Still a Very Long Way To Go
“There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?’ And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy... A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will ‘thingify’ them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together.” Martin Luther King, Jr. A Testament of Hope There are some things so important, so vital, so essential to human flourishing that their deprivation by either society, government, or religion can only be said to be immoral and reprehensible. One of those things