People still don't believe – and some of them don't want to believe – that the sports world has already moved past this issue, that yes, even gay athletes can be measured for their ability and content of character.
By Jonathan Rieder August 23, 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s tribute to the content of character over the color of skin in his "I Have a Dream" speech, fifty years ago on August 28th, has long thrilled Americans.
And four years ago, like so many African-Americans around the country, he saw Barack Obama's rise to the presidency as nothing short of a shocking validation of Dr. King's vision of a more perfect union, where the content of character trumps the color of skin.
The event that Krauthammer was obliquely referring to by bringing up the content of character and the color of skin was the March on Washington in August , 1963 where Martin Luther King, Jr., made his magnificent "I have a dream" speech, from which that line comes.
Minoru Yasui has been posthumously recognized with the Martin Luther King Jr. Business Award in Denver, Colorado, "celebrating content of character".
It almost seems to me that since Martin Luther King, Jr. said those words about being judged solely on our content of character, we have less overall character.
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr expressed his dream of his children living in a world where a person is only judged by the content of character.
Dr. King said we should be judged by the content of character rather than color of skin, which is what makes this case so difficult.
I have a dream that my children, your children, our children will live in a world where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of character.
LaBarbera has long been an outspoken anti-gay pundit, having previously called the HIV/AIDS epidemic symptomatic of the "content of character" for gay and lesbian individuals, stating, "it's perfectly appropriate to discriminate against immoral conduct".
