What MLK might have to say about America today
Posted By: Mercedes44, 1/19/2026 5:08:54 AM
What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have to say about his country’s contentious racial landscape on this, his 97th birthday? America is a far different place from the nation that saw King felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968 at the young age of 39; different even from the country that made this a federal holiday in 1983. Black Americans still face real inequities. Look at the huge numbers of crime victims, disproportionately black, generated by terrible progressive policies on public safety. Or the decay of America’s public schools, once an engine of black social mobility:
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