We Really Should Have Paid Closer Attention To Martin Luther King, Jr.

Forty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr., was murdered in Memphis, Tenn. He was assassinated before his work was done, but his role as a revolutionary has never been forgotten nor have some of his most famous words. There’s a lot of talk on the web today about how far we’ve come or haven’t come — and I think we both know and mostly agree with the arguments on both sides of that coin. But where could we have really benefited from his words, his influence, and his activism in the present day? We have only to look back at some of his speeches to see how his wise words could have helped us out of some of our deepest quagmires, if only we had listened…

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Apr 4, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 5 Responses

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No. 1 · Chic Noir

I wonder what this country would be like today is Dr.King was not assassinated. He had moved on to worker’s rights and fighting for the poor.

Posted: Apr 4, 2008 at 3:21 pm

No. 2 · me

Hoover and others would have sought to mar his accomplishments and legacy with attacks on his personal life.

I think it would be interesting to hear how he would evaluate our current social condition.

Posted: Apr 4, 2008 at 4:04 pm

No. 3 · Chic Noir

Me you are right,even today people want to talk about Dr. King’s personal life. People forget that we are all three dimensional(sp).

Posted: Apr 4, 2008 at 5:26 pm

No. 4 · Chic Noir

I wonder how he would feel about Obama.

Posted: Apr 4, 2008 at 5:26 pm

No. 5 · Eric T

If King was alive today, he would have been shot again because he was shot in the same year that he started moving away from race and towards economics in a way that was anti- capitalist. America, as we all know, doesn’t fuck with its money, and add to the fact that he’s black, he would be deemed “too radical” and “un American” just like he was 40 years ago. The way I see it, things in America have only changed on the surface. Most likely, no ones going to lynch me(although with the recent popularity of nooses I’m not sure anymore), and most likely, there’s no white mob that will chase me around with weapons calling me ‘nigger’(again, not sure), but for a lot of people, particularly those who are older and who were born/ alive during the 60s 70s etc, the racial attitudes are the same.

Posted: Apr 4, 2008 at 6:57 pm

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