The Wheat From the Chaff

 

Every year around the celebration of Dr. King’s birthday I get a bad case of the might-have-beens. In the span of a few short years, we lost JFK, RFK and MLK. Real leaders with vision.  Today we are left with the cheap paste copies instead of gems.

We hear excuse after excuse of why things in the greatest nation in the world cannot be improved. Democrats blame Republicans and vice versa. We elected one man to lead us – Barak Obama – but his default explanation for our lack of progress is partisan politics exacerbated  by the fact he’s African-American.  Most recently, he has intimated these feelings in an article on the  New Yorker Magazine website. Certainly there is an element of truth to that. Just as, conversely, he mentions, he is given a pass for the same reason.

 We know there are African-Americans who dislike whites because of their skin color. But it is rarely, if ever, mentioned. Would  Dr. King remain silent  if he were seeing  the virulent images of young, black thugs punching old men  and women; even children. Like we have seen in recent months?. And despite the protestations of a media intent on affirming these attacks as race neutral, we know otherwise. And the request for justice from  a myopic and inept attorney general  goes largely unheeded. As do the pleas from the citizenry to ameliorate the  current  American malaise.

No, Mr. President, it’s not because you have a darker complexion than those you believe  dislike you, it’s because your policies have been abject failures and your antics over the last five years have been embarrassing. A recent poll among all voters puts your approval rating at 39%.

Where are the shovel –ready  jobs you promised? where is the unity you promised?  where is health care reform? Reform? This is a disaster that’s slowly unraveling around us. And please, Mr. President, don’t have your staff fish out three letters from your constituents who will attest to the  wonders of the Affordable Care Act when there are so many more who are less better off than they were before you, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi decided to help us. Why is it we never hear about those people.  Don’t they write letters?

And do you think Dr. King would stand idly by while you and your Hollywood friends feast while so many go hungry. While so many are teetering on the brink of disaster. Would he look the other way at the profligate manner you and your family vacation on our dime.  Sending a separate plane  to deliver the family dog to a vacation destination. Really, Mr. President?

Dr. King would be knocking down the White House door to voice his disapproval of many of your policies which have  only prolonged the suffering of all of us especially, African –Americans. No jobs for black youths and violence attenuating their ranks. An education system that pours more and more money into the fire of failure. And most of all, Mr. President  he would object to your using your race to mask the failures of your administration.