Who Did It To You.. Roundtable Discussion with Dr James Jones and King Williams

One of my foremost “pet peeves,” is how our society, Black America in particular, seems to only revisit pertinent historical figures on their death date. Both Malcolm X and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., have been afflicted by such. So, it is to reverse that trend that I’ve decided to make the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his much-celebrated March on Washington speech on August 28, 1963, the subject of my post today. The faces of the vast majority of my students transform when they hear me criticize Dr. King’s ‘March on Washington’ speech as the worst speech he could have possibly delivered. I quickly follow that criticism up with the somewhat humorous quip from Malcolm X that the ‘March on Washington’ “…was a circus, with clowns and all.”

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