Martin Luther King and an Ossified Civil Rights Movement
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Looking back 50 years is nostalgic but not helpful for today’s civil rights movement
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Last week, this country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. Unfortunately, President Obama cynically used such to advance his agenda.
It was disappointing that the topic of education was virtually nonexistent except for nine-year-old Chicago public school student Asean Johnson who pushed the standard Liberal line of shoveling more money to the education system, Randi Weingarten no doubt his ghost writer.
Martin Luther King would be disappointed in the misguided and self-serving civil rights leadership today
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As embraced in thoughtful precincts, the great civil rights issue of our day is education and specifically, access to quality education for kids in grades K thru 12. The key to economic advancement is having a good-paying job which has been shown to result from, more often than not, having a good education. Government intervention and regulation and unions, all Liberal panaceas, merely split and re-distribute the pie. A good education allows for the pie to grow larger. All too often inner city children, mostly minorities, get an inferior education and are less likely to go to college. This makes them less desirable to employers.
And why didn’t Mr. Obama and the rest of the speakers focus on education reform that clearly would lift up the downtrodden that they claimed to represent? Because much of the blame for failing public schools falls on an “entrenched interest” that the president would never acknowledge: recalcitrant teachers’ unions that resist reform at every turn. As the teachers’ unions are natively part of the Democratic Party, Reverend Sharpton and John Lewis and the rest their cabal would never think of discussing education reform as a civil rights issue as they’d have to take on the teachers unions. Some “entrenched interests” are justified while others not, in the Liberal mind.
So instead, the focus was on the phantom attack on voting rights, which is not an attack and at its worst would likely only prevent a small amount of people from rightfully exercising their right to vote. No system is perfect, as Liberals will say defending every government program.
For the parents of the hundreds of thousands of kids who are denied their basic civil right of a quality education, this week’s commemoration which focused on demagoguery over voting rights must have been extremely depressing.
-I.M. Windee
