would there be less racial hatred today if dr. martin luther king jr. hadn't been assassinated?

Question

having been graced by living in the days of stable families, attending high school as the first blacks came into my school and us liking one another an awfully lot, going into the fun of the beatles, becoming a flower power hippie, having a lot of disposable income, and then ! boom ! watching dr. martin luther king get assassinated--what do you think america would be like today if he had not been killed? i remember the times of peace and love, the time that everyone got along relatively well, even of different race, and then, when king was shot, all of a sudden people stopped publicly hugging. women's lib and black power groups began to run the show. hatred crept in. never did we go back to those peaceful times, life just became more stressful and filled with spite. do you think that if MLK continued his preachings that our society would have less racial hatred? i think so, and i wish he wasn't shot. he added SO MUCH to brotherly love. what do you think?

Answer 1

Probably the Civil War propaganda that was not corrected after the war did more harm than anything. It has actually grown into pseudo-truth (if there can be such a thing). Most people in the USA today actually think the war was fought to free the slaves. If we could go back today and fix the misconceptions about whites and blacks and slavery, we could wipe all racism in this country , at least for those who were willing to work on it. Unfortunately many politicians still make a living on this. What a shame.
I was raised in the Mississippi Delta in the 40's and 50's. Most of the time my neighbors were black. We all worked in the same fields, got the same pay, lived in the same housing, and some times when to the same church. We did go to different schools. That was Federal law, not Mississippi law. The white children had an old wooden school house with a coal stove. The black children went to a new brick school with running water and bathroom inside. We did not know why. I played with black children every day. I went to their house and they came to mine. We never heard of racism, or hatred. My dad got a car when I was about 7 or 8. When my mom would go to town she would take as many black women as she could fit in the car.
Most all black people then were very poor, as most white people were also very poor. When many today think of how bad it was for the blacks they forget how bad it was for the poor whites and Indians. We were lucky, my dad worked in the fields and also got a job at the Federal Compress because of his experience in the Army. He made about $120 per month. A field hand could make about $100 per month working 6 days a week from daylight to dark. This was for hoeing cotton. When picking season came in, you could get 2 cents per pound for picking cotton. Both jobs were seasonal. Everyone worked about 6 months out of the year, the rest of the time you looked for odd jobs. Times were hard, but everyone respected each other. No one stole from their neighbor. No one took dope, and few drank beer or wine. We all got along. We helped each other. There was no hate.
When I was 10 we moved away. I went back just a few years ago. No one had jobs, everyone was on food stamps and welfare. There was nothing there but a small grocery store and 2 beer joints, and fields and fields of rice.....sad.

Answer 2

I have a History Paper I wrote about Dr. King in my Jr. year of college. I received a 99, and my Prof. wrote, "Great research!" on top because I had read so many books to write a good paper. Every year I take it out and read it aloud at The Middle School here in town. The essay includes how I felt at 14 when Dr. King was shot, how my parents reacted and tried to explain it to me... a very political little girl who loved him very much. This year I especially enjoyed the reading since it was the 40th Anniversary. It's always so touching to see how passionately the 'tweens' react. Then we all light candles and have white cupcakes with white frosting.

Answer 3

Personally, I think there would be less racial animosity if he had never been born. Aside from all the flowery speeches, and the image that the media has created of MLK since his assassination, the truth is, he was not that popular when he was killed. he went around the country provoking red necks. When he got the reaction that he wanted, the politicians would respond by passing another law, and increasing the power of the federal government. That's the real reason they made a holiday for him.

I think that blacks would have been accepted sooner if there had not been so much confrontation. The politicians want confrontation. They want racial strife. That's what they work for. It's the old Divide and Conquer.

The Rap culture was created to alienate blacks from whites. The culture of American blacks was very similar to the culture of American whites forty years ago. Since that time, we have been treated to Rap and Hip Hop, the rags around the head and Kwanzaa. The politicians and mainstream media have done everything that they can think of to alienate one group from the other.

Now you know what I think.

Answer 4

actually, not many people know this, but i remember in my history class when we was talkin about MLK that before he died his speeches had actually become more radical, my belief b/c of his frustrations at the lack of progress, then his earlyier speeches which were more peaceful oriented. I hate to say it but he was killed at a good time b/c i fear that if he wasnt, his speeches wud start to alienate himself with just blacks b/c the whites who were involved wud have been scared or threatened away by his messages. Put it this way, from what i learned it seemed his future speeches might have been too radical for anyone to even consider changes. MLK was a martyr, and a damn good one too, becuase without his death the american public wud prolly not have took a step back and say woah all this racism stuff aint right

Answer 5

NO! The racial beast will rear his ugly head eventually. Just look at the race card being played today more than a slot machine at a busy casino. Blacks have no scruples, character, intellect, or responsibility for their actions.
MLK was a whoremonger, doper, pilagiarist among other things. They call that a street angel and a home devil; on the street, he's nice and cordual, but at home, he's satan revisited.
The night before he was assasinated at the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, he was having sex with three white prostitutes (one of whom he beat severly) and he was recorded by the FBI saying "I'm f*cking for God tonight!" "I'm not a Negroe tonight!"
He was a flawed, drunken, no-count burrhead!

Answer 6

Even one thousand Martin Luther King cannot make the change. Racism is deep-rooted in human hearts throughout the world for millennia, and it can only be abolished with time under a proper education which enlightens all hearts for the truth that mankind are one and are equally noble in the creation of the One True God. Each individual among us can contribute to remedy this disease by learning to love equally all mankind and actively pass this lesson on to our neighbours.

Answer 7

I agree whole heartily.if he had preached his peaceful Resistance to segregation & inequelity .all these years then the black folk would have listened & learned to a degree.to bettter themselfs both mentaly & psycicaly but also spiritualy.
when someone when I was a young hippie myself would say something against blacks, I would say,hey,I AM a black man, and proud of it, though I am as white as a person can get, ha ha.
I wish their would come to america another Ghandi type. King type person.King studyed & learned much from Ghandi.we truly need that person right now.spirituallity should prevale in society. not this mess we have now.It took a few months part time, but i painted for free an all black church property in my neighbourhood..True peace comes from the heart. Peace love and happiness. to you my sister.

Answer 8

There is only "hatred" because Whites are forced to import millions of non-Whites to their countries.

There's a reason Africa, Asia, and other areas of the globe do not import people outside of their dominant race.

"Diversity" and diverse nations are very much "White things."

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

People stopped hugging in public???????? what???

Sad to say but, no, there'd still be this type of hatred.