The Truth About Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stefan Molyneux

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00:00Hi everybody, it's Stephen Molyneux from Freedomain Radio. I hope you're doing well.

00:03These are some interesting facts about

00:07Martin Luther King

00:09Jr., the staggeringly gifted orator who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the 1950s through the

00:181960s until his

00:20untimely assassination.

00:23I think it's important to look at the full rounded

00:27humanity of

00:28a great leader. One of the things that happens that

00:33really demotivates us to achieve excellence in our lives is we think that these people are these lofty gods with no

00:39failings or flaws, and I think it's important to put them in human perspective

00:44so we feel that we flawed specimens can also achieve great things despite

00:50perhaps a multitude of sins. So I hope you'll be patient with me. This is very interesting stuff. I will, as usual,

00:57provide all of the notes below. The sources will be in the

01:01description bar of the video and in the notes of the podcast, but feel free for about 10,000 of you to demand

01:07why I don't provide notes.

01:11Martin Luther King Jr.,

01:13plagiarist. This is interesting. So while gathering, he was a reverend and he also got a doctorate in philosophy

01:20in theology,

01:22which is like getting a doctorate of science in superstition,

01:26so while gathering and collating King's writings for publication in the late 1980s,

01:32the editors of Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project discovered extensive,

01:39extensive plagiaries in his academic papers, including his 1955 dissertation for his doctoral degree

01:46at Boston University. All these instances of plagiarism had escaped detection during his lifetime even by his dissertation supervisors at Boston.

01:54He started plagiarizing as an undergraduate when Boston University founded a commission to look into it. They found that

02:0145% of the first part and 21% of the second part of his dissertation was stolen,

02:08copied.

02:10This is fraud. This is counterfeiting, but they insisted that no thought should be given to revoking Dr. King's doctoral degree.

02:19Now, in addition to his

02:21dissertation and some of his books,

02:23many of his major speeches, including the I Have a Dream speech, were plagiarized, or at least part of them are plagiarized, and

02:31I

02:32will put the links for all this below. Is this important? Yeah, I think it's actually quite important.

02:41He was a liar

02:42with regards to some very, very important stuff. He constantly, he was Dr.

02:48Reverend, you know, he was Dr. Miles, so he put the doctor, but he had obtained it fraudulently.

02:52You know, he was very much against unearned privilege, but he lied and cheated and

02:58counterfeited and misrepresented and stole in order to gain his academic credentials and then hid this.

03:04You know, you could make mistakes. We've all made mistakes.

03:08We can even make grievous moral errors, and then we can say later on, you know, I

03:13gotta confess I did something wrong, but he knew about all of this. Obviously, he had a multi-year

03:18plagiarism history and did not reveal it, kept it hidden for his whole life, as of course to those who followed him. So, if

03:26somebody's dishonest about that, do they really, and refuse to acknowledge it, can they really be classed among the prime moral

03:35instructors of mankind?

03:37Now,

03:39people on the right

03:41have, to some degree, co-opted Martin Luther based upon the line in the I Have a Dream speech,

03:46wherein he says, you know, we should judge people not by the color of their skin, but the content of

03:52their character.

03:54It's a good line, and I, of course, I agree with that. That sounds entirely right to me.

03:59But, you know, one line does not a philosophy make, and he was a big fan of

04:06quotas and racial set-asides, and

04:10so,

04:11in his book, Where Do We Go From Here?,

04:13he said that, quote, a

04:14society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him to equip him to compete

04:21on a just and equal basis.

04:23So, he expressed support

04:25for quotas. He threatened boycotts of businesses

04:28that he felt were not hiring enough

04:31blacks.

04:33Now, the reason that I'm talking about this is

04:37that he is known, as was Mahatma Gandhi, for an advocate of non-violence, non-violent social change.

04:45Yeah, well, there's a little bit of a problem with that, in that the government has a lot

04:55of guns, and the government has a lot of police and a lot of prison cells, and if you don't obey the law,

05:03then men with guns will

05:05knock not-so-politely at your house and drag you away and try you, and if you are found guilty of breaking those laws,

05:11they will throw you in prison, where

05:14terrible things will happen to you with spoons and forks and other men's naughty bits.

05:19So, it's kind of hard for me

05:23to get to the place where I can say, ah, this man who proposed government laws,

05:29government coercion, government violence, to solve complex social, racial, and economic problems,

05:35this man is really into non-violence. Like, you're not into non-violence if you pay someone to do your violence for you,

05:42and the state, as Barack Obama has so memorably stated, is a monopoly of violence. It's an agency of

05:51coercion. So,

05:53it's kind of tough

05:55to say that somebody is non-violent when they want the government to point the guns for them.

