Is The Left Throwing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy Under The Bus?

Pat Brown and Dave Brown are authors of Black and White: How the Left is Destroying the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Founding Fathers.

Pat: This morning, I woke up to no headlines about MLK, Jr. Day in the Google feed! Not one! If I search under Google News, I do come up with a few stories about MLK in the conservative media. How fascinating is that? Has the Left abandoned MLK’s dream for a new, more progressive version of race in America? It seems that the dream of Martin Luther King — that we all get judged by our characters and not our colors, that our children, black and white, would hold hands and be friends in the years ahead of his great speech in Washington D.C. — has turned into a nightmare. When I married a black man in 1979 and raised three non-white children, I depended on MLK’s vision to come true, and I thought it would. In fact, it seems to me, we were doing well on that journey until the arrival of Barack Obama, and the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement.