If any one of us should interfere in the business of why there are poor
In an article profiling the gang that killed Bronco CB Darrent Williams, a source mentioned a home in Connecticut owned by one of the members. His intent: to use the profits from drugs to retire. It's a new twist on the American Dream, which has become inaccessible for so many.
Perhaps the most profound words spoken by Dr Martin Luther King Jr concerned not race relations but poverty:
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
This is the side of King many would rather not remember. Toward the end of his life, he turned his attention to peace and poverty, alienating many of those who had embraced him. As the gap between rich and poor continues to widen, King's words become a warning. Through peaceful resistance, he brought the South out of apartheid and made equality the law, if not entirely the reality, of the land. In the absence of such a leader, the US moves ever closer to a police state, in recognition that sooner or later, the have-nots will turn from preying on one another and look toward the haves.
People who have no stake in society blow it up.
Perhaps the most profound words spoken by Dr Martin Luther King Jr concerned not race relations but poverty:
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
This is the side of King many would rather not remember. Toward the end of his life, he turned his attention to peace and poverty, alienating many of those who had embraced him. As the gap between rich and poor continues to widen, King's words become a warning. Through peaceful resistance, he brought the South out of apartheid and made equality the law, if not entirely the reality, of the land. In the absence of such a leader, the US moves ever closer to a police state, in recognition that sooner or later, the have-nots will turn from preying on one another and look toward the haves.
People who have no stake in society blow it up.