What if MLK had lived?

[brainshrub]

I was daydreaming today. I caught myself imagining what would America look like if MLK had lived.
I love reading about and listening to Dr. King so much. It breaks my heart to think he was killed at such a young age. (39)

What do you think would be different today if MLK had lived? I think we certainly would have had Universal Health-care and a more humane foreign policy.

[Breezy du Nord]

1. Ann Coulter would call him a traitor.

Don't you think?

[Sir_Shrek]

2. Good question

I could see him doing a stint in the House of Reps or some similar governmental position. But overall, I'm skeptical to say that things would've changed dramatically. Guys like John Lewis and Julian Bond are somewhat recognizable, but people don't automatically equate them with MLK.

[kixot]

3. Nobel Peace prize.

Maybe a cabinet position under a democratic president. To dream...

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. He'd be preaching down in Gitmo

[Alenne]

5. He would be treated worse than Jesse Jackson.

He would constantly be referred to as a race baiter. And half the people who like him now that he is dead would be against him because he talks about race too much.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

10. so, so true

you got that 100% right imo

[DrWeird]

6. Somebody else would have shot him.

It was inevitable.

[bigwillq]

7. Sad to say but probably true

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

8. He wouldn't be a saint like now, but he might be former President King

I would expect that he wouldn't have nearly the saintly image he has now, but he would probably have become President in 1988. Imagine President King instead of George Bush I?

[slinkerwink]

9. he would have been the first black president of the United States

[absyntheNsugar]

15. That would be nice....

But Bubba would never vote for MLK...

We're still a very racist country...

[Karenina]

11. He'd have been killed

a little later... :shrug:

[jonnyblitz]

12. he would be considered a 'fringe leftist" by DLC types n/t

[Cheswick2.0]

13. People on this site would be calling him stupid, destructive to society

for believing in God and belonging to an organized religion.

[name not needed]

14. He would just

be killed Later. Be it by the KKK or the BFEE.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. If he and Robert Kennedy had both lived and

had become allies, they could have remade this country and we'd more of a social democracy than a creeping fascist state.