On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, we must rehabilitate Dr. King from his quasi-cancellation.
We must remind our fellow citizens that his holiday is not an act of affirmative action, nor was his statue put on the National Mall to fulfill a diversity quota. Dr. King is a figure of national significance in the same pantheon as Washington and Lincoln.
This drama began with the Declaration of Independence. This document made a radical promise that"all men are created equal" and are"endowed by their Creator" with the right to"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." We fought a seven-year revolution, won our independence, and vindicated these rights.
The second act in our drama centers on the Civil War. As Lincoln viewed it, this war and it's devastating human toll was a form of divine punishment for this original sin of slavery. After the War, Lincoln was determined to forever end the sin that had spawned it.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building. On March 25, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama.But as every American knows, we were not yet saved. Segregation, discrimination and terror prevented the rights granted in law from being realized in practice. For a century, Black Americans were brutally denied equal protection and voting rights.
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