06:02He also was a big fan of

06:05reparations for slavery. He wrote, no amount,

06:09oh, he said, no amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and

06:14humiliation of the Negro and Negro in America down through the centuries, yet a price can be paid, placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common

06:20law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of the labor of one human being by

06:25another. This law should be made to apply for American Negroes. So, he wanted billions and billions of dollars to be

06:32taken, again, at gunpoint from people who'd never owned slaves and given to people who never were slaves.

06:38You know, without a time machine and a robot army, you cannot go back and solve the problem of slavery.

06:45And I believe that's probably Schwarzenegger's next movie after the next one, but

06:51so, again, this is the initiation of force. It is the forcible

06:55confiscation of wealth from one section of society to be paid to another, where the section of society that's taken from is not

07:02the victimizers and the people that's going to are not the current victims. What are their after effects of slavery? Of course,

07:09massive after effects of slavery, which we'll get to in a second.

07:14So, not a man who's into non-violence and,

07:17you know, just touch on this very briefly. I mean, one of the great tragedies of social activism is that social activists almost always, the first thing

07:25they think is, let's have a protest. Let's have a march. Let's go to Washington. Let's get Congress people involved.

07:31Let's get a law. There ought to be a law. That's what people say, and it's unbelievably tragic.

07:37Because 99 times out of a hundred, the conditions

07:43that they wish to be remedied are caused by the state.

07:47Who enforced slavery?

07:53Not Whitey. The state, right? It was the state that

08:00picked up the slaves who ran away. If slave owners had to pay for people to go and find the slaves who ran away,

08:05it all had to be socialized, all the collectivized, right? In a place like Brazil,

08:10they ended slavery just by saying, we're not going to catch the slaves anymore, and slavery was ended.

08:15They just started paying people. Once the government stops doing your dirty work, a virtue inevitably flourishes,

08:21and so it's really tragic, of course, that

08:25somebody who'd suffered so much

08:28from

08:29government racism, which is what slavery was, would then say, oh, you know, it'd be great to solve this problem.

08:34The state, because it's really been our friend. Jim Crow laws with the state. Two-Fifths was the state.

08:40Rosa Parks, you know, the

08:42communist trained activist who

08:45moved to the front of the bus from the back,

08:51well, the bus company didn't want to put her in the back.

08:53It was a law. The government had a law that said you had the blacks had to go in the back.

08:56Why on earth would the bus company, who liked serving the poor, and blacks were disproportionately poor in this place and time,

09:02why on earth would the bus company want to annoy the blacks by putting them in the back?

09:06They're the best customers. No, it was a government law. So again, everyone thinks it was a protest against

09:12racism, and it was a protest against

09:15government laws. Bull Connor was a government employee.

09:19So it's really tough to maintain these horrible injustices without state power, and yet the moment that people want to overturn

09:26these injustices, what do they want? More state power!

09:30Anyway.

09:33FBI surveillance showed that King had dozens of extramarital affairs.

09:38Now, a lot of these records were sealed. They apparently are going to be unsealed in 2027.

09:45Several agents who watched

09:48Martin Luther King

09:49observed him engaged in many questionable acts, including buying prostitutes with SCLC money.

09:56Ralph Abernathy, who King called the best friend I have in the world,

09:59substantiated many of these charges in his autobiography, and the walls came tumbling

10:03down. In 1964, in a true move of staggering cosmic Old Testament scumbaggery,

10:11the FBI sent an audio tape of Martin Luther King,

10:15one of his sexual encounters, to his wife Coretta Scott, where it sat for six weeks unopened, and then she opened it, played the tape, and

10:23called her husband, caused huge problems in the marriage. The FBI apparently also sent a note saying you should commit suicide,

10:29or we're going to reveal you as whatever, right?

10:31Now,

10:33there's a few things to be said about this,

10:35I think, that are important, which is, if you want to be a moralizer for mankind, you really should keep your own house in order.

10:41Martin Luther King

10:42was a minister, a deeply religious man, although when he was younger, he was quite skeptical of the communist...

10:49Sorry, of the... excuse me. He was quite skeptical of

10:52Christianity.

