One of the greatest speeches in American history was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28,1963,on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
You can watch and listen here.
Much better than reading it is hearing it.
I was somewhere in the back of the crowd with my husband. I was 25 years old.
What would Dr. King say about Donald Trump and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions?
It is only speculation. MLK would probably say, that if Pres Obama had done a better job, the nation would not have turned to an alternate party for the occupant of the oval office.
He would say, that if more black people, who chose to sit out the election of 2016, and declined to vote, the election would have turned out differently.
MLK would not say that, Charles, and you are the last person on earth, other than your hero Trump, who would have a clue what MLK would say on any subject.
I specified that it was speculation. No one knows what a person who died in 1968, would say about 2018, fifty years into the future.
I have studied the era thoroughly, I lived through it. In 1968, I thought I was going to be drafted, and sent to Vietnam.
News flash for Charles: I was 30 years old in 1968. I marched in civil rights demonstrations. I knew Bayard Rustin, King’s Close associate. How dare you, a Trump supporter, speculate on what Dr. King might say if he were alive. No doubt he would have tolerated you.
The people spoke and chose Hillary over Trump. You know, the popular vote. Unfortunately we have this putrid anachronistic Electoral College curse that overrides the will of the people.
C, What percentage of African American registered voters sat out 2016? Were they in states that went for Trump? When 53% of white women voted for pussygrabber candidate, would that have made a difference?
What percentage of African American voters ran afoul of voter restrictions?
If King were alive today, peaceful resistance of unjust laws might still be strong today. The world would be a very different, much better place. Maybe he would have taught Occupy Wall Street to outlast a news cycle. Maybe companies that supported Apartheid would have been boycotted out of business. Maybe companies whose overpriced CEOs supported candidates who returned much of the segregation against which King fought with charters and vouchers would be boycotted thoroughly and indefinitely, today. Maybe the corporate freedom movement would be countered by a people’s freedom and equal rights movement. Who knows what good there would be?
This is not a great time for flag waving. It’s more of a time when, during the flag waving, you take a knee.
Not everything is falling apart, though. We still have a bunch of really good laws. For example, there are the laws that Ref Rodriguez is finally, in just a few days, going to trial to face.
It would all be about civil disobedience.
The divisiveness and cruelty is the absolute opposite of his dream and character.
49% of the country says the POTUS is racist.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/04/politics/donald-trump-quinnipiac-poll/index.html
Trump countdown clock in Seattle.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/seattle-house-boasts-trump-countdown-clock/
Inspirational speech.
Re Jeff Sessions, might MLK think, the more things change, the more they stay the same?