Martin Luther King’s legacy betrayed. Deputy Dem tries to awaken the party: “What people have we become?”
Martin Luther King had a dream. In order not to risk being accused of cultural appropriation, it is better to limit oneself to guarding a timid wish: the faint hope that a black person of common sense able to say "enough is enough" will soon arrive in a position of command or great influence. The type of skin pigmentation obviously shouldn't count, but in this runaway world it seems to be a fundamental requirement not to be accused of racism and to have a say when it comes to talking about certain topics, such as the disorders that, in addition to minds of large sections of the population are overwhelming many American cities (strictly liberal-led ).
Of black people of common sense there are, of course, because there are (or there aren't) of all colors, but they are ignored, viewed with suspicion as harmful to the "progressive" cause and, if they persist, they end up be ostracized. Shut up. Censored. Accused of collaborationism. Cast out (according to the Biden doctrine, a black who does not marry "his" line and does not vote for him would not even be black).
This is the case of John DeBerry, a member of Parliament from Tennessee who, after being ousted from the Democratic Party's electoral lists because he was deemed too conservative (despite the 13 elections he won by presenting himself with the donkey party), gave a powerful speech how simple about the ongoing riots. A speech that should be heard and studied by anyone interested in civil rights. Or, even better, anyone. Other than the hallucinatory and violent theories of Black Lives Matter fanatics who, among other abominations, rejoice in the cold-blooded killing of a Trump supporter on the streets of Portland. Other than the hypocritical speeches of Hollywood characters disconnected from reality or of African American millionaire sportsmen who, poor things, are continually discriminated against on board their custom-built cars, who, drawing the consequences from what they say, would gladly give up together with the rest of their enormous possessions obtained with the sweat of a few matches just to have the privilege of being white who maybe work as baggers at Walmart .
But back to King and DeBerry. MLK's dream was that his children could one day live in a nation that cared not about the color of their skin, but about the content of their person. DeBerry, who is 69, went to see him, Martin Luther King, in 1968, in Memphis, with his father, at a time when blacks in America were far worse off than they are now. DeBerry told the Tennessee House:
“Listening to him there were people wearing dresses, shirts, ties. They were marching peacefully and Dr. King wanted everything to be peaceful because the whole world was looking at what was happening in Memphis, Chicago, Detroit and Washington and across the country. We changed the world, paying taxes and rents and doing whatever we had to do in order to be able to claim what we were entitled to as American citizens like any other. We have changed the world by remaining men and women of integrity, class, common sense and values. When the riots started and people started burning things, that's when my dad took me by the arm and we left. We left because it wasn't what we were there for. That wasn't what Dr. King was there for. That's not why there were other famous people in the days of civil rights. That thing wasn't peaceful. He was not part of our movement and only hurt the cause ”.
It also hurt Martin Luther King, who was killed on April 4 in Memphis. DeBerry, then 17, remembers the riots that broke out:
“Everything Dr. King believed, everything he believed was suddenly shot down, until quieter voices came, quieter voices saying that Dr. King was against it. He was against it. He was against it. My family had raised money and sent my father to Washington for that march where that man said he wanted his children to be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. And all we do in America right now is talk about color. Every question, every question is about race, about color, instead of about us sitting at a table like men and women of common sense ".
Because the alleged anti-racism in force, classifying and segregating people only on the basis of color, is the most racist one can imagine. “A peaceful protest – added DeBerry – ends peacefully. Anarchy ends in chaos. And any of us who have common sense, even a shred of common sense, know that what we see right now is not peaceful. So, we can keep fooling ourselves and playing with words and using rhetoric and public relations to cover up this stuff, but what we see is scary, scary. " Because the ones that have been going on for months in the US that the media and politicians are complicit in defining "mostly peaceful" demonstrations are organized guerrilla warfare, looting, devastation, intimidation, aggression, violence and now even murder. On this DeBerry called into question his parliamentary colleagues:
“You want to tell me that someone has the right to destroy a property that taxpayers have paid for? What kind of people have we become, if we can't protect our belongings and if the heroes are the ones who break the law? Are you telling me that someone has the right to throw feces and urine in the face of those we as taxpayers pay to protect us and that this is okay? What happened to us? If we don't understand it right away, I don't want to see the country we'll have in 5, 10, 15, 20 years if we don't start acting like we have some courage. Starting now, brothers, sisters, friends, colleagues, right now ".
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