A little late for today but never too late for a #CivilRights - TopicsExpress



          

A little late for today but never too late for a #CivilRights study: a chapter-by-chapter #teachers guide to #MLKs 1963 classic Why We Cant Wait, which grew from Letter in a Birmingham Jail and includes todays popular quote: Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - See more at: nacc.yalecollege.yale.edu/reflection-today-our-nation-was-born-genocide-when-it-embraced-doctrin#sthash.JaBiOd0b.dpuf beacon.org/Assets/ClientPages/WhyWeCantWaittg.aspx
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:15:30 +0000

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