As per usual, former President Barack Obama took a solemn day of remembrance for an iconic American and turned into a personal attention-seeking display.
On the 50-year anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Obama tweeted out a video of … himself, talking about Martin Luther King Jr.
Obama and Rep. John Lewis, himself a civil rights icon, produced a video just under seven minutes long in which the two discussed King's legacy.
“If you are speaking on behalf of social justice, then by definition, there's going to be some controversy,” Obama said. “Because if it wasn't controversial, then somebody would have already fixed it. Dr. King was controversial, but he studied and fought and crafted what he had to say.”
This week—50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed—@BarackObama and @RepJohnLewis sat down with a group of young men for an @MBK_Alliance roundtable to talk about Dr. King's legacy and the courage it takes to stand up for what you believe in: https://t.co/Hdfsf3iuOs pic.twitter.com/Y0b0RpJ36D
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) April 4, 2018
It's all well and good to discuss the legacy of Dr. King, but let's not pretend the former President did anything vaguely related to the vision, to the dream, that the civil rights legend had.
King was about unity. Obama, by contrast, recently compared our current President to Hitler.
King was about judging people by the “content of their character,” not “the color of their skin.” Obama, by contrast, stoked divisions by interjecting in racially charged cases like that of Trayvon Martin and Henry Louis Gates.
And last but not least, King was about jobs for the black community. Obama, by contrast, was easily a detriment to that cause.
Horace Cooper, co-Chairman of Project 21, reminds Americans that Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech came about because the black community was looking for a jobs program.
Below is a copy of the Obama.org website:
“The essence of what black America and the civil rights effort was about was letting people be able to get the kinds of things that control their own lives,” Cooper explained.
President Trump, not Obama, is helping the black community in that regard he asserts.
“Businesses are opening up and it turns out the pool of people that are most available right now, because of multiple years of bad regulatory and economic growth, are black Americans,” Cooper claimed.
It's showing in historically low black unemployment numbers.
So what was Obama's contribution historically? How about a 64-point turnaround in how America viewed race relations under his presidency?
Perhaps he's not the best voice to be discussing Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, considering he did more to reverse it than any president in modern history.
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