However the fight isn’t over, not because we need to challenge laws like Martin Luther King Jr. articulated and fought for the truth, and to unify people regardless of the colour of their skin, and we have come so very far to realize that goal. We live in a society where, in my own father’s lifetime, he saw these monuments of people of the civil-rights movement rise and fall, has lived through overt racism and persecution, and now black people are millionaires, billionaires, senators and leaders throughout western society. A world in which a black woman, a successful lawyer, is fighting to lead the Conservative Party of Canada. We live in a society where a black man not only can, but did become President of the United States.

We all live in a society where the fight for equal rights has been won, where you will find no written law that discriminates between the skin colour of a person. articulated the truth, and fought to unify people, regardless of the colour of their skin. Not because of the power within the black community, but because of the power in the way Martin Luther King Jr.

That as Malcolm’s tone changed, as he rallied to support Martin Luther King Jr., he was assassinated, because otherwise you would have witnessed a political movement that would have completely changed the way America is today. What I learned in my youth wasn’t that there were two distinctly different ideologies in the fight for civil rights, but that words have power, and that truth is the most single unifying aspect of humanity. One such statement is this quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: “Fiery demagogic oratory in the Black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence, as Malcolm has done, can reap nothing but grief.” and Malcolm X.īlack and white people alike will often point to these two historic figures in the fight for civil rights, usually find some anecdotal evidence to support their cause by referring to a statement, an action, by either one of them. If you’ve noticed there’s growing dissent in the black community over the most effective way forward in western society, I’ll refer you to learn about two people my dad had spoke so affectionately about: Martin Luther King Jr. Evil Aliens with Afros by Daniel Joseph available on Amazon

Evil Aliens With Afros by Daniel Joseph