dr. king's speech. speaking with a special guest about the anti-war, projustice theme and gauging where america falls 50 years later on racism, poverty and militarism. tonight's guest, jeremy scahill. we are glad you joined us. jeremy scahill, in just a moment. >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> joined tonight by jeremy scahill, investigative reporter, war correspondent, author and editor of the online news, the intercept. good to have you here. >> thank you. >> before i jump into particulars about the speech, you had a chance to read it, of course, over the years. what do you make of the parallels of the remarks king made 50 years ago and where we are now? >> first of all, if you really read the speech and listen to it, this was a meticulous, political, analysis that was being offered by dr. king. it was, like many sophisticated analysis, it was prophetic and timeless. the war at home and the war on brown people and poor people and people of col

dr. king's speech, speaking with special guest about his anti-war, projustice theme, and gauging where america falls on the triple evil of militarism. our friend, harry belafonte. we are glad you joined us. this is coming up in a moment. >>> hands by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> harry belafonte is an icon whose albums solidified him in music, but also known for his commitment to civil rights issues. he joins us as we continue our week long discussion of dr. king's beyond vietnam speech. glad to have you in your neck of the woods this time. >> it's a good moment for me. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> back with smiley. >> i'm getting big in new york with you. since i last saw you, you turned 90. as you know, we did an entire show dedicated to a celebration of your 90th birthday with the best clips of your appearances. that will go in the catalog down the road for your 100th birthday. happy belated 90th birthday. >> thank you. >> all right. i'm coming. hold on,

remember, dr. king on the day of his assassination had said to the secretary at ebenezer, the subject of his next sermon, why america may go to hell. what a challenge and what a prophetic lifting up of where we were then. and if he could come back he could preach the same sermon. >> let's just take a second here and unpack that. because you just put something out that i know viewers some of them are shocked by it. they never heard it before. so i am glad you said it. 50 years ago this week dr. king was in this city just a few miles down the road to give this beyond vietnam speech at the riverside church. the next day all hell broke loose, all the papers came after him, for the next year of his life it was a living hell. these were the consequences of his speech, uninvited to speak at black churches, his organization goes bankrupt, they can't raise money. hoover has plants inside his own organization. they would not publish his book or run op-eds, the last poll taken of his life, the harris poll found th

dr. king's beyond vietnam speech, along with bryan stevenson in a moment. >>> contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> i'm joined tonight by bryan stevenson, the founder and director of the equal justice and author of "just mercy." it's about to become a film starring michael b. jordan. congratulations on that. >> thank you. thank you. >> let me start by asking when you first became aware of this "beyond vietnam" speech given in this city 50 years ago tomorrow. >> it's interesting, i wasn't aware of it, i didn't read it until i started practicing in montgomery, alabama. my office was down the street from dr. king's church, so i would visit there often. just collecting some of the things he would preach on and he would talk about, i encountered his work in the 1960s after the passage of the civil rights act. it was so impressive to me that dr. king never rested on his laurels. he was not satisfied after the passing of the voters rights. he knew there was still wor

because dr. kingher mind, and the mind of her generation, was the bridge that brought them across the isolation and humiliation of segregation. >> we're going to leave you with a tune -- >> we were on our way back to america at the time when whe heard about martin luther king. >> tribute to dr. martin luther king. >> it was as though a truck, a mack truck had drove a hole right through our hearts. all 18 wheels of it. out of that was born "the king of love is dead." ♪ a man of noble birth teaching love and freedom for his fellow man ♪ >> we thank god for giving us the leader who was willing to die, but not willing to kill. >> simone has always been committed to the movement. she expressed the pain that the african-american community felt. she was devastated, angry. >> it's my song. i composed it through anger. >> you don't look like you can be angry at all. >> all the time. >> nina simone was a jazz musician. she was born in the segregated south. her mississippi goddamn is one of the, if not the most

