“I have a dream that my four little 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.”
This quote, from the Rev. Martin Luther King’s most famous speech, is probably his best-known utterance. It was surely his most consequential.
Until recently, it formed the nation’s racial conscience, helping all Americans of goodwill aspire to a society where one’s race is an incidental characteristic, not the essential end-all-be-all that determines how one’s life will proceed.
That was the goal, anyway, until the pretend successors to King’s civil rights movement decided to throw his entire career into the dumpster and adopt racial essentialism.
Today, with the rise of the toxic academic ideology known as critical race theory, the idea of a color-blind society, in which people are truly judged by merit and character over skin color, is no longer even a desirable goal.
Indeed, the academic writings of critical race theory explicitly denounce color blindness as a white supremacist ideal that “preserves White privilege” and is “equivalent to emphasizing the plight of Nazis and the plight of White supremacists.”
It would probably come as some surprise to Dr. King that he is a white supremacist, but this is the state of leftist academia today. Unfortunately, academia can no longer be laughed off as it should be, because this toxic sludge has seeped into every corner of the educational establishment.
Having unfortunately infiltrated all levels of public school systems, these toxic ideologues are determined to teach children of all races, much to the detriment of their development, that their race will determine their entire life; that they should elevate or despise others because of their skin color; that entire races of people can be collectively guilty of crimes that no living individual had any part in.
This is the slop being drummed into the minds of today’s teachers, who are in turn being encouraged or required to incorporate such garbage ideas into the lesson plans they teach children as early as kindergarten.
There is only one conclusion to draw here: They have canceled Dr. King.
They have canceled his message of anti-racism and replaced it with their own ugly message of racial essentialism. Black students are being taught that they cannot succeed because they are black. White students are being taught that they are guilty of racism and oppression that not even their parents were alive to witness.
Meanwhile, a vicious lie about “systemic racism” has been elevated to the status of unquestionable truth. American life, it holds, is irredeemably and incurably racist, and this fact is meant to justify the imposition of tyrannical speech codes and deliberate race-based injustices — for example, discrimination against Asians applying to college or against people who need medical care but don’t belong to the correct race.
Today is a good day to reject all of this nonsense — a good day to send the new racists back into their toxic academic waste dumps for good.
Today is a good day to recommit to MLK’s vision of a colorblind society, in which merit and character really are the measure of a man or woman.
King’s vision, especially after his violent death, brought together people of all races. It united an entire generation behind his vision of a society in which we treat people of all races with respect and uphold their rights. This is no time to let crazed ideologues destroy all that progress.
