I Have a Corporate Dream, Now It’s Your Nightmare – Bill Gates’ #MLKRedux
“Education may be the hardest civil rights fight of all,” Gates said. “Discrimination is harder to prove and people often don’t know what levers to pull to fix the problem.”
Dear Bill and Melinda,
The minds of Americans are on Martin Luther King, Jr. today. The fact is, your corporate education reforms are all a terrible undoing of all that Martin Luther King, Jr. worked for, sacrificed for, organized for, and ultimately lost his life for in the summer of 1968. So whathas happened to Dr. King’s dream?
I wonder, what if corporate reformers re-wrote Dr. King’s, “I Have a Dream”speech to create their own version? Deconstructing Dr. King’s famous speech, here is what we are witnessing across America — as corporate reformers have engaged in the unholy marriage between non-partisan neoliberals and neoconservatives — through the wedded ring of BIG business.
Here I present what corporate reformers might write, Mr. and Mrs. Gates, if we were to strip you of your veneer of propaganda completely:
“I Have Corporate Dream, Now It’s Your Nightmare”
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest marriage of neo-liberal and neo-conservative corporate hijacking of freedom in the history of our nation.18 score years ago, our Puritan founders, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, brought with them the first seeds of capitalism. This momentous
