Some Thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr Day

Yesterday, January 21, 2013, was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday. At the same time it was also the day scheduled for the second inaugural of president Obama, the first black president. The inaugural overshadowed the celebration of the life and ideals of Martin Luther King Jr.  In spite of similarities professed at the inaugural between the goals of President Obama and those of Martin Luther King, there could not be a greater difference, not only in their goals, but also in the character and ideals of these two men.

Martin Luther King loved America and its Constitution. But in spite of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation one hundred years before, the former Negro slaves and their descendants had not been allowed full enjoyment of their rights guaranteed by the Constitution. King realized that his people needed to work hard to bring the black man into American society as a full citizen with all the rights and benefits guaranteed by the Constitution.  In addition King realized that black people must rise up and demand their rightful share in the blessings of America, but as he made clear in his famous “I have a dream” speech given in front of the Lincoln Memorial, August 1963, he did not advocate violence and he did not advocate the destruction of American institutions and Ideals.

President Barack Obama, on the other hand, made it very clear in his campaign of 2008 for the presidency that he intended to transform America into something different. Fundamental “change” of America was called for.  He had spent many years as an active member of a church whose pastor, Jeremiah Wright, had once stated during a sermon that he would not say “God bless America” but rather “God damn America”. This pastor preached that the problems of racial discrimination in America were the fault of its institutions and principles, so that racial inequality could only be brought about by fundamentally changing America.

These ideas influenced President Obama to believe in the necessity of fundamentally changing America. John Dickerson, CBS political director, wrote a scathing article yesterday encouraging president Obama to "go for the throat" and destroy the Republican Party as the only way to bring about the fundamental changes president Obama espouses. The president, in his second inaugural speech, failed to mention the need for job creation to put back to work millions of jobless. He has other things in mind. Many believe that it is his goal to change America into a socialist or Marxist state.

Take a look at the video below to see that Martin Luther King Jr. had ideals necessary to bring black people into American society, but in the 50 years following Martin Luther King's famous speech, the Democratic Party has prepared the way for president Obama to implement his plan to create an all powerful government in which no longer will the American people have God-given rights safeguarded by the Constitution; instead they will be given rights by an all-powerful government to ensure their compliance at the cost of individual freedom and opportunity.