—written by a black author,
Spokesman for Color Us United–Advocating for a Race-Blind America
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?
He’d be disgusted that “the color of their skin” has overcome “the content of their character”.
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.
The grossly misnamed "civil rights" movement has absolutely destroyed the "black community".
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.
He’d be disgusted. Just my humble opinion.
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.
Jesse Jackson worked with MLK so I think he would be proud of the way Jesse divided the country and made millions for himself. BTW there were 2 hookers in the motel room when MLK was shot. Jesse was there at the time.
To me, the obvious first difference would be the rise of Jesse Jackson as King's successor. If Jackson hadn't had the "bloody shirt" to wave around, would Jackson have risen to prominence? Sure, he was close to King but where would he have been later in life if King had lived?
Jackson ran for President in 1984. What if King had run instead? In fact, what if King ran in 1976 against Jimmy Carter in the Democrat primary? Would King have been the first black President? Would we not have had a President Reagan? Would the Berlin Wall have not come down?
Who can say how history would have changed if Martin Luther King, Jr. had lived?
-PJ
It has been my belief for the past several decades, that if MLK had not been shot and killed, during the 80’s and 90’s, he would be acting and race-baiting the same as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and all the other blacks that were riding on his bandwagon during the 60’s.
He would think all was for naught.
MLK has been thrown under the bus.
His notion of content of character not color of their skin is polar opposite with identity politics.
In fact, the notion is considered racist today by the woke
A few corrections: Black males make up about 6% of the population and commit more than 50% of the murder and far higher carjackings and violent crime. There is more segregation now than in the past 50 years. MLK was going 1968 woke before he died coming out against the Vietnam War and other causes. He and LBJ are the two men mostly responsible for the destruction in the black community today and society in general.