In 1967, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King spoke with NBC News’ Sander Vanocur about the “new phase” of the struggle for “genuine equality.”
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MLK Talks ‘New Phase’ Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News
Weird how the intervewier is asking questions like he already knows the answers
He knows what white ppl think… Not at all the TRUTH!😔💯💯💯
There is no justice without economic empowerment.
The King!!
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Oh, Martin Luther King Jr. was such a beautiful black man! I pray to meet a man like him someday 🙏
When he started taking about money, that’s when the assassin’s plan started.
Of course….
I love how conservatives to this day are using the bootstrap line… they still got that outdated 1960s rhetoric.
It sickens me that we had to have these interviews. Explaining what black people need and want to people who don’t care. I feel it’s just the way to find out what black people are feeling or if we are organizing so that they can assure that we continue to feel that way. There was never any plan to really take anything of substance from these interviews and make changes.
Agree. They were trying to get inside of our minds
Blacks and whites will be closer than ever when the Mexicans become the majority of the country. Unfortunately by then it will be too late.
I hate this Uncle Tom Luther king … simply a coward unlike the great MalcolmX Al malik Shahbaz may Allah grant him paradise.
I have no words. Profound.
Pp
2020 we will dealing with this
I know why you’re here. Welcome to 2020
MLK GREAT
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https://youtu.be/_KRwbhiPDpI
#Police #App #CriminalJustice #NoToBullies #endpolicebrutality #endoppression #wakeupAmerica🗽 #BLM✊ #BlackLivesMatter
Watching this as we end the 2nd week of the George Floyd protests.
1967… “White people had a monopoly on violence.”
https://youtu.be/DVtRUKz54zo
This will be the next leader Trump and his administration compare him too, smdh, ha ha ha! Either way it must be corrected from the absolute foundation to make a home upright. Nobody playing a game; cheating; and who’s been winning wants to start over! It’s rigged! Lol, play on, playa! But the bill is due!!!
He was a sexual deviant communist who got exactly what he deserved
This is proof that America will Never Change until it is Totally Destroyered
He said something that isn’t true. In the North, in the Adurindacks, a man inherited a ton of land and offered a plot of 10 acres and a mule. The ex slaves did not take him up on this offer, but went to the cities in the industrial revolution, replaced the immigrants in the slums and have been there ever since oppressed. Why didn’t our ancestors take the land? We had every skill going since we did all the work. How many men can build a house now? Fix a car? We went from knowing how to make shoes to shining shoes in the city. God gave the most beautiful land but never took the opportunity. Gotta start looking at our mistakes along the way.
R.I.P. Dr.King 🙏🏽🕊❤️
Interviewer – “What does that black community want?”
MLK – “All I want for my birthday is a big booty hoe, all I want for my birthday is a big booty hoe” ✋🏾🤚🏾
Love MLK Jr.
Our accents used to sound so much more sophisticated, oh how far we done fell.
I still struggle on the issue of human nature and whether MLKs goals are even possible considering human nature. For example, ending poverty and ending war. Christianity and other religions create a paradigm, but even if every human on the planet came to believe in one religion, you would still have human nature.
Couldn’t be more right today! We need accountability…
MLK is a coward in history after that he die like a pig
We were brought here against our will and have been persecuted ever since by weak people that have the numbers
Without struggle there is no progress.
“What advantage is there being integrated into a burning house” Wow. I’m so sad our world lost this great man too soon. I’m thankful these videos live on. I wish this was what was taught to me in school.
Itz UP TO ALL OF US NOW TO SHARE THESE TRUTHS!🙏🏾
They will never bring this into any school or television as white America owns both.
Patience, intelligence, strategic, and well educated.
I need this aired in prime time on each of the 3 major broadcast networks; at the same time. I believe the world is ready to hear, and listen to this exchange in 2020.
I’m watching this after George Floyd death. The March the same today. 😫📖😥 disappointing. 😥👀
They killed him in VIOLENCE. 🤨 cruel America still got the same practices. 😰
“It’s a cruel gesture to say to a bootless man, he ought to lift himself up by his bootstraps”
Societal values do need to change.
