What he said in a May 1967 interview with NBC is particularly relevant to the times we're living in now:
[i]“I must confess that that dream that I had that day has in many points turned into a nightmare. Now I’m not one to lose hope. I keep on hoping. I still have faith in the future. But I’ve had to analyze many things over the last few years and I would say over the last few months, I’ve gone through a lot of soul-searching and agonizing moments. And I’ve come to see that we have many more difficulties ahead and some of the old optimism was a little superficial and now it must be tempered with a solid realism. And I think the realistic fact is that we still have a long, long way to go.” [/i]
@Rutterman Sometimes I wonder what Dr. King would think about the fact that in the South, they’ve gone almost full circle from guilt into denial and in some states won’t even teach school children about him, because they don’t want to discuss Jim Crow, the bus strike, the lynchings, or anything that explains [b]why[/b] he was so important to this country. 😞
