Allan West was interviewed by National Journal in which he reflected on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. When asked the question "Is King's message relevant to any contemporary civil rights or equality issues?" Here is his response:

Dr. King’s message is and always shall be relevant. It is about individual responsibility and accountability to seek the highest good in your life … as a nation seeks its highest good. America can only be as great as the sum of its parts, all parts.

I think that, if Dr. King were to come back and see what has become of the black community, he would be appalled: The exorbitantly high unemployment rate, the second- and third-generation welfare families, the rampant decimation of the inner-city black communities, the incarceration rate of young black men, and the breakdown of the black family would all bring a tear to his eye.

The black community is now existing on a new plantation, a 21st-century plantation [that] enslaves their will and conscience … actually worse than physical slavery. We have gone backwards from Dr. King’s dream; regardless of certain individual success stories, collectively, we are failing. We have not overcome!

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Niall Ferguson at His Best

This is excellent....glad I pulled it out of the forgotten vault. It is even better when you consider that Niall Ferguson is a professor in the liberal bastion of Harvard.