What If MLK Had Not Died?

[Two Thumbs]

If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had not been killed in 1968 and instead were still alive today, he'd be 82 years old. It's a safe bet he wouldn't be particularly active at that age, but what about the decades between?

Would we have elected him POTUS?

Would the busing riots have been avoided?

After Vietnam, what issues would he have addressed beyond civil rights?

If he ran for Pres he would have been "uncle tommed". He was a Republican, so the liberals would have turned on him if ran on the GOP ticket.

I don't know enough about the bus riots.

After Vietnam, he may have done more for the returning Vets. Being a devoute christian, I don't think he would have done much for gays. But I think inner city shools would be better places to learn than they are now.



If I was a person of strong faith; I'd put King in the Prophet column.

 

[Two Thumbs]

He would have like every one of his contemporaries have been grateful for the progress we have made and sad at how little hearts of some Americans have changed.

I fear like editec said he would have been discredited by some forces.

They did it to every other black leader of his time.


That is one of the reasons why Bill Clinton was affectionately called the first black president.

They did the same thing to him that they did to the black leaders.


They never went after the personal affairs of all the presidents before him.

Many a president and presidential candidate was protected in their personal life until Clinton.

The old school republicans had many a problem when the veil was lifted after Clinton.

They did not realize that there was no longer an unspoken rule to leave thier personal picadillos out of the press.

They changed the rules and forgot it applied to them now too.

clinton cheated on his wife on a regular basis. He was fucking someone in his employ, that's sexual harrassment.

And you cry that people pointed it out?

 

[Two Thumbs]

If MLK was still with us, or had been for a few more decades at least, I doubt phony bastards like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have ever amounted to much.

They were up and comers while he was alive. But if he had lived we may not have had to deal with them on a regular basis.

 

[goldcatt]

If MLK was still with us, or had been for a few more decades at least, I doubt phony bastards like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have ever amounted to much.

They were up and comers while he was alive. But if he had lived we may not have had to deal with them on a regular basis.

They were young and brash and fighting over who would get his mantle without having matured in his legacy. Those who were true to MLK's message, and there were and are several, unfortunately didn't grab the spotlight.

 

[Two Thumbs]

If MLK was still with us, or had been for a few more decades at least, I doubt phony bastards like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have ever amounted to much.

They were up and comers while he was alive. But if he had lived we may not have had to deal with them on a regular basis.

They were young and brash and fighting over who would get his mantle without having matured in his legacy. Those who were true to MLK's message, and there were and are several, unfortunately didn't grab the spotlight.

It would have been nice if either one of them were as close to god as they claimed instead of the squeeky wheels that they are.

I saw a vid of Jessie Jackson at a Funk concert. can't recall who he was introducing, but it went sumtin like this;

Ladies and Gentlemen introducing! --------

He's a bad muther,,,, I can't say it, I'm a preacher!

But he's a bad muther,,,, I can't say it, I'm a preacher!


He didn't say it a few more times. Made me wonder just how easy it was to become a preacher.





no quotations, incase I got something wrong, but that is acurate

 

[Mr. Sauerkraut]

If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had not been killed in 1968 and instead were still alive today, he'd be 82 years old. It's a safe bet he wouldn't be particularly active at that age, but what about the decades between?

Would we have elected him POTUS?

Would the busing riots have been avoided?

After Vietnam, what issues would he have addressed beyond civil rights?

Perhaps he was shot.

But that made him immortal.

 

[JBeukema]

If he hadn't been a martyr, would he have been anything special at all in the end?

He's known for one speech, which was scheduled to reflect the fact that he was no great anyone at the time. And he's known for being shit. The Whiteys who praise him don't know anything else about him or what he really believed and wrote.

 

[Tank]

What If MLK Had Not Died?

He would be hanging out with these two:

 

[Intense]

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.


Martin Luther King - Biography

 

[JakeStarkey]

Would we have elected him POTUS? NO

Would the busing riots have been avoided? NO

After Vietnam, what issues would he have addressed beyond civil rights? This is problematic. The right question would be is this, "Would King have worked for a multicutural community that empowered all individuals?"

 

[JakeStarkey]

King would have had some serious problems. He was a womanizer, he was accused of plagiarizing parts of his dissertation (he did, whether deliberately is not known), and he was accused of socialist and communists supporting his policies (they did, just as the KKK and white hate groups and the FBI opposed him).

 

[JBeukema]

"Would King have worked for a multicutural community that empowered all individuals?"

No. He preached the inversion, not the abolition of systematic discrimination and exploitation.

 

[Intense]

Marblehead — 16 April 1963

My Dear Fellow Clergymen:

While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against “outsiders coming in.” I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise. So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here.

But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their “thus saith the Lord” far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city’s white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation...................
FULL TEXT: MLK?s 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' - Marblehead, MA - Marblehead Reporter

 

[JakeStarkey]

"Would King have worked for a multicutural community that empowered all individuals?"

No. He preached the inversion, not the abolition of systematic discrimination and exploitation.

You could call the redress of systemic persecution and discriminaiton to be an inversion.

 

[Intense]

MarcATL practices Inversion, Many here do, MLK did not.

 

[boedicca]

If MLK had not died, Jesse Jackson wouldn't have launched his race hustling career in a blood stained turtleneck sweater.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Funny how that happens, body. FunnyFaceFred and MikeArkansas split the conservative vote, denying the nomination to Romney. We get the fresh faced moose killer from Alaska to energize a group of Americans who are now fading from the memory of history. Funny how that happens, body.

 

[Tank]

America is fading from the memory of history.

 

[JakeStarkey]

All countries fade, Tank, and pushing our demise are those who can't let go of the past.

 

[Tank]

Hey JakeStarkey,

Have you ever read the writing's of Gandhi and his feelings towards the Negro?