was MLK a racist?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

No I don't believe so. Unlike some leaders I would consider racist, like Farakhan, MLK wanted equality among the races. He didn't strive for blacks to be superior to whites, and he didn't strive for the races to be seperate but equal. He strived for equality and all races living together, and didn't talk down about white people, so I don't think he was racist

Answer 3

As far as I am concerned, in the year 2007, any Group, that is promoting their group, deserves the same confrontation reserved for the KKK.

Even MLK was very guilty of spinning the situation down South!

The Blacks were having a hard time, but were free to move! They also abandoned the Whites to the Carpet Baggers and ran out and formed their own communities! It was only after they fell behind in their run down "Own" communities that they started trying to move back into the "Whites"rebuilt towns! I would have to say: What did they expect-Great big "Welcome Home "Signs?

Answer 4

No. During his career as an activist, black people were still being forced into segregated sections and at times were still being drug through town tied to pickups.

In case you don't remember, one of the inspirations behind MLK's activism was the murder of Metger Evers.

Perhaps you should avail yourself of some history books.

Answer 5

No, but a lot of his "successors" are, like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

These people aren't new. Back around 1900, Booker T. Washington said: "There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the ***** race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the ***** to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs...There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."

Answer 6

no, he fought for equality. However, many powerful blacks such as Sharpton and Jackson have taken his name in vain. The NAACP used to be a good organization, now it is racism with a law degree. MLK did good for our country. I believe all citizens of any color are equal and should have equality in opportunity.

Answer 7

Yes he was.

The FBI has tapes of him in a hotel room screwing a white prostitute yelling, "I aint a N*gger tonight! -Am I?"

Whether or not they should have been taping him is questionable, but indeed he harbored less than honorable traits including cheating on his wife hundreds of times.

These tapes the FBI has are not in doubt anymore and will always shame his image . He had a dream alright: white woman on their knees.

Answer 8

Yoh wouldn't know unelss you knew him personally. he had nothing against other races (he associated and got along with people of other races), he thought it was wrong for blacks to not get the freedom they deserved.

Answer 9

No! Why would you ask such idiotic question on MLK day?

Answer 10

No, he wanted equality between races.


"I have a dream that one day... little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." -Martin Luther King Jr.