The Desecration of Dr. King's Dream
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Yesterday, more than 2.2 million Georgians trampled upon the grave of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By casting a ballot for Rev. Raphael Warnock, they also desecrated Dr. King’s long-standing legacy… and his fondest dream.
In his immortal speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, Dr. King spoke the following words…
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
That laudable dream, which came so close to being realized over the past 58 years, was dashed last night when Rev. Warnock was declared the winner in his runoff election over Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Warnock’s divisive, racist and anti-Semite rhetoric couldn’t be any more dissimilar from Dr. King’s conciliatory words calling for healing and unity.
Not only did Rev. Warnock dishonor Dr. King’s memory by running a racially divisive campaign, but he has also perverted his preaching from the very same pulpit. And yet, hundreds of thousands of black Americans living in Georgia mistakenly thought they were advancing the cause of racial harmony by voting for the first black senator from the Peach State.
In 1963, Dr. King said that he had a dream “that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” By contrast, in 2016, Rev. Warnock said that America needed to “repent for its worship of whiteness.”
These men’s positions on race are polar opposites of each other. But as Jesus taught in Matthew 15:16-20, the words a man utters are merely a reflection of what is in his heart. In Dr. King’s case, his words were full of love and hope. Conversely, Rev. Warnock’s are replete with hate and division.
I have been involved in racial reconciliation efforts for the past 34 years and will continue to fight to my last breath to see Dr. King’s dream enacted in full. Sadly, I will be opposed every step of the way by the likes of Rev. Warnock, Louis Farrakhan, and Dr. Jeremiah Wright.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King served as co-pastor from 1960 to 1968, is fortunate to now be rid of Rev. Warnock. The U.S. Senate… not so much.
