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Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?**

The author feels that whites owe King for unfettering the USA from, as Time 100 stated, "America's burden of hypocrisy about race." This I think means that he lifted the loads and loads of tension between races and made it an equal and free nation that we bragged to other nations we were.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?**

He definetly was the "right man at the right time." Referring to the article which stated, with out him it was hard to imagine how the movement would have unfolded with out his leadership, it was definetly perfect timing. 100 years from lincolc's speech, Martin made his own speech, and the time in between the two shows just how much America has grown. In a "what if" sinerial, if MLK wouldn't have stepped up the world would be so much different than what we could have imagine. So we have God and fate to thank for MLK for being "the right man at the right time."

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** YES! there are ways to use such a fragile line that has so much depth in meaning to it. It said he would not have endorsed some uses as in a slogan to indicate that if MLK was still alive he would not have marched along side them, that was not what he intended. First of all it has nothing to do with equality, and second of all there are other things to pursuade others to endorse you business not a person that we think highley of and bring down their speech. But even if he wouldn't like how they were using his words, I think he would be amazed by how far America has come and in fact that little dream he had has turned to our reality.