What do you think modern times would be like if Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were still alive?

Question

Would times be different or the same? Just curious...

And Ghandi....All three still alive today...

Answer 1

~Like with the Kennedy brothers, their value and contribution are magnified, mythologized, distorted and exaggerated by their martyrdom. Their impact and significance today are all the greater because of their deaths. I mean, Ralph Abernathy was still around until 1990 and Stokely Carmichael didn't die until '98, but you're not asking about them.

Answer 2

No idea. I think though that it was there deaths that also provided a great deal of impetus and momentum for the civil rights movement in the US. When a powerful and prominent black man (or men) can be murdered, it demonstrates just how an unfair society can destroy itself from within.

In King's death, he left a legacy that has not been forgotten may years later. In the 1980s there was dance club song that was based on his "I have a dream speech". (Frankie Knuckles)

It is possible that things would have been worse. Sadly, it takes a murder at times, for people ot open their eyes and begin to work for change.

Answer 3

Same, look at the Rev Al Sharpton and Rev Jesse Jackson, those 2 old windbags really haven't done much for the black cause.

Answer 4

The world would be a better place from having 2 more people on planet earth who care with such passion. However, the problems of this world are huge. I don't think these problems would have been swept away by their presence. But I also cannot help wondering, what if.....

Answer 5

Great question!!! I think with the power that each one had with the world in general, Things would not be the same.

Answer 6

I'd think they'd want us to refer to them as
"Muslim African Americans Who Hate Whitey"