If Rev. Martin Luther King were alive today, he would...
Name: B O P Email: supa_ronn@hotmail.com Response:
Dr. King, as good a person as he was, cannot come back. What we should be asking is what are we going to do about all of the problems we face as Afrikans in America? We should start by forgetting all of the "What ifs" and "Coulda beens" and then start doing for self. That is something Dr. King would have done.
Name: Randi Washington Email: Jermy Shelton@wcs.com Response:
I would think that he would not be too
happy about all the people killing each
other over stupid stuff and like that
Name: Tim Jr. Email: tim.alston@ccmail.irs.gov Response:
As a people we would have understood the impact
of economic development alot sooner than now.
Dr. King, before his death, was about to embark
on a new campaign aimed at amassing the
underprivileged, underserved, and invisible
parts of our society. I believe that it would
have been successful because, as shown in the
strike in Memphis, collective bargining brings
about equitable compensation. We as a
community have a net worth of over $400 billion
dollars yet there is only a trickle of that money
being recycled back into our communities. We
should be concentrating on the manufacturing
aspect of this economy because everything we purchase
someone else is making. Dr. King would have mobilized
our dollars to work for us. He began to understand
that in a free market society the might dollar roars.
This is how you get the attention of corporations/governments
by affecting the bottom line.
Name: Email: shannonb@gcc.dcc.state.nc.us Response:
If he were alive today I feel that he would have turned his back on the masses of black people just like other older blacks that feel things are so much better for us in this country. I feel that he would have forgotten the importance of cherishing our heritage and need for self-empowerment and made us feel like we were seperatists if we continue to want things to remind us of the unity we once had. I feel that he would be a political pawn in the US government that continues to oppress black people today. It is so sad that a race of people want to beg another race of people to accept them. Dr. King had good intentions when he set out to gain civil rights for minorities and in an equal society he could have been on the right track. Unfortunately, this country does not thrive on equality. It thrives on distruction and and discrimination. If all things were equal I feel that we would all be "free at last", but sadly, we are all still high priced slaves to the system. Stop the violence and learn to love one another- that is the key to freedom for black people.
Name: Buckshot Email: Response:
be upset at the way things are and the lack of unity in the black community.
Name: BIGJIM Email: BIGJIM18@OLS.NET Response:
If DR. King were alive to day, he would probability be the icon of a strong black nation; something we lack today. With all this black on black crime our race is divided more than ever. Don't put on the white race they know how to stick together even if they don't like each other, something we must learn to do.
Name: Nnamdi Nzingha Email: Response:
If the good Dr. was alive today, I think he would be deeply saddened by the insane way we are treating each other, and the retrenchment in Civil Rights in Amerikkka.
Name: Rev. Maxine Allen Email: mallen@itc.edu Response:
Dr. King would be very disappointed at the lack of follow-up to the civil rights actions of the 1960's. He would be disheartned at the failure of parents/significant elders to teach the children on how they have what they have. Dr. King would cry about the violence which we allow to exist in our communities and the genocide which is taking place among our young people. Dr. King would call each of us to accountability for what we have allowed to transpire in our communties--because of our lack of understanding about who and whose we are!
Name: GARY GOLDEN Email: GOLDENG@PENTAGON.ARMY.MIL Response:
I FEEL DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD BE GREATLY DISTURBED IF NOT HEART BROKEN BY (1) THE BLACK ON BLACK CRIME; SPRITUAL AND SOCIAL BREAKDOWN OF MANY IN THE BLACK COMMUNITIES; AND THE WILLINGNESS TO EASILY FORGET THE LESS FORTUNATE IN THE INNER CITIES AND RURAL AREAS. HOWEVER, I BELIEVE HE MY BE HEARTENED BY THE PROGRESS MANY OF US IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY HAS MADE AND THE WILLINESS OR AT LEAST THE REALIZATION OF US CHRISTIANS THAT IT IS NOW TIME TO ACT TO STRENGHTENED THE BLACK FAMILIES RATHER THAN SIDE ON THE SIDE-LINES THEORIZING. I ALSO THINK THAT DR. KING WOULD MOBILIZE THE BLACK COMMUNITY (SPECIFICALLY CHURCH FOLK) TO INCREASE OUR EFFORTS TO LOVE AND HELP OTHERS IN NEED.
