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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-21-2011 @ 11:14AM
duke said...
If MLK was white would he get this statue?
I did not say there were "other" monuments kris, or the fact they were white. The men you named formed a country in its infancy.
the post was to question if A white man did what MLK did would he have a statue.
Simple answer: No
vietnam has no bearing on this, or his "thoughts" on vietnam. Millions opposed vietnam, and as A nation it was our worst hour. Vets came home and were spitted on- where was MLK?
King stated that North Vietnam "did not begin to send in any large number of supplies or men until American forces had arrived in the tens of thousands". King also criticized the United States' resistance to North Vietnam's land reforms. He accused the United States of having killed a million Vietnamese, "mostly children."
The speech was a reflection of King's evolving political advocacy in his later years, which paralleled the teachings of the progressive Highlander Research and Education Center, with whom King was affiliated. King began to speak of the need for fundamental changes in the political and economic life of the nation. Towards the time of his murder, King more frequently expressed his opposition to the war and his desire to see a redistribution of resources to correct racial and economic injustice. Though his public language was guarded, so as to avoid being linked to communism by his political enemies, in private he sometimes spoke of his support for democratic socialism. In one speech, he stated that "something is wrong with capitalism" and claimed, "There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism."
He wanted redistribution of wealth why?
socialism is a watered down version of COMMUNISIM.
MLK does not deserve a statue.
MLK has some good Ideas and basically was a good man. He served his own interest more than you know. Ignorant of MLK, No, opinion differs from yours? Yes.
Kim- MLK was a follower of Gandhi, and acted as Gandhi did in his country.
As a model that is.
I would have liked to have met MLK,but not erect a monument to him in washington DC.