{"id":1218309,"date":"2022-01-15T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218309"},"modified":"2022-01-15T18:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T23:04:29","slug":"parker-dusting-off-dr-kings-great-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parker-dusting-off-dr-kings-great-message\/","title":{"rendered":"PARKER: Dusting Off Dr. King\u2019s Great Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparker-dusting-off-dr-kings-great-message%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218309&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>We celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January \u2014 this year, Jan. 17.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 28, 1963, King delivered one of the great speeches in American history, popularly known as the \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech. It is a speech that must be dusted off and studied anew today, because it contains the very message that our nation sorely needs to hear and digest now. A message that has been tragically lost and buried and replaced with great and destructive distortions.<\/p>\n<p>Two things jump out when reading through that speech.<\/p>\n<p>One is how this Black preacher captured in his words that day the heart and soul of America.<\/p>\n<p>Second, how King\u2019s great message that day stands in total contrast to the rhetoric peddled by today\u2019s progressives as the remedy to our racial strife.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment of the woke movement is that America is the problem.<\/p>\n<p>King offered up America as the solution.<\/p>\n<p>He talked about the \u201cmagnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: \u2018We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem, as King explained, is not America or the eternal truths that were brought to bear in its founding.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was the failure of the nation to live up to the challenges of its great founding principles.<\/p>\n<p>This was the heart of King\u2019s message that day.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the nation to realize the dream of its founding fathers. Not to crush it and bury it, as we hear today.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is not white people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe marvelous new militancy \u2026 must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the most memorable and oft-quoted line of the speech, \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What has happened instead? Where has this great message of King gotten lost?<\/p>\n<p>In the name of racial justice, our race campaigns today are defined by selection and placement based on race, based on the color of skin, and not based on the content of character, as King implored the nation to do.<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s speech is divided into three parts.<\/p>\n<p>Part one is an appeal to the nation to live up to its great founding principles.<\/p>\n<p>Part two is an appeal to Black Americans to rise up and act accordingly in the noble cause of the pursuit of liberty and justice. Let\u2019s not drink \u201cfrom the cup of bitterness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part three is an appeal to the ideals of the Christian soul of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>He quoted the prophet Isaiah that \u201cthe crooked places will be made straight \u2026 and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biblical truths and ideals have been sadly lost to wokeism, which has for all practical purposes become a religion in itself.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now, as we come out of COVID-19 and enter 2022, by revisiting and taking to heart the great truths he spoke on that summer day in Washington, D.C., 1963. Great truths that have very sadly been cast to the side and replaced with the religion of politics and power.<\/p>\n<p>Let us honor King by seeing America as he presented it then, as embodying the ideals of a free nation under God.<\/p>\n<p>And then we can join hands and sing, as King appealed, \u201cthe words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show \u201cCure America with Star Parker.\u201d To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January \u2014 this year, Jan. 17. On Aug. 28, 1963, King delivered one of the great speeches in American history, popularly known as the \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech. It is a speech that must be dusted off and studied anew today, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}