Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1970s and 1980s

If he ? had not been murdered? Lead education improvements for black folk in the 1970s and 1980s, ? No crack epidemic in the 1980s? Extensive church organizing for ed, housing, jobs in the 1970s? What was point of strong stand against Vietnsm War? He got killed. The war kept going. Black America and America in general lost a great leader? He could have helped more people? As a deep admirer of MLK, could his approach show the flaws of theology that he assumed his condemnation of Vietnam War would achieve a positive result?

MLK in 1965 interview with Alex Haley for Playboy Magazine “We must develop a Federal program of public works, retraining and jobs for all—so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened. At the present time, thousands of jobs a week are disappearing in the wake of automation and other production efficiency techniques. Black and white, we will all be harmed unless something grand and imaginative is done. The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the Government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.”