![]() There were more than 2000 people in the gym in 1968, most of them eager to hear King speak. While driving to the school, the Grosse Pointe Farms police chief sat on King’s lap to protect him. Tensions were incredibly high, and security was tight. ![]() King came to Grosse Pointe at the invitation of a group called the Grosse Pointe Human Relations Council. The events that surrounded it are equally remarkable. There are many remarkable things about this speech, which is worth reading in its entirety (you can find it here). King goes on to say that in one of these Americas, “millions of people have the milk of prosperity and the honey of equality flowing before them.” But the other has a “daily ugliness about it that transforms the buoyancy of hope into the fatigue of despair.” Every city in our country has this kind of dualism, this schizophrenia, split at so many parts, and so every city ends up being two cities rather than one.” And so I want to use as a title for my lecture tonight, "The Other America." And I use this title because there are literally two Americas. And I do not see how we will ever solve the turbulent problem of race confronting our nation until there is an honest confrontation with it and a willing search for the truth and a willingness to admit the truth when we discover it. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. I still believe that freedom is the bonus you receive for telling the truth. “I want to discuss the race problem tonight and I want to discuss it very honestly. ![]()
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