The Death of Dr. King's Dream

Let me be blunt: The election of a President Obama would not be the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream; it would be the death of that dream. Dr. King’s dream was founded on scripture and on the founding documents of the United States. Senator Obama’s ideology rejects both.

Dr. King’s dream and his philosophy were best stated in the “I Have a Dream” speech.

After he took the podium on the Lincoln Memorial Dr. King began the “I Have a Dream” speech by citing the words of the Declaration of Independence that “all men, yes black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” He was paraphrasing the words penned by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Our rights, and most especially our right to life, come not from government, but from God. Obama has real problems with that concept in two ways: (1) He would abandon the concept of a constitution that limits government’s power to in favor of one that gives classes and individuals affirmative rights to government handouts such as welfare and healthcare; and (2) Obama is adamantly opposed to the right to life. As a state senator, he opposed a bill that would have required hospitals to provide healthcare and sustenance to a baby who was “accidentally” born due to a botched abortion. (See articles on Obama’s opposition to the right to life here and here

Back to Dr. King. He built the speech to a brilliant crescendo when he said: “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.” Do those words sound familiar? They should.

Anyone who has enough Christmas Eve stamina to attend a Christmas Eve vigil or midnight mass has heard these words. They are drawn directly from Isaiah 40. The passage is a prophetic one, in which Isaiah speaks of the coming of the Messiah. While I have no doubt that Dr. King hopefully anticipated the Second Coming, I seriously doubt that he was literally referring to the coming of a poilitical messiah. No, he was demanding the Republic to return to its scripture-based principles in its treatment of citizens of color - and indeed all citizens.

The Pharisees of Biblical times awaited a political messiah who would lift the oppression of the Roman Empire from the nation of Israel. Present-day Pharisees such as Louis Farrakhan have preached that Senator Obama is the Messiah. They miss the point entirely. Dr. King’s idea was not to take power so that he could do to America what America had done to its citizens of color, but to hold America it its principles.

Then there is one of the best known passages in which Dr. King declared: “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.” In that, we see the greatest departure from the King Dream: Liberals, elites and pundits across America have overlooked Obama’s lack of relevant experience and his adherence to questionable positions and anointed him based in no small part on his ethnicity and in very large part on his skill for empty rhetoric.

As a result, we are about to elect a president who will continue and accelerate the policies of the past seven decades, policies that have helped destroy families, neighborhoods and countless unborn children. If you don’t believe me, then click on the links above and hear it from Rev. Dr. Childress.

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