Dr. King would be appalled at the Left/Democrats' constant attempts at dividing the People with sad & shallow Race Baiting. The Left/Democrats have worked incredibly hard for decades to keep the People divided based on Race. It's the only way they can continue winning any Elections. It's a very sad 'Divide & Conquer' mentality. Dr. King wanted a 'Color-Blind Society'. The Left/Democrats have done everything in their power to make sure that never happens. Dr. King would be very disappointed in today's Democrats. And that's the real truth.
And what has the right done to unite the people?
Trash gays?
Villainize Muslims ?
Cut benefits to working Americans?
My God, is this still going on? There's been enough extremism on BOTH sides of this to fill in the Grand Canyon. There's been enough effort at establishing guilt by association, and partisan race baiting, and not nearly enough honest examination of the issues.
As for that last RW, BOTH parties have done more than enough to further exacerbate the divides in America; BOTh have found that in their narrow partisan interest to do, and BOTH have done it, repeatedly. Neither has a monopoly on the practice. BOTH major parties have extremists in their hard=core bases, and among these are people whose views many of us would find reprehensible, for a variety of reasons.
As to the original argument, such as it is,it should be obvious to any thinking person that it is all but impossible for a minority of 1/8 of the population to "force" its agenda on the majority. Armed revolt would almost certainly have been futile, and probably a disaster. The CRM, as practiced by Dr. King and others, recognized this, and fought a battle aimed at winning enough of the hearts and minds of the majority to create a common cause, and establish the necessary political will to achieve its goals. It took the efforts of a great many people, both Black and White, to make that happen, and the achievement is no less for that; in fact, it is the greater and more remarkable for it. There is little question that Dr, King became the leading symbol for the movement (though the man himself would not have taken the credit for it), a movement he and many others saw as about ALL Americans, not just Black people. What his views in 1968 might have evolved into is and always will be a matter for conjecture; like Robert Kennedy, who was taken from us the same year, he was still a relatively young man, and we will never know with certainty what he might have become. He was a complex figure, not some one-dimensional hero for one race, but a leader in fighting for what he believed America's ideals should be, and historically it is more honest to see him in that context.
You say the Republican party is over 88% white. rdean says it is over 90% white. When are you liberals ever going to sit down and decide on a percentage?
