I fully acknowledge the greatness of the King speech but also question the character and motives of the man, who had a reputation as a communist and a whore monger, coupled with the fact that the great race riots of the 60's followed him wherever he went. By their fruits you shall know them.
The real issue today is what has been the net benefit of the civil rights movement to the American Blacks? With any socio-economic indicator, are they any better off today than they were in 1970? America continues to fail them, and the terrible face of that failure today is the practical extinction of the American Black family (no father and mother to beget and rear the children). Sexual immorality, contraception and abortion have been exterminating the American Black communities at an alarming rate throughout my lifetime and I have seen the results with my own eyes, beginning in my home of Wilmington, NC, and now in urban New Jersey for the past thirty years. In Wilmington the black population has been almost entirely uprooted and transplanted, and shuffled around. And in the New Jersey cities the black neighborhoods have been largely repopulated by foreign blacks. In my city, for example, if you see a black married couple with children you can be sure they are immigrants!
The American Black is largely living in social upheaval in pockets which comprise all of the nation's ghettos, under welfare-state programs, and slowly being destroyed by cultural suicide, with no solution in sight. However, Giuliani transformed New York City in one decade. That is a rare exception by a political hero, but the abortion/contraception genocide there continues. 60% of the black pregnancies in NYC end in abortion. Most of the American cities are war-zones where only those who cannot afford any other housing settle.
I have, what seems to me, an impossible dream...of a world in which there will be thousands of prosperous and peaceful and culturally distinct American-Black towns in America and throughout the world, which to date do not even seem possible. In contrast there are countless pleasant white places all over the countryside. All of the desirable real estate municipalities of the nation are predominantly white towns and neighborhoods. Just take a drive through the towns on the Jersey Shore, or any US shore for that matter, or through towns in any rural area, and stop at a restaurant in any decent neighborhood in any town and you can be sure it is not owned and operated by American Blacks.
I call that a total failure. It has all the marks of communism. We have created an tidy, ever-shrinking, black, communist sub-culture in America.
Some may deem this conversation controversial, and will ignore the argument by demonizing the messenger.
Anyone who thinks that there is nothing wrong with the plight and the downward trend of the American Black throughout our lifetime, is either blind, stupid or bad. Granted, the cultural demise of the nation is not restricted to the blacks, but it is most evident in them.
Here is the most recent on the FBI King Files, from the BBC, November 4, 2017. Explosive Martin Luther King document amid JFK files
Cf. Harlem is God's Commentary on Park Avenue, Thomas Merton