Did Mr. M. L. King Have To Live A Nightmare?

[Owl]

I never stop hearing voices of those who take these freedoms we have now for granted as if we've always had them as if the relationships between Blacks and Whites have always been this way but if only you could have lived through the horror of just trying to be seen as a valued human being maybe then you could understand that 1960 isn't that far back.



FBI actions against Martin Luther King Jr.

[James M]

Yeah, do a quick study on the Life of Jackie Robinson trying to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball...the stuff he took, nobody should have to take from any man, and he took it for 3 years...things are better now, but they sure ain't perfect.

[slow genius]

I suppose he did yeah. I am young and wasn't even thought of in the 60's but my view is that it's sad in this country and in this world. You have to die in order for people to actually realize what you were trying to say or do. Same with Dr. King and same with many. Martyrdom is not in any sense something we should accept yet this happens all the time. People in general are resistant to change. Dr. King stood for change without violence and many people, as history and psychology shows, are not that way. Most resort to the more easy way; the more hostile way.

I suppose I may sound like a ramblin' kid but I know a thing or two about these matters.