He evolved breh...
He was talking that anti-war "communist"talk that got nikkas killed...
He started realizing like a few other blacks that integration was a huge mistake
Spinoff: If MLK were here today
- Thread starter Skrilla
- Start date
He evolved breh...
He was talking that anti-war "communist"talk that got nikkas killed...
He started realizing like a few other blacks that integration was a huge mistake
AlainLocke
Banned
i'm lying?
Integration was not about being able to use the same water fountain and go to the same schools..
Integration is ultimately about having the same laws and government protection be applied to everybody.
Meaning...White folks can't just run up in your house and drag you and your brother and fathers out and lynch and castrate and burn alive the entire male line of your family and walk away.
That type of shyt would happen to Black people all the time and there was nothing you can do about it and there was nothing the government would do about it and you just had to take it or White folks would come and burn your entire town down.
So when David Walker, Frederick Douglass and MLK were talking about integration...they were talking about Black Americans having the full use of government power like everybody else...
Integration ultimately comes down to the idea that we have a right to the USA more than anybody else...that there is a majority that unjustly claim this country and abuses the minority that actually worked and bleed and fought for this nation.
Integration has very little to do with social relations with the White populace.
Black Panther Party also fought for integration...Malcolm X in the end...also fought for integration...very few Black radicals fought for segregation...
AlainLocke
Banned
MLK did not think integration was a huge mistake. MLK thought integration wasn't the end all be all, without economic redistribution, Black Americans would still be at the mercy of White people.
MLK did not think integration was bad.
Im sure MLK seen how the communists were getting done...any sort of economic redistribution wasnt going to happen...and that kind of talk was not gonna fly...
Mistake is the wrong word...I think he was conflicted with his religion and that caused him to think that these supremacists would let us sit at the table from an equality standpoint...
I think he was going to do a full heel turn and the higher ups killed him before that happened..
I wonder how mlk would have reacted if he was around during the crack epidemic...that might have been his breaking point
AlainLocke
Banned
Well he launched his Poor People's campaign.
After MLK spoke against the Vietnam War it was over...
MLK was a democratic socialist all his life...he just didn't like the fact that socialists and communists aren't religious...and were totalitarian.
