Whow would MLK, Jr have endorsed?
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/11/reality-check-democrats-would-martin-luther-king-be-supporting-bernie
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated as he and SCLC were mobilizing a multiracial army of the poor to descend nonviolently on Washington D.C. demanding a Poor Peoples Bill of Rights. He told a New York Times reporter that you could say were involved in the class struggle.A year before he was murdered, King said the following to journalist David Halberstam: For years I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions of the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think youve got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values.
Unlike what Hillary Clinton professes today, Dr. King came to reject the idea of slow, incremental change. He thought big. He proposed solutions that could really solve social problems.
Unlike corporate-dominated U.S. media, King was not at all afraid of democratic socialism.
Other eminent African American leaders have been unafraid. Perhaps its historically fitting that former NAACP president Ben Jealous has recently campaigned for Bernie Sanders in South Carolina.
If mainstream journalists did more reporting on the candidates actual records, instead of crystal-ball gazing about the alleged hold that the Clintons have over African American voters, news consumers would know about the deplorable record of racially-biased incarceration and economic hardship brought on by Clinton administration policies.
With income inequality even greater now than during Martin Luther Kings final years, is there much doubt that King would be supporting the progressive domestic agenda of Bernie Sanders?