Listening to his family go thru a litany of 'justice' for those who cannot pay their mortgages, school loans, car loans, whatever, I simply CANNOT escape the obvious conclusion that the justice they demand is a check from the government when things get tough.
If the nation simply CANNOT AFFORD IT, then it cannot AFFORD it.
PHYSICS.
Rather than concentrate on ensuring that this 'justice' of ENFORCED EQUAL OUTCOME is achieved via govt check at the low end, why not concentrate on raising the level of the ocean so that every boat has an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY to rise with it?
Dr. King dedicated his life to achieving equal opportunity for all by nonviolent means. That is NOT what these people were talking about.
They can sqawk all they want about what they KNEW their father, 'really'wanted, but that is NOT WHAT HE DID. More over the poor of 1963 are not the the poor in America today.
As countless documentaries pointed out....
Today the poor in America are not hungry.
Today the poor in America must suffer with basic cable.
Today the poor in America usually have A/C.
Today the poor in America get electronic deposits.
It is those who REFUSE the aid that make that life possible, work 3 lousy jobs, and those who are compelled to accept that aid and HATE THAT FACT, who suffer because they NEED TO ACHIEVE AND STAND ON THEIR OWN. Those are the people who NEED EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED, AND NOT SOMEONE ELSE GIVING THEM EQUAL OUTCOME BECAUSE THEY CONCEIVE OF IT AS JUSTICE.
This is America, and no one should be without THE NECESSITIES, but this is NOT the GREAT SOCIETY of 1964 where the horizon was unlimited. The necessities are not a Ford Explorer and and Honda Accord, 55" LED Screen and 3500 square foot house with a 35 year floating mortgage for all. That is what equal opportunity to succeed SHOULD ALLOW ONE TO PROVIDE.
The difference between equal opportunity and enforced equal outcome is theft of property by the state, crushing discouragement of hard work, risk taking and invention, and assumption that the state acts with this 'justice'.
But the state is a sledgehammer trying to hit a finishing nail surrounded by china, wielded by unnamed blind men appointed by someone else who wants to get home to his dog.