A Natural Rights Movement Must Further Dr. King’s Dream

July 20, 2010 at 9:31 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a comment
Tags: Aveda King, Black History Month, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, glenn beck, Martin Luther King Jr., Mike Wallace, Morgan Freeman, Natural Law, natural rights, Racism, redistribution of wealth, Socialism, Wealth Redistribution

by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog

In a 2005 interview with 60 Minutes, actor Morgan Freeman took Mike Wallace completely aback by calling Black History Month “ridiculous.” Freeman affirmed the condescending nature of the commemoration by prompting Wallace to confess no desire for a “Jewish History Month.”

“Black history is American history,” Freeman proclaimed. When a confounded Wallace asked how else to combat racism, Freeman’s answer came without a moment’s hesitation.

Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.

This obscure moment in pop culture history echoes a lost sentiment from the Civil Rights Movement. Like Freeman, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., sought regard as a man, not a black man. To the Left, such respect is unacceptable, because it eliminates balkanization and diffuses useful tensions.

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