Reply #10: this part gets me too

[dana_b]

"So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would never live on the same block in Detroit."


I was watching msnbc and because of MLK day they had a poll regarding race relations in the U.S. and according to the poll 72% thought that race realations are okay although the breakdown showed that whites viewed it more positively than blacks/African Americans.

We send the poor to the wars because that they have few options. The neighborhoods are still divided and economic and social justice are a long way away for most. Have we learned any of the lessons that Dr. King taught us?