10:54But he was religious. He believed in the Ten Commandments. He was married in the eyes of God. He made vows

11:00to God himself

11:02to stay true and faithful to his wife and to not have affairs, and he had dozens of affairs, at least that are known of,

11:08and there are apparently some quite salacious audio tapes of him saying extraordinary things during the act of

11:14sexual congress, and

11:16this is sort of important. I mean, if you really want to be the moral instructor for mankind, you

11:22might want to think about keeping your vows to God and your wife

11:27about your fidelity, or at least not openly hiding and being guilt-ridden and all of that about your infidelities.

11:33Another thing that's interesting about this is, and we'll get to this in a sec,

11:38Martin Luther King

11:40was a lefty, for the most part, and I mean, he started out apparently as a Republican, and then when Barry Goldwater,

11:46who was like the Ron Paul of the 60s,

11:50when he opposed the Civil Rights Act, as did Reagan and some other conservatives,

11:54because of the expansion of government power, not because they were against civil rights, he then switched over to the Democrat Party, and

12:05he was kind of on the left. He surrounded himself with communists, and we'll get to that, which is important.

12:10I know communist doesn't sound like a scary word these days, you know, what's in a Sheryl Crow song, right, my friend the communist?

12:17And, but in the day, back in the day, even before my time, it was,

12:22they were the

12:24far worse than Al-Qaeda of their day, and

12:28so, yeah, I think we'll sort of get to that, but

12:32Martin Luther King had all these affairs, and

12:35this has really been covered up, as was his plagiarism.

12:38This was released, the news of it was released, and for more than a year to a year and a half,

12:42right, again, the largely left-wing media sat on this and didn't report it, and now they kind of cover up and don't report on his

12:48multiple affairs.

12:52Why is that? I mean, if you compare this to Clarence Thomas, right, a

12:57conservative judge who Anita Hill accused of sexual harassment at work because he said who put a

13:04pubic hair on my Coke can or something like that,

13:07well, that's nothing compared to Martin Luther King's endless gangbangs that occurred, and

13:14yet the left

13:16obviously covers up all the Martin Luther stuff and then goes straight to Clarence Thomas, even though he's a black man, and

13:21Herman McCain was supposed to have had these affairs because he wrote something nice in someone's book. No proof of it whatsoever,

13:27but then he was kicked out of the presidential race for fears of sexual harassment, sexual inappropriateness,

13:32maybe even having affairs. Oh, isn't that terrible?

13:36None of this, as far as I know, substantiated, but then Martin Luther King, who's on the left, gets all the, you know,

13:43get-out-of-pussy-free cards and is not really talked about, but this is kind of important for a minister to openly break his vows

13:51to God and wife

13:54repeatedly is

13:56significant, and I mean, his defense was he said, look, I'm on the road

14:0227-28 days a month.

14:05Fucking is a good stress reliever, in my words. Sorry, his words, not mine,

14:09but that only raises questions about his

14:13dedication

14:15as a father. He had four kids and didn't really seem to take a huge amount of interest in their upbringing.

14:20Certainly did not provide for them, despite winning the equivalent of

14:23$400,000 as a Peace Prize. I think he was the youngest man ever at the age of 35 to get a Nobel Peace Prize and

14:31didn't provide for his kids. He died without a will, even though he'd had an assassination attempt once before and was

14:36continually talking about how he was going to die. He died interstate or without a will, which has caused nothing but

14:41fighting and conflict since, and he had no money left over despite all his books and his speeches and all that.

14:46He donated the $400,000 straight to the civil rights,

14:51which is, you know, nice and I guess well and good, but you know,

14:54maybe your kids could actually get an education because, you know, charity begins

14:58at home.

15:00And like most people on the left, there's this chronic economic illiteracy, and by economic illiteracy,

15:06I don't mean that he was not a big fan of Milton Friedman.

15:10I mean, you can be economically literate and still on the left, it's just kind of really rare, and so

15:18he said,

15:20Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?

15:26I mean, where would you even begin to unravel the economic illiteracy?

15:31He said, why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?

15:35These are questions that must be asked. Yes, but only by idiots, or at least economic idiots.

15:41Go drink some seawater and see how potable it is. Go drink some pond water or stuff

15:46you can suck up with a straw from a moose track and see how many bacteria you can invite into your ecosystem.

15:51So yeah, you got to make it potable. You got to transport it. You got to, I mean, of course you have to pay bills.

15:56What world is two-thirds water?

15:58Crazy.

16:01And

16:04it, I mean, yeah, it seems like he was a sex addict. They recently released interviews with Jackie Kennedy.

