I would like to honestly say to you that the white backlash is merely a new name for an old

phenomenon.

It's not something that just came into being because shouts of shouts of black power or because

Negroes engaged in riots and watts, for instance.

The fact is that the state of California voted a fair housing bill out of existence before

anybody shouted black power or before anybody rioted in Watts.

It may well be the shouts of black power and riots and Watts and the Holloms and the other

areas are the consequences of the white backlash rather than the cause of them.

What it is necessary to see is that there has never been a single solid monistic determined commitment on the part of the vast majority of white

Americans, the whole question of civil rights and on the whole question of racial equality.

This is something that truth impels all men of goodwill to admit.

Yes, indeed.

That is the great Dr. Martin Luther King, of course,

and I share that one with you today because his daughter, Bernice King,

shared it last night on threads, saying,

on my father's 97th birthday, I encourage you to listen to this powerfully relevant excerpt

on his speech, The Other America, where he talks about the white backlash.

Yeah, that's right.

Nothing new.

Hello, friends, and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up.

It is Martin Luther King Day.

He hasn't canceled it, yes, though he did take away free entry on this day to people in national parks.

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