Understanding King’s View of Affirmative Action
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 2nd, 2009 4:33 am by HL
Understanding King’s View of Affirmative Action
Tom Sugrue is right to note in his post, “Remembering and Misremembering King,” that Martin Luther King Jr. supported “compensatory treatment” for this nation’s history of discrimination against blacks, but the record is very clear that King wanted the…
King’s Evolving Vision
Without disagreeing with Tom or Rick directly, I’ll start off where both of them left off: King’s life was cut short, and at a moment when he was just beginning a new segment in his lifelong struggle against injustice….