Why Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream is dead

[SZonian]

Just as minority groups have achieved once-unimaginable levels of equality in America, our society is more divided than ever on the issue of race. In this excerpt from his new book, “The Madness of Crowds,” bestselling author Douglas Murray shows just how crazy the debate has become…

On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said he dreamed his children should “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.” Although many people have attempted to live up to that hope and many have succeeded, in recent years an insidious current rejects Dr. King’s dream and insists that content of character is nothing compared to the color of someone’s skin.

At the very moment when the issue of race might at long last have been put to rest, it is now becoming the most important issue of all.

The decades since the 1960s saw the growth of “black studies” in American universities. The courses started out in part as a way of de-stigmatizing the group and educating people about a crucial aspect of their history.

But, just as a popular strand of feminism turned from celebrating women to vilifying men, a portion of black studies started attacking people who were not black. A discipline intended to de-stigmatize began to re-stigmatize. This has led to the growth of “whiteness studies” — a discipline that is now taught at all of the Ivy League universities in the US.

[Excerpted]

https://nypost.com/2019/09/14/how-being-a-white-person-became-a-crime/

[Cyber Liberty]

The Dream has been dying ever since Jesse Jackson claimed King's mantle after claiming King died in his arms (Jackson was across the parking lot).  Downhill ever since, once the race hustlers got hold of things.

[PeteS in CA]

If King's "Dream" speech were lightly paraphrased and handed to many Progs and blacks they would denounce it as racist. Because separatism and identity politics reign.

[goatprairie]

If fifty some years ago at the time of the passage of the landmark civil rights bill that after half a century of affirmative action i.e. discrimination and other laws passed to favor blacks, a black president was elected (which twenty years ago a black co-worker of mine said would never happen,)   blacks would still be hollering about racism, white supremacy, and demanding segregated facilities  and events, you would have been called crazy and ...ta da!!!... a RACIST.