first interview with Martin Luther King from 1957 part 1

[bobomanjr]

It is a myth that Black people as a whole had become assertive at this time, there have always been people of African descant who stood up for themselves, as men and women,

they typically were not discussed in the press, and were routinely murdured and jailed.

The term new Negro is a joke and a media creation. 

[MemorialVideos2011]

At the time of the making of this Open Mind episode, black people were being lynched if they dared stand up for themselves, and they were lynched for just existing.

[MatttthewF]

Check out the new MLK song "FULL JUSTICE" on Youtube. Get ready to be inspired. Watch it now!

[BloggerMusicMan]

@oddtreenow2

It's more likely that he cheated on his exams than his wife, but even if both were undoubtedly true, who cares? It doesn't in any way decimate his impeccable record not just on race issues but on issues of war and poverty as well.

[SuperOmnicron]

@oddtreenow2yes, he cheated on his wife. yes, he plagerized, yes he was a serial cheater. He was also the GREATEST MIND OF THIS GENERATION & he moved millions of people around the world. He didnt start a false and illegal war on WMD, generating millions for Exxon, nor did he undermine the voting rights of citizens in the 2000 Election. (Please Google that). George Bush did FAR WORSE. MLK is Godlike compared to him. May we all have such frauds. Happy July 4th!

[XxReaper03xX]

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[ExclusiveLM]

I believe that when people say their very last words before they die it happens for a reason. Best example of that is the very first word Martin Luther King said on TV. It was "I" and his very last word he said on TV was "Lord". I Lord. It gives me chills. Thumbs me up.

[jaamman]

I wish he was still here to see want he acomplished and to have acomplished so much more and to see his childern grow up.

[GhostWritersForHire]

"A man that can stand up on his own HIND legs?" That's an interesting choice of words considering man -- black or white -- does not have hind legs. 4 legs are reserved for animals.

[djdoc70]

Did you know when this interview was happening, Dr. King was only 28 years old ?

[Clairemorris1000]

Martin Luther King will live forever in the hearts of those who fight for what is right! freedom to all races :)

[allboutme09123]

them redneack crackers ain't shit, wtf, the king was a man of God ,I clearly see who isthe devil!

[mabood1212]

Charlie Rose is the closest intellectual show that resembles this one that is still on today - PBS

[mackj100]

FYI negro=black object i refers to objects or animals not people. Its kinda like why you dont call asians orientals. Ask yourself why whites dont call themselfs blanca

[grandmachristine42]

"Negro" is not a dirty word. There are people prejudiced against females but "female" is not a dirty word. You are giving the haters the power to make anything dirty simply by badmouthing it. You gotta get stronger than that! Those haters are mistaken; Martin Luther King and so many others, known and unknown, proved that. 1

[neobrown81]

Exactly. The word negro is spanish for Black. It's not a dirty word.

[makaveli237]

i have so much love for dr king ...

and if you really wanna know yes i am white

[pureaggression]

Negro a filthy word??? How can you say that... its a category of human origin. There are negroids, caucasoid, aborginoid and mongoloid... blacks are negroes... maybe to you it makes black people sound sub human but thats only because you haven't read a book... and i think your opinion is what has made that word politically incorrect...

[pennsykid2000]

This is very good, but I'm looking for a later roundtable discussion on "The Open Mind" program that featured Malcolm X, Wyatt T Walker, James Farmer, and several other civil rights leaders, from 1963. It was filmed the day after JFK's first main speech about civil rights. The 60-min discussion was shown on public TV 20 years ago but I haven't been able to find it since.

[Supenmanu]

Yes, i think i have seen the one with Malcom X... But since personally i liked MLK better, so i didn't pay much attention to it... But it's definitely still out there somewhere... if all else fails just go and write an e-mail to Richard D. Heffner. As far as I know he is still alive and STILL DOES THE PROGRAM ON A WEEKLY BASIS.

Just go to the Open Mind Archive at: theopenmind tv

[pennsykid2000]

Thanks very much. I searched for this a few years ago and couldn't find anything on it. Great to see the archives for this great show, including the specific program I was looking for (June 12, 1963).

