While researching about MLK's political philosophies, I found some information about his stand on the Vietnam War. First, he felt that the war took away from the poverty program that had been started in the U.S. It not only took attention away from the issue but also funding. He thought of the war as an enemy to the poor. Before the war, it looked as if there was going to be a solution to poverty, but as Vietnam began to buildup, that hope faded in the background. King knew that as long as our nation’s government was going to participate in the war, they would not give extra funds or attention to the poverty problem in their own backyard (Beyond p.9). Also, we were sending troops over to Vietnam, both black and white, to help guarentee liberties in Southeast Asia, which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem here at home in the U.S.. The nation was seeing pictures of young white men and young black men dying together for a nation that was unable to seat them together in school. The irony of the situation seemed to be overwhelming. It didn’t make much sense as to why we were sending blacks and whites to fight for liberty in a country so far away, when they didn’t have the same liberties back in their home country (Beyond p.10) I agree with much of what King says, because I didn't thing that it made much sense to participate in a war thousands of miles away, before we could solve the problems within our own country.
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I think it's interesting that you are looking at very different aspects of his life. It'll be interesting to see how all of those aspects fit together into your paper. I'm sure a lot of things will be related and that you'll be able to incorporate them together into one paper.
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