BTW, took a click by The Final Call (NOI/Farrakhan), check this snippet re: MLK Honor or Hypocrisy
Many of the values espoused by Dr. King continue to be ignored by those paying lip service to his legacy. Dr. Watkins argues many of the principles Dr. King dealt with like poverty, world peace, economic equality and true racial equality have been ignored even as his likeness looms larger than life in America's capital.
In his now famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, Dr. King told the world that Blacks in America were still crippled by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination and called the condition of the majority of Blacks in America “shameful.”
We have come to our nation's capital to cash a check, he said. “Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds,'” he said.
