The race-essentialist, "Bad America" heirs of Carmichael dominate today's civil rights leadership not any heirs of King, who professed to love and trust America as she achieved a post-racial identity.
"King's legacy" or not, however, the worm turned for good when SCOTUS permitted disparate impact "proofs" of actionable race discrimination to supplant proof by evidence of disparate treatment.
Speaking of righting wrongs, I need to right one in my earlier post. The send into battle phrase referred to Churchill's words, and was said of, not by, Churchill. Jim Dueholm
As usual, Paul does a masterful job of winnowing and sifting a thorny issue. I think King does belong in the pantheon of greatness. To paraphrase Churchill, King mustered the soul and the conscience of a nation and sent it into battle, with tactics that kept violence on his side at bay. He was Jackie Robinson on a different and larger field. We will never know what he would have said or done if he had lived past April 1968, just as we don't know how Lincoln would have handled Reconstruction. He was an essential force in righting ancient wrongs. What he would have said or done if he had escaped the assassin's bullet is speculation. Jim Dueholm.
The race-essentialist, "Bad America" heirs of Carmichael dominate today's civil rights leadership not any heirs of King, who professed to love and trust America as she achieved a post-racial identity.
"King's legacy" or not, however, the worm turned for good when SCOTUS permitted disparate impact "proofs" of actionable race discrimination to supplant proof by evidence of disparate treatment.
Speaking of righting wrongs, I need to right one in my earlier post. The send into battle phrase referred to Churchill's words, and was said of, not by, Churchill. Jim Dueholm
As usual, Paul does a masterful job of winnowing and sifting a thorny issue. I think King does belong in the pantheon of greatness. To paraphrase Churchill, King mustered the soul and the conscience of a nation and sent it into battle, with tactics that kept violence on his side at bay. He was Jackie Robinson on a different and larger field. We will never know what he would have said or done if he had lived past April 1968, just as we don't know how Lincoln would have handled Reconstruction. He was an essential force in righting ancient wrongs. What he would have said or done if he had escaped the assassin's bullet is speculation. Jim Dueholm.