I appreciate the sentiments behind this post by Rob. I really do. He is probably one of the few conservatives who will even acknowledge the King Holliday....

Today has been set aside to remember a great man. A man who fought for equality, not because it was the politically correct thing to do but because it was the morally right thing to do. A man who embraced all races equally and envisioned a time and place where people could live and work together despite differences in color or culture.

Today is Martin Luther King day.

While the likes of Jesse Jackson bandy this great man's name about like so many political poker chips, take time to look up what Dr. King actually had to say. Don’t let someone like Al Sharpton speak for him, read it yourself:

But you are wrong Rob, dead wrong. First off, as much as I despise Jesse Jackson for what he has become. He was there in TN when King was killed, at his side. He was with King in the struggle, while Conservatives were the ones holding the firehouses and attack dog leashes. He would not claim conservatism as a philosophy and he never did. While many of us who consider ourselves progressive, embrace some conservative principles, as did King, specifically family values (altough in his own weakness, he was something of a hypocrit in this area), that by no means makes us a Conservative. And while I am sure King would appreciate your celebration of his fight for equality, I am just as sure he would be outraged at an attempt to make him a Conservative Icon.

Would he have stood for affirmative action? I think in your heart you know the answer to that. King would almost certainly have in the face of a lack of alternatives. What King dreamed of was a color blind Utopia where all are valued for the "content of their character." Today, nearly 40 years after his death, that is far from reality. So I don't think King would be standing shoulder to shoulder with you on ending Affirmative Action. Instead I think he would be fighting to end the enduring racism that makes it necessary.

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