No Dr, King would not disagree with Essens opinion. Not had he continued to live seeing this day where whites are still doing the same things they did then but more covertly.Essen is right about much of what he said. We know MLK had white friends. So what? Did that stop him from fighting white racism? But we also know he had many more white enemies, one which killed him. You don't know his sons, casually meeting people is not knowing them. End the name dropping. His sons get death threats and hate from whites, so you can end your lecture. I have sat in meetings and social settings with top level people of many races. I grew up in a town that's probably 90 percent white. I have childhood friends still living who are white. This is not about us not knowing anything about whites and racism is not dead among white people. If you had the intelligence you claim, then you understand why blacks say what we do about racism. You do not seem to understand the simple reality of the statement, (to paraphrase), "for every action there is a reaction".
Whites such as yourself, not all whites, seem to think hat 241 years of continuing racism against us will produce blacks who are not angry and will just forget about how they themselves have been treated. You seem to live in a world where you think that just because you say is illegal so that means it's stopped, and you refuse to understand the distrust between the races has been created by whites. I'm sure you cannot understand how that is said, and you will fire off with the you are a racist line. Those who you call Intelligent whites who interact with blacks understand this. I've talked with powerful whites both republican and democrat who were able to tell me how blacks have been wronged, not the racism happens on both sides argument those like you present.
I’ll end this by saying what racism is not. It is not complaining about racism directed at blacks by whites. It is not the angry response to the built in disrespect of a persons humanity by the race that thinks they are superior either. It is not the animosity built up in those who have been the ones disrespected by the race that thinks they are superior. A lot of whites do not seem to understand what white racism has done and then want to quickly call racism the angry reaction, responses and animosity created by white racism.
Fighting Racism is NOT the same as fighting whites. You are only fighting whites.
You don't see it but you are as bad a racist as the whites you hold in contempt.
I've known more than a few white people who were sickeningly racist. I never befriended that type.
I've known as many racist blacks that were just as bad.
You keep referring to "WHITE PEOPLE", as if one size fits all.
ALL PEOPLE ARE NOT THE EXACT SAME.
Are you so extremely racist that you refuse to accept that many white people are not racist?
I have never contributed to the past events you want to continue to use to prosecute whites today. Some deserve it, many do not.
Your thinking that ALL WHITES must pay for events that occurred long before their conception is misguided. I owe you nothing. Noone does.
Drop the entitlement mentality. Leave the 19th century already.
And btw....generally speaking, intelligent black people are much less likely to buy into your extremist views, fortunately.