Here's a great column by Juan Williams comparing/contrasting MLK to and with Barak Hussein Obama. He has expressed some of my own concerns.
Here is a key graph:
So far, Mr. Obama has been content to let black people have their vision of him while white people hold to a separate, segregated reality. He is a politician and, unlike King, his goal is winning votes, not changing hearts. Still, it is a key break from the King tradition to sell different messages to different audiences based on race, and to fail to challenge racial divisions in the nation.
Read the whole thing. It is well done.
UPDATE:
Another column by Richard John Neuhaus, at First Things, is also very sensitive and well written. In his opinion, the whole Obama/Wright issue is setting back race relations in this country, and I agree.
2 comments:
tonight on Tavis Smiley, the broadcast was from the Mason Temple where King delivered his last speech. There were some profound statements made.
Clayborne Carson expressed deep insight. He stated that there are some wonderfully intelligent, educated, gifted, bright, black leaders today, but none of them "LOVE us like Martin Luther King did."
tonight on Tavis Smiley, the broadcast was from the Mason Temple where King delivered his last speech. There were some profound statements made.
Clayborne Carson expressed deep insight. He stated that there are some wonderfully intelligent, educated, gifted, bright, black leaders today, but none of them "LOVE us like Martin Luther King did."
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