Martin Luther King's speech is a problem to American leftists

Martin Luther King, in his world-famous landmark inspirational speech in 1963 quite famously said:

"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. I have a dream today!"

This short paragraph has become absolutely iconic, and is not just one of the most famous utterances in history, but arguably one of the most influential and important ones as well, summarizing the most important core concepts of the fair and equal treatment of people in society. One of the best ideas ever expressed in one of the most important speeches in the history of humanity.

For 50 years the American left, the "liberals", the Democrats, had absolutely no problems with this idea, and fully embraced, promoted and promulgated it. They constantly referred to it as one of the most fundamental concepts and cornerstones of an equal and fair constitutional justice system and society. They adopted, embraced and carried those words with pride and respect.

However, since the sociopolitical far left, particularly in the United States, has been in an ever-accelerating regressive path, that universally agreed and honored sentiment by Mr. King has become more and more problematic and controversial among them.

The American left no longer wants equality, no longer wants people to be treated equally, no longer wants people to be judged based on their character and merits, but based on the color of their skin. They want discrimination in school enrollments, discrimination in hiring, discrimination in services, discrimination in who is given grants, discrimination in who is allowed to speak where. And, among other things, one of the fundamental traits to discriminate by is precisely skin color.

The American left wants to return to the era of the Jim Crow laws, with racially segregated university dormitories, racially segregated events (such as graduation events), racially segregated work spaces and services. They want a multi-tiered system where the color of the person's skin affects hiring, promotion and firing decisions, where some people are more privileged and given advantages bases solely and purely because of that color, while others are discriminated against. They want laws to become racially discriminatory so that they apply differently to people based on their skin color.

And, thus, we come to the problem: Martin Luther King's famous words.

The problem is, of course, that they contradict these principles, and go directly against them. They are words that quite explicitly advocate for skin color not being used to judge people, to discriminate against them.

In normal circumstances they would just call him a "fascist" or something and completely discard and reject his words and his entire legacy. Problem is that they can't really do that in this case. That's because Martin Luther King was black and, more importantly, way too of a prominent and fundamental figure in their revolutionary movement. At least at this moment it would be too egregious to just declare him a "persona non grata" and discard everything he said and stood for. He is still way too important and too prominent of a historic figure for the leftist movement to do that.

And, thus, since they can't outright throw out and reject what he said, they have to find other ways to distort it for their agenda.

Thus, over the last decade or so there has been a flood of cope and excuses among the far-leftist academia, trying to "read between the lines" and insert the modern far-leftist agenda into Mr. King's words. "What he actually meant was..." "He didn't actually mean that..." "Some people argue that he meant this, but actually..."

It's highly ironic that the Republicans, the American conservatives, are now the ones taking Mr. King's words at face value, interpreting them exactly as he said them, without trying to sneak in some additional hidden meaning between the lines, while it's the Democrats who are trying to distort what he said. And then, of course, the Democrats feign outrage when Republicans quote and interpret King's words literally.