Has King’s Dream Come True?

Has King’s dream come true? On the one hand, for almost forty years, Martin Luther King’s legacy has been affirmative action, the legalization of racial discrimination. So much for the dream and “the force of the character and not the color of the skin”. Poor MLK must be turning in his tomb with his name reduced to some Burger King’s meal appellation and his dream totally perverted with the full support of the people he stood for.

On the other hand, the first “black” president will take the oath tomorrow, something Martin Luther King has always dreamed of, an achievement showing that race indeed can be an opportunity. But for whom? Race still being an issue for the world’s media and for the majority on the left that have forever cashed on the “victimization” of the minorities (money for special programs, and votes), our new president has become a symbolic figure, not of “multi-racialism” but of African American achievement.

For some reason, Barrack Obama is an African American, a black president. Not half black of half white, just hundred percent black. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (currently unemployed!) might disagree and have always claimed loudly that Obama was not black enough, nor was he African American enough to serve the black cause (of entitlement and self victimization?).

So for now, let us enjoy our first elitist “black” president that would have made MLK proud. But remember that if and when he does not meet the high expectations (political, racial or economic) put on his shoulders by voters who bought his rhetoric of changes, he is going to be dropped like an old sock and will most likely become the first half white US president.