MLK associate tells Memphis Baptist group he’s backing Bernie Sanders
Source: The Commercial Appeal
Knoxville minister Rev. Harold Middlebrook, a Memphis native and former lieutenant of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., told the gathering of more than 50 black preachers at Greater Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in South Memphis that Sanders represented everything he had struggled for over the last 50 years, detailing the Vermont senator's plans to offer free college, reform the criminal justice system, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and provide universal health care for all Americans.
"We've got to be concerned not just about popularity and names, but we've got to look at the issues and see who is going to really speak on our behalf," Middlebrook said. "And if we make a solid impression in Memphis, if Memphis wants to, Memphis can carry any election in this state."
Middlebrook, a Booker T. Washington High School graduate, is the retired pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in Knoxville and has spent his life involved in the fight for civil rights.
Locally, he helped organize marches and the Black Monday school boycotts in the 1960s. He was at the Lorraine Motel when King was killed in 1968.
Read more: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/government/mlk-associate-tells-memphis-baptist-group-hes-backing-sanders-2c73e08d-8bd8-321c-e053-0100007f70ec-369892701.html
shawn703
(2,702 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)We Shall Overcome.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)"We've got to be concerned not just about popularity and names, but we've got to look at the issues and see who is going to really speak on our behalf," Middlebrook said.
Thank you Rev. Middlebrook.
Lazy Daisy
(928 posts)Thank you for your support and your public endorsement. Most of all thank you for your hard work all these years.
No man is free until we are all free-MLK
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Locally, he helped organize marches and the Black Monday school boycotts in the 1960s. He was at the Lorraine Motel when King was killed in 1968.
Jeezus!
AzDar
(14,023 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I respect the work he has done for the cause.
klook
(12,164 posts)Oh, but yeah, "He marched with Martin" doesn't carry much weight with some folks around here.
He knows what civil rights is really all about!
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)O_O
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,598 posts)democrank
(11,100 posts)Thank you, Rev. Middlebrook.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)will MAYBE give this one 1 minute segment one day .... if we are lucky..
that's why its up to ALL OF US to get the word out...
we have got to get people to come out and vote like they did in 2008 and for the same ideological reasons...