dr. kingt putting people in the street's in harm's way to put the pressure on so the bill would be introduced. >> jeffrey, you do understand that dr. king was marching for civil rights because people who look like me were being beaten. basic human rights were being with held from these people merely because of the color of their skin. so let's not equate. >> i agree. >> dr. martin luther king jr., humanitarian, nobel prize winner, to vagina-grabbing president trump. >> all right, jeff, i want to give you a chance to explain exactly what you meant by your earlier comments. >> sure, i was not comparing president trump and dr. king. who by the way, is a hero of mine when i was a kid. i compared their strategy, dr. king, quite especially, and i knew that when i was talking about it on air this morning was talking about creating a crisis, let me read you the quick sentence here from his letter from a birmingham jail, which i'm well familiar with. quote, non-violent direct action seeks to create suc

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got to him, even though his pulse was still beating, it was very clear that it was all over. >> dr. kingas rushed to st. joseph's hospital emergency room. he died at 7:00 central standard time from a gunshot wound in the neck. >> it came across the screen that dr. martin luther king has been shot in memphis. my mother started crying like a member of our family died, because dr. king in her mind, in the mind of her generation, was the bridge that brought them across the isolation and humiliation of segregation. >> we're going to leave you with a tune -- >> we were on our way back to america at the time when we heard about mart lin luther kin. >> tribute to dr. martin luther king. >> it was as though mack truck hadrove a hole right through our hearts. all 18 wheels of it. out of that was born why the king of love is dead. ♪ >> we thank god for giving us a leader who was willing to die but not willing to kill. >> she expressed the pain that the african-american community felt. >> she was devastated, angry. >> that's yours, isn't it? >> yes, it's my song. i composed it out of pure anger. >>

it's denial of dr. king. >> dr. the people who are sitting here than he meant to you. he wasn't just a tactic for us. he is a real person who helped me to be able to get here and simone to be able to sit here. >> yes, yes, exactly. >> and selena and for you to come on. >> yes. >> and give some reckless comparison to his legacy. >> good night. >> you should not be judged by the color of your skin. >> good night. we're done. yeah, 103. well, let me ask you guys. how long did it take you two to save that? a long time. then it's a fortune. well, i'm sure you talk to people all the time who think $100k is just pocket change. right now we're just talking to you. i told you we had a fortune. yes, you did. getting closer to your investment goals starts with a conversation. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today. but we've got the get tdigital tools to help. now with xfinity's my account, you can figure things out easily, so you won't even have to call us. change your wifi password to something you can actually

dr. martin lugtser king jr. a nobel peace price dine to vagina grabbing president donald trump. >> wow. >> never forget. never forget. >> that was morning tv so simeon hey i got to commend you underjeffrey dr. martin luther king jr. is a civil rights hero did you realize what you were saying. >> dr. king is a hero ever of mine has been since i was a kid. don, look, i used dr. king let me use -- let me go to other races let's go with ganddy dr. king's hero. senator eugene mccarthy or tom hayden on the veet a number where used the tact of shutting down things to draw attention to the veet a number where. s it a tactic a colorless strategy used very effectively by dr. king or civil rights ganddy to get independence from india vietnam protestors of which i was once won for a bet in sixth and 70s it is a colorless reach. >> that's a reach jeffrey. >> no it is not a reach. >> you do remember two days ago what happened with sean spicer with a very ill thought out comparison as well. some things you just. >> i thought th

dr. martin luther king speaking at riverside church april 4, 1967. more about the speech we are still joined by dr. william arber president and senior lecturer for pairers of the breach. e delivered a sermon at riverside church sunday commemorating the 50th dr. kiking's beyondd vietnam speech. the severalen he delivered was is not an option. can you talk about the significance of what dr. king he said it, even is inner circle, reverend barber, saying don't speak against the war in vietnam. you have the president of the united states lyndon johnson your figure and simple and voting rights act passed. sing is not your war but said know -- but king said no and gave the speech. >> yes, he gave the speech, i a prophetic sermon and was killed exactly one year later. ut he was very clear that you tri-un er separate the everyone of racism. militarism. e knew that the prophetic role of the preacher or religious eader or moral leader is to challenge the soul and the heart of the nation. if you listen to his voice and words, he is very clear. vincent harding, wh

