good thing we didn't have the internetss twitter, and youtube back then. Black people would be called racist for even supporting MLK... he would have been painted as a 'radical' race baiting villain..... who was also a communist. We have his packaged and edited speeches that he made for national audiences and to pacify others.Last time I checked he was killed by a bullet in the middle of the day. His family also sued the US Government in a civil case regarding his death and won.
You guys are always on here talking about whitewashing and how you don't fall for it but you are falling for it right now with MLK. You bought the cookie cutter shyt without blinking.
The man was gearing for a major push into spreading Socialist, antiwar, anti capitalism, anti greed ideas and solutions.
Go read on your own or go listen to what the man was saying. It's about as anti establishment as you can get. And he paid for it.
From reading and listening to the comments of his closes people - apparently he clowned other black preachers. When he would watch Malcolm X and others like that on TV his old feelings of not even liking CAC would come back and he would wanna join in on that side of the movement..
MLK - " the great stumbling block toward black freedom wasn't the white racist but the white moderate."
The dude was a low key pan africanist- attended the independence of African nations and even supported pan african movements in America.
"Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here,"
lol @ all that I have a dream shyt. His goal was the empowerment of black people and he simply recognized that the easiest way to that was empowerment of the poor.
to crakface:
@Crakface MLK was smart imo. Idk who he answered to, but it seems that he did what he had to do to because he was America's #1 enemy. The other leaders at the time weren't as threatening as him because they basically came right out with that CAC this n that. MLK made his speeches calmer and kept his militancy on the low. "what God do white people worship? They don't worship my God"
Even the socialist and social program agendas were meant to undermine white created society in America. He knew (as we know) it's one of the easiest and only ways to level the playing field and decrease the gaps for his (our) people.
Supposedly he hated white people and their institutions up until college. After that he really didn't fukk w CAC.. just a few normal white people.
I think he was a radical- is my point. I don't think all the things he did- most pro black black people or most 'others' will agree with because he was trying to be mainstream so that he can lead the masses, but low key advocating radical agendas.
I don't agree with his non violence we are all god children bs - because it wasn't appropriate for the situation or the time.... but i do agree with this
And we can't make true progress--- unless people are less like him and more like Malcolm X... BUT I agree with this though
It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.
And of course HL disagrees with this....
And Just because he wasn't ride or die (well.......... lol i guess he was 'die') Doesn't mean he wasn't extreme enough