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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 07:13 AM Feb 2016

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 we’re 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 you’ve 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 it’s 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 King’s final years, is there much doubt that King would be supporting the progressive domestic agenda of Bernie Sanders?
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Whow would MLK, Jr have endorsed? (Original Post) eridani Feb 2016 OP
Being from where I am I have asked myself RoccoR5955 Feb 2016 #1
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RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
1. Being from where I am I have asked myself
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 08:28 AM
Feb 2016

Who would Pete and Toshi Seeger endorse? You see, the Seegers are part of my extended family. Pete and Toshi have only been gone a short time, so I never got to discuss this with them.
I am quite sure that due to their accomplishments in life, and their values that they would have endorsed Bernie.
This became even more absolutely sure when Harry Belafonte came out and endorsed Bernie.

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