tonight, we conclude our meeting on dr. king, speaking with our anti-war and social justice theme and what is called the triple racism of poverty. glad you have joined us, a look back at dr. king's vietnam speech, with a panel of activists who were not even born 50 years ago coming up in just a moment. >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. so pleased to be joined tonight by professor and author, mark lamont, and director of change, rashad robinson, closing out a powerful week, speaking of powerful when you first came to know this speech what did you make of it? you went to moorehouse, where king went to school, what did you make of it and how did you compare it in contrast with vietn vietnam, and what i'm sure you knew about, the i have a dream speech. >> it changed the way i understood king, because now i understood him from a radical condition, coming from a nationalist background, i found we have to fight back, the other thing i found was the moral, king linked his peace to jesus, and

dr. martin luther king jr. dr. king jr. was sadly struck down in memphis, tennessee, by an an individual who wanted to kill him and chased him all over the country. so happened memphis was the spot that he had that final opportunity. in memphis, there will be activities today celebrating the life of dr. king and commitments to community service in his spirit. but ironically today, while the 49th anniversary of his assassination is also the 50th anniversary of his greatest speech, in my opinion. not the mountain top speech that he made the night before in memphis, a great speech where he said i have been to the mountain top and i may not et there, but i've seen over the -- from the mountain and seen the future and the promise land. but it was a speech at the riverside church in new york in manhattan april 4 of 1967 when he spoke of the three isms that bother this country and the enemies of this country. militarism, racism and the speech was called "beyond vietnam" and dr. king saw the need to get out of vietnam to make a uni

in that speech dr. king went on to attack the country, and linden johnson who had been a defender of the civil rights movement. >> his interest as an american-based civil rights leader were to go i don't understa understand -- beyond the confines of his own country. >> reporter: within 48 hours of delivering that speech, two senators wanted him indicted. the press and even other civil rights leaders turned on him. after that speech, jones knew king's days were numbered. >> i got word of his assassination, my first reaction was they finally got them. i wasn't surprised. my first reaction was they finally got him. >> reporter: next clear will mark the 50th anniversary of dr. king's death. >>> looking live outside at the view of a beautiful evening from our east bay hills camera. >> we are just days away from the return of rain, and spencer will show us who will see the most in ten minutes. >>> and next -- >> a man buys his wife a diamond bracelet and why are you deleting these photos? because my teeth are yell

in that speech dr. kingountry, and linden johnson who had been a defender of the civil rights movement. >> his interest as an american-based civil rights leader were to go i don't understa understand -- beyond the confines of his own country. >> reporter: within 48 hours of delivering that speech, two senators wanted him indicted. the press and even other civil rights leaders turned on him. after that speech, jones jones n king's days were numbered. >> i got word of his assassination, my first reaction was they finally got them. i wasn't surprised. my first reaction was they finally got him. >> reporter: next clear will mark the 50th anniversary of dr. king's death. >>> looking live outside at the view of a beautiful evening from our east bay hills camera. >> we are just days away from the return of rain, and spencer will show us who will see the most in ten minutes. >>> and next -- >> a man buys his wife a diamond bracelet tthey are 100% made-to-order,hat which is 100% awesome. 100% beef burgers with fries

walker said, dr. kingent in another room and when he came out he had on his denims, and they knew he had made up his mind to risk fwhg his pulpit with his father who pastored the church he co-pastored on easter sunday. he chose the movement and the risk of changing history over what was his tradition, custom, and convenience. i look 50 years later, over 50 years later, and i look at what is going on with the things dr. king and dr. walker and others went to jail for. we see judge gorsuch being confirmed and sworn in to the supreme court. many of us felt that it was a hijacking of president obama's nominee, of being the justice that replaced, of course, the late justice scalia. but it was more than just denying president obama's nominee. it certainly was that. it was to really make sure the court didn't tilt toward president obama appointing someone that would, in my judgment, preserve a lot of the things that dr. king and other fought for in the 60s. you see, if they had put that seat and given that seat t

