Is anyone scared for this country right now?

100 percent agreed. with MLK he was teaching by example. you dont do things by violence but by love. teaching each other to love one another and to accept differences. theres none of that now. now it seems there are just HATE groups. this group of people vs that group of people. everyone for themselves. just a bunch of selfishness and careless behaviors. like you said its just getting more and more worse. people are treating each other like crap and no morality and respect for each other.

@theowl: I guess you folks don't remember when Watts and the south side of Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, burned in 1965-66. There was plenty of racial violence when King was around.

@VioletRayne: On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths. His death, and the police’s refusal to arrest the white man whom eyewitnesses identified as causing it, sparked a week of rioting between gangs of black and white Chicagoans, concentrated on the South Side neighborhood surrounding the stockyards. When the riots ended on August 3, 15 whites and 23 blacks had been killed and more than 500 people injured; an additional 1,000 black families had lost their homes when they were torched by rioters.

@hunkalove: He is very selective on his race views, he could do some research

@hunkalove: People were fed up; there was bound to be violence but it wasn't as bad as it could've been because there was a figure like King....The problem is Trump opened Pandora's box to get in office. He alienated groups of people, condoned violence, and those apathetic stood by and let it happen. He can run around screaming Come together all he wants, no one believes him. He's got a very large number of people who are angry and feel he doesn't represent them. Then he invigorated every wacko, racist sycophant, militarist, nutjob out there. That's not going away anytime soon. It was already coming to a head before he was elected. Now it's going to erupt.

@VioletRayne: In Detroit 1943, 4300 Federal Troops wounded 2500 Blacks after the last of the great white race riots. Police, local whites, National Guard and Federal troops turned on Black Detroit. Blacks were beaten openly in public by literally thousands of whites chasing and beating them while police searched and disarmed them to make them easy prey. The Detroit Police Department participated in many murders and freely participated in mayhem towards Blacks.

Every Black person in sight was searched and even their pocket knives were removed. Then they were left to the white rioters who in turn, maimed or murdered a totally defenseless victim. Police were rerouting Blacks in motor vehicles to dead ends where white rioters where waiting to beat and murder them. Many Blacks had placed their faith in the hands of Police for protection, only to have that trust betrayed, and their lives exterminated.

@nedkelly: 1919 had nothing to do with MLK. There was a lot of bullshit going on when people were fighting for their civil rights. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm saying this is happening because of Trump. If you make people feel like they have no hope and there is no outlet for them, they take it out on everything around them. Trump has made people feel that way. There is real fear of persecution, of being thrown back into a society where nothing but Lily white is acceptable. That's going to bring with it violence unless someone steps up and says you aren't going to fix anything by destroying live and livelihoods. That person can't be Trump. To a lot of people Trump may as well be riding around on a horse in a white hood burning crosses. We need someone sensible to make a stand on both sides. Trump can curtail the sycophantic section of his following but there needs to be another figure to curtail the enraged section of the rest of society.

@VioletRayne: you stated no riots before because MLK -wrong

@nedkelly: Ok let me specify since you want to nitpick. I was speaking in a general sense. Before MLK there was lots of Riots, lots of unrest, lots of hopelessness during MLK there was less riots because He showed people that it wouldn't work, he urged that people had to voice their concerns without it. Was there still rioting yes, but usually through oppositional outliers like the panthers and Malcolm X. It is evident that there is no one with any real influence like King urging peaceful change, Urging unity, Urging human decency. People have been vilifying the idea of PC and saying it doesn't really serve a purpose, well do you like what you see when PC is out the door? Words matter! Wars have been started over less🙄