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That's a song we hear sung often at USMB.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”
Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”
"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."
Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla
We did listen to Dr. King.
And it's time to give us our check.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”
Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 speech to begin the Poor People’s Campaign for economic equality for poor African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and whites. In this speech he describes how the United States government disenfranchised African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and some whites, by giving a large part of the white population and European immigrants to the United States, millions of dollars in welfare, free land, farming schools, grants, etc. to cultivate farms while reneging on the 40 acres and a mule promise to African-Americans and ignoring the poor conditions of the minorities and poor whites. IN addition how also whites in the United States were also given millions in subsidies to not farm.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “When we come to Washington…we are coming to get our check.”
"After the very same time that America refused to give the negro any land. Through an act of congress, our government was giving millions of acres of land, in the west and the midwest. Which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land. They built land-grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that! They provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that! They provided low-interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that… today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm… and they are the very people telling the black men that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our cheque."
Martin Luther King Jr. - 'We Are Coming To Get Our Cheque' - Nuwla
We did listen to Dr. King.
And it's time to give us our check.