Anyone who really listens to some of the audios that surface online from the last days of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will hear him focusing more on economic change. Much of his poor people’s campaign was starting a discussion of economics, and how it functions. He was talking more and more about how much money we spent on military, and how little we spent on uplifting people.
It was this focus on economic change, that had the potential to truly bring about the reality of his dream. Equality in a nation where money matters, can only be obtained when people of all ethnic backgrounds have economic equality. That doesn’t mean that everyone makes the ‘same’ amount of money, but that everyone has the ‘opportunity’.
I think that because of the internet, we are actually living in a time where it’s not only possible to bring about economic change for more people. It’s happening. It’s given us access to information, and to one another. It’s allowing those who may have have had money invested into their local infrastructure to reach Out into the world and tap into that which has been kept from them.
It’s the Opportunity for real, Economic change that stems from Educational improvements.
Now, instead of spending our ‘time’ on worldstar, watching videos of people fighting, or re-caps of reality television shows, we have the opportunity to learn about any topic we want. We can improve our knowledge of a subject, and can go from there to improve our skills in any area we choose to become an expert in.
As we get ready to celebrate a holiday dedicated to a man who made us dream of a better society — who has inspired us to work towards that ideal, let us not overlook the last leg of his race.
If you’d like to listen to his thoughts on his Poor People’s Campaign click here now
You can also read other articles related to real economic change, especially for people of color, who have been shut out of so many opportunities, for so long. The internet is full of ways to overcome and ‘come up’ — together — it is a great time to be alive.