The greatest American to ever walk our streets

[madokie]

Martin Luther King.
Although his work is not finished does not mean we can't do it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. He was a troublemaker and a threat to the establishment....we need more like him.

[madokie]

2. Yes we do need more like him

Through his actions he showed that peace is the path forward

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. That's a great sigline you have.

[Zorra]

3. like. nt

[FatBuddy]

4. i would nominate Brother Malcolm to that list

there's been a ton of Americans in our history and MANY of them have been great

[madokie]

5. Sure there has been but to me none as great as MLK

He showed the world the way both in words and actions.
Older I get the more I appreciate him

I'm old enough to remember the bathrooms for her, him and blacks, the water fountains labeled the same, the restaurant that wouldn't serve people of color, the gas stations that wouldn't sell gas to blacks. I remember

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. It took the sight of a bunch of white kids spitting and yelling "nigger" at an old Black man

to wake me up.

Jacksonville Beach, Florida in 1957.

I'm ashamed to say that I was on that bus and did nothing but feel ashamed.

But, I was a Yankee just there for a few months. What I saw was blatant racism. The somewhat less subtle form became more apparent to me when I returned North.

[madokie]

9. It took my boss at the time grabbing the gas nozzle out of my hand and hang it back up

on the pump telling the gentleman that he could go on about 10 miles west of where we were cause there's a bunch of you N's over there to wake me up. I then realize that the reason the mans wife and daughter were crying was because the bastard had refused to let them use the bathroom. I've never gotten over that, never will.

I was a kid of 14 at the time. (1962)

[shenmue]

8. True