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today dr king is one of the most admired
men of the 20th century but according to
the last gallup poll performed in his
lifetime dr king had a 32 positive and a
63 negative rating amongst the american
people in 1965. now to put that in
perspective when media organizations
polled americans in the fall of 2017
about nfl player colin kaepernick's
kneeling protests over police brutality
during the national anthem cbs found
only 38 percent approved and half po
ugov found 36 approved while cnn found
43 percent of americans approved and 49 disagreed
disagreed
in other words colin kaepernick and the
nfl police brutality protests during the
anthem were more popular in 2017 than dr
king was in the final years of his life
although i know dr king had a 95
approval rating from african americans
in a 1965 harris poll
in that same poll 54 of white americans
said that they would not march or
protest if they were quote in the same
position as black people and two months
later 85 of white americans said that
civil rights demonstrations hurt black
americans more than they helped
in december of 1965 50 of americans said
that dr king hurt the cause of civil rights
rights
most americans liked the status quo they
did not like even non-violent protests
and while dr king is nearly universally
praised today most americans today had
they lived in the 60s would probably
think of king roughly the way they think
of kaepernick
nevertheless the nation responded with
anger and sadness at king's murder
in 1967 the year before dr king had said
quote certain conditions continue to
exist in our society which must be
condemned as vigorously as we condemn
riots but in the final analysis a riot
is the language of the unheard and what
is it that america has failed to hear it
has failed to hear that the plight of
the negro poor has worsened over the
last few years it has failed to hear
that the promises of freedom and justice
have not been met and it has failed to
hear that large segments of white
society are more concerned about
tranquility and the status quo than
about justice equality and humanity
and so in a real sense our nation's
summers of riots are caused by our
nation's winters of delay and as long as
america postpones justice we stand in
the position of having these recurrences
of violence and riots over and over again
again
social justice and progress are the
absolute guarantors of riot prevention
end quote
many americans took to the streets to
express their rage at the murder of dr king
king
riots erupted in 125 cities causing
dozens of deaths thousands of injuries
tens of thousands of arrests and an
estimated 65 million dollars in property damage
damage
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