if dr. king were alive today, he would be a republican
If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would be a Republican, and I'll tell you why:
1. He would see that Republicans support school choice--vouchers, charter schools, and home schooling. Dr. King would understand that it is a sin to limit a child's access to a good education just because they don't have the financial resources to move to a better neighborhood or to enroll in a private school.
2. He would see that the GOP is pro-life. Dr. King would rightly recognize abortion as murder, and legalized genocide against African-Americans.
3. He would see that the free market, low tax principles of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush create more jobs and more wealth for all Americans, including black Americans. Dr. King would look at the economic indicators and how they have exploded during the last 6 years, in spite of 9/11, the war on terror, and Katrina, and he would recognize the amazing progress made by black Americans due to GOP policies.
4. He would see that control of the Democrat Party has been seized by the radical left and the secular progressives. Dr. King would recognize their hatred and hostility towards Christianity, and their jihad against public expression of Christian faith, and he would be appalled.
5. He would see how utterly amoral many of today's so-called "black leaders" have become. Dr. King would look at race pimps like Jackson and Sharpton and he would be ashamed. Conversely, he would look at groups like the Congress of Racial Equality (www.core-online.org/index.htm) and Black America's Political Action Committee (http://www.bampac.org/issue_Advocacy.asp) and recognize that their conservative principles are more helpful to blacks than are the failed principles of liberalism.
6. He would compare and contrast the two parties, and he would see that the GOP is the only one of the two to make a real attempt to live up to the following ideals of Dr. King:
And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.
And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.----Delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Feb. 4, 1968
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that 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 the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
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.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, When we allow freedom to 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!"---From Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on August 28, 1963
1. He would see that Republicans support school choice--vouchers, charter schools, and home schooling. Dr. King would understand that it is a sin to limit a child's access to a good education just because they don't have the financial resources to move to a better neighborhood or to enroll in a private school.
2. He would see that the GOP is pro-life. Dr. King would rightly recognize abortion as murder, and legalized genocide against African-Americans.
3. He would see that the free market, low tax principles of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush create more jobs and more wealth for all Americans, including black Americans. Dr. King would look at the economic indicators and how they have exploded during the last 6 years, in spite of 9/11, the war on terror, and Katrina, and he would recognize the amazing progress made by black Americans due to GOP policies.
4. He would see that control of the Democrat Party has been seized by the radical left and the secular progressives. Dr. King would recognize their hatred and hostility towards Christianity, and their jihad against public expression of Christian faith, and he would be appalled.
5. He would see how utterly amoral many of today's so-called "black leaders" have become. Dr. King would look at race pimps like Jackson and Sharpton and he would be ashamed. Conversely, he would look at groups like the Congress of Racial Equality (www.core-online.org/index.htm) and Black America's Political Action Committee (http://www.bampac.org/issue_Advocacy.asp) and recognize that their conservative principles are more helpful to blacks than are the failed principles of liberalism.
6. He would compare and contrast the two parties, and he would see that the GOP is the only one of the two to make a real attempt to live up to the following ideals of Dr. King:
And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.
And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.----Delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Feb. 4, 1968
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that 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 the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
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.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, When we allow freedom to 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!"---From Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on August 28, 1963
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I've spent years in the Christian Music Business. After becoming a mother (at 35) I started looking at what I could to for kids in schools.
I'll be using the following song about MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech in an afterschool program next week. I'll post what happens with the youth on my blog...
http://raisingcreatorkids.blogspot.com/2007/01/link-to-free-music.html
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