If alive, what kind of President would Dr. Martin Luther King make?

Question

Dr. MLK, preached civil movements through nonviolent means. How do you think he would have responded to terrorist acts upon our fertile grounds here in the U.S.?

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I don' t know if he would want to be President. I think he had a higher calling, which was serving those who had no voice in America.

If he was President he would not be able to serve African Americans. No publicly elected official can represent the needs of blacks. Most go out of there way to show that they are not showing favoritism for their people which essentially make them in effective.

So I would say that he served his intended Purpose just like Malcolm X, both were great men who did a lot for African Americans during a very difficult time in history.

Answer 2

If King had been president in the 60s, he might have set our country on a different course. We would have practiced less imperialism. We wouldn't have murdered millions of innocent people around the world, corrupted the politics of a dozen nations, supported brutal right-wing dictators etc.etc. In consequence terrorism might not be nearly the problem it is today.

If King was president -today- I doubt he could be effective at all. If he tried to do a good job for the people, the real powers that be would demonize him. The Republicans would spend all their time pelting him with their feces, as they did with Clinton, accusing him of everything from treason to murder to drug-dealing. And the Democrats would do the same thing! He'd get no cooperation from Congress. He'd probably be impeached on fake charges like Clinton was, perhaps assassinated.

Answer 3

I actually think he might have been good,although he would make both democrats and conservatives of our day blanche with his genuine and overt concern for the poor and downtrodden of society.

I think primarily he might have done two things which are sorely needed in our country.

1. Kept and maintained a degree of compassion and charity which had existed in society alive to some extent or another.

2. I think he would be appalled at the state of African American sub-culture in the US today, with both the casual disregard for education and family and community cohesion is such that modern African Americans no longer need the oppression of non-African peoples, when they have become so effective at promoting self-destructive stereotypes and cultural mores within their own culture.

Answer 4

Who knows. He was great at inspiring but running a nation and all the hodgepodge that goes along with it?

Very hard to say as his best known aspect is civil rights through passive aggressive means.

Answer 5

I think he would have been great leader and may well have been able to prevent 9/11 from happening in first place

Answer 6

I think he would have made a great president, but being a man of God in this day and age, I doubt he would have been elected.

Answer 7

Well, if he hadn't been murdered, and JFK and RFK hadn't been murdered, we would live in a very different country, one that wasn't always overthrowing legitimately elected govts of foreign countries, stealing their resources, and engendering their honest hatred.

I think he would have been wonderful leader who would have inspired all of us to do our bests - which is why he was murdered when he started working on poverty and the vietnam war issues.

Answer 8

He would not have been a democratic or republican because it would not serve his purpose. He would have been the first Independent to have won the White House by a landslide margin.

Answer 9

Probably like Carter:
Admirably honest and ethical,
tragically naive.

Answer 10

Maybe he would do like democrats "and just talk to the terrorists."

Dr. King did a lot of good stuff. But he also cheated on his wife.
But idk, on the same grounds, he could be as good of a president as Clinton. lol