Washington Times says Supreme Court's Ricci ruling means "Martin Luther King can rest easy" from threat of Sotomayor
June 30, 2009 11:03 am ET by Media Matters staff
EDITORIAL: Sotomayor reversed again
Martin Luther King can rest easy. His dream is being protected by the Supreme Court - against and over the opinion of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
The high court's landmark decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven, Conn., firefighters case, is a dramatic stride toward the cherished goal of achieving a colorblind society. In Ricci, the court told us that people of ability can succeed regardless of skin color, and government bureaucrats seeking racially biased outcomes can be thwarted in their racist designs.
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Wesley Pruden, on the other hand...
"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro"
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/04needs/affirm25.htm
I find it really perturbing that Dr.King is held up now by the same type of conservatives /republicans that branded him a communist/trouble maker,etc..not all that long ago!!!!