MLK jr day is on the 19th in 2026

[richardmurray]

Do you know the date's range is from the 15th to the 21st of january? What are your thoughts on MLK jr's advocacy for Black Empowerment in the USA coexisting nonvilently alongside the empowerment of non blacks? In hindsight where did MLK jr , make mistakes?

 

[Pioneer1]

I think MLK is one of the greatest leaders AfroAmericans and this nation period has produced.
He was and is a brilliant and brave man.

If I had to name 2 things where I thought he went wrong.................

1. He focused too much on integration instead of empowered separation.
He should have fought for the laws to be changed at every level to make sure we had equal access and opportunity at every level in the United States and fight to make sure those laws were enforce.  Outside of that, the focus should have been on progressing our ethnicity and culture as AfroAmericans.

2. Him and the rest of the Civil Rights leaders at that time should have focused more on fighting STRICTLY for the rights of FBA/AfroAmericans and not other minority groups.
They should have been very specific about the Civil Rights bill making it for us alone.
Not that other groups shouldn't have rights in this nation, but that they should have been the ones to fight for it themselves....not rely on us to do the fighting.

The second one, it's really hard to blame on him because it's not something he could have really forseen.
He was taken from us in 1968 and we didn't get a mass influx of immigrants into this nation until the 70s and later, so he didn't realize....as most of the Civil Rights leaders didn't....that so many of these non-White immigrants who BENEFITED from the Civil Rights struggle would actually come here and side with White Americans.