Posted on 08/17/2011 12:45:32 AM PDT by lbryce
During a brief interview for the National Journal, Rep. Allen West shared some rather profound thoughts on his experience growing up in the Atlanta neighborhood where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was raised, and where Ebenezer Baptist Church was situated.
While West was only a young boy of 10 the day King was assassinated, he recalled the wave of sadness that overwrought his parents, relatives and others in the community, calling it an “incredibly emotional moment.”
One of the things West noted most poignantly, perhaps, is how Dr. King would “be appalled” and have “a tear in his eye” were he alive to witness the current state of the black community.
West, who believes King’s message is as relevant today as it was when it was first delivered, said that “if Dr. King were to come back and see what has become of the black community, he would be appalled: The exorbitantly high unemployment rate, the second- and third-generation welfare families, the rampant decimation of the inner-city black communities, the incarceration rate of young black men, and the breakdown of the black family would all bring a tear to his eye.”
West also added that because the black community has gone “backwards” from King’s dream, “we have not overcome:”
The black community is now existing on a new plantation, a 21st-century plantation [that] enslaves their will and conscience … actually worse than physical slavery. We have gone backwards from Dr. King’s dream; regardless of certain individual success stories, collectively, we are failing. We have not overcome!
When asked if King’s message informed the everyday decisions made in his own life, West responded that indeed the message that matters to him most is “character, not color:”
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Is he saying black people are crazy?
He is saying that blacks that drink the Democrat cool-aid are crazy. They are slaves and don't know it. . . . .
He says they’re back on a plantation.
Today’s plantation is self-willed enslavement to a false doctrine. This doctrine is the idea that skin color trumps character and that blacks can’t make it because of the Man, because of whitey.
It’s paranoid and profoundly toxic: and it’s the very antithesis of MLK’s spoken words.
American blacks had a true prophet, but (most of them) chose to listen to the false ones - Sharpton and his vile ilk.
wonder if he was thinking about the racist interview with CNN’s Lemon
Once MLK died, there was a vaccumm left and Sharpton and Jesse filled it.
I really like and respect Allen West. He shows courage of conviction. I want to see him succeed.
Yup. Right from the assassination itself - Jessie and the bloodied hands bit...quick to capitalize, that one. Hasn’t stopped since.
Jessie Jackson - Absolute (genuine) racist garbage.
It’s been shown that people will support economic policies, even if it doesn’t benefit them, if it means it hurst a higher economic class than themselves.
This is why blacks will support a Democrat economic policy though it hurts them, because it hurts the other economic classes more.
West noted most poignantly, perhaps, is how Dr. King would “be appalled†and have “a tear in his eye†were he alive to witness the current state of the black community.
Check almost every city that has a MLK Blvd...you will see the slave quarters, close to the outskirts of the quarters you will find the slave drivers (they will be the ones who can read and write somewhat) their job is to keep the slaves on the plantation, while enriching themselves (poverty pimps)etc.
Thankfully a few like LTC West escape the plantation and are bold and brave enough to speak about it and attempt to, by example, be an example to others.
So many can readily see the envy, but to call a poor person sinfully greedy is shocking to most folks. How can a person who is poor, be sinfully greedy? But, to desire something so badly as to hurt the other person to obtain it is the very core of greediness.
Some how the story of King Solomon comes to mind. One side had no issue with splitting the baby ...even it kills the child. Yet the other side sees the life of the child as tantamount and is able to trust the King, she lets go of the one thing she truly loves. In letting go ...King Solomon graces her with the child. Too bad we do not have a King Solomon leading our nation.
I often consider King Solomon's court that day and the horrific scene. Kidnapping, screaming women, crying baby, a sword and ...a lesson on envy, greed, and trust in Solomon.
Note to self: Keep crazies away from vaccumms.
He voted FOR Pigford funds = reparations !
One of the things West noted most poignantly, perhaps, is how Dr. King would “be appalled” and have “a tear in his eye” were he alive to witness the current state of the black community.Yes he would. BUT, he should have remembered that old saying: Be careful what you wish for. As everything MLK wanted, LBJ gave, and in spades.
So how is that Great Society & War On Poverty stuff going anyway?
(I think we lost the war and society ain't so great right now)
They say the “war on poverty” as it was called, cost $1 Trillion,
throughout the sixties. It’s not like the trillion dollars we speak of today, a trillion here, a trillion there. The trillion was in 1960’s dollar value. In 1965 we had a $1.5 billion deficit.
$1.5 Billion deficit??? My head aches as to the infinitesimally
paltry sum in comparison to today.
We SO need Col. West out front, leading on these issues in this country. American blacks NEED to hear and absorb what he has to say.
I pray someone selects him as VP. I pray everyday.
That's more accurate.
I would argue that actually Johnson filled it first by offering blacks the shiny clean dime, rather than the sweat covered dollar.
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