White people - quote THIS MLK, Jr. piece: Many of the young people proclaiming Black Power today were but yesterday the devotees of black-white cooperation and noviolent direct action. With great sacrifice and dedication and a radiant faith in the future they labored courageously in the rural areas of the South; with idealism they accepted blows without retaliating; with dignity they allowed themselves to be plunged into filthy, stinking jail cells, with a majestic scorn for risk and danger, they nonviolently confronted the Jim Clarks and the Bull Connors of the South, and exposed the disease of racism in the body politic. If they are Americas angry children today, their anger is not congenital. It is the response to the feeling that a real solution is hopelessly distant because of the inconsistencies, resistance, and faintheartedness of those in power. If Stokely Carmichael now says that nonviolence is irrelevant, it is because he, as a dedicated veteran of many battles, has seen with his own eyes the most brutal white violence against Negroes and white civil rights workers, and he has seen it go unpunished. Their frustration is further fed by the fact that even when Blacks and whites die together in the cause for justice, the death of the white person gets more attention and concern than the death of the Black person. Martin Luther King Jr. in Where Do We Go From Here? (1968, p. 34.)
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:27:34 +0000
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