 and enter 2022, by revisiting and taking to heart the great
truths he spoke on that summer day in Washington, D.C., in 1963. They
are great truths that have very sadly been cast to the side and re-
placed with the religion of politics and power.
Let us honor King by seeing America as he presented it then, as
embodying the ideals of a free nation under God. And then we can join
hands and sing, as King appealed, “the words of the old Negro spiri-
tual: ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at
last.'”
*There is not much to add to this, except to say that we should
strive to live by King's words Every day.
The Bible tells us that He will heal our land but we have to be
willing to embrace God first.*
Conservatively,
John
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