MLK predicted the backlash...

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MLK predicted the backlash...

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Honey, whom I’ve written about before, is a Haley Professor of Humanities at University of Washington, Tacoma, and author of the forthcoming book “To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice,” (W.W. Norton, April 2018).

King had faith that justice would eventually prevail, Honey said in an interview last week, but he was not naive. “He was constantly warning people in 1968 that we could always lose what we’ve gained,” Honey said. King said that right-wing forces, the military-industrial complex and white racial backlash would challenge any progress made.
Since King’s death, we’ve seen voting rights under attack in many states. We’ve seen the tremendous progress that civil-rights laws made possible stalled in the decades after. Affirmative-action efforts have been pared down, schools resegregated, and economic inequality is increasing.

People need some context for understanding where we are today. “I’m a teacher, so I’m always meeting people right out of high school,” Honey said. Students tell him they heard the “I Have a Dream” speech over and over and got bored by it, but what they didn’t usually get is history that would help them better understand the movement of King’s day and the framework it would provide them for understanding what’s happening today.
So he wrote a book that he hopes will fill some gaps for Americans who know only U.S. history lite. In the book his goal was to say, “Here’s what King did, here’s what he said, you figure out how it connects to the present.”
As King wrote, “Before you can come up with a cure, you first have to know the disease.”


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Don't know what you'll be doing on MLK Day, but Michael Honey will be practicing what Martin Luther King Jr. called "dangerous altruism...

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