MLK: Where do we go from here? (speech)

Dr. King via Gabe Gentry, Aug. 26, 2011; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "Where do we go from here?"

(Gabe Gentry) After spending almost an hour detailing the many successes of the civil rights movement up to that time, Dr. King asks the question, "Where do we go from here?"

What followed was 14 minutes of soaring oratory, condemning the inherent economic injustices found in a consumption-based economy. Within a year, he was assassinated [for questioning our war-based society and economic system, making profits for the few by dropping bombs on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos to be able to order new ones] while protesting for universal living wages on behalf of Memphis sanitation workers.

["You can question our morality, Reverend, but you will not question our capitalism, our addiction to war, or our fundamental racism and caste structure with Blacks and Natives at the bottom and brown people in general" -- seems to be the message of the assassination. While it seems many civil rights activists supported him, in fact he is great because they turned their back on him for speaking truth to power at a radical (roots) level.]