This, and I’ll take JJ’s good comment one step further…

Many want to dismiss the Founding Fathers’ achievement(s), because some were white male slave holders.

Not sure about their individual views on slavery, even though they participated in it, and didn’t actively oppose it, to my knowledge.

But, they did have great foresight to set a foundation within our boundaries that would eventually be the basis for emancipation, universal suffrage, capitalism, etc..

Flawed individuals can achieve great things.

This leaves the door open for trump, and why it is worthwhile waiting to see.

But since there wasn’t that much archival film of him speaking, after he was killed the networks pulled out the Dream speech, and it became his iconic moment.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/16/national-black-leaders-condemn-promotion-civil-unrest-trump/

CAAP’s president is also inviting Rev. Al Sharpton and his organization, the National Action Network, to a “dialogue” to “discuss critical issues related to the future of the African American community.”

Owens observes he would like Rev. Sharpton to “consider discussing the disastrous policies his office has sometimes promoted—policies that serve to entrap blacks and minorities in a cycle of dependency and require their allegiance to a party and system that does not serve their interests.”
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Maybe they are starting to consider Trump’s invitation to ponder “what the hell they have to lose” supporting him.

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/01/16/jim-brown-trump-won-fair-and-square-im-going-to-support-him-as-president/

“[Trump] won, in my opinion, fair and square, and I’m going to support him as president of the United States,” Brown told host Stuart Varney.

He also said in the interview, “When you win against all odds and you defeat those who are against you – and I was for Hillary so I’m one of those who Mr. Trump defeated – but he is the president-elect of the United States, I’m a citizen. I’m not asking him to do everything. I’m going to pitch in and do some of the things that I can do with the like-minded people that I represent.”
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One of the very few who have not backed down to the protesters.

The son of the dominant Civil Rights icon chooses his phrasing very carefully, as should be expected. MLK III is pushing for a free, national, photo ID for voting (despite Rand Paul’s fears this is not a bad idea) and want to enlist Trump’s support.

Notice what goes unsaid here: The left cannot denounce him for seeking to disenfranchise voters by making them identify themselves at the ballot-box, as they routinely do Republicans. BUT who primarily participates illegally from the lack of secure ID in elections (other than the walking dead)? It’s not black people.
Dots. Connect. Some assembly required.

King was in Memphis trying to drum up interest in a garbagemen’s strike, if my memory is correct. Nobody was too interested in him right then, until he was shot. His record of nonviolent, inspiring rhetoric made him a much more suitable martyr than would have been the case had say, Bobby Seale or Eldridge Cleaver been killed instead.

Nice failed attempt to twist the meaning and message of the post.

End [class] diversity schemes today.

Similar men in recent memory have been Winston Churchill, George Patton, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. Each had different strengths and weaknesses. Each had plenty of enemies and detractors. Each made a lasting impression and an indelible mark on history.

Unfortunately, because of human nature, the good things they accomplished have not been lasting in nature. In spite of impressive gains, the civil rights struggle continues. In spite of the end of WWII and the Cold War, international disagreements and conflict continue. Capitalism and free markets are still under attack.

The journey of the human race is a cycle of gradual improvements in knowledge, understanding, and tolerance followed by regression. It is only in looking back seven or eight thousand years that we can see how far we have come towards being more civilized and tolerant. The cycles will continue. As long as great men, even flawed great men, continue to appear, there is hope for us.