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Why the King holiday should never have been created
Yes, King led the civil rights movement, and, within the accepted liberal understandings, this was a historic achievement. He conveyed a genuine quality of moral leadership. But as soon as the Civil Rights bills were passed, he, along with the civil rights movement he led, moved almost immediately toward demanding group privileges and equality of outcome. In other words, he moved toward racial socialism, the opposite of what he supposedly stood for, which was equality of rights. He moved to the left in other ways as well. In April 1967 he gave an all-out anti-American speech in which he said all the problems of the Cold War were due to American imperialism—exactly the Communist line. So, which “King” are we commemorating at his holiday every year? The “color-blind” King—or the “equality-of-racial-outcome” King? The patriotic King—or the leftist, anti-American King? That’s the problem with creating a national holiday for a man a mere 15 years after his death, when his very meaning as a historical figure has not yet been settled. Washington’s Birthday, by contrast, was not created until about 80 years after his death—and he was the most important man in the history of the country!
Also see what I said last year was King’s true legacy to America. Email entry |