Sorry Charlie Hustle but I'm not gonna sprinkle it with sugar.
King wanted a society where everybody was equal which did happen in the 60's and continues up until today.
But he also wanted peace and harmony in society, that really hasnt happened.
And he also wanted blacks to have oppurtunitys, that has happened,very much so, just gotta go to high school,graduate, then college or enter the work force, learn a trade.
Alot of blacks have succeeeded in this way, but much much more havnt.
Now almost 50 years later you got a group with the highest drop out, single mother, violent crime, incarceration, and welfare reciepient rate in the country.
If King really does get responsibility for getting equal rights and opportunitys for Blacks in the USA then as a group they have failed him.
I believe alot of open minded black people would say the same.
Now back to you Bob Sagit.............
Of course people like you, in your love of the Horatio Alger type mythology, like to just think all a person has to do is pick themselves up by their boot straps to be successful, and if they don't it's always their own fault for not doing so (or insert many of the other excuses those people like to use to set blame on only a portion of everybody that deserves it).
Of course in the real world, it's very difficult for people that are in poverty to lift themselves out of poverty outside of luck. If there are people in the world that want to be stupid and fool themselves into thinking otherwise because it nicely fits into their ideology or conveniently shifts blame from them or makes them feel better about their own selfishness then there is nothing that can be done for people that think like that. People like me can't make others not be foolish for them. Only they can open their eyes and do that for themselves. Most of the problems that blacks face, and all poor people for that matter, now in one way or another come from poverty either today or from the aftereffects of the past.
Now it's true that everybody also has to except personal responsibility for their own actions, and many people black or otherwise have to face that a lot of their own actions have gotten them where they are, but to be naive enough to think the very deep faults of our society, economy, and government and the people that live under those things have no blame at all for it, and things wouldn't be vastly different if we corrected them a long time ago is just preposterous beyond belief.
Maybe what we all should do is take a long look at ourselves (I do this for myself, I don't hold other people to a standard I'm not willing to face.), without all the excuses, without telling ourselves things that make us feel good, without doing things that shift blame away from ourselves or people we like that's deserved, without looking out for what's in our individual best interest first, without all the bullshit rationalizations, without the mindless ideological dogma, when we strip all that down and force ourselves to see the very truth of reality stripped bare and laid before our souls. Then we can take the longest hardest look at ourselves we have ever done. We will be forced to confront ourselves, our real selves, and when we think about all the problems in our communities, our country, and our world, and what our actions and conduct have been all this time, when as we lay exposed and confront our inner most truth, we need to look deeply and truthfully at ourselves as we have never done and ask about ourselves when we think about all the problems and misery around us, "IN ANY WAY, AM I PART OF THE PROBLEM?".
