THE DREAM: A STATUS CHECK
|| By FITSNEWS || This website has written repeatedly – and positively – on the life, death and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And while we’ve certainly earned a reputation for calling out the ideological bankruptcy of the contemporary “civil rights” movement (and its ideologically bankrupt leaders), there is simply no disputing the necessity – and moral correctness – of the movement King led in the 1960s.
“We can’t think of any American who more steadfastly, passionately and eloquently advocated on behalf of the basic ‘inalienable’ freedoms upon which this nation was founded,” we wrote last year, referring to King.
Four years ago we had this to say of the slain civil rights icon …
“You can say whatever you want about King’s life, but his enduring legacy is that of a man who fought on behalf of the expansion of individual liberties,” we wrote. “That’s a basic premise that we unilaterally support, and to be perfectly honest we can’t think of anyone better than King at articulating the fundamental essence and importance of liberty.”
Unfortunately, King’s “Dream” – articulated so triumphantly from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial – has been bastardized by the current generation of black leaders. The ideals of liberty and opportunity have morphed into dependency and entitlement – as a movement which once pleaded for blacks to be judged on the “content of their character” not the “color of their skin” now demands quotas on hiring and a curious brand of “justice.”
Yeah … we hate to spoil everybody’s “Oprah moment,” but the civil rights movement in America ain’t what it used to be. And no amount of blockbuster “white guilt” movies is going to change that.
Don’t get us long: Racism is still alive and well in America (among blacks and whites). And we should (and do) call it out when we see it.
But “the man” holding black America down is none other than America’s first black president, Barack Obama. Don’t believe us? Check the math …
Also holding black America down? A monopolistic government-run school system that treats blacks like the slaves they used to be.
Nowhere is this system wreaking more havoc on young black lives than in South Carolina – our home state (and the home of the 2016 “First in the South” presidential primaries). In fact six years ago, we observed that “an antiquated, incompetent, irresponsible and self-serving education monopoly that has sucked up billions of tax dollars only to keep black South Carolina students at the bottom of the global barrel.”
“A lot of brave souls risked (and often gave) life and limb to give blacks the rights they enjoy today,” we concluded. “It’s time somebody stood up for those rights instead of selling them down the river for the sake of a failed bureaucracy.”
Six years later, the wait continues …
Billions more have been pumped into government-run schools, but no advancement has been made. Meanwhile the academic freedom that ought to be available to all students – regardless of the “color of their skin” – has been denied to all but a handful of special needs children.
Want to see the current advocates for King’s “dream” in South Carolina’s government-run education monopoly?
Take a look … take a very good look.
At all levels of government, blacks are being failed by the very people who claim to be watching out for them. Even worse, in many cases those “leaders” are conditioning them to fail.
And all the chest-thumping, hand-wringing, store-looting demonstrations following from the Ferguson, Missouri episode? It’s nothing but a massive diversion … a calculated effort to keep black anger alive, albeit hopelessly misguided.
Make no mistake: King’s legacy lives on in America – at least for those willing to think past the MSM headlines. And his body of work endures as a vital addendum to the founding wisdom of this country – perhaps the most indispensable articulation of individual liberty since Thomas Jefferson’s “we hold these truths.” But his dream?
It’s dead … and has been for some time.
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Now, bring on the unemployed white men to comment on this matter…
One assumes you’ll be celebrating the event at any of your MLK boulevards across America. Bring the whole family! Just don’t carry cash.
Let me enjoy my day off. Everyday is Unemployed White Dude Day in your world.
I’ll be instead of “day off” for you it’s “lay off”.
With the level of education you show, I can see why employing you would be a bad idea.
Obviously someone thought the same of you.
Apparently not, since I’m currently employed. Unfortunately, I’m wasting my day off fucking off here with you. Yes, that’s sad.
At least you’re self aware. That gives you some hope for change in your employment outlook. Obama would be proud.
Trolling other unemployed/retired white men isn’t a job in SC?
“…has been bastardized by the current generation of black leaders. The ideals of liberty and opportunity have morphed into dependency and entitlement…”
So you’re saying that reparations are already being had by the bazillions?? WHAT
Where’s my money? As a true blood member of one of the earliest genetic pools of slaves, where are my reparations? Them Roman conquistadors owe me, big time … with interest!
“Where’s my money?”
The Roman gov’t inflated away its wealth and set the stage for its continual/sustained fall under Diocletian, so you were fucked a long time ago.
:)
“… The Roman gov’t inflated away its wealth and set the stage for its continual/sustained fall under Diocletian …”
The “render unto Caesar” thingy, again.
FWI: The Jules never raised taxes beyond 12.5% (one part in eight). It wasn’t until Nero raised taxes to 18+% (one part in six) that the locals burned down city hall. … Just sayin’.
Hell, we had a revolution of what was most likely less than 5% in taxes(no one knows for sure what the tea tax % was)…now a good number of people won’t be happy until it’s 50%.
Give me King George back, he was far more kind.
