American public figures due to world acclaim do not get much bigger than Martin Luther King.
MLK was our Mahatma Gandhi.
He was our profit of peace gained over madness and doom by never using violence.
MLK got it. He understood the human mind, the human predicament, the insanity that pushes white people to injustice and hate judging black people by the color of their skin.
MLK’s life was an homage to non-violence, to turning his cheek, to being beaten and arrested, set upon by dogs, and knocked to the ground by powerful streams of water at the hands of white haters.
White America didn’t come easily or willingly to grant black people their rights.
Martin Luther King was the enemy for many white Americans.
But many more white Americans approved of him and what he stood for.
The vast majority of Christian America and Jewish America stood for him and the just cause for equality he waged a life- long battle to achieve.
When he was cut down in the prime of his life in 1968, the nation was teetering somewhat like it teeters today.
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