DEDICATION TO MLK MEMORIAL DETERIORATES INTO POLITICAL RALLY...

While not really the appropriate venue for the giving of a campaign speech, Barry didn’t let that stop him from doing just that at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Memorial. During his little speech on Sunday, Barry "Almighty" confidently made the claim on that Martin Luther King Jr. would have approved of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement. Speaking at the dedication for the late civil rights leader’s memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Barry did his best to draw parallels between King’s sense of justice and the demonstrations in New York City against corporate greed. “If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there,” Barry said, according to the Washington Times. But we'll never know for sure, now will we, so that claim is a very easy one to make. Barry went on to say, “Those with power and privilege will often decry any call for change as divisive. They’ll say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and destabilizing. Dr. King understood that peace without justice was no peace at all.” As we have found out over the course of the last 3 years, change isn't always change for the better, and change for the sake of change makes no sense.

So Barry "Almighty" was the headliner for what would prove to be quite that cast of characters, a rogue's gallery of sorts, comprised of several who are today nothing more than parasites who have literally made a career of attempting to make names for themselves at the expense of Dr. King's reputation as well as his legacy. And, as always, nearly all of them used the occasion of this ceremony to make what were nothing more that what were overtly partisan statements. It seemed funny somehow, funny strange, not funny ha ha, that any of these people who had supposedly all gathered to pay homage to the memory of Dr. King would, just like the Paul Wellstone debacle some years back, allow the entire ceremony to morph into what was nothing more than a political rally. And I'm sure had Dr. King been looking down, instead of feeling a sense of pride regarding those who had gathered was, instead, simply shaking his head is despair, and I can imagine seeing a tear come to his eye. These pathetic sleazy, pathetic wannabes desperately trying to portray themselves as being on the same mission as was Dr. King, betray themselves in such a way as to prove that nothing could be further from the truth. They seek only to substantiate their deeds by using his name, and attempt to make the case that they are carrying on Dr. King's legacy.


As was reported in The Washington Times: One of the primary speakers, Atlanta's ex-Mayor, Andrew Young, demonstrated the fact that he too has his feet very firmly planted within the confines of the Democrat plantation, as he told the crowd at the memorial a revised version of history, saying that the GOP was to blame for the recent banking crisis, tracing it back to the repeal in 1999 of provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act, which had separated investment banks from commercial banks. “Republicans changed that, and now this thing is all messed up,” Mr. Young said. Well, the esteemed ex-Mayor altered things a bit leaving out the Community Re-Investment Act singed into law by Democrat Jimmy Carter and made worse by "BJ" Clinton. That started thing headed down hill. And the repeal to which Young refers, was approved by overwhelming bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate, including a majority of Democrats in both chambers, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Mr. Young also urged the audience to vote for Mr. Obama in 2012, saying the president’s re-election is needed to ensure economic justice, “just like we won voting rights.” “The first step of that is to keep a person in office who basically has your interests at heart,” Mr. Young said.


Next we have that prominent faux reverend, Jesse "The Extortionist" Jackson, who I am quite sure that if Dr. King were alive today, he would be quite disappointed in. Especially with Jackson now having made a very profitable living for himself resulting from his aggressive perpetuating of racism in this country and then using it to make a rather tidy little profit for himself. Jackson called King a “living force” even today, and said if he were still alive, King would be “in the middle of the struggle.” “Dr. King would make a case for we must measure our character by the way we treat those on the hull of the ship, not just those on the deck of the ship,” Jackson said. For Jackson, a man who possesses so very little character himself, to make such a statement is more than a little ironic. Look, when listening to Jackson one very quickly recognizes him as being a rather sleazy character, one very much more concerned about his own welfare those within the black community as a whole. Those folks have essentially become nothing more than a tool to be manipulated in Jackson's continuing effort to increase his own stature at their expense. Choosing to speak directly to the Occupy protesters, Jackson urged them to remain nonviolent, stay disciplined, focused and fight for economic and racial justice. I wasn't aware that the Occupy protesters were marching specifically for racial justice.


And as usual, where you find one faux reverend, you find the other. Such was the case on Sunday when we had one after the other take to the podium. And I'm sure it can go without saying that our second "reverend" was none other that Mr. Megaphone himself, Al "Bull Horn" Sharpton, who had also led a march in Washington D.C.. on Saturday. Old "Bull Horn" said “just as Dr. King talked about occupying Washington, just like those occupying Wall Street, we are going to occupy the voting booth.” Droning on to what I'm sure was a very attentive audience, "Bull Horn" said, “We are here to say we are going to continue marching." Adding, “You will not undo the King dream. You will not take away the Voting Rights Act. You will not take away the Civil Rights Act. You will not cut back on Medicaid and Medicare to bargain down those rich trillionaires that that ran this country into deficit.” “This is not about Obama, this is about our mama,” "Bull Horn" said, repeating the same statement he made Saturday. “We will vote like we never voted before.” I don't know, I'm not black myself, but I have watched, listened to and read many of Dr. King's speeches, and I just can't picture him standing along side either on of these two clowns. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe he would be, but I just don't see it.


So in doing what I view as being a great disservice to a great man possessing a dream, most of those speaking at the ceremony, including our very own black president, proved to be much more interested in themselves, and in the advancing of their political agenda, than in the purpose for they're being where they were and why they were there. It was a level of disrespect the likes of which one doesn't very often see, and dealt to the memory of man worthy of so much more. While the man did have some failings in his personal life, who among has not. In the bigger picture I think one can very safely say that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., left the world a better place than he found it. And most if not all of the speakers we heard from on Sunday will not be able to make that same claim. Because that is not what they have sought to do, their primary objective has been one very different than that of Dr. King, being much more interested in themselves than in anyone else. Guys like Jackson and Sharpton are so obviously nothing more than a couple of cheap frauds, willing to do whatever they need to do in order to remain allowed to maintain their chair at the table of the Democrat Party. And if that requires them to throw blacks under the proverbial bus, so be it!