Boilerman, it's nice that you endorse Martin Luther King Jr., but how about his words that go beyond the 35 words that right-wingers just love to quote. Like how about the following?
MLK Jr. on his "I Have a Dream speech:" I watched that dream turn into a nightmare as I moved through the ghettos of the nation and saw my black brothers and sisters perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity, and saw the nation doing nothing to grapple with the Negroes’ problem of poverty."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”
“White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society.”
"All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest."
"We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor—both black and white, here and abroad."
And MLK Jr. obviously believed in systemic racism: "It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle -- the disease of racism permeates and poisons the body politic."
If OAC said any of the above, Boilerman would go running to his fainting couch.