dr. kinghen he was in new york and he gave the speech, "beyond vietnam, " when he was saying we should not spend our money on weapons. we should spend it on social justice. that is talking about social justice and when dr. king was alive, we had thurgood marshall who was in the courts working along with him for these social justices and these reforms to take place. he did so excellent. we do not have a thurgood marshall and their. clarence thomas is not serving that capacity. i don't believe this nominee would have that type of capacity could where we are now as a nation and where we are going to, we are going to have to have somebody who has compassion for the people and a repenting spirit the whole justice of it i believe in a christlike manner like dr. king in thurgood marshall try to do. dr. king was talking about a community of chaos. -- weare at a point we go are headed for chaos because community is a being dissolved and being taken over i corporate interest. -- taken over by corporate

dr. king was assassinated exactly one year later. abc 7 reporter explains that across the country many are remembering the speech as the beginning of the end. >> reporter: april 4th, 1967, martin luther king, jr., declared his opposition to the war in vietnam. he did it by delivering a bold speech at riverside church in new york city called "beyond vietnam." >> the purpose of this speech 50 years ago was real toy summon and awake enthe conscience of the nation about the war in vietnam. >> reporter: dr. clarence jones was his attorney and his speech writer. today he told people attending a symposium at usf that he had come up with a more palatable version which was immediately rejected by dr. king. >> he said, i thought you were my radical. i said, well, i don't know what you mean. i think i am. he says, well, what is this? >> reporter: in that speech dr. king went on to attack the country and president linden johnson who had been a defender of the civil rights movement. >> he thought it was an opportunity, one he felt he had to carry

i think dr. kingle to. >> congressman cummings has harsh things to say about the president and about other people and elijah couplings has said he is willing to work with this white house. >> that's true. >> the democrats that showed up at the inauguration. it's not like he is unwilling to work with president trump. he is giving his assessment, he is very outspoken, you are talking about dr. king here. >> right, i don't know if congressman cummings ever met steve bannon. i don't know if he knows him personally, to go to the level of calling him a white supremist-like, i think is beyond the pail, can you say you don't like him, you don't like breitbart, that's fair, to go across the line and go into somebody's personal character when you don't know that for sure on a public stage like that is a line too far. >> let me bring some numbers in here for you, according to a new survey by the city of chicago, there is a huge partisan divide between republicans and democrats and so they asked whether arkin ame

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these are different challenges and what dr. king was facing, i believe. in illegal discrimination jim crow -- an illegal discrimination in jim crow. in addition to striking down the legal barriers that existed thanks to efforts of king and thurgood marshall and others. -- iharacterizations -- in voter suppression 2012, a higher percentage of blacks in america voted and whites. where there was voter id laws. but where is the evidence? pulls of shown a majority of blacks favor voter id laws in this country along the majority of whites and liberals and conservatives and democrats and republicans. but if you want to characterize it as voter suppression, some people might disagree with that. um, again, there are barriers that remain in place. i am not sure i would identify the same barriers as my colleague. -- thation in schools often comes up. segregation in schools. there is this belief that my children need to be sitting next to white kids in order to learn in school. i reject that. there has long been majority black schools in this country since reconstruct

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dr. king said no, that is not true and dr. king asked the poor white people how much money do you make and after they told him he said my god, you need to be out there marching with us because you are just as poor as we are. you have more in common with working class brown and black people than you do with the overlords who have been put in office as a result of president trump where you have billionaires like betty devos and rich people like rex tillerson who are helming our government now. there is much more in common between working class and white people and working class and brown and black people as well. >> host: michael eric dyson's recent book is called "tears we cannot stop" his book las year was the black presidency and barack obama. and martin -- the next call is sammy in kingston, north carolina. >> caller: when republican senator mcconnell made a statement that he would make president obama succeed in the last half eight years to me there was time during the civil war there was a declaration of secession from the

