This is who `we’ really is, Glenn – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com

I love Leonard Pitts….

Here is an excerpt from his column on Glenn Beck and his ridiculous and insulting rally.  I encourage you to click the link and read the entire post.  It’s worth it.

Thanks to Steve for making sure I saw this…

`This is a moment,” said Glenn Beck three months ago on his radio program, “…that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement. It has been so distorted and so turned upside down. . . . We are on the right side of history. We are on the side of individual freedoms and liberties and damn it, we will reclaim the civil rights moment. We will take that movement, because we were the people that did it in the first place!”

Beck was promoting his Restoring Honor rally, to be held Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial, 47 years to the day after Martin Luther King famously spoke there. You’ll notice he didn’t define the “we” he had in mind, but it seems reasonable to suppose Beck was speaking of people like himself: affluent middle-aged conservatives possessed of the ability to see socialism and communism in places where it somehow escapes the notice of others.

If you agree that assumption is reasonable, then you must also agree Beck’s contention that his “we” were the architects of the civil rights movement is worse than nonsensical, worse than mendacious, worse than shameless. It is obscene. It is theft of legacy. It is robbery of martyr’s graves.

via This is who `we’ really is, Glenn – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com.