16:09She knew about it. Jackie confided how her brother-in-law Bobby Kennedy

16:13had told her the FBI had recorded King trying to arrange a sex party on the night before

16:18the March on Washington in August 1963.

16:22She said, I can't see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man's terrible.

16:26Bobby had told her the King was calling up all these girls and arranging for a party of men and women.

16:30I mean, a sort of orgy.

16:33And of course, she knew something about sex addicts being married to John F. Kennedy.

16:39You know, no woman could pick up a pencil safely around that guy.

16:45And he was, back to the economic illiteracy, he was against automation because he felt that automation

16:52destroyed jobs. And he said,

16:55when machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets

17:01of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. So the problem is computers.

17:09I mean, easy-peasy. I mean, if you want to get rid of joblessness, just

17:14outlaw farm machinery and everyone has to go pick their crops by hand,

17:18there will be no unemployment and very few people left because most people will starve to death.

17:25Okay, so let's talk a little bit about the lefty stuff.

17:30He never openly said he was a Marxist. Let's be fair. Let's be fair. Privately, according to a number of people,

17:37he did say that he was a Marxist.

17:39That is what people say.

17:41This is what he did say.

17:43He said, I always look at Marx with a yes and a no. And there were some things that Karl Marx did that were

17:49very good. Some very good things.

17:51There's that preacher of repetition. If you read him, you can see that this man had a great passion for social justice.

17:57But Karl Marx got messed up. First, because he didn't stick with that Jesus that he had read about.

18:02But secondly, because he didn't even stick with Hegel. Now,

18:05this is where I leave brother Marx and move on towards the kingdom of brotherhood.

18:09I am simply saying that God never intended for some of his children to live in inordinate superfluous wealth,

18:14while others live in abject deadening poverty.

18:18In another article about Martin Luther King,

18:21Robert Clegg of National Review, applauds King for speaking out against the oppression of communism.

18:26To gain the support of many liberal whites in the early years, King did make a few mild denunciations of communism.

18:31He also claimed in a 65 Playboy interview,

18:34I think he was the interview, not the pinup, that there are, quote, as many communists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida.

18:42This was a bold-faced lie. Though King was never a

18:46communist, he was always critical of the Soviet Union, he had knowingly surrounded himself with communists. His closest advisor,

18:52Stanley Leveson, was a communist. A Jewish communist? Can't be. As was his assistant, Jack O'Dell.

18:59Robert, and later John F. Kennedy, repeatedly warned him to stop associating himself with communists, but he never did.

19:05He frequently spoke in front of communist front groups, like the National Lawyers Guild and the Lawyers for Democratic Action.

19:11He even attended seminars at the Highlander Folk School,

19:15not, you know, cross-sword dancing, but a communist front which taught communist tactics,

19:21where Rosa Parks also apparently studied, and so on.

19:26Now,

19:29it's hard in this day and age

19:32to understand what an unbelievable threat communism was to the planet. Worse than Nazism.

19:37The death count for communism is far higher than Nazism,

19:40and it was very active, and

19:44there were literally hundreds of

19:47communist spies in the State Department in the U.S.

19:50FDR's closest advisor at the Yalta Conference was a communist. This is

19:55staggering, you know, that the House

20:00McCarthyism and so on didn't come out of nowhere, right? That there was great

20:04fears and great realities that communists had infiltrated the highest levels of the U.S. government and was

20:10significantly affecting domestic policy and

20:13foreign policy and so on.

20:16Now, for you young folks,

20:18it's important to understand what, I mean,

20:21communism was far more dangerous to America and to the West than Al-Qaeda could ever conceivably be, could ever conceivably be.

20:29And if you can imagine there being a public figure,

20:34sympathetic public figure in America, who was surrounded

20:39by open members of Al-Qaeda and

20:42and promoting open members, taking advice and being photographed with, and who had attended Al-Qaeda training camps and so on,

20:50this would be inconceivable, right? You can't surround yourself with Al-Qaeda, take advice from Al-Qaeda operatives, attend Al-Qaeda training camps, and

20:58be sympathetically portrayed

21:02in the American media. But communism is a different matter, and we'll go into that why another time.

21:07But he didn't openly identify as being a communist, but he certainly was a

21:14socialist, a democratic socialist, as he called it. And that's quite important.

21:22So he was very much for the forced redistribution of wealth, which is again an act of violence, an act of coercion.