I am fascinated by Dr. King’s accent. It sounds more transatlantic than typical of the drawl of Atlanta. I wonder if he used this accent when doing interviews?
Great interview. Its amazing that people are getting different opinions on MLK’s political views. Personally I got a strong libertarian vibe from this interview. He was extremely anti-war as he felt it directly related to making race and economic issues in the US worse.
This is beyond awesome
It honestly hurts to hear him say negros. It was hard enough a few years ago to discover Midwestern white people say “blacks”.. instead of black PEOPLE. The people part is more important. We’ve moved forward but we have a long way to go.
Amazing man, so much wisdom and great vision of freedom✊🏾🙏🏽❤️
Over 50 years ago, but his words are still relevant. So sad.
Killing our leader is putting fuel in our vehicle (Revolution) to keep drive until our pple is totally are free .
When MLK said about the government giving the European peasant land and not their own citizens who didn’t have a choice to come here. I felt that ! Many people want to tell another person to go back to their country but don’t know how their families came to be !
I see you NBC, cutting off the interview as soon as he starts talking about real solutions costing real money. You’re happy to propagate the “let’s all live together in harmony” language, but actually spending money to achieve real equality? Not so much.
This was the real reason he was killed listen and listen well
Watching this in 2020 and It feels like Dr King is speaking of the current issue. I cannot believe these issues are still existing. Wow 😮
Understand… He was assassinated at 39. I’m 46. He is NOT RESTING WELL. This is 2020. If WE THE PEOPLE want a revolution, which WE DESERVE, “WE MUST FIGHT”…. A very terrible OLD DEVIL 🗣️🙏🖤🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥💯
The finality of it all is Racism will continue in the USA. The USA was built on Racism and founded on Racism. No such thing as Police Brutality because that’s really Racism. Wilmington, NC 1898 proves the government has no interest in black people being equal to the white Race. Slavery still exists in the USA according to the 13th amendment. You have to know how to read legal terms and phrases. Read it carefully. Except for punishment of a crime……. .
“We all to battle with this constant drain of nobodyness”.
Is it me or does Dr King look irritated by these questions…
Hearing this from his mouth has clarified a lot of hearsay.
mlk was elegant of course (goes without saying) but the interviewer asked really good and honest questions
Our only hope we had for black liberation & freedom died February 21 1965!
What King is telling you essentially
I’s that he regrets leading his people (us) into a systematic racist integrated America he knew that economically his people were doom! No more hanging and lynching black people we will take all of the resources and re create an America for white people & other ethnicities to succeed except for blacks no jobs no money =crime negativity violence etc! Instead of boycotting the bus for a seat! With our oppressor
We should’ve owned the bus company an kept the money and benfits in our community!
Malcom was right #ripmalcomx #ripmartinking
26 years old and I’m finally learning real black history. Sorry I’m late.
Where’s the rest of this interview?
Martin Luther King Jr.+Malcolm X=💙💙
Dr. King was talking about instead of having a Vietnam War and strengthening the military industrial complex why not use those resources for programs to help communities of color poor people and Working Class People. It’s amazing to see in this video but since this interview there has just been a cycle of more Wars and more continuous economic hardship. This is 54 years ago but in a lot of ways black and brown people of color are still being mistreated especially by the police and there local government officials.
Too bad nbc owns this footage. They arr not worthy
He was an excellent orator. There’s no doubt about it.
I’ve been looking for this.
” That DREAM that I had that day has turned into a NIGHTMARE.” This is the key sentence the media will NEVER put on the radio or television. The mass media has reduced this man to a sound bite in order to assuage the Americans of European ancestry.
This MLK right here scared white americans
It’s amazing how clearly he saw everything and how much sense it makes what he’s saying. The intelligence of this man.
Free to the White supremacy way of Life.. not free to the life you had before slavery… that’s not free
11:39 SPEAK!!!!
22:31 The way he look into the camera 😱
Well spoken and articulated.. the comment on emancipation proclamation and the distribution of farm land.. an eye opener
Lets add this to #blacklivesmatter. The original version.
