Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Would Be Appalled’ by Modern US Race Relations: Carol Swain

As Americans observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, retired Vanderbilt University professor and author Carol Swain expressed concern over the current state of U.S. race relations and civil rights.
In an interview with NTD News, Swain said that King’s approach and message on civil rights was “diametrically opposed” to the views and behaviors of modern-day civil rights activists.
King was known for his support of civil disobedience and non-violent activism as a means of winning over support. King famously helped organize boycotts and sit-ins, as well as the 1963 March on Washington D.C., in which he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Less than a year after that march on Washington D.C., Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, and sex, and religion….}