Why Martin Luther King Jr. Would be Ashamed of the Black Lives Matter Movement

The Pro claims that I do not understand the basis of his argument, however the Pro has not addressed the actual grievances that BLM has or any of their goals, simply making the lofty claim its supporters have "misinterpreted its ideology". He links this directly to his argument that it should really be "All lives matter", which as I have previously stated is nothing more than a red herring and a non sequiter. To reiterate the point that this is a non sequiter, I will once again quote comedian Felonious Munk "If I break my leg, I do not want the doctor telling me, 'All legs should be healed.' I want the doctor to fix my leg."The Pro-Reiterates the red herring, pointing to murder in the black community and violent crime, however I will AGAIN point to Dr. King's own words on this issue:"Those people who argue against integration at this point often say, "Well, if you integrate the public schools, for instance, you will pull the white race back a generation." And they like to talk about the cultural lag in the Negro community. And then they go on to say, "Now, you know, the Negro is a criminal, and he has the highest crime rate in any city that you can find in the United States." And the arguments go on ad infinitum why integration shouldn’t come into being.But I think there’s an answer to that, and that is that if there is cultural lag in the Negro community—and there certainly is—this lag is there because of segregation and discrimination. It’s there because of long years of slavery and segregation. Criminal responses are not racial, but environmental. Poverty, economic deprivation, social isolation and all of these things breed crime, whatever the racial group may be. And it is a torturous logic to use the tragic results of racial segregation as an argument for the continuation of it. It is necessary to go back. And so it is necessary to see this and to go all out to make economic justice a reality all over our nation."This was the argument Dr. King made himself, and while the Pro may disagree, this only goes to further my point that Dr. King would be a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.And while the Pro makes the claim poverty does not have any link to crime, the evidence actually says the opposite, and poverty is actually closely tied with violent crime.http://www.poverties.org...The Pro also rebuts the fact that black people make less than white people by saying there are many black athletes who make millions, however this argument makes no sense and addressing it only further proves my point. First, what is being discussed is average wages, not outliers like millionaires and billionaires. Additionally, these outliers only further prove my point, as the number of white people who make the same amount utterly dwarf the number of black people. If you look to the Forbes 400, only 1 of them is African American. While federal law outlaws discrimination in hiring, that does not change the facts of the study, which is not a false statement presented by the "Liberal media", it was a study conducted by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research in conjunction with the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.http://www.nber.org...As to Dr. King himself, the quote I used about Black power was actually used in the same interview as the quote used by the Pro, as highlighted in my article from CBS news. I never did say that Dr. King embraced Black power, quite the opposite infact, I simply stated he acknowledged the genuine grievances that its supporters had.The Pro also does not actually addressed the argument I have made about Dr. King and Malcolm X, and I encourage the Pro to reread this argument and the source I cited as well.I would like to point to the Pro's negation to my sources as "biased" and his allegations that I made up the quotes from Dr. King, However this is utterly ridiculous. My sources for Kings words are all provided. I will repost them simply for clarification.http://www.africa.upenn.edu...http://www.democracynow.org...Furthermore the Pro claims that the sources I have used are "biased", however the con has cited the Project 21-Black Conservative Leadership Network, Infowars, the website of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and American Renaissance, an openly white separatist publication which is recognized as a white supremacist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. In addition to this, the Pro relies heavily on cherry picked (usually posted verbatim) quotes from the King encyclopedia, claiming it contradicts the points I have made. The reality is however that these citations do not actually contradict my contentions and when weighed alongside the evidence I have provided, they actually support my case.In conclusion, the Pro claims that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would agree with him and would be ashamed of the Black lives matter movement. However when we look to King's own words, we see that Dr. King would actually be a supporter of the black lives matter movement. Dr. King's words show us that BLM is a continuation of the civil rights struggle of the past. It is a struggle to make lives which do not matter to our society finally matter. It is a fight not to elevate one group above another, it is a fight to make one life on par with another. The con claims that really it should not be "Black Lives Matter" but "All Lives Matter", but until black lives matter to our society, all lives do not matter.