“If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today?” Harlem Answers (Video)
Harlem World
Sriya at Romio contributed to the Harlem World Magazine Network with a video created by roaming the streets of Harlem on Martin Luther King. Jr.'s Day, …… on Monday, January 16th, 2012, asking Harlemites:
“If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, what would his message be to the neighborhood?
Here are their answers:
What do you think his message would be to the neighborhood????
Hello to All,
It is apparent to me that Black Americans, which includes you Jake and those in the video that gave their opinions do not see the change of Dr. King from the Dream Speech to the Mountaintop speech. Therefore, Black Americans have not change along with Dr. King.
Let's look at his dream speech for a moment. His dream speech was nothing but ignorance and stupidity. His dream speech would be the same as if Moses had made the same speech saying that Egypt must rise up and live out its creed that Egyptians and Jewish people are created equal and that little Egyptian girls and Jewish boys will one day walk hand in hand saying free at last, free at last, that God Almighty we are free at last.
The fundamentals of this speech came from the mind of a Negro slaves educated by is slave master.
Now, let us look at the mountaintop speech, okay. This speech, which was his last speech, Dr. King said that God had allowed him to go to the mountaintop and he looked over. King said he saw the Promised Land and that he assured us that we as a people will get to the Promised Land. King said he might not get there with us, but we as a people will get to the Promised Land.
The mountaintop speech God had allowed him to see something and that something is Black America's Promised Land. The dream speech he was operating on his own earthly intelligence. God did not show him anything, yet. He was operating on his own intelligence and what he thought was right and the right way Black Americans should go.
However, the mountaintop speech separated Black Americans and White Americans that each people would have their own. White America will have the majority of this continent to remain their country and the rest Black Americans will inherit and that is the Promised Land that Dr. King saw and assured us that we will get to the Promised Land.
So to say that Dr. King would have said we came a far way but still have a far way still to go is absolutely stupid. This concept is saying that Black Americans have not moved one iota. If you came a far way and still have a far way to go you are still at ground zero.
Who truly have come a far way was the children of Israel and they did not have a far way still to go because they were completely out of control of Pharaoh, am I right. Today they have a country of their own which is the State of Israel in the Middle East. What is wrong that you all cannot rationalize in a straight line?
I am the way, and besides me, there is no other way that Black Americans could ever become a real people in this world.
Likewise, if Moses was alive what do you think Moses would say? Do you think Moses would say the children of Israel have come a far way but still have a far way to go? I don't think so knuckleheads. The children of Israel completely came out of the hands of Pharaoh and were completely a sovereign free nation in the land of Canaan. Black Americans are going to become a legitimate nation in my lifetime.
If Dr. King was alive Dr. King would recognize me as the anointed one as John the Baptist had recognize Jesus to have been the anointed one in that time era.
Incidentally Jake, the definition of a prophet is not to prophesy. The definition of a prophet is that, that particular person the Spirit of God is in him and that God is guiding him and inspiring him only. A prophet is the closest human being next to God. And, when Jesus said that God and him are one that is precisely what Jesus meant that the Spirit of God was in him, but that does not make him God.
The things that the people said they saw the prophet do the prophet would tell the people it is God that is responsible and not them which means that the prophet is the closest human being to God especially since other human beings cannot do and do not know what the prophet knows because God is leading the prophet.
I said it before and I will say it again that Black Americans must look past Dr. King to the one (Prophet Harry) who say that God has given him our permanent solution which is that we must desire to become a sovereign people on a reasonable and fertile portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders to worship God, pursue life, liberty, happiness and prosperity in our own way.