Deplorable callers flood C-SPAN for MLK 50th anniversary: ' James Earl Ray had a dream ...'
Fifty years after King was murdered, C-SPAN host Pedro Echevarria asked callers to describe the civil rights icon’s legacy.
While many callers spoke of King in glowing terms, a number of other callers expressed racist views.
A caller named Anita from Arkansas complained that there was not enough focus on the death of white President John Kennedy.
After Echevarria explained that the show was focused on the 50th anniversary of King’s death, Anita said that “his legacy was that people need to try to work together and get along.”
“And I will tell you, here in Magnolia, the black people are more prejudiced against whites than we are against them,” Anita grumbled as the C-SPAN host hung up the call in mid-sentence.
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One racist caller was upset that we arent talking about the JFK assassination and talking about MLK instead, this racist who says blacks are more prejudiced than whites, actually should NEVER have JFK's name in her mouth, NEVER
She has NOTHING in common with him NOTHING
The other RACIST piece of SHIT who called said by giving rights to blacks, whites lose rights.
No, you filthy pile of shit, not rights, but you might lose your UNWARRANTED and UNEARNED privilege
I wish I had not listened to this, I am really angry now 
not surprised given our present time in american history and development. Yet Martin Luther Coon fell off the lips of racists pre trump regularly and with extreme animus implied toward all of our race. We americans, whether the recipients of the hate Dr. King created in ameriKKKan white racist society among those who wanted nothing to do with AA americans, or the perpetrators in civilian and police force brutality/murder cases we all still have a long way to go to achieve Dr. King's DREAM if at all achievable.
The Dream at this present time remains a dream, without any real reason. We've served the military since before the 'Buffalo Soldier', paid our taxes and bills. Fought for and died for voting rights here. Certainly the disharmony over something as superficial as skin color and one culture out of many in our society being an impediment to racial harmony in america shows me the lasting power of hate based in and on race. Now represented in extreme by a potus. He has called on his minions to attain a 'racial superiority' by returning race relations back to a time of racist hate and segregation, a hate that required a response.
Dr. King counseled non-violence when met with violence. As one OP here suggested, that line of responding only made us lose our fear of the violence.
NOTHING!!!! Agreed. Neither one.
