I have a dream

Martin Luther King is not banished...

For now.

Key quote:

Student leaders at the University of Oregon debated removing a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. from its student center, arguing that the quote was not inclusive enough for modern understandings of diversity.

Oregon’s Erb Memorial Union, which is currently under renovation, had the following famous King quote on the wall: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream…”

But as renovation continues, the Oregon Student Union seriously considered replacing that quote. “The quote is not going to change,” reports student paper Oregon Daily Emerald, “but that decision was not made without some hard thought by the Student Union Board.”

Modern academia is turning into a cesspool of toxic identity politics, so it is not exactly surprising the campus lynch mobs are now going after Martin Luther King. All totalitarian movements require kangaroo courts and witch hunts in order to terrorize the proles into submission and maintain power.

The targeting of Martin Luther King is not accidental or random, but purposeful. If someone as revered as King can be purged by our self-anointed moral and intellectual betters then no one is safe.

Here is a thought designed to keep you awake at night. The student leaders behind this failed purge will one day become judges and political leaders with real power over our lives. And as their power grows I suspect their intolerance will grow as well. How would you like to be on the receiving end of their wrath when that happens?

I have a dream

Wither the dream?

At the City Journal, Heather Mac Donald has an excellent piece on how the state of California is keeping it multicultural programs alive at the expense of true academics. Since the 1960s public universities has begun abandoning true education for radical political indoctrination.

I cannot help but contrast multiculturalism's ugly assault on the human spirit with these timeless words from 1963:



In today's society, our self-anointed moral and intellectual betters would declare such a speech "racist". Being judged by the content of our character instead of the color of our skin is too much for them. Greedy for political power, convinced of their own infallibility, and willing to do anything to see their mad vision come true, multiculturalists are destroying the heart and soul of the education system.

It is in this predatory environment that my son will be educated in. Because he was born of a black African mother and a white American father, he will be pressured to choose sides thanks to the divide-and-conquer approach taken by multiculturalists. And because multiculturalists have gone largely unchallenged for so long I fear it is unlikely they will be toppled from their positions of privilege without a huge struggle. Above all else, the princes of this world lust for power.

If you have never prayed for students and teachers before, now would be an excellent time.