The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.

president said in a radio address on civil rights.

That's discrimination pure and simple and is exactly what the civil rights laws were designed to stop,' the former U.S. 'The truth is, quotas deny jobs to many who would have gotten them otherwise but who weren't born a specified race or sex. In June 1985, Reagan who was against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cited King's 'content of our character' line from the speech in his argument against affirmative action, stating that King's vision of a colorblind society would not want racial hiring quotas. president, Ronald Reagan, used an excerpt from King's signature, 'I have a Dream Speech' posthumously to say something King would never approve of.

One of the widely known examples is when the then U.S. West said King's legacy 'gets sanitized and sterilized every January.' 'Underscoring his identification with the poor, his unapologetic opposition to the Vietnam War, and his crusade against global imperialism.' philosopher, and scholar said in a 2015 interview with the Chicago Tribune. And that radical love leads him to a radical analysis of power, domination, and oppression,' Cornell West, a prominent U.S. 'His fundamental commitment is to a radical love of humanity, and especially of poor and working people. King was a theologian and promoted non-violence but not in the way commonly portrayed by conservatives. On the contrary, his radical, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist stance on a litany of issues, such as being against war, pro-choice, for LGBT rights, access to health care, immigration reform, speaks of his revolutionary acumen. Marches, Protests, Parades Abound as the World Celebrates King's 89th Birthdayīut in the years following his assassination in 1968, conservatives have tried to tarnish King's image by co-opting his philosophy and by convoluting his messages and using them to promote their narrow agenda through the prism of theology.

The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.