{"id":7203,"date":"2015-01-19T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2015-01-16T20:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T02:47:48","slug":"this-country-has-socialism-for-the-rich-rugged-individualism-for-the-poor-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/this-country-has-socialism-for-the-rich-rugged-individualism-for-the-poor-martin-luther-king-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.&rdquo; &ndash; Martin Luther King, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-mlks-call-for-economic-justice\/2015\/01\/15\/3599cb70-9cfe-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Eugene Robinson: MLK\u2019s prophetic call for economic justice &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>King said: \u201cThis country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/01\/21\/1180824\/-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Our-struggle-is-for-genuine-equality-which-means-economic-equality#\">King explained the shift in his focus<\/a>: \u201cNow our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For we know that it isn\u2019t enough to integrate lunch counters. <strong>What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn\u2019t earn enough money to buy a hamburger and a cup of coffee?<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-mlks-call-for-economic-justice\/2015\/01\/15\/3599cb70-9cfe-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Eugene Robinson: MLK\u2019s prophetic call for economic justice &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Robinson: MLK\u2019s prophetic call for economic justice &#8211; The Washington Post King said: \u201cThis country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.\u201d \u2026 King explained the shift in his focus: \u201cNow our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For we know that it isn\u2019t enough to integrate lunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/this-country-has-socialism-for-the-rich-rugged-individualism-for-the-poor-martin-luther-king-jr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.&rdquo; &ndash; Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}