Why It’s Time To Stop Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why It’s Time To Stop Celebrating MLK

With the markets closed today in observance of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, it’s worth reconsidering why we celebrate his birthday more than we do those of America’s Founders. Scott Greer was kind enough to let us excerpt his excellent post on this below. Following that, we’ll close with a brief note about this week’s earnings calendar.

MLK Worship Gives Us DEI

Charlie Kirk is right to take on the civil rights idol

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk plans to take on multicultural America’s most sacred idol: Martin Luther King Jr. The idea naturally inspired a wave of media condemnation of Kirk ahead of the MLK holiday. It’s rare for any public figure to criticize King. Kirk himself praised MLK as a “hero” in years past.

But the TPUSA chief is now “redpilled” on the civil rights activist and his legacy. This is a very positive development. It’s essential that more conservatives critique MLK. The diversity, equity, and inclusion framework is imposed on America in large part due to King’s efforts and our nation’s worship of him. From the civil rights regime to reparations, MLK stands for America’s anti-white mania.

Conservatives try to boil King down to just one sentence: “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.” To most of the American Right, this statement rebukes affirmative action and anti-white racism. Conservatives claim this proves that MLK was committed to colorblindness. That’s not true at all, as Charlie Kirk now knows. MLK shared the same beliefs as the average DEI commissar.

King’s chief contribution was to push for the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Both were supposedly enacted to eradicate white supremacy from America. Instead, they’ve degraded the republic, curtailed liberty, and enlarged the power of the federal bureaucracy. As the work of Christopher Caldwell and Richard Hanania shows, the Civil Rights Act has been used to end freedom of association, curtail freedom of speech, mandate racial quotas in hiring and university admissions, usher in the tyranny of human resource departments, and made “diversity” the highest goal in American life. The Civil Right Act made the idea of a “colorblind” meritocracy impossible. Affirmative action and DEI are the spawn of it.

The Voting Rights Act is now imposing racial quotas on states. Thanks to this law, courts are ordering southern states to create multiple black majority districts. This tramples on states’ rights and cements America’s racial spoils system. It’s the complete opposite of colorblindness.

King would be thrilled with these results.

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