Tensions Rise At Digital Harbor High Between African-American & Latino Students

I think you are missing my point.

Multiculturism implies separate but equal cultures and is nothing more than segregation reinvented. Integration implies monoculturism. What better way to frame the argument that blacks need to assimilate to the larger mainstream culture, as has every other minority (i.e. hispanics), by using the terminology used by MLK.

Unless the left wants to believe that MLK was just some foolish negro who did not really understand the word intergrate than multiculturalism must be rejected.

Your post requires more thought than I usually like to give things... That said I see the American black culture differently. It’s like believing in the separation of Church and State - and attempting to use that highfalutin, stance to deal with the Jim Jones Peoples Temple Cult. The black culture of MLK’s time and the black ‘victimology cult’ of today are different enough that the latter doesn’t qualify under the rules of multiculturalism.

And whose culture is the mono (only) one?

I think MLK had in mind the JudeoChristian culture. And back then, culturally, blacks and whites did act a lot more like one another than now. At that point, blacks in this country had been living in Western civilization for 350 years. All people dressed more or less the same way, according to what they could afford. People who were small-time farmers and mom'n'pop businesses could live roughly similar lives, if separate by territory. People who attended religious services gave a more or less similar appearance -- dresses and suits, hats and gloves. Racism and socioeconomic restrictions revolved around territorial, microcultural and reproductive instincts below the surface. MLK wanted Christian men and women to be treated with respect and equal opportunity economically. To my knowledge, he did not get into the topic of cross-reproduction openly; however, this was an expressed fear by white separationists, who then as now, were horrified by the behavior of the transgressive behaviors of those most different from themselves, while tolerating it from those most like themselves.

Black Jews in New York City, early 1900s

Baptist church dinner, Annapolis MD 1943

Asbury Methodist Church, Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1950s

The solution to civil rights and our racial divide is for Black Americans to assimilate (integrate) into mainstream culture like every other minority who has immigrated to America.

It should be easy if the radicals on the left are discredited by demonstrating their opposition to the teachings of MLK.

I agree -- the multiculturalism movement started in the 1950s in universities, which called on every minority ethnic group to embrace their history instead of their future, by finding fault with white European cultures because northwestern European descendents held most positions of power in the society. Led by atheists and secular Jews, Marxists have been pushing for "authenticity" ever since, calling our entire emerging America phony because people, including many ethnicities of whites, had been consciously shedding much of their Old World cultural baggage in order to create E Pluribus Unum in a Bible-based Christianity that held people as equals under the law. It had been Christianity that had led the Abolition and Civil Rights movements the prior two centuries. But. then as now, Marxist "progressivism" is actually regressive.

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