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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: The Right Has a Dream By Paul Rockwell In the last years of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, many mainstream journalists and conservative politicians treated him with fear and derision. In 1967, Life magazine (4/21/67) dubbed King's prophetic anti-war address "demagogic slander" and "a script for Radio Hanoi." Even years later, Ronald Reagan described King as a near-Communist. Today, however, a miracle is taking place: Suddenly, King is a conservative. By virtue of a snippit from one 1963 address--a single phrase about "the content of our character"--King is the most oft-quoted opponent of affirmative action in America today. "Martin Luther King, in my view, was a conservative," right-wing media critic David Horowitz declared on Crossfire (9/5/94), "because he stood up for, you know, belief in the content of your character--the value that conservatives defend today." In the Washington Post (4/26/91), Charles Krauthammer pitted King against diversity. Progressives, he writes, "have traded King's dream for something called diversity.... It is the opponents of race-conscious public policy who today speak in the name of values that King championed." The National Review (3/20/95) trashed affirmative action with a cover story depicting a black kid, a kid with a Mexican sombrero, and a white girl happily climbing ladders, while two white boys fall down "the slippery slope of quotas." The lead of the article: "The civil-rights movement has strayed far from the color-blind principles of Martin Luther King, Jr." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1292 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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