Obama and John Lewis talk MLK on 50th anniversary of assassination
Source: The HILL
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Former President Obama and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) met with a group of high schoolers at D.C. high school this week to discuss civil rights and Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of the leader's assassination.
In a video released Wednesday, Obama and Lewis sat down with the high schoolers at the all-male Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in a roundtable for My Brother's Keeper, Obama's initiative to help young men of color.
"If you are speaking on behalf of social justice, then by definition there's going to be some controversy because if it wasn't controversial, then somebody would have already fixed it," Obama told the students.
"Dr. King was controversial, but he studied and thought and crafted what he had to say. He knew, when he spoke, he was expressing a truth as well as he could know it," he continued.
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