FOR THIS MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY:
(1) The Redlands Tea Party Patriots Salute Martin Luther King for Upholding the Constitution and America’s Founding Principles.
(2) The Dem Party and its cronies, collaborators, and comrades in the Government Run Schools, so called universities, the MSM, woke big corporations, the military, and practically every government agency, are trying to erase Martin Luther King dream and America’s founding principles by dividing Americans on racial and ethnic lines.
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(1) The Redlands Tea Party Patriots Salute Martin Luther King for Upholding the Constitution and America’s Founding Principles.
The Declaration of Independence states:
---“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.”
This is the foundation of American liberty and the Constitution, which is the foundation agreement for how we govern ourselves as free people. It is the "why" of America.
The 14th Amendment guarantees due process and equal protection. The 14 Amendment was intended to grant equality before the law to the newly freed slaves.
The 15th Amendment guarantees the right to vote could not be abridged on account of race. The 15 Amendment was intended to grant the newly freed slaves the right to vote.
After the withdrawal of Federal troops from the South in 1877, the Democrats systematically violated the 2nd, 14th and 15th Amendment rights of African Americans. Other Americans, including the courts, allowed this to happen until beginning in the 1950s.
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Dr. King recognized this stating in his famous “I have a dream” speech:
--“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise 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.”
--“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground. ”Thomas Jefferson [“Yeild” is Jefferson’s spelling.]
--“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson
The experience of African Americans shows the importance of the Tea Party principle of “constitutionally limited government.” Unless government is firmly bound by the Constitution, no one’s rights and freedom are secure.
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Martin Luther King’s “dream” should be the dream of all Americans
Martin Luther King’s most famous quote is:
---“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.”
This is “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” This is the basic Christian principle that all people are equal before the Cross. This is E pluribus unum.
Most Americans embrace Martin Luther King’s dream. While some people, of all races, are prejudiced, most Americans good, decent, fair minded people who do not care one iota about your skin color.
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(2) The Dem Party and its cronies, collaborators, and comrades in the Government Run Schools, so called universities, the MSM, woke big corporations, the military, and practically every government agency, are trying to erase Martin Luther King dream and America’s founding principles by dividing Americans on racial and ethnic lines.
Please see “A Rendezvous with Rwanda” by Victor Davis Hanson
https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/08/a-rendezvous-with-rwanda/
--“America is an increasingly multiracial society. Despite its early history of slavery and racial segregation, and ongoing bias and tensions, the United States remains one of the few contemporary multiracial constitutional systems that have actually worked. Yet recently few have appreciated that achievement.”
--“Usually multiracial nations and empires—Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires—require some level of coercion incompatible with a democratic constitution to force calm. Brazil, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, and Kenya may be currently multiracial democracies in theory, but in fact they are often sectarian and tribal cauldrons.”
--“The United States is insidiously nearing that abyss. It has all but renounced its old commitment to the melting-pot, and a “content-of-our-character” ideal of assimilation and integration within a common culture. But as we obsess on race and accordingly separate, do we really know the final consequences of what the diversity/equity/inclusion tribalism actually entails?
The first rule of tribalism is that the racial or ethnic collective superimposes solidarity over the individual, who then becomes a mere cog in racial-political wheel.”
--“So how odd that in areas that are critical to the national well-being, from medical school admissions to airline pilot training programs, we insist that diversity’s non-meritocratic criteria are essential. Yet in contrast non-diversity, merit-based standards alone should govern professional basketball?”
--“The only method of avoiding a Rwanda-style chaos is simply to forget racial categories, preferences, and reparatory actions entirely, and instead simply enforce the Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination laws on the books that were supposed to protect everyone from everyone but are now ignored and routinely violated by our own government.”
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Racism is judging or treating people based on the color of their skin. The Dem Party policies of CRT; diversity, inclusion & equity; racial preferences; open, explicit anti white bigotry and hatred, are all based on judging and treating people based on the color of their skin or other Dem Party assigned identity group characteristics.
When Obama took office, majorities of blacks and whites believed race relations in America were getting better. When Obama left office, majorities of blacks and whites and race relations were getting worse, and is change was intentional.
Other the other hand, Donald Trump and his supporters are the true heirs to Martin Luther King's “dream.” We don't care one iota about the color of your skin. We care about your character, beliefs, actions and accomplishments.
Therefore, on this MLK Day, let us renew our commitment to Martin Luther King’s dream, “all men are created equal,” and E pluribus unum. Let’s reject the Dem Party’s slippery slope of racial and ethnic division.
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SOME OF OUR OTHER FAVORITE MARTIN LUTHER KING QUOTES:
--“Cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.” Martin Luther King
--“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King
--“Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute. The God of the universe has made it so. And so long as we adopt this relative attitude toward right and wrong, we're revolting against the very laws of God himself.” Martin Luther King
--“Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.” Martin Luther King
--“If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.” Martin Luther King
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THE RACIST HISTORY OF “GUN CONTROL”
The #DemParty’s systematic denial of Constitutional rights to African Americans included and was made possible by infringing their 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
From “Is Gun Control Racist?'” by Adam Winkler on the Daily Beast [a left wing site]
--“Chief Justice Roger Taney’s opinion [in Dred Scott] insisted that blacks could not be citizens because, if they were, they’d have all the protections of the Bill of Rights, including the right to ‘full liberty of speech...to hold public meetings on political affairs, and [Heaven Forbid] to keep and carry arms wherever they went.’”
--“After the war, Southern states adopted discriminatory laws like the Black Codes, which among other things barred the freed men from having guns.”
--“Racist whites began to form posses that would go out at night to terrorize blacks—and takeaway those newly obtained firearms. The groups took different names: the “Men of Justice” in Alabama; the “Knights of the White Camellia” in Louisiana; the “Knights of the Rising Sun” in Texas. The group formed in Pulaski, Tenn., became the most well-known: the Klu Klux Klan. Whites believed that they had to confiscate black people’s guns in order to reestablish white supremacy and prevent blacks from fighting back. Blacks who refused to turn over their only means of self-defense were lynched.”
--“His reputation for peaceful non-violence notwithstanding, Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a license to carry a gun in the late 1950s after his home was fire bombed. The recipient of daily death threats, the civil rights leader clearly had good reason to carry around a gun to defend himself. Yet Alabama police exercised the discretion the law afforded them to deny King’s permit request.”
It is always much harder to oppress and subjugate people who can defend themselves.
As Vladimir Lenin said:
--“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”