Timothy Birdnow

Actor Nick Searcy gets it:

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I spent 13 years, from 1986 to 1999, performing as an actor in the National Black Touring Circuit's production of I HAVE A DREAM, telling the story of Martin Luther King Jr. I played all the white characters, and was the only white member of the cast.

It wasn't a year long gig: we went out in January and February, usually, centered around MLK's birthday and black history month. When I first started doing it, it was my only paying gig, and I was so grateful for it.

But even after my film career got going, I did it whenever I could, because I loved the people I worked with and I loved the message we spread. And the audiences loved the show. It brought the right mix of emotion and message, and honored Dr. King's work. We even performed at the MLK center in Atlanta, for Coretta King herself. I will never forget meeting her.

It remains my longest and best theatrical experience. I still have a good friend from that production. Woodie King Jr. was the producer, a legendary giant of New York theatre, who just passed away within the last year.

The demand for the show dried up. Why?

Because the Democrat party no longer supports Dr. King's vision for this country as a color blind society.

Without racism as an issue, the Democrat party has nothing.

MLK's dream is not just useless to them. It is the exact opposite of what they want, which is to divide us by race and pit us against one another to increase their power through grievance, hate, and division.

The modern Democrat party no longer reveres Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

He wasn't racist enough for them.

Dr. King had a dream, but that dream no longer suits the Democrat party.

And in fact, if you look back through the history of the party -- perhaps it never did.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at May 03, 2026 10:33 PM (+uala)

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at May 04, 2026 05:46 AM (oflqW)

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