Thank you for this! I'm increasingly an advocate of racial abolition and hadn't realized MLK was in a similar place. It does mesh well with his take on affirmative action ("preferential treatment"): that preferential treatment is necessary *now* (ie the '60s - whether the 2020s still need it is a separate question) to even out the effects of a history of maltreatment, but the point of doing that is to get us to a place where race *doesn't* matter.
Love this, Zaid, thank you. I try my best to live my life (white guy) the way you reveal Dr. King desired. I grew up from birth to age 8 years on a military post, and my next door neighbor and best friend was black. Our race mattered not one bit to each of us. Too busy riding our big wheels then later, BMX bikes together. Nowadays I play a lot of basketball in my older age and on the court, I am the minority. Race doesn’t matter. It’s mostly social economics that keeps people separated.
Hell yeah
Thank you for this! I'm increasingly an advocate of racial abolition and hadn't realized MLK was in a similar place. It does mesh well with his take on affirmative action ("preferential treatment"): that preferential treatment is necessary *now* (ie the '60s - whether the 2020s still need it is a separate question) to even out the effects of a history of maltreatment, but the point of doing that is to get us to a place where race *doesn't* matter.
Love this, Zaid, thank you. I try my best to live my life (white guy) the way you reveal Dr. King desired. I grew up from birth to age 8 years on a military post, and my next door neighbor and best friend was black. Our race mattered not one bit to each of us. Too busy riding our big wheels then later, BMX bikes together. Nowadays I play a lot of basketball in my older age and on the court, I am the minority. Race doesn’t matter. It’s mostly social economics that keeps people separated.
Would that it were so. Thanks for this.