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Would MLK be pleased today with the people he helped?
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:08 pm
In general, I think not. As long as there are opportunists and race-baiters out there, that will always be the case, I'm afraid. Did he intend for those he left behind to be this bitter, hate-filled and blame driven, regardless of their justification? Did he expect them to grow up just being a color rather than self-starting, creative, contributing Americans in charge of their own destiny?
The playing field has been leveled, courtesy one courageous individual. It just doesn't add up.
The playing field has been leveled, courtesy one courageous individual. It just doesn't add up.
This post was edited on 1/16/17 at 12:09 pm
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:09 pm to tigerpawl
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:11 pm to tigerpawl
He'd be race baiting with the best of them today
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:16 pm to tigerpawl
Not at all. His goal was equality of opportunity and treatment and racial blindness. He wanted black people to not be seen as black people but as people.
His dream has come true (mostly) in this country and the civil rights leaders of that era who benefited personally from the persecution continue to push hatred and division in order to keep their seat at the table that shouldn't exist any more.
There will always be hatred and bigotry because people are people. However the country we have today looks nothing like what we had during the civil rights movement and some black leaders don't like that, because they would have no purpose in life. Dr. King would be very disappointed.
His dream has come true (mostly) in this country and the civil rights leaders of that era who benefited personally from the persecution continue to push hatred and division in order to keep their seat at the table that shouldn't exist any more.
There will always be hatred and bigotry because people are people. However the country we have today looks nothing like what we had during the civil rights movement and some black leaders don't like that, because they would have no purpose in life. Dr. King would be very disappointed.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:17 pm to tigerpawl
He started a movement that had great intentions and made the world a better place while he was here. The people who learned from him ruined his legacy by using the movement for personal gain and fame.
Same thing happened to Christianity, it just took longer.
Same thing happened to Christianity, it just took longer.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:22 pm to Haughton99
quote:Didn't take but a few hundred years for Rome to make a mockery of the faith. Then a few hundred years after the Protest Reformation for Protestants to do the same. Another reformation will happen at some point and people in the "Christian" tent will be leaving in larger numbers when they realize what they do on Sundays isn't "Christian".
Same thing happened to Christianity, it just took longer.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:23 pm to tigerpawl
He isn;t intend on them re-enacting the march to Selma every year on his birthday. I think he imagined them moving past what he had done and going further instead of becoming stagnant and doing the same thing for the next fifty years. They have been given equal opportunity for education and many other things and very few have done anything with what has been given to them. I think he would be very disappointed in what they have done with what he started. I also think he would be ashamed of what black people were doing to each other in our inner cities. Actually he would probably be embarrassed.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:31 pm to tigerpawl
Watch the mlk episode of the boondocks. The speech mlk gives is pretty much spot on.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:35 pm to Pelican fan99
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He'd be race baiting with the best of them today
It's a possibility if big money was involved. But we'll never know. Would James Dean be doing Star Wars movies today? Would Anna Nicole Smith be running for Congress?
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:38 pm to FooManChoo
Well said
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:49 pm to tigerpawl
No, and then he would be called an Uncle Tom by BLM for disagreeing with them too.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 12:49 pm to Walking the Earth
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:00 pm to Duzz
Honestly, some of his rhetoric is largely inconsistent. You just have to read Letter from Birmingham Jail to know that his "vision" wasn't all that objectively sound. His principle claims lacked rational legitimacy and were largely couched inside overabundant pathos
I'm actually not sure what side he'd be on today. But I don't think he'd be a star.
I'm actually not sure what side he'd be on today. But I don't think he'd be a star.
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