My students asked if they could sing happy birthday in his honor. Their teacher only allowed it if they sang the Stevie Wonder version.

Of course being that most of my students are born between 1997-99, their response was "who?? Whaaa??" As she belted out a really off-key version.

Ok back to your regular scheduled program.

So, you are saying that his death was more impactful than his life?

I agree with you on that!

Progress possibly would have taken longer to make had he lived a complete life.

Here is one...what if he survived the assassination and no I am not talking abot the Boondocks version.

IMO, unfortunately, yes. But that is my opinion. IDK if that would be the truth.

The person thought to have shot MLK was a sharp shooter, like "Hitman", he never misses. MLK was shot execution style from 30 yards out with a round hollow tip rifle and a scope. His patterns were traced for a solid 2-3 weeks. It was expected what he would be doing on April 4, 1968.

When the opportunity arose to take the shot, the shooter did. Now, while I do think that James Earl Ray was the shooter, I don't think he was the only person involved in the plot. I think that is the conspiracy theory.

I still think to some degree...the assassinations of MLK and Malcolm X were systematic drive people from one camp to the other and once people saw that the gov't was willing to pick them off by dirty means...scatter the herd.

Usually when you cut the head off of a hydra another one grows back....this wasn't the case because for one...too many groups had too many different ideas to get to the same goal...like the Black Panthers.

Then there was those coming back from Vietnam trying to readjust to life in the US and seeing that they were getting as much love here as they did there being shot at by the VC, many found it difficult.

I also actually believe that as their stances changed and their ideologies made it to a point that their paths instead of being parallel began to converge, the government got scared.

When the seeds of dissention were sown, and the heads of the movement were struck down one after the other, the power base scattered like roaches.



"America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh, yes, they are. They haven’t never had a blood-less revolution, or a non-violent revolution. That don’t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She’s the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a blood-less revolution."

- Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet