Martin Luther King's socialism: with historians Gerald Horne & Justin Williams

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🗓️ 20 January 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Bonus with Gerald Horne https://www.patreon.com/posts/16584864 A funny thing happened on the way to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I tweeted out a post I'd written a few years ago which was a listacle of "The 11 most anti-capitalist quotes from Martin Luther King Jr." I had no idea people on Twitter would accuse me of "whitesplaining," Martin Luther King and cherry picking his words and speeches in order to find the socialisty or capitalism-critiquing nuggets hidden in his free-market-praising rhetoric. I decided to talk to some experts: historian and comedian Justin Williams and historian and prolific, eminent, scholar, writer, radical Gerald Horne. Williams talks to us about Pan-Africanism, Ghanaian independence, and Fred Hampton. Horne talks to us about MLK and W. E. B. Du Bois. Stand by for the bonus on to multi-racial organize, or not to multi-racial organize: that is the question.

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0:00.0	We're all kind of I'm a woman you're Latin you're black so we're all silenced but we all have various disenfranchisements
0:07.5	Are we talking about me too? Me too and just like racism and everything we were recording all of that but don't worry I'm to release it. I'm just going to blackmail you with it. I'm just going to.
0:15.0	The sound quality will be terrible by the way because we weren't holding myself.
0:19.0	Don't worry. It's obviously.
0:20.0	I'll deny it's me on the table.
0:22.0	I go, Mel Gibson talking. No, you could, you have actually really good.
0:24.0	Good.
0:25.0	Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper show.
0:31.0	On today's episode, we speak to two historians.
0:34.0	Justin Williams is an assistant professor of history
0:36.5	at City College of New York.
0:38.2	He's also a comedian.
0:39.4	For real.
0:40.0	Then we talk to Gerald Horn, a professor of history and African American studies at Houston University.
0:45.0	Make sure that you sign up for our Patreon at Patreon.
0:49.0	Patreon.com slash the Katie Halper show so you can hear bonus episodes for this week. We bring you our extended interview with
0:55.3	Dr. Justin Williams and Dr Gerald Horn. You can find us in iTunes and SoundCloud.
1:01.0	Great and review us on iTunes, like us on Facebook.
1:04.0	Make sure you check out my op-ed in the daily news called Mayor DeBlazio.
1:08.9	It's not too late to honor the legacy of Erica Garner and I implore him to make the very basic changes that
1:15.9	Erica Garner had asked of him.
1:19.9	It's based on my interview with her And in case listeners don't know,
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