A Concise Summary of Obama’s MLK Speech
August 28, 2013
YOU can read the full text of Obama’s speech about Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech here, but you needn’t bother. Basically, President Obama said:
1. A lot has changed for blacks in 50 years, but the white man is still no good.
2. People who make more money than you are greedy.
3. Some of you are wondering why things have gotten so much worse since “I Have a Dream,” but King believed in jobs for everyone and I do too. Vote for Democrats and you will get a job. Someday.
— Comments —-
Lydia Sherman writes:
With all the money the government spends, why can’t they get a better actor and better scripts?
Terry Morris writes:
I was doing some business at the bank during the first part of Jimmy Carter’s speech yesterday, which was playing on the lobby TV. The parts of his speech I caught included his saying he is proud to be a member of the same political party as King, that if not for King’s “I have a dream” speech, he and two others (Clinton and Obama, I presume) on the stage would likely never have become president, and that he and another political activist had toured all of the schools in a Georgia county during the early ’50s where they found that there were only five (I think) white schools yet more than five times as many black schools, the latter of which, they discovered, were held in churches and homes and various public places because there was no [forced] school bussing at the time. Oh the horror!
As a side note, the (female) black teller who was helping me seemed utterly uninterested in Carter’s speech and absolutely focused on the job at hand, which was to make my time at the bank as quick and painless as possible; whereas two white tellers were literally “glued” to the screen, their faces glowing with pride as Carter told the story of his involvement in desegregation, school consolidation and forced school bussing that has served to destroy families and communities, black and white, in Georgia and all across the “fruited plain.”
Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they support.
