A better way to honor Dr. King

Well... here we are, on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech on the D.C. Mall (funny, that I drove by there today in the bus on the team outing and saw it across the Potomac in the fog and rain.)  And our country has taken a major step forward in our honorable progressive history and nominated the first black American to the presidency.  That's awesome, and I'm proud of our country and how far we've come.  I'm a Vols fan for many reasons, and one of the "neat" things is knowing that the name "Volunteers" comes from the fact that Tennessee was the first state to volunteer to re-join the Union after the painful and divisive Civil War.

Even though I don't think Barack is the best man for the job at this moment in our history, I'm happy for him and for our nation and what this all means.

I do think, though, that it's important that the Republican Party reclaim the mantle of true conservatism that led them to advocate full and equal integration originally.  Remember that the party that has nominated Obama was the party of segregation. My, how far we've come.

In fact, as the Heritage Foundation points out, it's time that conservatives in general reclaim the true conservative legacy that Dr. King advocated and based his beliefs in, such as "the power and necessity of faith-based association and self-government based on absolute truth and moral law," both of which are definitively counter to pretty much all of the current Democratic Party platform at this point in history.

"King aimed to unite a divided America behind the goals of the Founders, not to shift fundamentally unjust public policies to favor different groups. Affirmative action stands outside King's legacy because it requires the government to see Americans as members of privileged and disfavored racial groups, not equal individuals. This is also the conservative view."

So where can and should these ideals live?  You tell me... but I know where I think they should live.

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