Saturday, August 28, 2010

Do white dreams count in America today?


On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. held his historic march on Washington and then gave his now famous "I have a dream speech" on the steps of the Lincoln memorial. Crowd estimates at the time, put the crowd at between 200,000 and 300,000 people on that sultry August day.

Today in Washington, Glenn Beck summoned forth between 300,000 and 500,000 Americans to come and lay claim to their own destiny. Beck's theme was a 'religious re-birth."

I wonder.....is it possible to have a religious re-birth in present day America? Involving predominantly white Americans? Absent being called a racist and a bigot or a homophobe? Is it possible for that many white people to assemble in their nation's capitol and be heard?

Surely there were black people there today, just as suredly as there were white people there for King forty seven years ago. But can the message of today be heard above the cacaphony of shouts by those present day representatitives of the civil rights movement.

It has been rightly alluded to (The Tea Party) is a second civil rights movement in America. It is a movement to try and regain control of this nation's fate and future before it is thoroughly and completely wrecked by the present day egalitarians who are hell bent to see it destroyed.

So the question remains......Do white dreams count in America today? Or have those dreams of supposed blindness of color spoken of by King forty seven years ago, been co-opted and corrupted into an egalitarian nightmare where only people of color are counted when they rise up to be heard on the nation's mall.

Time will tell. But let it be said today for at least a while, that Glenn Beck put more people on the mall to hear his words today, than have ever been amassed there at any time before in our history. Now....let's see how the media reports that come sun up tomorrow.

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