On Supplanting King

[lsanderson]

America Is Better Than This
By BOB HERBERT
Published: August 27, 2010

America is better than Glenn Beck. For all of his celebrity, Mr. Beck is an ignorant, divisive, pathetic figure. On the anniversary of the great 1963 March on Washington he will stand in the shadows of giants — Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Who do you think is more representative of this nation? More

I Had a Nightmare
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: August 27, 2010

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was already dead when I was born, and yet I idolized him the way most children idolized athletes and pop stars. I had the poster and the T-shirt, I knew the speeches and the places he’d marched. More

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Bob Herbert is almost always Spot-On (IMHO), but with this rhetorical question he elicits from me a response he's not going to like.

Yeah, I think Beck is probably more representative of the people of our nation today than Lincoln & King were. *sigh* The latter two still represent the most-noble ideals of the better people of this country, sure, but "noble", "ideals", and "better" all imply something of a minority quality. I do not find this assumption of mine to be any more pleasing than I do Mr. Beck's ignorant & bigoted rants, but I cannot escape it.