{"id":30306,"date":"2022-01-17T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=30306"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:15:00","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-the-other-america-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=30306","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr: &#8220;The Other America&#8221; Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3H978KlR20\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin Luther King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Other America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d speech should be as well known and well listened to as his other more famous speeches. People need to learn what life is like in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153other America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d King describes in powerful and compelling words.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">He did several versions of this speech in different places. Some of them are online in text and\/or taped versions. This link is to the full speech as delivered at Stanford. It runs 47 minutes. It is worth every minute to get the impact of the full message.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">King&#8217;s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a riot is the language of the unheard\u00e2\u20ac\u009d quote comes from this speech. Unfortunately, the now oft quoted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153riot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d phrase is too often ripped out of context to say something very different from what King is saying. In no uncertain terms King repeatedly condemns riots and violence.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">King was for non-violence. But not a passive, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wait and see non-violence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. He was for a very aggressive but non-violent confrontation of the evils in America. He was willing to put his life on the line for what he believed.<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Other America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d speech should be as well known and well listened to as his other more famous speeches. People need to learn what life is like in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153other America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d King describes in powerful and compelling words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30307,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions\/30307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}