Martin Luther King Holiday Needs to go Colorblind

We all applaud Martin Luther King’s triumphant sentiment when he said “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.”  Yes, a focus on character, not skin color.

       So why do people let the liberal news media get away with making the holiday just about skin color?  All the spokespeople who were brought forward were chosen because of their skin color.  The overweening sentiment seemed to instill both black pride and white guilt–though contrived in each case.

      Isn’t character something that needs to be talked about in a colorblind context?  Or are people still trapped in stereotypical mindsets, now grown familiar and comfortable.

          I’m reminded of the liberal juggernaut in higher education a few decades ago–when enlightened colleges decided that parochialism was out.  Students needed to know more about world history.  After all, the great civilizations and empires of the past were “great” for a reason.

      Unfortunately, liberal domination of universities had already taken.  World history now meant only the Third World–a chance for white faculty to posture as overlords of the downtrodden.  History would come up only to vilify the more successful, mainstream countries like the United States and Britain.  Has anything changed in the moral complacency of Democrats and Republicans?