[pobaldy66]

@pennsykid2000

/watch?v=9mEk3PQWHsM&feature=r­elated

[djdoc70]

Can you believe MLK was only 28 when he did this interview ? So young...

[gundamWWW]

Man I'm white and I hate it when he uses the term "THE NEGRO". He makes it sound like people who happen to be black are sub human. I'm glad we don't use that filthy word anymore!

[legitamatethursday]

Man, we should have this open mind show now!

[Supenmanu]

as far as i know it is still runing - even with the same host!

[nolaeast]

Wow! Dr. King was only 28 years old during this interview. He was so articulate, so intelligent, so prophetic and so young for such a heavy cross to bear.

[carlrs15]

6:50 on: excellent.

God this is an incredible piece of history; years before Kennedy's assassination, Medgar Evers, the Civil Rights Movement...these are the first few arguments that kickstarted everything that defined the '60's..amazing.

[OT711]

the host's intro is excellent.

[ehlimo3]

A new negro is a zombie,wil smith like..but a true God like person is someone who do not compromise his or her liberty..

[Pecsnabbs]

And yes i am too young to live on my own for all of you people who think i am some fat man who is in his 30's livin wit his mom.

[buttayea]

God bless his soul. MLK!! i wish he was still alive to see what obama has achived.

[Pecsnabbs]

So do I! Infact that is excactly what my mother said when Obama becam president.

[ndidiada]

thats right

[TrueLion75]

Go obama.................

[27288]

i think he says its better to be aggressive to press on ?

[Supenmanu]

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.

Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.

[Supenmanu]

Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out

hate: Only love can do that."

[mejten]

True, but what i think malcom x has to say is that you have the right to defend yourself if nececery.

But i'm more on MLK's side tough there both fighting for the same perpose

[MrClint360]

ASE! Very Good!

[27288]

who's mlk

[27288]

kill bush

[astrong85]

That's sum dumb shit to say. U lucky dat I don't have the time to look u up right now. Oh, best believe I can. If u have a youtube video, you can be found. But don't say no shit like dat cuz u can piss the wrong person off dude.

[27288]

your not an opener i've just checked

when u put this shit out openers will do what they do to you?

peace and change your H-Drive

[Supenmanu]

you have obviously not listened to him... you should learn from him... you think your actions are justified... but they ain't it ain't matter if you meant it ironicly or not - it ain't matter if you tried to spread hate against blacks or whites - it's wrong one way or the other and one way or the other it will only generate more hate...

[Supenmanu]

you should instead have listened to him, you lynch him, someone will lynch you - ok you didn't lynch him - you insulted him, so very likely someone will insult you. "hate produces more hate".

[JMFabianoRPL]

Wow, this is the first clip I've seen of the NBC (?) Open Mind. (FYI, I volunteered for years with Richard D. Heffner and Open Mind, which can still be seen on PBS. And the experience was the most valuable I could ever get)

[johnlorican]

This interview is reflective of the hope and promise of the early days of the Civil Rights movement. King's eloquence moved the nation, both white and black.

I consider it so sad that the hope of this great movement was squandered and betrayed by hucksters and modern-day liberals (whose definition of liberalism is a far cry from what constituted liberalism fifty years ago).

Thank you finding this interview and putting it up on YouTube.

[bigphillytheman]

wow the new nigro

[TheyTookMyThumbs]

Not looking to offend anyone but it's probably for the best that MLK was killed before he could do to his daughters what his close friend and confidant Reverend James Bevel did to all of his daughters by having sex with them and then brainwashing them that it was part of their "religous training". Not sure if he got that philosophy from MLK but they sure were close.

[Honorsboy160]

Would you hold yourself responsible for the actions of your friend. I am friends with many people whom hold different beliefs then me.

[artsylovelylady]

Thank goodness King was an honorable man. He was the real deal: righteous, loving, patient, brave and forgiving.

[nadasarata]

proud to say he attended my college Morehouse College..to believe he started college at the age of 15 and graduated at 19 shows is intelluctual ability

[atheistforchange]

we need to join together, unified in love and armed with civility, and combat todays more silent but equally deadly racism. VOTE OBAMA

[gradydw]

what blows me ovr is that at the age of 28, he had a voice of man in his late forties! please tell me will there anymore leaders with voices like that around anymore?

