Sunday, May 13, 2007

Martin Luther King Jr.

Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt? Because MLK liberated them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race. The country would be very different with out of and many people would be killed, both black and white if he didn't help them. Whites do owe King a debt because he put an end to racism sooner than whites could do it alone.


Was King "the right man at the right time"? Yes, because he helped stop segregation and the blacks being the race lower then all others. Through his ideas, America would probably not be the same and blacks would keep on suffering through their lives. He did the right things at the right time. He was "the right man at the right time".


Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? Yes, because people are using his quote to get people to support their actions. People would think if some company uses his quote and says the MLK was with them then people that supported him would also support this business when really he probably wouldn't have agreed with them.

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