Glenn Beck, the televangelist, huckster and modern day Elmer Gantry, revived the civil rights era for downtrodden Caucasians with his Restore the Dream march on Washington, D.C. on August 28.
By a strange quirk in the calendar, which escaped practically everyone’s notice, this was also the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous “I’ve got a dream” speech. It’s only by coincidence that the transcript of Beck’s speech which follows has any resemblance to the King speech:
I am happy to join with the 250,000 . . . no make that 500,000 . . . no, let’s call it one million of you who have chosen to go down in history today demonstrating on behalf of freedom for the most downtrodden in our society, the misunderstood, the heart and soul of our great nation . . . the rich, white man.
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check . . . yes, literally, we need to cash your checks made out to Glenn Beck’s Restore the Dream and we’ll make sure the money gets to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
Did I mention that first of all we have to cover all our expenses. Of course, that’s capitalism and yes, capitalism is also what drove the triangular trading system which was behind slave trade in North America, which wasn’t really a terrible thing until liberals started offering their revisionist history.
So, please make your checks out to Glenn Beck and we’ll make sure that after our accountants are done some of it gets to the SOWF.
And did I mention you should protect yourself and your family by purchasing gold through Gold Line? More on that later.
Right now, it’s important to remember that the words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were a promissory note for every American, whether they be off-white, white or really, really white.
It means that the whitest among us have a sense of entitlement because, to the victor goes the spoils. Those who aren’t as fortunate to be as white as me and Sister Sarah and the one million of you gun-toting, Bible-loving Americans in the Mall today are the conquered and they should just be thankful that the God I know personally and love allows them to walk on the same hallowed ground and water that I walk upon.
We have come to this historic spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of standing back and allowing the majority who were elected to run this government to do so.
We are faced with the urgent need to extend the Bush tax cuts so that the wealthiest among us can continue to do God’s work and protect the freedoms that He truly wants for the elite among us.
That’s not to say that he doesn’t want all of you to enjoy tax cuts as well. He’s just saying that you don’t deserve them until you can earn enough, which is what God says in the Bible.
Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice so that really white men aren’t treated different just because they have access to better schools, better health care and better seats at Yankee games than their brothers who are less white.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads to the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place in America’s tax code and in gated communities, we must not feel guilty for our wrongful deeds.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for life, liberty and the pursuit of wealth without first acknowledging that what we have is owed to us. What we have earned through the sweat and sacrifice of others is our just due.
What we have gained through the good fortune of birth and inheritance is ours and ours alone and should not be taken away from us through the evils of the death tax.
So it has been told to me by the Creator Himself and there is no reason that He would lie to me.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back . . . back to a time when equal justice meant those at the top of the economic ladder were subject to the same rules as those at the bottom.
America’s greatness doesn’t come from that kind of equality.
There are those who ask, “When will you be satisfied?”
We can never be satisfied as long as gays seek to be treated as equals, as long as the poor expect the same level of health care as the wealthy, or as long as the less fortunate from other nations seek opportunity on our shores.
I have a dream that one day this nation will truly understand the creed that “Some people really are more equal than others.”
I have a dream that even California, a state sweltering with Hollywood elitism and liberals, will someday be transformed into an oasis of Republican conservatism.
I have a dream that one day children can live in a nation where they will not be judged just by the color of their skin, but also the content of their bank accounts.
I have a dream that one day those who support bigotry, racism and hatred won’t be seen as small-minded, but can once again assume the mantle of leadership in this nation which they deserve.
And I have a dream that you will protect your financial security by purchasing gold through Gold Line.
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Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com