Historically the Scotts were enslaved by the Irish before the Romans arrived on the scene. Judging by their recent vote on independence, my people are still infected with plantation mentality. I guess the independent minded Scotts came to America.
Kool … Sort of … I was not aware of that.
I know that during an unpleasantness between the English and the Scots a few hundred years ago, the Irish joined the fray and fought with the Scots. (There is a lick about that w/Mel G. …)
The Romans didn’t arrive “on the scene” in Scotland. Ever hear of Hadrian’s Wall? Your people? Seems you like to put “your people” in a false argument to me. You are just another Scot wannabe
Not that I owe you or anyone else a reply but my family ,on my father’s side, goes back to the Norman invasion of England. So guess I am only part Scottish. The chief of my clan is the Earl of Crawford. I met him once at Grand Father Mtn. Without giving out my last name here, let me just say that my family is directly related to clan Stuart as my fore fathers married into the clan as they assimilated into Scottish society. In answer to your comment about Hadrian’s Wall , If you could comprehend standard English you would note I never mentioned Scotland as a separate entity. Rome invaded the British Iles and the Pics stopped them from going into Scotland. Thus we have Hadrian’s wall. He couldn’t whip them so he walled them off. So there, I am not a Scot wannabe but a Scot alwayshavebeen.
That’s “isles”, Wannabe. So if you’re Norman, that makes you paternal side from where?
You and your 4000 relatives? Why is everyone I talk to who is Scottish the descendants of royalty?
Scots.
“… In fact six years ago, we observed that “an antiquated, incompetent, irresponsible and self-serving education monopoly that has sucked up billions of tax dollars only to keep black South Carolina students at the bottom of the global barrel.” …”
It should be possible to carefully compare the better school systems in the country or the world and get those “progressive” central planning screw-ups in the SC statehouse to “boiler plate” a better program. … Or keep the failed system and just cut it off at the pockets, letting in more private market competition.
Got vouchers (yet)?
(An employed old white man’s opinion.)
ITT: White people telling black people what’s wrong with the black community. Also, dog whistlers galore.
It’s just a holiday to celebrate a dude that stood up for civil rights and ultimately was killed for it, not an annual “single out and criticize all black people over what some black people do” event, not a yearly “King would’ve been a Republican!” wishful thinking contest, and not a “Free Market principles would clearly help poor blacks more than ‘oppressive’ food stamps” brain fart dutch oven festival.
Of course. Yes, white people telling black people what “ought to be” is, well, another form of “progressive” Central Planning without the “bonefida roots” to justify it … And mostly wrong besides.
You folks are going to have to solve this one yourselves, fur sure. … You can start by voting for real “hope and change” instead of what you have been voting for: republicrat & demican promises and spare change. You want iced tea with that?
“How about starting a business of your own to “take advantage” of that ol’ white boy system?”
Many blacks have been raised under the notion that they are victims of capitalism, not victims of bad people & bad policies.
As a result, many reject capitalism and unknowingly reject the best method for them to enrich themselves and improve their lot. Becaue of this, they HAVE to embrace gov’t(who doesn’t give a damn about them) in the hopes they get thrown table scraps.
PoO. 100% dead on right. Free market capitalism has enriched people than any other single thing in history. As long as anyone thinks they are a victim they cannot rise above the plantation mentality. Like my daddy told me many many years ago: The two best helping hands you will ever have are at the ends of your arms. He was right then and now.
Also Mr. RogueElephant, If you have your foot on someone’s neck, no one is going anywhere.
Agreed. My mother always said. “You can’t keep someone else in the ditch without getting down there with him. And the Republican Party has long believed “A rising tide lifts all boats.” So what is your point ?
And you can’t get someone out of the ditch who wants to be there. Welfare is a lifestyle for many of these people. Why work when you can get the government to pay you to sit on the front porch and smoke blunts and drink 40 ounce beers.
Actually, it wasn’t “free market” capitalism, but rather “inclusive” capitalism that drove the successful economy of the past. Not that you’d understand that.
To be fair, America’s current incarnation of capitalism is pretty fucked…for all concerned…well 99% of us anyway.
No question there is some headwind due to all the crony capitalism, there’s still some opportunity out there…but I agree not nearly as much as 40 years ago.
Capitalism(free, not crony) is still the way they can move up though. In fairness, they could do it via crony too, but that just usually screws a lot of people to enrich a small group unjustly.
Black children born without a father in the home rate pre-LBJ’s ‘Great Society’ welfare system in 1964: 7 percent. Black children born without a father in the home rate post-LBJ’s ‘Great Society’ 2014 = 73 percent. Hey, SOCIALIST Smirks,how’s your ‘Great Society’ working out for the black family?
Just fine if they vote Democrat and live in a never ending perpetual welfare system?
Fucking hypocrite.
Flip’s got a point here – here’s the CDC’s data on the subject. Interestingly, they won’t produce a graph with illegitimate birth rates by race but the have to comment on it on the front page… http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.pdf
Thanks Colonel.
