ALVEDA KING | July 18, 2024
While our students’ minds are being poisoned by anti-American ideology, they are also being deprived of quality education. Minority students suffer the most.
Our Declaration of Independence reads, “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.”
Any student of history knows that our great country has not always lived up to these ideals. But my uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., saw them for what they were.
In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he correctly identified those words as “a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir” and knew that one day, all people, regardless of color, would enjoy their guaranteed unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As a Christian, my uncle also acknowledged the biblical truth that we are of one blood and that we are all made in the image and likeness of God. He knew, too, that our country is not irredeemably stained by racism and that it is redeemed when we unite around our shared values and seek to lift up each other.
I have spent my life as an activist, an elected official, a mother, and a grandmother fighting for the realization of that vision, united in love and fellowship with Americans from all backgrounds. I have also led efforts to serve the marginalized and the most vulnerable among us. I am proud to say that so many times and in so many ways, we have succeeded.
Despite that real progress, some sadly want to take us backward. Woke ideologues are hard at work seeking to restore the resentments of yesteryear, and they have infiltrated our school systems. What we are now witnessing is a top-down effort to divide parents from children and children from their innocence.
Instead of educating our children, America’s schools have become factories for indoctrination. Today, left-wing activists in our institutions are working hard to erase all the progress we’ve made in unifying our country and transcending our differences.
