Before I retired at the university library I always signed up for the Martin Luther King Day events. Starting with the Black National Anthem and proceeding through educational sessions and discussions. About 7-8 hours. Probably 10% or fewer white employees of the university were going to them when I retired. Maybe 75% twenty years earlier.
One session. A young black woman assistant professor stood by a white board and a PowerPoint or Visme screen. She showed examples of old statements.
One was Dr.King saying all people should be listened to equally for their ideas and everyone should have equal rights.
She said: “In Dr.King’s time that would have been a good thing to say back then but today it is not. It does not acknowledge that ‘equally’ doesn’t bring any special weight for persons of color who were traditionally overlooked. Equality means they are still getting less than whites are.”
What a bizarre way of thinking. Equality means getting less than whites?
Thsse activist types today have no clue how to apply Dr. King’s message to today’s world.
“Equality means they are still getting less than whites are.”
Yup—what she is saying is to get equality a “final solution” for white people is needed....