What inspired me, what inspired so many of us about Martin Luther King, is that he was an integrationist. He wanted the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners to "be able to sit down at the table of brotherhood."
The "Black Lives Matter" people are separatists. They are not the sons and daughters of MLK. They are the sons and daughters of Stokely Carmichael and, to some extent, even Huey P. Newton. They are an unhappy reprisal of the Black Power movement that rose up just about the time I was in South Carolina.
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