The old promissory note
At first blush, you might think that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has had a newfound appreciation for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 无毛视频� and all he stood for.
Rubio tweeted part of Dr. King无毛视频檚 无毛视频淚 Have a Dream无毛视频� speech at 5 a.m. on Martin Luther King Day.
无毛视频淲hen the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. 无毛视频� Dr. Martin Luther King (1963)无毛视频� 无毛视频� Rubio tweeted.
But before I could throw up my hands and utter 无毛视频淗allelujah,无毛视频� somebody discovered the lack of wisdom in Rubio无毛视频檚 attempt to be seen as a forthright supporter of King and his legacy.
Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times Magazine无毛视频檚 1619 Project noted that Rubio conveniently left out the important part of King无毛视频檚 statements about that promissory note.
A somewhat angry phrase, and the true reason why hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial that day in 1963.
无毛视频淚t is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked 无毛视频榠nsufficient funds,'无毛视频� King said, but Rubio failed to add.
That omission wasn无毛视频檛 lost on those people who saw Rubio无毛视频檚 initial post on Twitter.
Some fellow named Seth McFarland (not to be confused with the entertainment guru) issued a direct rebuke.
无毛视频淪hut! Don无毛视频檛 say his name. Do not say his name, while you remove it from history books. Do not say his name, while you strike down voting rights. Do not say his name, while you destroy all he achieved,无毛视频� McFarland posted in a graphic.
Rubio无毛视频檚 hypocrisy isn无毛视频檛 the worst in Congress.
Many Republicans failed to make any note of the day.
But when you think about it, perhaps Rubio should have remained mum, too.
So should have the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire.
Somebody up there had the very bad judgment to, momentarily, butt in on the Rubio/commonsense dispute.
无毛视频淏lack People (not my caps, by the way) in America get special access to essential drugs, receive special federal funding due to race, and are first-in-line for every college and every job.无毛视频� (And they were just getting warmed up.)
无毛视频淎merica isn无毛视频檛 in debt to black people, (curiously they didn无毛视频檛 use caps again), if anything it无毛视频檚 the other way around,无毛视频� they tweeted.
But bad tweets have a way of disappearing at light speed nowadays.
And so did that one.
Whoever it was, happened to 无毛视频渢weet the quiet part out loud无毛视频� long enough to let anybody who isn无毛视频檛 a member of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire wonder why there is a Libertarian Party of New Hampshire.
But, I suppose one reason it exists is to court favor with that one term, twice-impeached grump down there in Florida.
That stuff about 无毛视频淏lack People (not my caps) in America get(ing) special access to essential drugs无毛视频� may have been the outgrowth of a tall tale Donald Trump told at his recent rally in Arizona.
无毛视频淭he left is now rationing life-saving therapeutics based on race. Discriminating and denigrating, just denigrating white people to determine who lives and who dies,无毛视频� Trump told his gullible fans.
And if that fib didn无毛视频檛 work, he laid it on thicker.
无毛视频淚f you无毛视频檙e white, you don无毛视频檛 get the vaccine. If you无毛视频檙e white, you don无毛视频檛 get therapeutics. It无毛视频檚 unbelievable to think this,无毛视频� he told his believers, who无毛视频檇 eat up anything this fellow would say.
And for good measure, he added, 无毛视频淎nd nobody wants this. Black people don无毛视频檛 want it. White people don无毛视频檛 want it. Nobody wants it.无毛视频�
To that, there were uproarious cheers.
Consider that.
He was speaking to a crowd of people who don无毛视频檛 seem to care much for vaccines, or other stuff that无毛视频檚 supposed to help people survive COVID-19.
But he无毛视频檚 gotten them seeing red because he无毛视频檚 told them there are people out there who无毛视频檙e taking that stuff (the stuff they don无毛视频檛 really want) away from them.
Oh, my!
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 40-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.