dr. king said, no, that's not true. and then dr. king asked the poor white people how much money do you make? and after they told him he said, well, my god, you need to be out there marching with us. why? because you're just as poor as we are. you have more in common with working class black and brown people than you have in common with the white overlords and captains of industry like the once who have been put in office as a result of president trump where you have billionaires like betty devos and extraordinary rich people like rex tillerson and other captains of industry who are helming our government now. there is much more in common between working class and poor white people and working class and brown and black people as well. >> host: michael eric dyson's most recent book "tears we cannot stop" a sermon to white america. his book last year, president obama, april 4, 1968, martin luther king, jr.'s death and how it changed america came out in 2008. the next call for him is tammy in kingston, north carolina. hi, sammy. >> call

dr. martin luther king was assassinated. it struck me that tonight, 49 years ago was dr. that means is i like to imagine that i was the little kid living in alabama who he had hopes and aspirations for that my dreams wouldn't be determined by the color of my skin. so this book, my career is really a recognition of the vitality of the movement that he gave his life for. ( applause ) >> trevor: you tell an amazing story. it is a beautiful book. thank you so much for being on the show. >> thank you, thank you. >> trevor: "life's work" will be available april 4. dr. willie parker. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ♪

dr. king understood that. if you read his later writings, when he started to lose his white support and when he died, the majority of white americans did not support him. we would all like to get the point where no one in this country sees race. it you can't pretend that will go away. you cannot look at every indicator of well-being that people who look at black or are perceived as black are at the ottoman of every indicator of well-being and then pretend we can't talk about race anymore, it will not be a problem. you talk about race-based admissions. a segregated k-12 system that provides an inferior education to latino and black students. when we get to college admissions, we believe in the merit system. what is the merit system for a student going to a school that has 14 to 18 classes with national and board-certified teachers? that all the sudden we want to believe race does not matter. if anyone would like to see that race does not exist, it is black people. we are not there yet. >> we have a couple quest

dr. king went on to attack the country and president johnson who had been a defender of the civil rights movement. >> his interests as a civil rights leader were to go beyond the confines of his country and that he was called to look at things globally. >> reporter: he poipnted to the nation's ideas at the expense of the poor. within 48 hours of delivering that speech two senators wanted him indicted and the press and other civil rights leaders turned on him. after that speech jones knew king's days were numbered. he was assassinated one year later. >> i got word of it and my first reaction was they finally got him. i wasn't surprised. my first reaction was they finely got him. >> reporter: next year will mark the 50th anniversary of dr. king's death. abc 7 news. >> 50 years. >>> meteorologist droou tumma is next with the i no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment fo

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. >> this morning group walked across the ben franklin bridge to remember dr. king. reference david brown says it is a day to promote peace throughout the sit. >> i actually good time to kind of connect with other people, all of the neighbors in philadelphia, and given some of the polarizing times which we live it, gives us opportunity to really to renew our equipment to work for peace in our neighborhoods. >> and the annual bridge walk for peace is the longest running commemoration of the assassination of doctor martin luther king, jr., today also marks the 50th anniversary of dr. king's famous speech beyond viet nam where he denounced america's presence in viet nam. philadelphia mayor jim kenney recognizing volunteers today for their positive impact on the community. the event at city hall this morning, sort of the fifth annual mayors day of service recognition. that's the day shared by cities across the count troy honor the work of non-profit and national service work, hope to inspire more philadelphians to serve their communities. >> so do you like free stuff? wh

he is giving his assessment, that was very out spoken, we're talking about dr. kingere. >> right, i don't know if congressman cumming has ever met steve bannonor met him personally, but to go to the level of calling him white supremacist like, is beyond the pale, you can say you don't like him or breitbart, that is fair. but to attack their personal character when you don't know that for sure on a public stage is a line where i think you go too far. >> adam, let me bring numbers here, this is done by the university. this is a survey that asked whether african-americans are worse off economically because most just don't have the motivation to pull themselves out of poverty. 55% of white republicans agreed with this statement, compared to 66% of white democrats, why do republicans believe that in such high numbers? >> well, i can tell you why, there is a problem with racism on both sides of the divide. there is too much of it. i want to comment if i can, don on the bannon part, because bashing him is a sport, one-upping your opponent seems to be the way to go. but what

