So then you agree he didn't help pass any legislation which empowered black people economically
All anectodes and assumptions and not a single shred of evidence to tie mlk aided legislation to any growth in black wealth because there hasnt been any with respect to white wealth.
Even poor whites living near the poverty line have a net worth of $10,000....damn near 10 times more than the median black household.
Keep pulling things out of your ass instead of providing facts to support your claim.
Wow...I have a new found lost of respect for you.....U really showed your ass in this thread. U talking all this bullshyt yet havent even put 2 and 2 together to see that this current MLK slander might be do to the growing recognition of the current #ADOS movement because right before his death MLK was talking about reparations....Oh thats right....U never knew he was for reparations obviously:
“In the following years, until he was assassinated in 1968, Dr. King focused primarily on the need for economic justice and the grim problem of poverty that remains so significant for all races today.”
He later proposed a “Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged,” calling on government to spend $100 billion over the course of a decade (the equivalent of $650 billion now) on assistance for housing, employment and education.
The Chicago campaign of peaceful protests was met by angry mobs — hurling rocks and shouting slurs. The effort sputtered. <------
MLKs own words:
I am proposing, therefore, that, just as we granted a GI Bill of Rights to war Veterans, America launch a broad-based and gigantic Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged, our veterans of the long siege of denial. I am specifically proposing that the platform of [this] party include an endorsement and support for the broad plan of such a Bill.
A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged would immediately transform the conditions of Negro life. The most profound alteration would not reside so much in the specific grants as in the basic psychological and motivational transformation of the Negro. I would challenge skeptics to give such a bold new approach a test for the next decade. I contend that the decline in school dropouts, family breakups, crime rates, illegitimacy, swollen relief rolls and other social evils would stagger the imagination. Change in human psychology is normally a slow process, but it is safe to predict that, when a people are ready for change as the Negro has shown himself ready today, the response is bound to be rapid and constructive.
HuffPost is now a part of Oath
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 Negroes. Just one of the projects you’ve mentioned, however—the HARYOU-ACT program to provide jobs for Negro youths—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.
MARTIN LUTHER 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 spent 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.
PLAYBOY: Do you think it’s realistic to hope that the Government would consider an appropriation of such magnitude other than for national defense?
MARTIN LUTHER KING: I certainly do. This country has the resources to solve any problem once that problem is accepted as national policy. An example is aid to Appalachia, which has been made a policy of the federal government’s much touted war on poverty; one billion was proposed for its relief—without making the slightest dent in the defense budget. Another example is the fact that after World War Two, during the years when it became policy to build and maintain the largest military machine the world has ever known, America also took upon itself, through the Marshall Plan and other measures, the financial relief and rehabilitation of millions of European people. If America can afford to underwrite its allies and ex-enemies, it can certainly afford—and has a much greater obligation, as I see it—to do at least as well by its own no-less-needy countrymen.
PLAYBOY: Do you feel it’s fair to request a multibillion-dollar program of preferential treatment for the Negro, or for any other minority group?
MARTIN LUTHER KING: I do indeed. Can any fair-minded citizen deny that the Negro has been deprived? Few people reflect that for two centuries the Negro was enslaved, and robbed of any wages—potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America’s wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro; it should benefit the disadvantaged of all races.
Within common law, we have ample precedents for special compensatory programs, which are regarded as settlements. American Indians are still being paid for land in a settlement manner. Is not two centuries of labor, which helped to build this country, as real a commodity? Many other easily applicable precedents are readily at hand: our child labor laws, social security, unemployment compensation, man-power retraining programs. And you will remember that America adopted a policy of special treatment for her millions of veterans after the War—a program which cost far more than a policy of preferential treatment to rehabilitate the traditionally disadvantaged
Martin Luther King Jr.: An Interview with Playboy
Now if u wanna debate that MLK wanted to include "all disadvataged races" also make note that MLK specifies numbers directly for Blacks first....He acknowledges others but specifies actual numbers for Blacks first. Now we can debate this but I assume he included "all disadvantage races" as a hustle because around this time you had a lot of Blacks who were half white and didnt know how to self identify and this would defiantly get their attention (as if to say 'u wanna identify as white and get nothing or embrace your Blackness and help me get this paper?) ....And being that the botton line was government aid for Blacks first, MLK had to throw a lil hustle in the mix for support (as if to say 'we just using this mofos to get what we want...play along)....But thats just my assumption. Again, its debatable....But MLKs bottom line was compensation with actual numbers for Blacks first....He didnt have specific numbers for the other "disadvantage races."
Martin had jokes lmao
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