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What are the odds Dr Martin Luther King would have been hired at Berkeley? "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where the
by kyleblarson 4y ago
What are the odds Dr Martin Luther King would have been hired at Berkeley?
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
- JustFigItOut 4y agoProbably pretty good. MLK was a smart man who understood that correcting injustice requires special treatment to the wronged. “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro.” - MLK
- dragonwriter 4y ago> What are the odds Dr Martin Luther King would have been hired at Berkeley? Zero, because his dedication to his objective of replacing the American system of capitalist oppression with a just economic system free not only from direct racial discrimination, but from economic and other oppression (which also crystallizes the effects of past racial discrimination) would not really compatible with university (or state more generally) employment. Have you read literally anything of King’s besides the Right’s favorite sentence to quote out of context?