It is becoming more apparent that the day that James Earl Ray’s bullet pierced the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, it also took away the purity of the civil rights movement. It was a time that was led by divine righteousness and morality—an internal drive equal to the inner-human urge for freedom once held by the Founding Fathers as they penned the U.S. Declaration of Independence…
… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…
Quite often, Dr. King referred to this powerful and soul-stirring phrase. The most direct and effective way for one to actually dispute it would be to deny those rights by denying the existence of a Creator, and very few at this point would publicly pronounce such an argument. Dr. Martin Luther King’s own personal strength, drive and legitimacy was based in his faith in his God, and the mission he believed he was called to. Unfortunately, along with Dr. King’s departure also went the spirit of righteousness that assured millions of down-trodden blacks that God was with them even though, as with Dr. King stated, they themselves would probably neither see nor experience the blessings and benefits of freedom the overwhelming majority of us take for granted today!
In many of our congregations today, God is an afterthought, Jesus is a heroic radical left-wing extremist and the prevailing spirit stokes flames of revenge, envy and counter-hatred. The true and real essence of the struggle for human rights in America was changed with Dr. King’s death. As he breathed his last breath, the opportunists raced in to claim a part of him, to smear themselves with his blood, to claim their closeness to and likeness with him, to stand in his shadow long enough to emerge as a legitimate heir to his legacy.
This noble quest has, on the other hand, become less than what it used to be because it is no longer the black church that drives the cause. The civil rights movement’s home is no longer the church with its fiery pulpits and Christ- centered preachers. It now hides and incubates in academia. The gospel preached by the civil rights movement of today is no longer formulated through Holy Scriptures, but comes from the thinking of the intellectuals as illustrated through the most recent ordeal between distinguished Harvard professor Henry Gates and Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley. In fact, when you examine the Who’s Who of today’s civil rights movement, you will discover that an overwhelmingly-vast number of the leadership comes from the Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Professor Gates is currently serving as the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research is located at Harvard University, but exactly what does this represent? Within the African American community and the world of academia, Dr. W.E.B. Dubois is a highly-respected and widely-revered intellectual. Above anyone else, he is credited with having exerted more influence upon the formation of the African American community and culture than anyone else! Although much fan fare is given to the positive contributions of Dubois, very little attention is given to his ideology.
Dr. W.E.B. Dubois was an avowed communist. A firm believer in communist and totalitarian systems, Dubois was not clandestine in his infatuations. On page 192 of the book W.E. B. Du Bois by Francis L. Broderick, it is noted…
“He [Dubois] deeply admired the efficient totalitarian planning of German industry— “a splendid accomplishment” —and the national control of German capital, and he welcomed the new German state as the greatest exemplar of Marxian socialism outside Russia …” If it had not been for Adolf Hitler’s view of race, NAZI Germany would have been one of the primary models for Dubois to reference for a pattern for constructing black American civilization.
Along with Germany, Dubois revered the philosophy of Karl Marx and the “people management” skills of Russia’s Joseph Stalin and communist China’s Mao Tse Tung. Each and all who came into power within their own cultures on the backs of the “victim” classes. Marxism needs a victim class to champion and climb upon! Whether it was the peasant vs. the aristocracy, the unsophisticated vs. the elites or the rich vs. poor, history’s human monsters have always found a way to initially win the hearts and minds of the downtrodden before converting them into fodder. In addition to the socio-economic wars of the primarily homogenous cultures of Europe and Asia, America itself held the unique factor of race-class victimization.
So it is of no real surprise that Professor Gates would scream racism at the drop of a hat! His position and sole existence in academia depends upon consuming and distributing the message of perpetual victimhood. The incident with Sgt. Crowley added another chapter to Prof. Gates’ life’s book, opportunity for additional lectures and pseudo-evidence to further convince young black minds that they too are and forever will be victims in America—with the same Marxist ideology being their best way to true freedom and equality!
Gates like Dubois and even President Barack Obama share the same belief system. They are of a brotherhood rooted in academia, not the traditional church. Dr. King’s messages are only part of their strategy. The Christian model that Dr. King purported holds a process for confession, repentance and forgiveness. Victims become victors. Oppressors receive converted hearts and fellowship. The Marxist model cannot afford to have its victim classes see or experience a change in their conditions. They must retain perpetual victim status! For this reason, there cannot be an opportunity to declare victory over our racist and segregated past because it is no longer a Christian movement, but a system of Marxist ideology fueled by the insatiable need for black victims.
Time is now for the church, all preachers, but the African American preachers in particular are called to reject the false religion of Marxism—the effort of man to establish a utopian world without God—and embrace the comforting message in the Gospel of Jesus Christ! The doctrine of social justice can never become greater than the Father who provides it, the Son who defines it, nor the Spirit who accomplishes it! Though great and brilliant, the apostles of academia will never accomplish what God Almighty has already set forth. They cannot overrule what He has already established. They cannot plan what He has ordained.
So let us take up the mantle that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tossed down to those remaining as he was taken up. Unfortunately, up to this point, it has been worn by profiteers and imposters who have manipulated facts and concealed the truth! Reclaim it from the false prophets and the charlatans. Re-establish the true vision of a world of peace brought forth from God Almighty himself instead of relying upon the false promises of the politically-driven and the spiritually-corrupt. Add a new verse to the song that the civil rights marchers sang as they were brutalized and tormented as they strove—“We Have Overcome!”
