Our friends at Moblogic did some interesting street interviews in New York to see what people thought of Martin Luther King, Jr's legacy today.
How do you think his legacy is doing today? Seems to me it's a mixed bag. I don't know if it's progress, but economic factors seem to be the most dividing elements of today's world. There's more tolerance on the surface between the races, but if you scrape your fingernail along the surface of America, what you find underneath is pretty ugly.
Derek said:
Without MLK (and others during that time), I would have never:
- went to an integrated school
- attended college at UT Austin
- shared close friendships with white people without danger
- be able to sit in a fancy restaurant next to whites
- been able to vote unharrassed
The changes he (and others) are responsible for CHANGED America - but, it's still not perfect. We have a long way to go.
I really wish Lindsay (and other young people) REALLY could be a fly on the wall in 1950 in Houston or Detroit or NYC, and really see the "interactions" before whites and blacks - not the TV moments, but the Emmett Till moments (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till).
Then see how far we came.
