"For King’s was a universal message of equality and dignity for all: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.' ” [Hear that, Joy Reid, Maxine Waters, Al Green, Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Presley?]
"America is a far different place from the nation that saw King felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968 at the young age of 39; different even from the country that made this a federal holiday in 1983.
"Black Americans still face real inequities. Look at the huge numbers of crime victims, disproportionately black, generated by terrible progressive policies on public safety.
"Or the decay of America’s public schools, once an engine of black social mobility: the erasure of all standards in order to conceal the failure of unionized teachers to actually teach.
"Nor are these the only reasons African Americans and the Democratic Party seem increasingly at odds, as the party’s woke elites obsess about issues (the green agenda, open borders, trans rights) irrelevant or contrary to the interests or views of most blacks.
"Yet vast progress is impossible to deny: The United States has seen an African American serve two terms as president — something King likely thought even his children would never see. [Yet his wife gets wealthy on TV by claiming victimhood]
"So we honor Dr. King for the goals he pursued and largely achieved — and for a vision the nation still strives to fully realize." . . . More...
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