THE EXPLOITATION OF DR KING'S MEMORY…

MELANIE CAMPBELL

Sadly, it would appear that what was supposed to be a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington on Wednesday, succeeded in doing not much more than to draw out from deep within the woodwork, some pretty racist folks. And I doubt very much, that Dr. King would have appreciated some of the language, or the tone, used in some of the speeches given in his honor. And it appeared to me that there were more than a few in attendance who were there less out of respect for Dr. King and more out of seeing it as an opportunity. An opportunity to spew their typical brand toxic rhetoric.

One such loon who obviously was not there out of any deep respect for Dr. King, was the president of a some silly front group for the Democrat Party that claims to be dedicated to increasing black civic participation. This particular individual went so far as to compare our conservative Supreme Court justices to KKK members and also made the claim that Voter ID laws are being enacted to prevent another black president. Actually, it sounds as if this idiotic little group, which this racist nut is the president of, is more then likely dedicated to the inciting of racial violence. To make such a rant on an occasion like this, is really nothing short of disgusting.

So in what was purely an act of besmirching the memory of man who she was supposed to be there to honor, Melanie Campbell, president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said though black Americans are not threatened by biting dogs and KKK members in white hoods, the "dogs are still biting in other ways" and there is still "racism and inequality." Ok, so can somebody explain to me how it is that anybody with a clue is supposed to be able to take a brain dead cow like this seriously? Her dumb ass should've been yanked off the podium! But why wasn't she? Because, my friends, what she spoke of was the theme of this little gathering.

Instead, this moron was allowed to continue, as she went on to say, "Today there are no white sheets, but there are judges in black robes in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, opening the floodgates in many states to pass more voter ID laws... with the goal of ensuring we never see a black man elected to the president, or woman, of the United states of America." Come on really? You know, by her making such an idiotic claim, she serves only to demean, or trivialize, the lives of those who really were subjected to unfair hardship for no other reason than the color of their skin. However, Barry was never one of them.

And something that I'm pretty sure such people as this Ms. Campbell are fully aware of, is that the objections most have with Barry, has nothing whatsoever to do with his race. It's his socialist policies, his efforts to completely dismantle our economy as well as his drive to increase the size of government beyond which anyone ever thought possible. But that doesn't stop loons like this Campbell boob, who continue their attempt to make it appear as if it is all about race, when it's really about ideology. So she's being more than a little disingenuous, even dishonest, in making her asinine claims which she makes for no other reason that to rile up the crowd.