Friday, January 15, 2010

Would Martin Luther King, Jr approve?

Freehold Raceway is paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today with a race featuring all African-American drivers, in the second annual MLK Jr. Memorial Pace, according to a piece at Freehold.InJersey.com.

How does this honor Dr. King?

King dreamt of:

...one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.


and,

...that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.


and,

...one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.


and,

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"


How does having a segregated horse race honor King or his dream?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are too many people who will cheapen anything to make a buck.

For that matter how do think George Washington and Lincoln would feel about theier images being used to sell crap.

Anonymous said...

doesn't- he's spinning in his grave, most likely, to see how divided we are again-yet another divide- and- conquer,PC crapola, courtesy of the libs..