by Tom Renz, Esq., America Outloud:
I’m of the belief that we should recognize and celebrate our history. It’s integral that we understand where we’ve come from and learn from our past, especially the dark parts. The bottom line is slavery is a horrible chapter in American history, and Juneteenth celebrates its abolition as a good thing.
Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech is my favorite historic speech of all time. Dr. King talks about American history and the Emancipation Proclamation, and how long after the slaves were freed, people of color were still treated as lesser in our society. A black man was not viewed as equal to a white man, and those who lived through the civil rights movement know all too well about the evils of segregation and the racism that was still occurring at that time. Regardless of race, Every man and woman must have equal opportunity in a free society.
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King’s “I Have a Dream” begins with the Emancipation Proclamation, and how, 100 years later, people of color were still not free:
“Five score years ago, a great American signed the Emancipation Proclamation in whose symbolic shadow we stand today. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years after, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.
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.”
Everything Dr. King stood for, I stand and fight for as well today. No man should be judged by the color of their skin, their religion, or their origin; we should judge people only on their actions and the content of their character.
When we look at where racism exists today, we find it in the insane leftist woke agenda that’s corrupting our society with things like CRT and “equity and diversity” initiatives that do the exact opposite of what they claim to do. CRT is the definition of racism; they are literally teaching our children to judge by race; how and why is this allowed in our schools?
Hiring someone based on their race and not on their qualifications is racism! Furthermore, I can’t say that I identify as a black man, I’m not black, and by doing so, I’m being offensive to black people. Just like pretending to be a woman and playing female sports is offensive to women. God created us to all be different, and we cannot change how we were made. When we allow these racist, Marxist ideologies to permeate our culture, we erase the hundreds of years of work that have been done by great leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., and courageous citizens like Rosa Parks.
Today we celebrate the end of slavery, we celebrate our history, and I hope we also use this holiday to expose the truth of where racism still exists in today’s America. Dr. King fought for equity; all citizens deserve equal opportunity; he did NOT fight for equal outcomes. The equal outcome is Marxism, and Dr. King was certainly not a Marxist. He also called for peace and said, “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred,” and went on further to implore the movement to, “not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.” BLM anyone? Antifa?
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