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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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To: know.your.why

I blieve today, not tomorrow, is his actual birthday.


21 posted on 01/15/2023 7:30:42 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: know.your.why

He’d be disgusted, and I think he’d be denouncing teh likes of Ibram Kendi.


22 posted on 01/15/2023 7:33:38 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Rummyfan
I showed that photo of the "artwork" to my wife, who explained that it's supposed to represent an "Embrace" between MLK and his wife. She saw a TV show about it.

I never in a million years would have guessed that.

23 posted on 01/15/2023 7:38:46 PM PST by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: know.your.why

Today is the actual anniversary of his birthday.


24 posted on 01/15/2023 7:38:48 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: know.your.why

He would wonder how it went so wrong. My tagline.


25 posted on 01/15/2023 7:44:26 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: Vision

Well, anybody who stole 40% of their dissertation - and who knows what else - they are a failure.


26 posted on 01/15/2023 7:47:13 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: know.your.why

He would be ashamed...
They have destroyed most of his philosophical tenets...
Today he would be considered an Uncle Tom...


27 posted on 01/15/2023 7:52:46 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: know.your.why

Absolutely, we have more racism now than in the 50’s. Sure, there was racism back then. Whites and blacks lived in mostly segregated communities so, there was definitely a divide.

Since then, however, we have expanded racism to include whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Indians, Gays, Christians, Muslims, Republicans, Democrats, women, men, and that’s just off the top of my head.

You might argue that all these different “tribes” are not races. But race is just an arbitrary categorization of human beings, based on arbitrarily chosen features and characteristics. Blacks and whites are no more a different race than blonds and redheads.


28 posted on 01/15/2023 7:59:45 PM PST by pjd
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To: know.your.why

Depends on how much he really believed what he was saying. Just look at Jesse Hi-Jackson, Revrunt Al Notso-Sharpton. Both supposed civil rights “leaders”; both are lying, grifting sacks of turds.


29 posted on 01/15/2023 7:59:51 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: know.your.why

Like JFK, RFK, and FDR he’d probably follow the progressive movement where it wanted to go. He was already changing when he was alive. Did he really have it in him to go against the prevailing trends?


30 posted on 01/15/2023 8:10:35 PM PST by x
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To: nevermorelenore

Also woman beating, rape cheering.

The leftist regime purges our founding fathers for participating in practices that we now judge wrong, that dehumanized people...but MLK indulged in practices that his own time as well as ours knew to be wrong, that dehumanized people.


31 posted on 01/15/2023 8:14:07 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: know.your.why

He’d be disgusted that “the color of their skin” has overcome “the content of their character”.


32 posted on 01/15/2023 8:37:27 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: know.your.why
If he really wanted this country to go another direction, then his most famous speech was dangerous. He and the other racial leaders could have been out of a job in a generation.

Dr. Martin Luther King saw personal liberties as keys to personal sovereignty and prosperity by saying,” When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men- yes black men as well as white men-would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…..So we’ve come to cash this check; a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ 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.”

“This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning. ‘My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.”

True Americans are individuals whose primary identity is in pre-existing, natural, intangible liberties, and only secondarily in ethnicity, gender, class, or race. Dr. King reminded us of the philosophical doctrines consulted for founding placed all on the same metaphysical plain from inception of the Republic and made us all brothers and sisters.

33 posted on 01/15/2023 8:37:30 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: know.your.why
The civil rights movement has made tremendous gains in 50 years.

The grossly misnamed "civil rights" movement has absolutely destroyed the "black community".

34 posted on 01/15/2023 8:42:31 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Ken Regis

You’re right.


35 posted on 01/15/2023 8:42:38 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Rummyfan

36 posted on 01/15/2023 8:44:42 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Rummyfan


37 posted on 01/15/2023 8:52:20 PM PST by Ben Dover
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To: know.your.why

What difference does it make? When King died the Myth took over and that is all anybody thinks they know about King is whatever Myths are told about him that never really occurred.

He had feet of clay as any man or woman does and certainly did live a Pious Life like we have been told.

One the most appalling things has been the men that were around King at the time and Money and Fame they have acquired from that relationship. The Mendacity and Hypocrisy of people like Jessie Jack and John Lewis has destroyed whatever credibility they once had.

They became Race Hustlers, they become all that was corrupt and became all the things that King supposedly stood for.

So tomorrow there will all manner of things said and very few of them will really be true.


38 posted on 01/15/2023 8:54:15 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: know.your.why

He’d be disgusted. Just my humble opinion.


39 posted on 01/15/2023 10:00:02 PM PST by The Mayor (“Love the Lord your God,” and “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37–39))
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To: know.your.why

The FBI or the press might ultimately have exposed his bizarre and sometimes cruel sexual dalliances, but, had he survived that onslaught, or had it been avoided, he would surely be a voice, today, for sanity.

He would have been on the side of Bill Cosby, for instance, who spoke about personal responsibility and the sanctity of the family, though he, too, was a party animal.

MLK would therefore have been subjected to more attacks, and might ultimately have given up hope and slinked into the shadows.

Few on the left have heard or know of the entirety, for instance, of the “I have a Dream” speech.

Speeches, like men, can be cut down.


40 posted on 01/15/2023 10:19:24 PM PST by golux
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