MLK ANNIVERSARY SPEAKER COMPARES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO KKK

On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington on Wednesday, the president of a prominent organization dedicated to increasing black civic participation compared conservative Supreme Court justices to KKK members and said Voter ID laws are being enacted to prevent another black president. 

Melanie Campbell, the president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said though black Americans are not threatened by biting dogs and KKK members in white hoods, the "dogs are still biting in other ways" and there is still "racism and inequality."

She said, "Today there are no white sheets, but there are judges in black robes in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, opening the floodgates in many states to pass more voter ID laws... with the goal of ensuring we never see a black man elected to the president, or woman, of the United states of America."

Via: Breitbart

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CARSON: MLK would be alarmed by black-on-black violence, lack of family values

It is hard to believe that 50 years have elapsed since the famous “I have a dream speech” of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mall in Washington. I was an 11-year-old child in Detroit languishing in the midst of poverty, but very interested in the strides that were being made in the civil rights movement.

I was the only black kid in my seventh-grade class and over the previous two years had risen from the bottom of the class to the top. My mother had forced us to read, which had a profound positive effect on both my brother Curtis and myself. I was quite optimistic that things were getting better for black people in America.

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If King could be resurrected and see what was going on in America today, I suspect he would be extraordinarily pleased by many of the things he observed and disappointed by others. He, like almost everyone else, would be thrilled to know that there was a two-term black president of the United States of America and a black attorney general, as well as many other high government officials, business executives and university presidents.

Perhaps just as thrilling would be the sight of black doctors, lawyers, airline pilots, construction foremen, news anchors, school superintendents and almost any other position imaginable in America. The fact that seeing blacks in such positions no longer raises eyebrows is a testimony to the tremendous progress that has been made in America over the last 50 years.

Via: Washington Times

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Rush Limbaugh: Obama Will ‘Hijack’ MLK Anniversary to Push His Own Agenda

Rush Limbaugh predicted today that at tomorrow’s events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington,President Obama will “turn the occasion into something about him and his presidency,” promoting his personal political agenda on a day dedicated to the legacy of the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr.

Limbaugh noted how it appears Obama will address the impending budget battle and “attack the wealthy,” the latter a charge he found amusing, considering Obama will be joined by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Foxx, and Forest Whitaker. Limbaugh mocked the idea that these people would stand before a crowd and “claim that they have everything in common with the audience that will be there.”

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Limbaugh then shared what he believed to be the most cynical part of Obama’s expected remarks.

“To take the 50th anniversary of that event and to convert it–hijack it–into something to advance your political agenda, that’s as bad as wedding crashing, funeral crashing that the Clintons are famous for. This is really unseemly.”

Limbaugh added this is “close to these guys doing their Miley Cyrus impersonation.”

Listen to the audio below, via WABC:

Via: Mediaite.com

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Juan Williams: 50 Years Later, King Is Alive, Waking from His Dream

It also marks 50 years since I was a little boy with a dad. Fifty years ago my dad with his brown skin could not have been a political analyst for a major network. He could not have been an editorial writer and White House correspondent for a major paper. I did those jobs for The Washington Post. And 50 years ago he could not have lived in an integrated neighborhood in most of America. I do.

The changing realities of my life as compared to my dad’s life is one of many reasons the United States has to be proud of the progress we as a nation have made for the civil and economic rights of African-Americans since the March on Washington.

However, like the ‘Eye of Providence’ that sits atop the unfinished pyramid on the Great Seal of the United States, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Dream” also sees a nation still struggling to make sure young people of every color can be born free of poverty, have get an education, and still move up and achieve their American dream.

There is nothing wrong with the truth that we as a nation are still at work at achieving true equality. America is constant experiment in democracy, a constant reach to live up to the ideals expressed by the Founding Fathers of equality for all.

Civil rights leaders often dodge the answer to the question “How Far” we have come in 50 years. They don’t want to acknowledge how much has changed for fear that others will think race is no longer a factor. Race is obviously still a factor by rates of unemployment, poverty, infant mortality, incarceration and life expectancy.
But telling the truth about the great strides made in the last 50 years to achieve Dr. King’s vision of the sons of slaves and sons of slave owners sitting together, judging each other on the basis of character and not skin color, is an inspiring story even if there are some goals still over the horizon.

Just think about how bizarre it would have sounded 50 years ago if a speaker at the March on Washington predicted a black president shortly after the turn of the century.


On Sunday, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March, spoke to that startling reality:
Via: Fox News

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Jesse Jackson: ‘Tea Party Is Resurrection of the Confederacy’

Jesse Jackson has no doubt that on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Republican opposition to President Obama’s policies is motivated by racial animus reminiscent of the Civil War-era South. “The tea party is the resurrection of the Confederacy, it’s the Fort Sumter tea party,” Jackson toldPolitico’s Glenn Thrush.

Jackson, who Thrush describes as the man “who more than anyone occupies the no man’s land between his mentor King and Obama,” is “absolutely” convinced that attempts to thwart the president’s agenda are motivated by his race.

The question “To what degree is the partisan gridlock that is frustrating his attempts to govern racially driven?” is one that President Obama himself is “begging to ask,” according Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of a triology on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The president can’t publicly broach the topic, Branch said, because “the slightest mention of race could alienate the millions of white Americans who voted for him.”

The half-dozen aides Thrush interviewed for the article disagree with this assessment, saying that they have never heard Obama suggest that race is a factor in the opposition he faces from the GOP. “Bill Clinton was a white guy from the country, and they were just as vituperative,” said one. “But I don’t know what the president thinks about it.”

Via: National Review Online

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Labor Dept. freaks over MLK 'Jobs March,' advises day off, even without pay

The Labor Department, arguably the main focus of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech 50 years ago, is in a frenzy over the traffic Wednesday's 50th anniversary "March for Jobs and Justice" will cause, warning workers to telework or take the day off -- even if it's unpaid.

In an internal email that some see as richly ironic, employees at the Frances Perkins Building at the bottom of Capitol Hill are advised to skip town due to the congestion that the symbolic jobs march by Labor's HQ will cause. Elsewhere around the federal government, workers are being urged to telework to avoid traffic tie ups around town.

Below is the memo from Labor:

Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013

Subject: March on Washington / Workplace Flexibilities - Wednesday, August 28, 2013

This message is intended for all DOL employees in the Washington, D.C. area.

As many of you know, Wednesday, August 28, marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. While most of the commemorative events have taken place near the Lincoln Memorial, the "March for Jobs and Justice" planned for Wednesday morning will include a brief stop outside the Frances Perkins Building sometime after 9 am.

While the precise timing of the events are always fluid, according to the Office of Personnel Management employees who work in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area should expect delays and travel disruptions during the morning and evening commutes. The Federal Government in the Washington, DC, area will remain "Open" on August 28.

To help alleviate traffic congestion, there are several human resources flexibilities that will allow employees to continue to work, rearrange their work schedule, or take leave. These include:

Telework - Employees with a signed telework agreement may request supervisory approval to perform unscheduled telework if it's not their regular scheduled telework day.

Compressed Work Schedule - Employees on a compressed work schedule may request supervisory approval to use their day off.

Leave - Employees may request supervisory approval to take annual leave, leave without pay, and/or previously earned compensatory time off, earned credit hours or time off award.

If you have any questions please contact your servicing human resources office.

Via: Washington Examiner

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