As Martin Luther King, Jr. Day comes to an end, I would like to provide you with a statement Dr. King gave in 1968. Like many things that he said back then, it is still true today.
(The below statement was brought to my attention while watching The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. I don’t want people to mistakenly think that I am good enough to do my own research.)
"Whenever the government provides opportunities and privileges for white people and rich people they call it ‘subsidies.’ When they do it for Negro and poor people they call it ‘welfare.’ The fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of ninety percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 1968
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