Skin color is nothing but an increased amount of melanin in the skin due to ancestors exposure to a higher ir lower degree of ultra violet light based on proximity to the equator causing vitamins d to be balanced differently leading ultimately to melanie production increasing or decreasing.
You said that he was buried at the same cemetery as his parents but he died before either one of his parents died. His parents attended his funeral and his dad famously collapsed at his sons funeral. His brother and his mom were both assassinated after his death. His brother Alfred died in 1969 and his mom was assassinated in 1974 and MLK Sr died of a heart attack in 1984.
Legal segregation went away by the early 60s. Most private "discrimination" was made illegal in the c. 64 federal civil rights legislation which required "public accommodation" to not discriminate. MLK had shifted his concerned to "class warfare" issues; MLK was where he was killed because of a strike of "garbage men." The workers were mostly black. RFK had also shifted over to "class warfare" issues. In the back of my mind, I suspect that this was the reason both of them were killed but we will never know.
@@Chisszaru -- That's nice, I suppose. I lived in DC c. 1960. Government required segregation was gone. There was a bit of segregation. I taught part time at a commercial business school. Monday & Wednesday classes (evening) were for white folks; Tuesday & Thursday were from blacks. Friday was the "make up" day and anyone could substitute one of his regular days for Friday. If you follow the US news, this type of segregation is coming back to most of our colleges and universities.
So the old town i used to live in had this really awesome librarian. I got to know her from tutoring people for the GED. Come to fine out she was babysitting his kids the day he was assassinated. He was a family friend. She was 16
Really great episode Chris. But your writer made a mistake. Number 93. Presidents day celebrates both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, it also falls between their birthdays.
I love Martin Luther king jr and everything he did but here are some things worth giving attention to to further your understanding of this time. This is in no way me trying to trash him or his accomplishments but to further empathize his being a human. He had flaws. Once again this should not dismiss his amazing life. There is just more to the story that over publicized and commercialized storytellers don’t like to mention: Martin Luther king was also famously sexist and had black women march at the back of lines at his marches. Rosa parks worked for the NAACP and spoke out against rape especially the rape of women of color. She sat down on purpose. It was all planned. Rosa parks did not garner the immediate attention of the public before MLK stepped onto the scene because he was a powerful and well known man. She was given almost no credit at the time. It is also worth mentioning that Claudette Colvin was also pregnant. She was 15. Her parents sued the bus company but later dropped the charges because she was a pregnant 15 year old without a job and it would make it much harder for her in life. Also, it is important to know that MLK was an amazing man who did so much but he was not perfect. He had his flaws and was unfaithful to Coretta, his wife. This doesn’t dismiss his amazing career as an activist but it does give a sort of reality check that very few things in history are 100% perfect and kind or 100% terrible. Like is a little more intricate than that and it is important that we scope out the complexities of these times and people. So no, he would not be against BLM. He was against women marching at the front, but not BLM. (It is also worth mentioning that I don’t think he was a bad person at all. I am a person of color and I think what he helped do was incredible and beyond what anyone thought was possible for a black man to do at the time. I am simply stating fact to emphasize that intricacies of history and the lees known parts of these peoples lives 😃)
Needs more emphasis on how MLK Jr was a socialist. Make the right wingers and white moderates who think he’d agree with them big mad. BD Also, I found out that Dr King had been to Louisville bc I found a monument to the civil rights protests via Niantic’s original game Ingress. Made me wish that my school had had a field trip either close to MLK day or during Black History Month stuff so we could’ve known that history was closer than just Alabama as the classroom taught it.
Did you know that the most important thing to him was that he was a christian? He beleived all people are made in the image of GOD, and that's why it is so insanly wrong to oppress people just beacause they look a little different than you.
@@itiswhatitisbshhh Wow they covered him up online since I went and graduated from college 10 years ago. I have a degree in American Studies. I had to go over him a bunch of times. I don't want to start a world war here, because it's race. I can attach link if you want to know more, But he was on the road like all the time and his wife stayed home taking care of the kids. His wife knew this, but he mad mistresses all over the place, that was main thing FBI had on him, and he really didn't like white people.
"The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The “best man” at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade." -Martin Luther King Jr
In Critical Race Theory, "equity" is the opposite of "equality" before the law. In essence, equity is RACISM, the bigotry in the vicious hellscape created by malevolence. 🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷 🇺🇸 Marc J. Metivier 🇺🇸
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would oppose Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and Critical Race Theory were he alive today. Reverend King said: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." 🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷 🇺🇸 Marc J. Metivier 🇺🇸
@@Idk-dc7hv In Critical Race Theory, "equity" is the opposite of "equality" before the law. In essence, equity is RACISM, the bigotry in the vicious hellscape created by malevolence. 🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷 🇺🇸 Marc J. Metivier 🇺🇸
