Monday night’s PBS airing of Amanpour & Co., featured guest host Paula Newton of CNN talking to Harvard professor Imani Perry about the disturbing coincidence of Martin Luther King Jr. Day coinciding with the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Paula Newton: Today’s overlap is prompting reflection on the lessons that can still be learned from Dr. King’s philosophy. Imani Perry is professor of African and African-American studies at Harvard University….
Imani Perry: ….it is this reminder as we are seeing the legacy of Dr. King attacked on so many fronts, and the vision for a just society attacked on so many fronts, that these are not new forces. That in many ways, this is a particularly pernicious example of it, but those who think as President Trump thinks have been around since the beginning of the nation, and the nation is achieved in its doing. If we…
