Marlon Brando on Johnny Carson in 1968 and things haven't changed

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6. K&R

Thank you for posting this. I had never seen it before. Marlon Brando was a much deeper person than I had ever thought. I admire his committment toward furthering the work of MLK and in bringing a spotlight upon it.

Yet, it's funny how we find ourselves not all that much further along today. Things have gotten better, slowly. But they are still not where they should be. If nothing else, this Trump era has shown us just how far we need to go and has woken many of us up to the ugliness of institutional racism. We may not have realized just how bad it was before, but we certainly do now. And he is right about action, not words.

We need a government that will commit to uplifting AA communities, but we also need to change people's hearts & minds, and that is a much more difficult task. I don't and never have understood where this hatred comes from, but I suspect that a lot of is born of fear and ignorance. I do hope that we can do better.