Thursday, March 17, 2005
We're Not Going To Stand For It Anymore
I love this story from New Jersey.
It pains me to think that things have gone this far. No one has ever moved me like Martin Luther King, Jr. could. Today, the people that claim his legacy just sound like whiners and complainers. Worse yet, they sound like the various oppressors that they seek to throw off.
Some white students at a South Jersey Catholic school walked out of classes Tuesday in protest over a speech by the New Jersey Secretary of State Regina Thomas....People, even high school students, are smart enough to know the difference between real racism (or sexism, or oreintationism, or...) and the nearly naked plays for political power that pass for anti-racist rhetoric in this day and age.
...Many students and faculty members walked out of the speech offended. They said that she lambasted one student for not knowing his black history and that she insinuated that the students were racist.
It pains me to think that things have gone this far. No one has ever moved me like Martin Luther King, Jr. could. Today, the people that claim his legacy just sound like whiners and complainers. Worse yet, they sound like the various oppressors that they seek to throw off.