21:29He wanted to unite blacks and poor whites in a sort of labor movement,

21:34which was strongly socialist and so on. So this was a

21:41very large problem in socialism. National socialism was Nazism. That's why you don't call it

21:46National Socialism, which is its correct name.

21:49You call it Nazism so that the word socialism isn't revealed to you for what it is.

21:53Just if you want to, for funs, you know shits and giggles, you can go and look up the party platform of

21:58the Communist Party, you can look up the party platform of

22:02the National Socialists at the Nazi Party, and you can just see how successful

22:07free market classical liberalism has been in fighting the twin evils,

22:11triple evils of fascism, socialism, and

22:15communism.

22:16But he was, you know, sympathetic to communists. He employed communists. He took advice from communists.

22:21He was surrounded by communists in many ways, and this is why he was under

22:26surveillance, because this was some very dangerous stuff for America at the time. There's strong arguments to be made that the advice

22:34that

22:36FDR received at the Alta Conference was instrumental in losing

22:40the entire Eastern Bloc to communism for another 40 plus years.

22:46You know, surrendering

22:48hundreds of millions of people into totalitarianism was brutal, and the communists also, a communist infiltration in the United States government was

22:55instrumental in helping the fumble under the Democrats that lost China to communism.

23:01So it was massive, massive catastrophes, and it was an extraordinarily dangerous time, and communism was an unbelievably murderous virus

23:09all throughout the world, and those

23:12who didn't die often envied the dead.

23:16So was he anti-violence? No, he was not anti-violence. He just wanted the state to do the violence for him, and

23:24was he economically illiterate? No, but he kept talking about economic

23:28affairs, which meant that he did not know the limits of his own capacities. He was a plagiarist. He lied about getting his doctorate, and

23:35he lied to get his doctorate and hid that information, and

23:40the prediction

23:43from people who say that violence doesn't solve problems is that if you use the government

23:50to try and solve some complex social problem, then

23:56you will end up with that problem getting worse. Now in the short run,

23:59it may look better, or may appear better, and it may in fact get better in the short run,

24:02but in the long run, you're in big trouble if you use coercion, right?

24:08If, like I'm trying to think of a good example, like sort of an abstract example that would make sense.

24:15So if you have a toothache, and you take

24:19heroin for your toothache, your toothache is like, whoa, I feel better. I feel great. In fact, I've never felt better, and

24:25I speak in a Scottish accent. I don't know why,

24:29but your toothache is just getting worse, and when the heroin wears off,

24:32you know, it will be really, really bad. If you could steal for a living, and it sure beats working in the short run,

24:38but in the long run, it's not going to do you a whole lot of good, and

24:41you can not deal with personal problems, and you can drink instead, and in the short run, that seems like a good idea,

24:47but in the long run, it works out

24:49pretty badly.

24:51So the argument would be

24:55that

24:57since Martin Luther King and

24:59the majority of black leaders were pro-state power, right? There were some exceptions, Walter Sowell and so on,

25:07but the majority of the black leaders were pro-state power.

25:10We're going to use the power of the state to achieve our goals and to make things better, and

25:17this is fundamentally why he is still revered and praised, despite his

25:22extraordinary personal failings, and again, despite being a staggeringly God-given

25:27talent of an orator.

25:30It's because he was an excuse to expand state power.

25:33He was an excuse to... You know that there's just an excuse to expand state power for one simple, obvious reason,

25:42which is

25:44state power is necessary to help blacks do better.

25:48So we're going to put in massive amounts of state power to help blacks do better, and then what happens? Well, blacks end up doing worse.

25:56Is that power taken away? No, because the calls of racism have achieved what is

26:03wanted, which is an expansion of state power,

26:05and the fact that it doesn't

26:06solve the problem in the long run and only makes it work doesn't matter, because the problem is only the

26:11excuse for the expansion of state power. Remember the War on Poverty?

26:15In the 1960s, LBJ's Great Society, the War on Poverty?

26:19Poverty is in many ways worse now than it was

26:22when this all started. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the rate of poverty in America was declining one percentage point every single year.

26:29The government was in grave danger of running out of victims, whose cause it could triumph and whose

26:35supposed abject

26:37victimhood it could waive in front of people and get them to surrender even more economic and political rights.

26:43So the market was solving the problem of poverty in a way

26:47that was completely unprecedented until we saw the recent amazing staggering hundred million plus

26:53successes of getting people out of poverty in

26:56increasingly free market India and China, the greatest end of poverty the world has ever seen.

