Wernher von Braun's Dream for the Future vs. Martin Luther King's Dream

The left would have you believe evolution is not only real – and all those knuckle-dragging Christians are holding back true progress – but also that this evolution stopped cold with the different racial groups of humanity.

Maintaining the orthodoxy of equality requires a child-like faith in this trade-off.

Every other animal, beast, fish, reptile and microorganism was touched by evolution, save humans. For, race is nothing more than a social construct.

Right?

Wrong.

Regardless of whether or not you believe in evolution, it believes in you.

A divine belief in a creator doesn’t qualify you as a nut, as those steadfast adherents to the divinity of the theory of evolution would try and make the general public believe.

Nor does a belief in evolution make you an enemy of faith and a divine creator.

Since July 20, 1969, the United States of America has sunk tremendous resources into uplifting the black population of this country.

This has been our de-facto mission.

His dream would have ushered the next step of Western Civilization...

It was easier to land on the moon than undo the harsh truths of evolution.

For just as Detroit rose from the ground Amerindians called a hunting terrain for centuries, in less than 40 years of continuous black political rule it has regressed back to nature.

No matter the trivial nature of a white persons existence, it was their seemingly insignificant contributions to the progress of civilization that made Detroit into the “Paris of the West.”

Stability.

Family.

Community.

Remove the people who create these conditions, and they instantly vanish.

Instability.

Chaos.

Ruin.

In Michael Neufeld’s biography of the great scientist Wernher Von Braun, we get to read about when one man’s dream captivated a people to strive for greatness off this tiny, spinning rock (today, only one man’s dream is allowed to be the roadmap for the future; a roadmap with, inevitably, “Detroit 2014” as its final destination).

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War contains Von Braun’s opinion of what the first steps on earth’s natural satellite meant in the grand scheme of human history.

At a press conference, Neufeld writes:

But it was Norman Mailer in His Apollo 11 book, Of a Fire on the Moon, who penned the most unforgettable portrait of von Braun at the Cape. During the prelaunch press conference, the Marshall director stole the show from Mueller, Debus, and the others when he issued the most quotable line of the afternoon. “When asked how he evaluated the importance of the act of putting a man on the moon, Von Braun answered, “I think it is equal in importance to that moment in evolution when aquatic life came crawling up on land.” (p. 431)

As outlined in a 1965 Playboy interview, Martin Luther King believed the American government (white people, the tax payers, naturally) should have embarked on a plan to spend roughly $50 billion to uplift black people. It was the January issue, when Hugh Hefner’s magazine published this exchange:

Playboy:   

Along with the other civil rights leaders, you have often proposed a massive program of economic aid, financed by the Federal Government, to improve the lot of the nation’s 20,000,000 million Negroes. Just one of the projects you’ve mentioned… is expected to cost $141,000,000 over the next ten years, and that includes only Harlem. A nationwide program such as you propose would undoubtedly run into the billions.    

King:   

About 50 billion, actually – which is less than one year of our present defense spending. It is my belief that with the expenditure of this amount over a ten-year period, a genuine and dramatic transformation could be achieved in the conditions of Negro life in America. I am positive, moreover, that the money spend would be more than amply justified by the benefits that would accrue to the nation through a spectacular decline in school dropouts, family breakups, crime rates, illegitimacy, swollen relief rolls, rioting and other social evils. 

Though four years later white America would land on the moon, the implementation of Project Negro Uplift would overtake any other national campaign as the highest priority and loftiest moral goal.

The implementation of his dream has led to the complete collapse of Western Civilization....

And not one penny spent to uplift blacks – as MLK was positive it would – has gone to lower black dropout rates, black family breakups, black crime rates, black illegitimacy, black reliance on relief/welfare, or staved off black rioting (mob assaults on whites) and other black-in-origin social evils.

Those American cities that have been at or near the top of the list of per-capita misery statistics - most murders, nonfatal gun violence, most addicts, most high school dropouts, lowest test scores in both math and reading comprehension, most cases of H.I.V. and syphilis – are all majority black.

In some cases, the white population of is below 10 percent.

When man set foot on the moon back on July 20, 1969, a new step forward in evolution – as Wernher Von Braun correctly surmised - should have started.

In America, the exact opposite happened.

We made it national policy to return life in this country to a level just above the primordial ooze we long emerged from; we made it national policy for devolution and Idiocracy to pave the way for our future. 

Once beneath the stars, in the mind of Wernher Von Braun, the universe was ours; today, beneath those same stars, our cities regress to the black mean of the inhabitants found there. 

Forget the stars, Detroit in 2014 isn't even ours. 

With all due to respect to Wernher Von Braun, the moment when we understand racism has nothing to do with the plight of black America, and everything to do with those racial differences evolution slipped into our genetic code (thus, reverting our national policy and efforts away from fulfilling Martin Luther King's fantasy and back to Von Braun's dream)... well, that's the moment we can look back to the stars and smile. 

Remembering the tangible reality of evolution and how it touched the various races of mankind via the ruins of Detroit, and smiling when we once again see - in person - its reality via the American flag white men planted on the moon back on July 20, 1969.