January 21, 2024
Trump II: Save America Again!
By Jorge E. Ponce
It helps to remind Americans of the inspirational dream of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of judging others by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. In particular, there is an urgent need to warn many of today’s “woke” Democrats of the wisdom that these words provide to unite our country towards a more perfect union. Many Democrats have turned Martin’s dream upside-down by asking their followers to openly discriminate against white Americans. This is a quick recipe for the Balkanization of America.
One can say that the genesis of Martin’s dream is found in the famous words of the Declaration of Independence, stipulating that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But while the intent of our Founding Fathers was honorable when penning this document, the truth remains that their dream was myopic and exclusionary for a vast portion of the citizenship. Only white men who owned property were the beneficiaries of these liberties, while women, African-Americans (both slave and free), white men without property, and Native Americans were left out.
It would be right to condemn the United States as a racist country if the civil rights of its citizens had not evolved over time. But they have evolved for the better. Our country fought a civil war to obliterate the stain of slavery at a cost of approximately 620,000 dead Americans. It passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution to end slavery and grant citizenship, equal rights, and voting rights to African-Americans. The 19th Amendment was passed in 1919 to give women the right to vote. And Native Americans won full citizenship rights after President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924.
more
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/trump_ii_save_america_again.html
