Shame on them!

The Martin Luther King holiday has been turned into a day of demagoguery. Sad to say, but the sight of John Edwards delivering a version of his finely honed closing argument, revised to fit this occasion, telling his audience, "You have the power!" and urging them to put a stop to the war in Iraq, followed by the blatant political rantings of Dr. T. Dewitt Smith, Jr. and Rev. Otis Moss preaching to black congregations, denouncing the president and demanding more government spending on social causes, left me shaking my head. They're headed toward turning a lot of people against the holiday, because of the rank politicization of it. I couldn't help but think of how such virulent screeds against opponents of the war would be played in the MSM if they'd been uttered by Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. If this is what Dr. King would have become had he lived, it's a blessing to his memory that he was martyred at the height of his achievements. Seeing what Jesse Jackson did with the legacy of Dr. King, turning it into a cash cow by shaking down corporations, and the absurd and shameful demands for reparations for slavery by blacks whose lot today is immeasurably better, because of the blood shed by hundreds of thousands of Americans to do away with it, and to cash in on it seems the very opposite of Dr. King's dream for his children to be judged by the content of their character and not by their race or skin color.

This is only exacerbated by the fact that this kind of abuse has become standard fare on this "holiday." Where is the ACLU on this? The least it could do is denounce the hypocrisy of demanding the separation only of white religion and government.