If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, would he be in business with the likes of The Reverend Jesse Jackson, and The Reverend Al Sharpton?
All day today, the buzz on the news was that this was the 50th anniversary of his famous speech on the Washington DC mall.
He was an oppressed figure in his time-Persecuted in the South, plus the Kennedy brothers (Robert Kennedy was the AG at the time) tapped his phone and read his mail. He certainly had a personal basis for his impassioned speech. I, too, would have had a lot to say it if it had been me.
People have been saying, “What would he think today?”
I am not sure. I missed his moment. I only really know what people say about his “legend”.
But I wonder if, had he survived, he would have cashed in on the race industry and made millions of dollars like his progeny, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, among others.
On the one hand nobody seems to want to believe this, but on the other hand, guys like them seem to believe they are carrying his torch. So they must think that they are his legitimate legacy.
What do you say?
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