The feckless leader of the Chester County Republican Party has done it again. His recent op-ed began badly enough with a hilariously overwrought, prog-rock exhortation that seemed endless. But that was just the beginning.
Dr. Eck then claimed that this country’s escalating problem of young men regularly using weapons of war to commit mass murder cannot be helped with meaningful legislation, as it has in nearly every other developed nation. Instead it is some vague, unfixable epidemic caused by “fatherlessness, racism, poverty…our failing mental healthcare system” as well as “identity politics.” Eck says this, without a trace of irony, as though the party Dr. Eck represents has ever tried to address or improve any of those issues.
Worse still, Dr. Eck misappropriated the words of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., invoking Dr. King’s wish that his children “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” nonsensically implying that King was saying that changing laws doesn’t matter as much as an individual’s character.
Eck pulled Dr. King’s words from his “I Have a Dream” speech, which was written for and delivered at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The March was organized by King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (he was the organization’s President), as well as the NAACP, the Urban League, and others, in support of the Kennedy Administration’s nascent civil rights bill. The organizers carefully...
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