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Dr.
King on Black Power, White Liberals and a Revolutionized State
Be
Scofield
Smashwords
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Copyright
2012 Be Scofield
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"The thing wrong
with America is white racism. White folks are not right...It's time
for America to have an intensified study on what's wrong with white
folks." – Dr. King
"There may be
periods where segregation may be a temporary waystation to a truly
integrated society...We don't want to be integrated out of power; we
want to be integrated into power. – Dr. King
"I am inclined to
think that they [white moderates] are more of a stumbling block to
the Negro's progress than the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku
Klux Klanner." – Dr. King
The “Decent White
Majority”
The standard narrative regarding Dr. King's approach to racial issues says that he was simply an integrationist who believed that with persuasion, nonviolence and love the conscience of the white majority could be won over and racial justice would be achieved. Racism, as he understood it was mainly psychological. This popular interpretation – the one the mainstream media loves – fails, however, to embrace a holistic view of his mature thinking on white people, institutional racism and white supremacy culture. While for much of his career he optimistically believed the "great decent majority" of whites could be transformed, he began, in 1965, to understand just how deeply embedded racism was and how unwilling white people were to give up privilege and power for the sake of racial justice. Whereas he had once described America in the highest democratic ideals, he began to see it as "a confused...sick, neurotic nation."