Identitarians claim Martin Luther King supported reparations and quote him saying, "We are coming to get our check." But when they do, they erase the context. The full quote is "Now, when we come to Washington in this campaign, we are coming to get our check." The campaign was the Poor People’s Campaign , and the check was for all poor people.
King was a democratic socialist. He wanted to help all of the poor. He first supported guaranteed jobs, and then moved on to universal basic income.
In 1964, in Why We Can’t Wait , he argued for a Bill […]
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