Name: DAVID ROBINSON Email: D4DESIGNS@AOL.COM Response:
If Dr. King were alive today I believe he would be outraged at the current state of affairs in this country. He would be outraged by the efforts to destroy affirmative action....by the voter apahty of Americans...especially African Americans. I'm sure he would be outraged by the efforts to do away with welfare for the poor and not the rich....I sure he would be concerned about the young
people who are often disrespectful to their elders and themselves and exhibit no direction and demonstrate no home training. I think Dr. King, a man who was cursed, stabbed, and shot and still believed in nonviolence would be outraged by the level of violence in our society today. Dr King would be very very upset if he was able to see what was going on today.
Name: Doby London Email: LONSIND@concentric.net Response:
I think Dr. King would be very sad if he were
alive today.Our young brothers are killing each
other at an alarming rate and it seems we have
lost all control of our communities.Our morals
and belief in god seem to be nowhere to be found.
The separation of church and state is distroying
our country and our children along with it.
Now we are faced with the prospect of Ebonics
killing them off in the market place,yes i guess
the white man can see some good in Ebonics,it
takes us right out of the work force.Being a 48
year old black man i am disturbed to say the
least that our youth can't spell or add whole
numbers much less fractions,and try asking one
of them where Europe is on a map.Don't get me
wrong,i'm not putting this generation down but i
hope they see what is going on with the supreme
court and realize that most of the gains that
Martin Luther King died for may not be around
in a few years.They must know that the struggle
is not over and they must keep their eyes on the
prize.Well,i've been long winded enough,but
giving a Basketball player 128 million dollars
and leaving our schools with no books and subpar
teachers is not solving the problem.Lets get
with it sisters and brothers, were running out
of time and the clock is ticking !!!!!!!!
with brothers and sisters,the clock is ticking...
Name: N. Jones Email: nicci@cedric.com Response:
Dr. King would be thoroughly disgusted with the capitalist system. I don't think he would believe that desegregation failed, but the system was founded with the need of a perpetual underclass, no matter the color. It is convenient to keep Blacks disenfranchised because of the historical precident of racism. Dr. King was definitely becoming more radical toward the end of his life and I believe he may have gone the way of Dr.Dubois, but I think he was to invested in the masses to leave the country as Dubois did. If King had lived longer, he still would have died in America.
Name: Renetta M. Email: johnnytinez@msn.com Response:
I know he would be very dissapointed in us for not carrying on the dreams that he spoke about. He had given us a great start and opened several doors for us before his death,
we have let him down tremendously.
We have got to stop "Black on Black Crime". We have to help ourselves before we can expect anyone else to lend a hand.
Thanks for posing such a great question.
RM
Name: George Email: geeman345@aol.com Response:
I think he would be dissapointed in the poverty
in this country while some have so much.
I think he would be dissapointed in Blacks who
make it and dont look back. also the white male
backlash we are now experincing now.
Name: Sandra Webb Email: SWEBB3@sss.cba.va.edu Response:
I am a black student at the Unversity of Alabama and I know little about the discrimation that goes on around here. I think Rev. Martin Luther King would be very upset at what is going in today's soceity of black people, The very things that he was fighting for back then are the very things that some of us are taking for granted. For example: the schools, some young black people are not taking advantage of this FREE education. Me on the other hand am trying to soak up as much as possible so that I can better provie for myself in the immedate future. We need to revaluate ourselves and realize that there is more out there to acheive than just fun and games. I ask those who don't take their education seriously what are you going to do when you have played all of the games and had all of the fun what do you have to fall back on? The Rev. Martin Luther King would be very disapointed in some the things that we are let happen to the black communties and the young as well.
