Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Rosa Parks |
Then I think of Rosa
Parks, the civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery,
Alabama bus. “She was tired”, as old Eddie shared in the movie “Barbershop”.
She was tired all right: tired of being treated with disrespect; tired of
unequal treatment under the law; tired of being told what she could and could
not do, how much she could make; and being told where to sit.
Confirming Dr. King’s
appraisal of improved race relations in the USA, Rosa Parks would acknowledge
that there is room for improvement, but only because of President Obama and his
Democratic Party.
Parks would be dismayed
that Obama and Democrats in general take the black vote for granted. For
example, while 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney attended the
NAACP Conference, Obama skipped it. Talk about disrespect. Dishonoring marriage and expanding abortion (both
offensive to blacks), Obama does not respect their values. He has done nothing
to amend the unfair sentencing guidelines in our nation’s drug laws, to re-enfranchise felons, or even commute prison
sentences for juvenile offenders. As a result, blacks inadvertently still suffer
unequal treatment.
Parks would be disgusted
by the welfare state and Democratic resistance to school choice. Obama refuses
to allow black families to choose their children’s schools, yet enrolls his
children in elite private schools with elite security. Because of President Obama’s
ruinous “progressive” policies, African-Americans suffer unemployment twice the
national average. Black youth struggle against 50% unemployment. Blacks are not
doing or making much under this President. Besides, Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson offered then
expanded government welfare for one reason: “We’ll have those n—ggers voting
for us for the next two hundred years”. Johnson’s invidious comment and Obama’s
callous indifference validate the argument of black conservatives Thomas Sowell
and Walter Williams: Because Democrats enable dependence and resist school
choice and vouchers, they basically tell blacks where to sit.
In fact, the Democratic
Party, from Woodrow Wilson to today, have been sending blacks “to the back of
the bus”, while Republicans offer them the front seat (Condoleezza Rice,
Clarence Thomas, and the recently-deceased Edward Brooke), or let them own the
bus if they want to (Herman Cain). To
paraphrase crappy rapper Kanye West: “President Obama does not care about black
people.” Without a doubt, Rosa Parks would shout: “President Obama, stop
putting my people in the back of the bus!”
Ironically, despite this country’s drastically
improved race relations, if anyone is hindering progress on race, look no
further than the black man in the White House, his black attorney general, and black
liberal media elites who profit from unrest rather than peace. Other than Obama and Co., We the People of the
United Sates can confidently assert that Dr. Kings’ Dream of 1963 is our
reality.
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