I’m not refuting his point – it’s valid. I’m just suggesting other ethnic groups have seen increases as well. Suggests it’s in part societal. Of course it could also demonstrate poor family planning.
“…poor family planning…” ?!? Try “…no family planning…”
poor family planning…
So judgemental.
Howsabout:
Differently oriented family planning.
*Special* family planning
Non-standard family planning
Diverse family planning
Non-Eurocentric family planning
Thinking “out of the box” family planning
Non cognitive family planning
Unfortunate family planning
and…
drumroll, please…
….this IS FITSNEWS!…
……….
Government run schools family planning
“Thinking out of the box family planning.” TBG , The box was the problem here. LOL Maybe if their minds were “out of the box” family planning could have taken place. LOL Too good. Have a great weekend.
The percentage of non-hispanic white childen born to single mothers without a father in the household – 1980 was 9.6%, 2013 is 25%. So how’s that “Reagan Conservative” free market working out for ya?
Thank you for making my point that the perpetual welfare system created by liberal socialists has contributed the destruction of the family unit.
I can always count on you to make a damn fool of yourself.
Me? Life is great!!!
If your life is so great, why are you wasting it here?
If you like your non sequitur, you can keep your non sequitur.
How has that Great Society thing worked out ? after forty years there is no poverty. Oh wait—–.
Did anything else happen socially/demographically in the interim? Anything else possibly influencing this? Here’s an easy start for you: economics and drugs, specifically coke. And BTW, what “welfare” are you referring to specifically? “Welfare” as I am guessing you refer to, was reformed in 1998. Welfare roles have dropped dramatically since then–but poverty has not
That was the whole idea, a dependent society is a docile society. I wonder, if we could bring back some of those that rode the “underground railroad” to freedom what they would say about the Great Society? Different chains but still chains.
Yup. No safety net is a much better idea. Clears that poverty problem right up. And what would they say? They would they can not believe how much racism there is now and the South is still working hard so keep a colonial economy. They would say they cannot believe that 100 years later race and racism was the core of political strategies of people working as hard as they could to keep the balance of power as it was in the past
One man’s safety net is another man’s chains. Just like stumbling blocks or stepping stones. The choice is yours.
And what programs come to mind when you think of these chains? When you have them ID’d, go look up the percentage of people in SC that are eligible that actually receive the benefit. Unless you are going to say food stamps (SNAP). If that’s the case, I surrender. You have a much better tolerance for watching suffering and doing nothing than I if that’s the case.
I blame rap music.
” “Free Market principles would clearly help poor blacks more than ‘oppressive’ food stamps” ”
Yeah, it would. Welfare has almost single handedly helped to destroy the traditional black family and created generations of fatherless kids, many of whom become criminals because of the lack of a father figure and discipline in their lives.
That goes for “white trash” too, same problems, just not to the same degree % wise.
Sorry you don’t like the truth, but it is what it is.
It’s not the truth, it’s an opinion. A simplistic, reductionist one at that
Your expertise in simplicity has me convinced. Thank you.
…a yearly “King would’ve been a Republican!” wishful thinking contest,…</i.
TRMLKJr was a Republican.
TBG doubts that, if he were still alive, he would be today, though.
Marching Looting Koon day again so soon.
I thought Monday was Robert E. Lee’s birthday.
Yup, every three hundred and sixty five days and nights … BOHIKA, dejavue, here it comes again.
Wassa matta wid youse? Not that many fingers and toes? Got all 21?
As a younger lad, I considered Martin Luther King to be the Avatar of the Aquarian Age.
Now his name tells you that you’re in a dangerous shitty part of town.
“Burn this bitch down!!!” will be their rally cry this year.
The retailers should take advantage of MLK day.
They already have “Black Friday”, now they can add “Black Monday”, the only difference being instead of taking 50% off, they open the doors and let everyone take what they want as long as they are wearing saggy pants & their shirt over their face.
Looting Monday???
It’s great hearing you tell us how wonderful you are,but of course,you have to do that,since you’re a stone cold,racist republican,and no one else is gonna do it for you…
Et to, Brute’?
You need to work on your Latin…
You need work on your politics. … So let us go with the Greek, you Helot.
Those damn racist Republicans. They keep electing Indian governors and black representatives and senators. Oh wait—- could it be that Republicans look beyond race to the character of the person ? Didn’t someone once say something about that ? Wasn’t it MLK ? If he wasn’t already, he would have made a great Republican.
SPOT ON
I was starting to get twitchy…wondering if I’d get my MLK racist story from Fits with all the lashings of “…but Fits news isn’t racist….” plastered all over the page.
Take off the hood and chill.
At least he had a Dream to uplift this country. How many of you have this same Dream.
How’d that turn out for him? Dead and his “people” are still digging themselves deeper in the hole he was trying to get them out of. He’d likely still be alive if he had kept his mouth shut and things would still be the same. Just like Al and Jesse, he was a media whore.
So bitter for someone so young.
MLK—the great extortionist.
Happy MLK DAY:’When We Were Kings’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbC7rOsv2So