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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about unfinished dreams and MLK....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people, let's bow again.

0:06.0

So tonight we're going to talk about unfinished dreams.

0:12.0

You can see today April 4th, 1968 in Memphis, we lost Martin Luther King.

0:20.0

Even with everything going on in the world right now, everything that's going to be in the news,

0:27.0

I would imagine the media brings them up today.

0:30.0

They almost always do and they memorialize him.

0:37.0

They recount the stories.

0:42.0

Tell you what he did and how we lost a great civil rights leader.

0:47.6

And all that's true, no doubt.

0:52.0

But that's not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about what he didn't do.

0:55.0

Because in 1968, he was working on something else.

0:59.0

He was working on something else.

1:02.0

And it's something that... he was working on something else.

1:04.0

And it's something that would unite people across racial lines, religious lines,

1:08.9

gender lines, everything.

1:10.9

It was a project that would change the very moral fabric of the country. It was called the poor people's campaign.

1:31.0

And its goals, very lofty, you'll recognize a lot of them. Housing, a living wage, health

1:40.8

care, you know, all the stuff we're still fighting for today.

1:49.0

I can't help but wonder what would happen if we hadn't lost it in 1968.

1:59.5

Because when people talk about it today, it's real easy for the naysayers to say, you'll never

2:07.3

get that done.

2:10.0

See, it would have been different for him because he had already accomplished a lot of stuff

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