This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Hey Family, I want to talk to you about a book that I'm reading.

Actually, I've been reading this book for the last six months, you know, page here,

page there, but now I'm really diving in and it's called, where do we go from here? Chaos or community. It is the last book written

by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was published in 1967 a year before his death. He actually spent time in Jamaica writing it with no telephone

because it was so important and I imagine even though it's not written about that he had evolved in his thinking about civil rights and equal rights and this was

going to be his blueprint. This was the manifesto that would lead him into his poor

people's campaign.

This was going to be the challenge to America

about where we were going to go next.

And the question was simple.

Are we going to have chaos or community?

And I'm not even halfway done, so we're probably going to do another podcast on it,

but where I am right now, I want to put a pen right here because it's poignant.

But I imagine King being optimistic that we could have community.

I'm not so sure, but we're going to have this discussion anyway.

Where do we go from here, Chaos, or Community?

And in this book, he writes writes for the vast majority of white Americans

the past decade the first phase had been a struggle to treat the Negro with a

degree of decency not equality. White America was ready to demand that the Negro should be

spared the lash of brutality and coarse degradation, but it had never been truly committed

to helping him out of poverty, exploitation, or all forms of discrimination.

He writes about black folk being optimistic during this time, optimistic to the point where job training programs

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