Today America slobbers over the primary martyr-saint of its Liberal civil religion, a half-century after his Sermon on the Mall. Ex Cathedra --who watched the original on B&W TV as it happened and was a longtime supporter of the cause-- views the unfolding of the whole business with the jaundiced eye of realism. To me it now embodies the central illusion of the country.
Conservatives fruitlessly try to claim him as one of their own. A pathetic attempt to bulwark themselves against the charge that they are racists. That is an unwinnable fight. As soon as any White accepts the existence of "racism", then he can only be in a defensive, apologetic, anxious and losing position. And historical butt-kissing to King only makes us look pitiable.
Like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi, other sanctified soliders against the Whites, this particular sacred cow was, at the very best, a thoroughly ambiguous character.
And to continue the animal metaphor, King has proven to be the racial Trojan Horse for America. Here we have this one sainted example, one we are all supposed to bow down and adore, inexplicably followed by a horde of followers who seem not to have understood St. Martin's elevated and scriptural post-racial message. Funny how that happens. Makes you wonder about the source of it all.
It's really not my party. At all.
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2 comments:
It seems like my comment on GayPatriot's MLK post, pointing out the ethical monstrosity of putting unarmed children in harm's way to further your political goals, is being ignored. I am a little disappointed that not I am not even being challenged or chided. No, just silence. Almost like nobody wants to or knows how to confront my observation. And it's not like commenters on GayPatriot are unafraid of responding to controversial comments.
"If we ignore it, maybe it will go away."
-Sean
Pleasantly surprised that people are admitting that I have a point. Only one guy attacked me, with the rather inaccurate insult of "liberal democrat."
A neocon, perhaps?
-Sean
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