Martin Luther King Jr.'s son: "Very disappointed" in the United States if his father were still alive

The son of the late American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. said on the 18th that if his father was still alive, he would be "very disappointed" in today's United States.

Martin Luther King III said on a CNN show: "My father has always had faith in the people of our country. Of course, he will be very disappointed in the way we choose to behave at this particular moment. ”

He said his father understood his country as the "United States of America" and not a divided country, and "he would tell us that we had to help each other, not attack each other."

Martin Luther King III was the head of a non-profit organization founded by Martin Luther King JR during his lifetime to promote social progress. He said it would take time for the United States to get through this "very difficult time."

Martin Luther King JR. speech was on the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the civil rights movement for equal rights in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Since 1986, the U.S. government has designated the third Monday of January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday of remembrance. (Yuan Yuan)

Source: Xinhua News Agency