Our planet has fallen so far from where Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted us to be. Here are just some excerpts from his speech.
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 down 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 new meaning: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And 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, and when we allow 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.
Yet here we are, not preaching of equality, but equity. Not of joining hands, but handing out large sums of money to those who may or may not be ancestors of slaves. To giving the upper hand to a race that has been wronged for so many decades. We are taught that the white man, no matter what his position, has a privilege above anyone else. We are being taught that countries are inherently racist.
On Sept. 1, 2020, conservative journalist and researcher Christopher Rufo went on Fox News to decry the anti-bias training happening in federal agencies as an example of critical race theory. Rufo described CRT as a radical ideology sowing racial division through education. "Conservatives need to wake up," Rufo told Fox News. "This is an existential threat to the United States." Three days later, Republican President Donald Trump's administration directed federal agencies to cease such training, which it called "divisive, un-American propaganda." Trump later expanded the ban to include federal contractors. Democratic President Joe Biden has since overturned that executive order. Yes, Joe Biden.
The same man who openly used the N-word in Congress not many decades ago. The man who didn't want his kids in an "urban jungle". Joe Biden is a racist who elected Kamala Harris, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Karine Jean-Pierre to their positions as token gestures or to fulfill campaign promises. He had to make those concessions to get the job, because you know the "party of diversity" wasn't going to hand over the highest position in the land to an old white man easily. And now, we have King Charles III (whose ex-wife and sister were and are more masculine than he will ever be) pushing this racist nonsense towards British children through the Church of England. The Church of England! There is a racist religion across the pond!
Goodness gracious, Great Britain. Whatever shall you do?
I don't know if there's some way you can remove royalty from the throne, but if there is, I suggest you do it. This cannot continue, and if it does, the British Empire will go the way of Bud Light. The British national anthem shares the tune of "My Country, Tis of Thee". However, conservatives should not sing "God Save The King". It should be "God Damn the King". There is a God on this earth, and since there is, I have no doubt He will deal with both the United States and Great Britain accordingly unless we repent and come unto Jesus. May God deal mercifully with both this nation and the United Kingdom.
Greg Palmer resides in Elon, North Carolina (near Greensboro and part of the Piedmont Triad). Published by Don McCullen for Intellectualconservative.com.