"the new york times" reported that government agencies assassinated dr. king. i'll leave itself at that. maybe you can comment and i just wonder how much freer are we than anyone else or lies that every government is being told more or less. >> host: professor jouet what do you what to do with that? >> guest: it's a great question. overall america has made a major contribution to the spread of democracy and human rights throughout the world. it's important to understand that america is the first western democracy that emerged from the enlightenment. the founding fathers were not perfect men, still they produced a concept of individual liberties that were models for other nations. that being said america has been a nation of contradiction, including with regard to human rights, civil rights, slavery, for african-americans, a lot of questions, and i would say -- when we look at interesting america, interesting contrasts. >> host: lily from los angeles. >> caller: hi. thank you very much. professor, i want to know have you ever lived or visited an american indian

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and what dr. kingalled those great wells of democracy dug deep by the founding fathers and 1963 and his letters. and the blackm panthers, the comparison is about the panthers and the structural critique of racism and capitalism more than anything else. the panthers had a 10-point program, really 20 points, what we want and need, which included ending police protect -- police brutality. farly, the blm, i argue, is more democratically structured p, evenlusive than the bp though that was an important group because of their antiwar posture. they had a critique of capitalism and a critique of structural racism and inequality and also a big critique of police violence in the 1960's. the extraordinary thing about the black panthers is that they, the for the age of mass incarceration, they talked about police and law enforcement murder and killing of black people and turned that into a national issue. the blm movement has done it, too, but in a much more panoramic way. they are making the argument that if blac

dr. kingept putting people in the streets in harm's way to put the pressure on so that -- >> okay -- >> the bill would be introduced -- >> jeffrey, you do understand that dr. king was marching for civil rights because people that look like me were being beaten. dogs were being sicced on them. basic human rights were being withheld from these people merely because of the color of their skin. so let not equate dr. martin luther king jr., humanitarian and nobel peace prize winner, to the vagina-grabbing president, donald trump. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you don't come back from that. vagina-grabbing -- this is the vagina-grabbing president, donald trump. if he ever gets a statue i'd like to see that engraved on the base. nicely done, simone. one more thing before we forge ahead, it is thursday night which means it's time to bleep and blur the big tv moments of the week whether they need it or not, it is "this week in unnecessary censorship." >> what did you think when you saw that video o

dr. kingtting people in the streets in harm's way to put pressure on for the bill to be put forward. >> you understand that dr. king was marching for civil rights because people that looked like me were being beaten. dogs siced on them. merely because of the color of the skin. let's not equate dr. martin luther king jr. to the vagina-grabbing president of the united states. >> symone, you went there. >> there is no similarity. what president trump is doing is he is in over his head. he doesn't understand health care is a complicated issue. he just arrived here. most of us have been here. he doesn't understand these are people's lives. i implore the president to take a humane approach. >> the people whose lives are affected. they talked to me all the time. they are very upset with obamacare. they want it gone. >> if they lose coverage, they will be upset also. jeffery, the point is that the president did say that it is more complicated than he expected. this has gotten chuck schumer's attention

dr. martin luther king, he dared to speak truth to power and for those words, dr. aid the ultimate sacrifice. you know that, right? he dared to expose what he called the giant triplets. do you know what those are? racism, capitalism, militarism. am i right? these giant triplets are what drew folks like me and bob bollard, and tom, and richard moore, and connie tucker, and dana austin, to washington dc in 1991 to the first national people of color environmental leadership summit. there were 600 of us. we met to build a national and international movement that will fight for environmental justice. that day, we crafted the 17 principles of environmental justice. which would guide the frontline communities to one, to confront environmental racism. [applause] fight the destructive nature of capitalism. [applause] oppose militarism. [applause] and we were there to uplift the u.n. universal declaration of human rights. there we also affirmed sovereignty and self-determination. in the words of grace lee bob, these principles lay the foundation for a new constitution. did yo