Fifty years ago in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave one of the greatest speeches ever delivered. Here is one excerpt from Dr. King’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech:
I have a dream that one day ………. little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
That dream came true, but in Duncan, Oklahoma it turned into a nightmare.
On August 16 in Duncan, Chancey Luna and James Edwards, two black boys, and Michael Jones, a white boy, were having some fun playing together. Their idea of fun was to shoot dead Christopher Lane, an Australian in the U.S. on a college baseball scholarship.
In his wildest dreams, Dr. King could not have envisioned that one day black and white boys would be joining hands as brothers to kill a passerby just for the fun of it.
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And Greg ‘Gadfly’ Doyle adds:
Even more nightmarish is the depth to which so many in the Black community are trapped in slave-like dependence upon our government through economic entitlement programs like Welfare; how many Black teenage boys turn at earlier ages to crime and end up languishing in prisons as old men because of criminal behavior; how disintegrated so many Black families have become in 50 years; how so many unwed Black girls abort their babies each year, or have babies out of wedlock to multiple fathers. How truly tragic a nightmare, indeed.
Can anyone in their right mind believe these realities were the intended outcome of Dr. King’s dream legacy—a man who spent time in jail under Jim Crowe laws for his deeply held beliefs in freedom and justice for people of all colors?
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