Who are the modern day Martin Luther Kings?

Answer 1

Next time you see a kid with a bandanna over his mouth and an anarchist flag waving in his hands, chanting down Babylon to the overzealous SS; that kid scurrying from lacrimogenous gas is a new MLK. He is putting himself in the line for out global rights and he will accomplish much.
This are different times and we HAVE different heroes.

Answer 2

MLK came on the scene at a time when America had emerged from two wars and the economy was growing by leaps and bounds and out of all of this emerged a collective empathy/openness/altruism eventually fully blossoming in the early 60s especially among the young .

Universities returned to what they were always intended to be which is a center of challenging everything including societies morality and ethics.

The demonstrations/sit-ins were wide spread and included not only the young but many in the older groups who were fighting for a host of issues from stopping the Vietnam War to women's lib to racial equality.
It was/is a historic period in that social justice was either at last brought to millions or the ground work was started for the future.

It was in this period where at long last SLAVERY (and make NO mistake that the South ruled by Jim Crow laws was still a slave area) was buried and the historic Civil Rights Legislation was passed which Southerns tried like hell to stop .

As the 70s dawned and a new generation emerged ,the spirit of the 60s was gone and replaced by what some call the "ME GENERATION" of spoilt ,indulged individuals whose primary and often only concern was themselves.


Today and led by the South ,the US is sadly coming full circle with ever mounting NEO-RACISM often disquised as something else.

The South being driven by the Christian fundamentalists (whose major Church the Southern Baptist Convention
which was founded in 1845 purely to give Christ's support to slavery) will not rest until they win the Civil War for they never give up trying.

All of this to say,that in essence there are simply NO MLKs today for MLK 's success/triumphs depended largely on a committed,involved,outward looking ,altruistic ,activist population which does not exist today.

The neo-racist conservatives including the Christian fundamentalist RIGHT ,rule the roost today.

Answer 3

Barack Obama

Answer 4

They saw what happened to Martin and decide to take the hush money instead of picking up the banner.

Answer 5

As a kind voice Bill Cosby is. Other than that I can think of no one that helps any specific race without causing the race itself some kind of harm.

Answer 6

Since blacks have more rights than anyone else, they don't need one. What racism is left in this country is not going to be erased by speech, or laws. The more laws and the more crowing about equality there is, is going to create more racism.

Answer 7

What does it matter. They are dead.

Answer 8

There are none.