27:01You don't really hear much about it because that's less state power, and the media and academics and all of that

27:07are pro-state power for a variety of reasons we can get into another time.

27:11So racism was just this thing which was like, oh, okay. Well, I can't really say, well, I just want more power.

27:19So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create this situation where

27:23I'm gonna say there's this terrible problem in society and only the state can solve it.

27:27And therefore, if you're against the expansion of state power,

27:30you must be against solving this problem, right? And we hear this all the time, right? If you are against

27:36the EPA, like the Environmental Protection Agency, because it's a huge grab

27:40of state power over property rights put in by, remember, that ultra conservative Nixon in the 70s.

27:46If you're against the EPA, well, you must not care about the environment. If you're against welfare,

27:50you must not care about the poor. If you're against Obamacare, you must not care that people get better. And if you are against

27:57quotas or affirmative action or all of this stuff, then you must be racist.

28:02It's what happens when people don't have arguments. They just resort to false dichotomy ad hominems, right?

28:07I mean, this is the way of the world until we get smart enough to stop doing stupid things to ourselves as a species.

28:14So racism just happened to be the thing in the 60s. Did it really solve the problems?

28:19Well, I mean, you know, blacks got better for a while.

28:23And again, I'll put links to this below. And now blacks have been doing a lot worse.

28:27And is anyone talking about reversing these policies now that blacks are doing worse again?

28:30No, of course not, because the purpose of the expansion of state power has been achieved.

28:35I mean,

28:36with global warming, which could be anthropogenic and certainly could be, you know, causing catastrophes,

28:42you only ever hear about expansion of state power, right?

28:46I mean, there's a solution that's been proposed by Bjorn Lomborg. It costs about a hundred million bucks called cloud whitening, where you get a bunch of

28:51automated vessels out there in the ocean spraying up saltwater into clouds to reflect the sunlight back.

28:56It's been validated by a wide variety of scientists. It's nothing.

29:00In terms of cost compared to how much has been spent researching global warming,

29:05but you never hear about it, because if the problem is solved, then the expansion of state power has to stop.

29:09So the problem is not supposed to be solved any more than the problem of poverty or health care.

29:14I mean, the Obamacare is like the hundred and twelve billionth intervention in the health care industry by the government.

29:19The purpose is to expand power. It's never to solve the problem.

29:23The problem is just a mask, and it's a way of beating people up who are skeptical of the expansion of state power, but

29:28it could be that I digress.

29:31Illegitimacy has always been a problem in black society, and at least since the 1950s.

29:42But it's much worse now, right? So in 1950, only 16% of black kids were born outside of marriage.

29:49Only 16%. In 2010, that's 73%, right? From 16% to 73%.

29:55That is pretty bad.

29:57Very bad.

29:58In the early 1960s, it had gone from 16% to 20%. There was only 2% to 3% of white kids who were born outside of wedlock.

30:08And it's, you know, almost three quarters by 2010, and three-tenths of white births are occurring outside of marriage.

30:14That is, that's catastrophic, you know.

30:18Being born to a single mom is the single worst predictor for a kid's future outcome.

30:24What was the unemployment rate

30:26for blacks in 1954? It was 10% for black men. In 2012, it was 17%.

30:37How many blacks had spent time in prison in 1974? 9%. How many blacks spent time in prison in 2010?

30:4416%. Almost double.

30:47Just wretched. And this is what happens, you know.

30:51You plant a demon seed, you raise a flower of fire, as the song goes, and when you reach for the power of the state,

30:57you

30:59almost permanently and almost inevitably destroy whatever progress you claim

31:04to

31:06be interested in solving. I can say, I would really like this woman to go out with me,

31:11but if I put a bag of chloroform over her head and throw into the back of a windowless van,

31:16she is driving around with me, but she ain't gonna wake up liking me a whole lot.

31:20So violence may appear to solve problems, especially the coercion of the state. It may appear to solve problems in the short run,

31:28but the expansion of state power

31:31that comes from people who want to use the state to solve problems always ends up disrupting and destroying societies in the long run.

31:39And thus, we really become that which we despise in the absence of

31:44reason. A true commitment to non-violence, a true commitment to non-violence,

31:48you know, starts with not spanking, starts with not aggressing against your children and in your personal relationships, flows outwards from there.

31:58And a true commitment to non-violence means steering clear,

32:03steering wide, running in the exact screaming opposite direction

32:09from the endless armaments of

32:12suicidal state power.

32:16Happy Martin Luther King Day.

32:41Happy Martin Luther King Day.

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