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Martin Luther King Jr. would be 94 years old tomorrow. What would he think about the 2023 black community versus the same in 1968?
01/15/23 | Self

Posted on 01/15/2023 6:41:51 PM PST by know.your.why

I gotta ponder that for a moment...Jim Crow -gone. Segregation -gone. The civil rights movement has made tremendous gains in 50 years. I wonder what the statistics were in the late 60's concerning the USA black community? I'm not making accusations here...just pointing out the obvious. In 1968 was 13% of the population responsible for 50% of the murder? Were blacks killing other blacks in significantly higher rates than any other race was killing each other? Was the single motherhood rate in the black community 80%? -no it was 20%. What would Martin Luther King Jr. say about the black-on-black crime phenomenon in Chicago and other democrat cities? What would he say about BLM and the revelations of corruption at the highest levels of BLM? Would he defend it? There is more Federal money going to Historically Black Colleges and Universities now than ever (Thanks to PDJT). There's affirmative action programs in place. Is America more racist now than it was in the 60's? If it is, please tell me how?


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I'm pretty sure that he'd be genuinely upset. I wonder if he said anything to the black community that warned about things turning out the way that they have?
1 posted on 01/15/2023 6:41:51 PM PST by know.your.why
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What we he think of that goatsee memorial t o the hug


2 posted on 01/15/2023 6:45:33 PM PST by al baby (Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
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King was intrigued with Communism. He might like today’s B.S.


3 posted on 01/15/2023 6:48:03 PM PST by twister881
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To: know.your.why

“Why is my name on the worst street in every city in America?”


4 posted on 01/15/2023 6:49:45 PM PST by EEGator
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To: know.your.why

Obviously he would think he is a failure.


5 posted on 01/15/2023 6:53:06 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: know.your.why

He would have been worth $Billions and said and done whatever the System demanded.


6 posted on 01/15/2023 6:57:44 PM PST by JonPreston
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YEP! Sick of the yearly praying of this false Prophet Commie lover. Fredrick Douglas deserves the day.
7 posted on 01/15/2023 6:59:07 PM PST by cowboyusa (There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
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his legal name is “Michael King”, and his plagiarism was extensive, along with his philandering. was a Communist Sympathizer

whitewashed history


8 posted on 01/15/2023 7:01:42 PM PST by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: twister881

Prasing


9 posted on 01/15/2023 7:04:43 PM PST by cowboyusa (There is no co- existence with Pinks and Reds)
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To: EEGator

I scratch my head and wonder the same thing.


10 posted on 01/15/2023 7:11:57 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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As far as I can see; the problem began when the left took control of the civil rights movement.


11 posted on 01/15/2023 7:12:24 PM PST by Jean2
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MLK would be sorely disappointed. Dismayed. Perhaps furious. Sure he had his failings (he’s just a man after all).... but his dream of all people being judged by character has been severely undermined by generations of race hustlers and charlatans.


12 posted on 01/15/2023 7:12:50 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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Booker T Washington stated a century ago that there were those who would never let go of their race hustle as they were making too good a living at it. That has not changed.


13 posted on 01/15/2023 7:13:59 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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I don’t think we know enough about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, principles to have any idea what he would think about anything today. The world has moved on since his day, and we don’t know how he would have moved.


14 posted on 01/15/2023 7:14:31 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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This is a monument / memorial to MLK. If you can figure out what it represents more power to you. I wonder what MLK would think of it.

15 posted on 01/15/2023 7:16:29 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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Wonder what he would have to say about Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson .


16 posted on 01/15/2023 7:17:34 PM PST by Newbomb Turk
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“Why is my name on the worst street in every city in America?”

LOL! Good question. Anyone with any sense knows you avoid MLK Drive or Boulevard in every major US city.

17 posted on 01/15/2023 7:17:50 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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Fredrick Douglas deserves the day.

Douglas should have a day.

18 posted on 01/15/2023 7:18:53 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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I think they are making an a$$ out of MLK.


19 posted on 01/15/2023 7:26:58 PM PST by Toespi
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To: know.your.why

Character over Color?

He’d want Trump.

How quickly people’s minds are change from what is good to what is evil.

For example, JFK said “Ask not what your country can do for you…”

King said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

These two would not be considered “Woke” today and would be rejected by Democrats, liberals, Hollywood, academia, main stream media, and the deep state.


20 posted on 01/15/2023 7:27:57 PM PST by Ken Regis (I concur. )
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