[hiltek]

We have surely come a long way as African-American, and there's still a journey to go. Thanks Dr. King, for taking a stance for all of our us. Rest in peace!

[juancaralb]

For sure. The freedom that we have in this country was NOT handed down to us from God, but rather was won through the fight and struggles from people like this. Don't wait for another MLK. Get out in the streets and make change!!!

[MJWill1]

Freedom is the right to all men god given and

not state given.

[Xanxtz]

Like the views or not, it's good this film has been preserved.

[cdb171990]

even if that's true,it don't make the things he did and he fight for, less important or noble or brave or whatever you like to call it.i too read about thinks like this,but i also read,that the fbi opressed him with this informations long time and finaly he reached a point,where didn't care anymore what the fbi could tell about him,because he believe in the things he was fighting for,they were more important than his imange.i also read, that his wife know about what the fbi said and she staied.

[Sgreenenov13]

@buckinbull tryin to stirr up trouble?

[y2king32]

great Post Supenmanu , What a great great loss for our Country.. How we need him and men like him

[Supenmanu]

interesting. Is there something in the skin pigments that causes this?

[pointsur]

dont mind him. he has been going to all of the MLK sites to stirr up trouble.

[aubrey1015]

The fact that Supenmanu doesn't understand is a real fact for us all to eximine...and this is 2008. So I guess ignorance and fear will forever be around

[19andy93]

has anybody know where can i find that interview written?

[Supenmanu]

I am not sure it exists in writen form. But you can try e-mailing Richard D. Haffner, the host of the show (he is still alive and still produces the open mind on a weekly basis to this day)

[babyjia25]

great !!!!!!!!!! i think that i understand but the host made me want to punch him but good all in all im writing an editorial on DR.MLK so i need alot of info to cover in the paper -

[PrezAlex]

What was the name of the judge?

[kingkona86]

thanks for posting this.

MLK was a great, great man.

[TheHoodedDemon]

his voice is so distinctive RIP

[mrrichardfeder]

Too bad there wasn't a New Negro there to punch out that moronic host. Discusses "slavery" as if he didn't quite get the whole "one person owning another" part, and as if the problem lay with the attitude of that darn Negro, rather than the racist nature of American society. Priceless clip tho!

[Supenmanu]

i don't think you really understood what this interview was about. This interview is not about slavery. There where no problems of slavery during MLK's time... slavery has been abolished for a hundred years even back than. The issues MLK faced where not slavery. The host does not mention "the whole one person owing another person part" because that was not an issue even in the 50's - simply because there WAS no one owing another.

[mrrichardfeder]

"This interview is not about slavery."

Nonsense. It's about the lot of the African-American in our society - which is not divisible into tidy, discrete categories. By framing the issue as if the reaction of black citizens to their servitude (legal or de facto) were the issue, the spotlight is removed from where it belongs: on white racism, legal, social, and intellectual. Can you even imagine some of the statements in that introduction passing muster today?

[Supenmanu]

i am sorry but i don't feel there is anything wrong with it. If the host really did say something wrong, i am sure MLK would have objected.

Hatred has many forms, you know. isn't your "hating the hater" also a form of hatred?

[offthehook2]

A great man. Martin Luther King Assasinated in USA. Malcolm X assasinated in USA. JF Kennedy assasinated in USA. Ronald Regand assasinated in USA.

Jeesh, and they say America is the land of the free and Democracy. Sad but the truth is, it's not. It's just an illusion and now, 2007, they did what Martin Luther, Malcolm X said they would - create fear, for people to speak out under the name of Patroitism.

[PrezAlex]

Ronald Reagan was NOT assassinated.

[merlotsux]

Hi,

Where did you get the original video from?

greetz

[billpacman]

yeah you go girl

[Westcoasted89]

Martin, U're a legend! Ur legacy lives on! Thank U 4 everything U've done 4 da black folks! God bless Ya soul! R.I.P. <3

[mncoma]

the men..

[mncoma]

the men..

[gooogley92]

You go martin luther king! He will always rock!