Martin Luther King's Economic Dream: A Guaranteed Income for All Americans

[H. Selassie]

Always knew about the “burning house” quote but I had no idea Martin was so dangerous towards the white status quo in the end....


-Called the I Have A Dream speech a nightmare. Talking about how it was economically profitable for America to integrate restaurants and public transit and costed nothing to grant voting rights but were reluctant to create jobs and end poverty


-called America out for “subsidizing” whites with millions of dollars worth of land while hypocritically accusing blacks of wanting handouts.


-Telling Black people in Memphis to boycott Coca Cola, Wonderbread, and to take their money out of white banks

MLK was talkin that shyt

 

[ROLLTIDE4EVER]

How did TRM Howard and AG Gaston feel about guaranteed income? King was good on alot of things but economics wasn't one of them.

The commies helped King and others in civil rights movement, but the real unsung heroes were business folks to also funded the movement and used leverage to get attention to important matters. Blaming capitalism is futile when you can easily blame gov't interventionism for the same issues.

 

[Pressure]

#ADOS ain't gone like this :Denzlol:

 

[ROLLTIDE4EVER]

By 1965, LBJ helped push through the War on Poverty. You would've thought MLK Jr. and others would be ecstatic, but you have King despairing to Harry Belafonte about the future of Black America and race riots near the end of the decade. Alot of those riots involved unemployed youths, some people would say were displaced by minimum wage policies.

 

[ROLLTIDE4EVER]

Yeah, the elites had to kill this dude...

Can you imagine Martin rallying blacks and whites in the south for the same thing; racial politics aside and...

El Malik El Hajj Shabazz rallying blacks and whites up north for the same thing; racial politics aside...

X wasn't lobby for the gov't to provide AAs anything. He was pushing for freedom and more importantly blacks pursuing entrepreneurship to a greater degree.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

King was good on alot of things but

Go die somewhere.

 

[ROLLTIDE4EVER]

King was also a philandering who was lucky to not flunk out of Boston University. Now what?

 

[afterlife2009]

Sickens me when I see Glenn Beck and the Centrist Corporate Party (Dems) have rallies and give speeches in this man's honor. He stood against many things these entities are for. The revising of his agenda began the day he was assassinated.

lol yup. so many HL posters would've bushed MLK in the last year of his life

especially after his position on Vietnam and when the New York Times destroyed him in their op-ed page

 

[Vandelay]

X wasn't lobby for the gov't to provide AAs anything. He was pushing for freedom and more importantly blacks pursuing entrepreneurship to a greater degree.

True. Meant to say, equality and freedom from oppression

 

[Serious]

Always knew about the “burning house” quote but I had no idea Martin was so dangerous towards the white status quo in the end....


-Called the I Have A Dream speech a nightmare. Talking about how it was economically profitable for America to integrate restaurants and public transit and costed nothing to grant voting rights but were reluctant to create jobs and end poverty


-called America out for “subsidizing” whites with millions of dollars worth of land while hypocritically accusing blacks of wanting handouts.


-Telling Black people in Memphis to boycott Coca Cola, Wonderbread, and to take their money out of white banks

MLK was talkin that shyt

I gotta seriously read some more of his work.

 

[Serious]

@Rhakim you gotta drop a bar in this thread

 

[Professor Emeritus]

@Rhakim you gotta drop a bar in this thread

I thought people done knew this by now, has been discussed on this board before.

One of the reasons why I feel confident about a broad range of my positions is because some of the greatest figures in history landed upon the same range. The greatest freedom fighters realized that you couldn't stop at political equality. They fought for freedom AND for nonviolence AND for economic equality. You can't have one without the other two.

High-key this is why Mandela failed South Africa in the end. Fought for equality but never developed a strong ideological opposition to violence and made the "Grand Bargain" in the end to allow Black persons political equality without working towards economic equality. Now South Africa is mired in economic inequality and the resulting violence has a "Black" government that doesn't even care about the actual needs of the people.