Martin Luther King Jr. Is Dead

From Mediaite:

Civil rights icon Andrew Young, a former congressman, ambassador, and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., made a comment about protesters that upset a local NAACP chapter today. 

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Young met with police officers in Atlanta––where he used to be mayor––to discuss the huge protests recently there over the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. 

At one point, Young referred to some of the protesters as “some unlovable little brats out there some times” and said that they’ve been able to “show off with no consequences.” 

Well, the Georgia NAACP issued a brief statement today that, according to ABC News, wasn’t so kind to Young:

The Georgia NAACP said Young should use his clout to demand changes in police practices in the U.S. or “go quickly and quietly into a well-deserved retirement.” 

The NAACP sounds like Donald Trump telling Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire. Back to the story:

Last year Young reacted to the Black Lives Matter movement by saying, “The fact is that 93 percent of the black people killed are killed by other black people. So if black lives matter, let us start believing that we matter.” 

When I, as a white man, have thoughts like Andrew Young voiced, I have to second-guess what I am thinking. But now that he said it, I have to say the black community needs a collective "come to Jesus" intervention. They need to quit protesting and start taking action, and I don't mean against cops or white people.

I am reminded of the following parable (from John 8:3-11):

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

The black community today reminds me of the "scribes and Pharisees" from that passage, ready to stone the woman in the name of a long dead prophet. Who is the woman today? The cops? The whites? Or just an excuse to lash out? I think the last one is it. If the black community spent half as much time trying to build something for themselves, instead of reaching for the stones to throw at others, Martin Luther King Junior's dream would have already been reached.

"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."--Martin Luther King Jr.

Sadly, the black community today is being judged by the content of their character...and found lacking. Not just by other races, but also by civil rights icons like Andrew Young. Even more sadly, institutions like the NAACP and politicians like Hillary Clinton are enabling the black community to ignore the greater voices of reason.

Martin Luther King Jr. is dead. The worst part is: His teachings are being killed by the snake-like voices of the NAACP and Hillary Clinton.