Fifty Years After The March On Washington DC.

Fifty years after the March on Washington and the icon­ic “I have a dream speech” by Doctor Martin Luther King, Civil Rights Activist have arranged a sim­i­lar march for Saturday August 24^th.

The King Center, along with the National Park Service and oth­ers, is co-spon­sor­ing a full day of activ­i­ties on August 28^th, the actu­al anniver­sary of the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. There will be an Interfaith Service at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. that will include a vari­ety of reli­gious dis­ci­plines.http://​www​.thek​ing​cen​ter​.org/​n​e​w​s​/​2​013 – 08-excite­ment-builds-com­mem­o­ra­tion-50^th-anniver­sary-march-wash­ing­ton-mlk-s-i-have-dream.

Civil Rights Organizations orga­niz­ing the March have gone out of their way to empha­size that the March is com­mem­o­ra­tive and not cel­e­bra­to­ry. Why is there this con­cert­ed attempt to dif­fer­en­ti­ate between whether this event will be a com­mem­o­ra­tive event as against a cel­e­bra­to­ry one? After all, why should there not be a cel­e­bra­tion-Doctor King and count­less oth­ers have sac­ri­ficed much? The Nation has elect­ed a black President-so what’s the problem?

I’ll tell you what the prob­lem is ! Black America got com­fort­able. Black America stopped fight­ing after win­ning a few bat­tles. Stalwarts like Doctor King, Medgar Evers, Stokely Carmichael and all of the heroes of the strug­gle must be toss­ing in their graves. Black America got into con­sumerism, expen­sive cars, clothes and tacky jew­el­ry. I was stunned to hear Myrlie Evers Williams talk about grow­ing up in the South,not see­ing any blacks on tele­vi­sion. She explained that Sammy Davis Jr. and a few oth­ers would be on Television, and that as soon as one of these stars came on Television the TV screen would go black and the song “I wish I was in Dixie” would replace that pro­gram­ming until their seg­ment was over. I mean how igno­rant were those people?

Black America moved from love of God to love of stuff. The sanc­ti­ty of holy mat­ri­mo­ny was replaced with any­thing goes, sex and myr­i­ad baby-mom­mas. To date 71% of all African American kids are born out of wed-lock to sin­gle teenage moth­ers. America’s pris­ons are pop­u­lat­ed large­ly by African-American men of all ages. The con­se­quences of those actions are almost a total removal of respon­si­ble male influ­ence from Black homes.

These are not the things Doctor King and oth­ers fought and died for. Somewhere along the line the African-American train got off the track and the ene­mies of human­i­ty are wast­ing no time in try­ing to put Blacks back onto the Plantation. You may argue there are no more plan­ta­tions . I chal­lenge you to explain to me what you call the inabil­i­ty to par­tic­i­pate in your own life when you lose the right to vote. What do you believe the mass incar­cer­a­tion of Black men and women is about?

The forces of evil are lined up with cut-backs in edu­ca­tion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties. Voter sup­pres­sion. Mass incar­cer­a­tion. I mean why not ? If a peo­ple squan­der the rights that was won for them, if they do noth­ing to fur­ther the agen­da, why would any­one respect them? Black-America has squan­dered 50 years of hard-won gains. We do not own Banks, we do not own enough busi­ness­es. We don’t sup­port the busi­ness­es owned by oth­er Blacks so they fail , fur­ther reduc­ing Black own­er­ship. We do not love each oth­er, our young peo­ple are filled with so much hate and anger they kill each oth­er for the stu­pid­est rea­sons. So Black America will have to fight the bat­tles of 50 years ago all over again. That’s the rea­son Saturday’s march orga­niz­ers can­not have a cel­e­bra­to­ry march. They have to coin it a com­mem­o­ra­tive march. They know that the bat­tles of yester-year will have to be fought all over again because they got comfortable.