If MLK Was Alive, He'd Make White People Just as Uncomfortable as #BlackLivesMatter

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If MLK Was Alive, He’d Make White People Just as Uncomfortable as #BlackLivesMatter

by Lincoln A. Blades - the Grio

By Lumberhead

Opinion • August 2015 • Views: 2,668

Although the outpouring of affection at his funeral may make it seem like he died a widely loved and supported man, the truth is that a lot of his caucasian supporters turned their backs on him when he decided to talk about other issues than voting rights. Most of the favour he curried amongst whites in his earlier years, he lost as he tackled poverty and supported unions. You didn’t love Rev. King then, and you probably wouldn’t love him now either, so please refrain from misapplying his quotes and stop acting like his revolutionary goal in life, what he ultimately died for, was making it easier to be a white man in America.

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Fortitudine Aug 23, 2015 • 3:38:58pm

“If MLK Was Alive, He’d Make White People Just as Uncomfortable as #BlackLivesMatter”

So would Jesus.

William Lewis Aug 23, 2015 • 4:33:44pm

Of course. Just as both did when they were alive.

gwangung Aug 23, 2015 • 5:34:23pm

Anybody who’s actually learned about MLK jr. knows this.

EPR-radar Aug 25, 2015 • 3:54:15pm

re: #3 gwangung

Anybody who’s actually learned about MLK jr. knows this.

The Letter from a Birmingham Jail is most instructive on this point. One key point:

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

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