WHAT WAS BILLED AS A TRIBUTE, WAS SOMETHING FAR LESS...

Well, well, well, it was quite the impressive assortment of race-baiters, wannabes, outright racists and politicians who came out to supposedly pay tribute to a man who was in all likelihood looking down on them from above and shaking his head in disappointment at all the goings on in his name. And I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he was feeling just a tinge of anger as he listened to how some of these hypocrites proceeded to throw his name around as if they were somehow kindred spirits of the man in whose honor they were gathered. So it was that tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington

In indicator of the true purpose of the event, can be easily determined by seeing who it was that sponsored event. Such as faux reverend, and professional race-baiter, Al 'Bull Horn' Sharpton's organization, the Democrat Party front group known as the National Action Network, Martin Luther King III and the NAACP. That Sharpton and the NAACP were involved should really tell you all that you really need to know about the purpose behind the gathering. And if that doesn't, a look at the list of featured speakers most definitely will. For the list included such notables as old 'Bull Horn', Eric "I'm A Racist" Holder, wannabe senator, Cory Booker and of course that well-known Georgia racist, and member of the House, John Lewis.

And while some of the speakers actually did address race relations in optimistic terms, describing America's progress as encouraging, just as many simply could not resist the urge to turn what was meant to be a gathering to honor a very special man, into what was really nothing more than a political rally. They took the opportunity to delve into such controversial fare as the Supreme Court's recent decision overturning parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and, of course, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. And in so doing they accomplished nothing more than to disrespect the man in whose honor they claimed they claim to have gathered. But then again, that how most of these people operate.

In 'paying tribute' to his father's legacy, Martin Luther King III said, "Five decades ago my father stood upon this hallowed spot" and "crystallized like never before the painful pilgrimage and aching aspirations of African-Americans yearning to breathe free." King's message was not a "lament" or a "diatribe," his son said, but a call to action, and a reminder that the work always goes on. "The task is not done, the journey is not complete," he said. "The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Sadly, through such things as affirmative action, the dream has remained unfulfilled.

And I guess being just unable to resist, he went on to say, "However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin's mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character." Calling for "stand your ground" self-defense laws to be repealed in states where they have been enacted. Oddly enough, there was no mention of the number of blacks that die in our cities every single day at the hands of other blacks. And King apparently also felt compelled to slam the Supreme Court for having, in his words, "eviscerated" voting rights protections, calling for citizens to "fight back boldly" to restore those rights.

And then of course there was Al 'Bull Horn' Sharpton who can always be counted to spew his own rather unique brand of drivel. In claiming to be looking back on the original marchers, Al said, "They came to Washington so we could come today, in a different time and a different place, and we owe them for what we have today." Still, he droned on, "Today we face continuing challenges." Sharpton was especially outraged by the court ruling on voting rights and by the efforts of state legislatures around the country to erect what he called new voting restrictions, such as voter identification laws. "Our vote was soaked in the blood of martyrs, and you can't take it from us," he said, promising to march in each state mulling voting restrictions.

And then, there was John Lewis, who urged Saturday's audience to continue marching on behalf of equality, implying that things had not progressed since the 1960s. "Fifty years later, we cannot wait, we cannot be patient," he said. "We want our jobs and we want our freedom now ... we cannot give up. We cannot give out." He too reserved particular outrage for the recent high court decision on voting rights. "I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, Alabama, for that right to vote," he said, referencing the police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma in 1965. "I am not going to stand by and let the Supreme Court take the right to vote away from us." Such hypocrisy is nothing short of staggering!

The we had Corey Booker, another corrupt Democrat from New Jersey, and a guy seeking a Senate seat from that same state, who noted that he was not alive during the original march, urging his younger generation to remember that their freedoms were "bought by the struggles and the sacrifices and the work of those who came before." His generation can never pay back that contribution, Booker said, "but it is our moral obligation to pay it forward." He cautioned the audience against becoming "dumb, fat and happy, thinking that we have achieved freedom." Adding, "There is still work to do," naming gun violence, discrimination in the justice system and the continuing effects of poverty as issues in need of redress. Blah, blah, blah!!!

And then, no tribute can ever be complete without hearing from Eric 'I'm A Racist' Holder, whose Justice Department has seen fit to come up with all manner of creative lawsuit against voter ID laws in various states all across the country. Holder implied that there remains a need to protect the rights of eligible citizens to vote "unencumbered by discriminatory or unneeded procedures, rules or practices." Holder, the first African-American attorney general, most likely the most corrupt in our history and the most inept since Janet Reno, credited the work of civil rights activists of the past 50 years with Barry "Almighty's" election and his own ascension to the top of the Justice Department.

While they all claimed to be attending out of respect and to pay tribute to the man, they were really there for another reason entirely. You see very few of them can actually bring themselves to recognize the fact that the racism that they warn against no longer exists. That is not to say that there are no racists in America today, because there are. But, and much as these people will refuse to admit it, racists do come in other colors than just white. Racism today is much more prevalent in the black community that it is amongst white. And yet there was not so much as a word mentioned about that during this tribute to a man who so obviously hated ALL racism. Because that's does nothing to further the agenda.

So it's all quite sad really, that this tribute turned out to be less about Martin Luther King and much more about the effort of some of the attendees to remain relevant. Hence the impassioned claims that racism in 2013 America just is not all that much different than the racism of 1940s, 50s or 60s America. And despite the fact that the focus was to be on race, many speakers managed to sneak in more than a few plugs on behalf of a variety of progressive causes. We heard about women's reproductive rights, gay rights, climate change, public education, organized labor, gun violence, immigration reform, student loan debt forgiveness, during a number of speeches, making the rally nothing more than a call for increased left-wing activism.