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You are way incorrect. King called for redistribution of wealth, a national guaranteed income, Affirmative Action and reparations. Would you mother fucking racists please shut the fuck up with your opinion of what King would support now?You are delusional if you dont think that MLK's views are FAAAAAAARRRRRRR closer to the right today than the left. MLK would fucking hate progressives and other woke losers.
"Few people consider the fact that in addition to being enslaved for two centuries, the Negro was during all those years robbed of the wages of his toil. No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries. Not all the wealth of this affluent society could meet the bill. Yet, a price can be placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of the labor of one human being by another. This law should be made to apply for American Negroes. The payment should be in the form of a massive program by the Government of special compensatory measures which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law. Such measures would certainly be less expensive than any computation based on two centuries of unpaid wages and accumulated interest.”
"It is my great feeling that a massive program must be developed by the federal government to bring new hope into being. Among the many vital jobs to be done, the Nation must not only radically readjust its attitude toward the Negro and the compelling present, but must incorporate in its planning some compensatory consideration for the handicaps he has inherited from the past. It is impossible to create a formula for the future which does not take into account that our society has been doing something special against the Negro for hundreds of years."
"America must seek its own way of atoning for the injustices she has inflicted on her Negro citizens [not for] atonement’s sake, . . .[but as a] way to bring the Negro standard to a realistic level. . . .The moral justification for special measures for Negroes is rooted in the robberies inherent in the institution of slavery.”
David B. Oppenheimer, Dr. King’s Dream Of Affirmative Action, pg. 32, https://harvardlalr.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2019/11/Oppenheimer_Vol21.pdf