Do you think that if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today he would have a different "dream"?

Question

I have been thinking about MLK's platform, if you will, and I think that it would not be applicable today. I believe it would be outdated. So much has changed since then. I'm sure he thought by now race wouldn't be a factor, but it still is and it is irreversible. His dream was basically for us to be colorblind, but that is impossible. Do you agree? What do you think?

Hip-hop is not the same thing as rap and he'd be smarter than to think that. Answer the question or shut the h up.

Answer 1

Absolutely not. Because little has changed, really.

Martin Luther King started out fighing the hiring practices of (then) big box stores, manufacturing and the hiring walls -- choosing to protest and BOYCOTT products, stores, etc. for what was apparent, and on record.

He would had evolved his approaches -- and in fact, he would have been elected President of the United States especially after the Nixon/Ford years which any Dem was a shoe-in, and the doors would have been WIDE OPEN for a man of his leadership... (instead of say, a completely useless alternative like Jimmy Carter, sorry to be honest).

Martin Luther King would have made a Huge Impact on today's youth -- and would not have allowed the music industry (mostly white record execs who say MAJOR $$$ after say, a "2 Live Crew" sold mega-copies of easily produced & hyped genre... to essentially help cripple the advances of the 60's and early 70's with a watered-down emphasis on the Lower Demoninators as being Most Important or "keeping it" Most Real, which has really hurt 2 generations of inner cities kids, sorry to say... (of earnest approaches to inner-city eductation and focuses vs. the run-away to the suburbs mentality, and limo liberal approaches of talking, yet doing nothing). Sorry to get off-track, or so you think it seems... to be honest with you... but, there's NO WAY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH THAT MLK WOULD HAVE ALLOWED any street fools, former criminals to make mega-millions using the word "n*gga" or anything derogatory in any way, shape or form... to be sold to 80% white kids, and no matter the color of the 'artist' -- denigrade a culture, by booty-shaking, high heel wearing, jiggling babies, and crushing the ambitions of both sexes of waves of 15-17 year olds, that have become 2 GNERATIONS of mothers & delinquent fathers... and have caused grandmothers that were born AFTER MLK was shot... to raise 2 and now even 3 generation of children? (come on)

Hiring was MLK's main issue -- and not the sugary image of white/blacks holding hands.

That is still the case. You can walk into many, many, many offices across Manhattan (for one city, and NYC is the BEST at EOE by the way) -- and see nothing but white faces in management & otherwise in advertising agencies, securities firms, banking management offiices (tellers? different story), fashion industry, media... and why? because HR hires their neighbors and these neighbors are from the white suburbs of New Jersey, Westchester, Long Island.. predominantly... and it's appalling how there's little follow-through on that Dream, in its basic components.

Now, if you want to say that there's no one HIREABLE. And that youth isn't learning, doesn't care, etc. etc. etc. vs. the 1960's and before -- that's another issue. And that comes down to the pathetic leadership that most cities have had -- since the 1960's that have simply ridden intact votes and NOT actually sought to do anything... in the big picture... as a LBJ, MLK etc. had done 2 generations ago.

Answer 2

Have you seen that one episode of the late night cartoon the Boondocks where Martin Luther King Jr. is still alive? hehe its pretty funny, it shows how he would react if he were alive today like your question basically asks. I forget details of the episode but it basically shows King losing hope in our generation because it has changed so much and telling us that we still need to take action ourselves or something like that. A good episode.

The wikipedia site i provided explains the episode in complete detail.

Answer 3

I don't believe it is TOTALLY impossible. I think people are hung up by racial categories and labels. But if you really, honestly think about it, look at it this way:

There's many Europeans/Caucasians who can have the fairest skin, blonde hair and blue eyes while others can be naturally tanned/olive and have dark hair/eyes and look Indian/Latin.

Hispanics encompass ALL races, from African features, very dark skin and hair to the stereotypical Mestizo/Mulatto with varied skin tones, brown/black hair and dark/light eyes to very, very fair skinned with light hair and eyes.

There are many African Americans/Blacks who have a wide variety of skin tones, from almost yellow to light, medium, and dark brown to even almost ebon in skin complexion.

But notice that because of racial labels, a Latin-looking Italian such as actor Michael Greco (who played Beppe in the east-enders), though he looks indian/latin, he's "white" because of his "nationality" Italian. You have the lighest, whitest complexed latins and sometimes even blacks who say they hate white people and pull out the race card when its apparent they have a substantial amount of Caucasian blood. You can take a latino of mulatto descent but someone would date him because he's latin, take off the latin label and he's biracial and because that's associated with being black people might not be so sure.

But do you see the catch? The whole concept of race and categorizing is what divides people. Why do people from India dislike black people when they too are brown skinned, some of them even almost dark ebon colored? Why do many latinos despise white people when the majority HAVE some form of white/european blood in them and without it they wouldn't have the Spanish language nor the features that come from the vast racial mixing. Why do Italians/Portugese/Spaniards act so racist towards non-whites when their very origin likely occured due to a racial mixing at one point?

You see, its labels. America cannot truly be free, the world even, if we get so hung up on pride, patriotism, and racial profiling. Take all those labels off and we are all PEOPLE.

MLK must be shaking his head with the kind of things that go on now. Jena 6, Don Imus, the various comics on BET, the whole rap industry, the way people have a chip on their shoulder and feel the world owes them something for what's done in the past, the gang wars in LA, even some of these fights on youtube. Its sickening. I don't think he's dealing with race where he's at, that's for sure.

Answer 4

Kellysmellybelly is that a crack pipe in your mouth?............his dream would free KFC for all the blacks 3 black hoes on every corner 4 crack dealer out side every booze outlet i have a dream

Answer 5

I think he'd take a look at this whole hip-hop gangsta culture and he'd beg someone to shoot him again

Answer 6

i don't think his dream would be different but it would be a different movement. i mean back then they were fighting for regular equal rights such as riding the bus and drinking out of the same water fountain. i think now the movement would be about educating people because we all know that racism stems from ignorance and fear of things one does not understand. so educating all about living in harmony with different people would be the key since we have our equal rights now

Answer 7

No but I think he would be disappointed that it didn't fully come to fruition.

Answer 8

I think the same as those closest to him did.Which was that he was a Marxist doing his best to foment racial unrest behind the facade of non-violence[which he admitted followed him like a shadow].http://www.daveyd.com/articlemythofdrking.html http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/MLK.shtml