The same color that killed him is still killing us now
Amazing how relevant this still is today 🙁
Africa should hv Martin Luther king day as well. n teach as a history in school.
11:56 White ppl… Whatz it gonna be after George Floyd?😒
He says “non-violence is the morally excellent way to deal with injustice”. Non-violence is only ever preached by the aggressor who doesn’t want you to fight for your freedom. MLK was only about sound bites. It was Malcolm X and the black panthers that bought about the civil rights gains by making the rulers fear. So the rulers then decided to give MLK all of the accolades so that future generations don’t also fight for their rights but instead turn the other cheek like this negriod preached. There should be a malcolm X day not MLK day. Or Black panthers day.
We need him more than ever in 2020. MLK HELP US ! 🙏
Why doesn’t America understand this?
White America hates Negroes. Period. This is truth.
Dr. MLK was talking about reparations.
you got to be something with no intelligence or brain to dislike this video. maybe an escapee from area 51
Wow! He said his dreams has turned into a nightmare!
What An amazing eloquent Man
they slew you and they still slay..rip mlk,rip g floyd
Just listening to him, shows the problems that existed 60 years ago, are still here today.
Absolute brillance
He had a beautiful voice! God Bless Him!
I wish I could speak like this man 😝
This is a wizard explaining the hegelian dialectic tactic.
What a man, this interview is relevant in 2020. Great interviewer too, his questions brought out the genius of Dr M King. But I feel the end is abrupt, and he didn’t get to the new strategy which I believe was to use means that he calls “creatively maladjusted”…. “riot is a language of the unheard”… I hope there’s someone with the last part of this interview. Thanks NBC.
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“…..as Jimmy Baldwin said on one occasion, What advantage is there in ”integrating” into a burning house?”
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Such A Handsome and Intelligence. He was so much a Threat that is why they took him out. R.I.P. DR.King Forever. True Hero!!!
And still Exist in 2020 Dr. King. He will be turning in his grave in disappointment after all we fought for and still are fighting for Equality…
Floyd George is the new Martin Luther King. real Americans stand together…
Brilliant Man. No more injustice.
If you base everything on common sense, and if you speak clearly, sincerely, honestly, calmly, nothing more can be asked from you. That’s what MLK was. I may not agree with everything he said, but there’s no doubt he’s a reasonable man, one that emerged once in a lifetime. He’s out for solution, not drama. Some did not like his ideas of a solution, so they killed him, but he’s not anything like the people today who are all about drama and lips service aimed at grabbing power for themselves more than helping anyone. This is the reason why now rioters can burn the street with immunity but they are still in the ghettos that MLK wanted them to rise out of.
MLK was not at all unreasonable when he said the slaves were freed but then they were just cast out into the street to start making a living without any kind of assistance. Try to incarcerate an innocent man for 50 years then release him from prison without any kind of compensation/assistance/training then pretty much you have condemned him to a life of poverty. And if you keep a lion in captivity all its life, can you expect to just release it into the wild to deal with other lions and survive ? So decades ago, MLK was correct that there was never any sincere gesture from white America to offer assistance to a brother wrongly enslaved so that he could make a new life in a world very foreign to him since he had spent all his life in the institution of slavery. And there had to be more than just monetary assistance, namely education and training of the young generation. Yet, there was none of that after slavery ended. Instead there was segregation and further discrimination.
But today , to demand reparation is also not realistic, because it’s too far gone. No one alive today has any connection to slavery. Today, it takes a genuine cooperation from both sides, but we don’t have that. Instead, there is mutual distrust, contempt, and unrighteous indignation, and we don’t have any figure like MLK, so racial tension escalates instead of subsides. I’m very curious to know how Dr. MLK would approach the situation if he lives in this time. Trump is a good commander in chief, but he’s not bred to be a leader like MLK . Yet the crowd today expects Trump to be everything, from Lincoln to MLK and everything in between, and when he didn’t deliver , then he’s a racist , and all societal ills is because of him.
I could listen to all day!!! RIP Dr king!!
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Man was a genius, and an inspiration. I wonder what Candace Owens would have to say about his comments.