Martin Luther King, Jr. said and wrote many poignant and profound things during his lifetime, certainly too many to count, but one quote from the Civil Rights icon feels eerily prophetic in light of Donald Trump’s presidency. On July 16, 1964, King released a statement on the Republican presidential nomination of Barry Goldwater. Goldwater had ran a campaign based on a new kind of conservatism that was staunchly against civil rights reform aand implicitly pro-white. Goldwater concerned King, who felt the candidate legitimized and incited an uptick of white supremacist ideology in the Republican party. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives aid and comfort to the racist.

Source: Huffington Post January 15, 2017 17:40 UTC