What Today’s Cultural Marxists Would Be Wise To Learn From Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was much more than a great pastor or civil rights leader. He was a great pastor and civil rights leader. His mind was sharp, with a keen eye for timeless truths. The holiday in his commemoration is not only the time to celebrate his depth, character, and accomplishments, but it is also an occasion to reflect on the conditioning and brainwashing that characterize today’s leftist identity politics, which seeks to normalize the legitimacy of divisive and demoralizing ideologies King fought against.

King, on the other hand, was focused on constructive action to promote racial healing and social justice through truth, love and peaceful, nonviolent protest and debate. Those who claim to hold up the torch of civil rights today, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, would do well to heed both King’s own words as well as the timeless works that he often drew from.

Leftists and supporters Black Lives Matter, founded by PatrisseCullors and Alicia Garza, should answer the gnawing query: What good did Marxism do? Although some may believe that socialism is about utopias, many people who have tried it in different countries have been left in misery and poverty.

King understood that the Declaration of Independence contained the obvious truth. “that all men are created equal … with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” wasn’t realized in 1776, nor when the U.S. Constitution was ratified some 14 years later. Nor was Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” proposition “that all men are created equal” fulfilled through the Civil War’s Emancipation Proclamation.

King would spend 29 years in prison for his efforts to fulfill those ideals.

In King’s most famous “I have a dream” speech, delivered from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963, it was as if the Almighty was calling America to rise up and fulfill its spiritual destiny. King added a timeless truth to the obvious truth that all people have equal value. “should not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

If King could be transported into the present, he’d be stunned at the progress that has been made in America over the past three decades since he was the leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s. He would likely reject the eclipse of the group, gender, and ethnic identity evaluation paradigm over the individual merit and character-based approach for assessment, acceptance, and advancement — whether in school admission or hiring and promotion in the workplace.

King would condemn critical racism theory (CRT) for perpetuating negative racial stereotypes. However, it is a reversal that denigrates white people. He would also find it fundamentally flawed, exacerbating division in society rather than bringing people together through constructive dialogue and seeing all people as individuals made in God’s image.

King was much more than a great pastor or civil rights leader. One