"I Have A Dream" Today
Topic: The US Supreme Court's decision on 2023 June 29 to end the legality of racial discrimination in college admissions (and as practiced most notoriously by so-called "Affirmative Action" programs.)
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Today was a great victory for those who believe in both the utopian ideal and utter moral righteousness of the kind of world MLK outlined in his "I Have A Dream" speech. A great man with *truly* good-hearted motives, amazing talent and a fierce courage. One of the greatest heroes and magnetic master orators & authors in American history. A man who changed everything for the better. Perhaps the one single living-and-breathing embodiment of the high-water mark of an era when the battle for Civil Rights and "social justice" in the US was a pure and clearly noble thing.
Though the movement would later come to be hijacked -- long after his passing, and by a later generation -- and iteratively distorted by those aiming to twist it into something blatantly *self-dealing* and guilty of perpetuating the *same* sort of sins MLK himself opposed and, I believe, would have been sickened by. Something seemingly almost *designed* to sow the seeds of yet more grievance and hate. Its purveyors became gaslighters, con artists, and grifters -- especially in the halls of "liberal arts" academia.
Essentially, the folks who crafted and push both AA and DEI style programs and policies.
There is more work to do ahead.
The path is never easy when a large enough group of con artists & wannabe totalitarian censors with vested interests feel that *Their Thing* (their con, their grift) is under threat of being ended. Or when their followers -- their effective marks and suckers, the sadly indoctrinated by carefully-crafted propaganda, over decades -- are faced with being *yanked* out of their well-worn-in belief bubble. When it has become a kind of adopted "tribal" identity for them. An identity crafted to portray the cult's marks as either The Victim, or The Righteous Ally, and often a mix of both at once. Powerful stuff! Good-hearted, well-meaning (though sometimes too trusting) souls can be sucked into it. Why? The propaganda is seductive. Intoxicating. Becomes hard to let go. It will be painful. (Both for them and the rest of us.) And... slow. With little spasms and setbacks, here and there.
But based on what we saw today it is at least now heading in a *better* direction. Better than the day before. A trajectory oriented more back towards a Great Man's once powerful Dream.
"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."
"I have a dream today..."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
August 28, 1963