MLK’s Former Speechwriter: ‘We Are Trying to Save the Soul of America’ I am damn sure, at this time in my life, I’m not going to turn my back. This time is more urgent than ever.” Meanwhile, Jones worries that some of today’s social justice measures have strayed too far from King’s original message. He points to an ethnic studies curriculum for public schools in California, proposed in 2020, which sought to teach K–12 students about the marginalization of black, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American peoples. Jones fiercely opposed the new curriculum recommendations, calling them, in a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, a “perversion of history” that “will inflict great harm on millions of students in our state.” He wrote that the proposed curriculum excluded “the intellectual and moral basis for radical nonviolence advocated by Dr. King” and his colleagues. “They were promoting black nationalism,” he told me. “They were promoting blackness over excellence.”
I think that it has long been established that the race baiters that have established themselves have more than perverted Dr. King’s message and vision practically ever since his death. What makes it worse is that they have enriched themselves substantially while not really doing much in the last 30 years to make anything better.
