For MLK Day, PBS Reporter Yamiche Alcindor Hypes Media Pushing for ‘Radical Change’

EXCERPT:

MITCHELL: "Alcindor says the attack on the Capitol on January 6th shows the danger facing our country and highlights the need to not give end to systemic racism."
ALCINDOR: "What we’re dealing with right now is life and death situations. No, this period is really forcing us to look at the virus of white supremacy coursing through every aspect of our nation and making us reckon with what kind of country we want to be."
MITCHELL: "The journalists looking back to the 60s and how Dr. King's words still resonate today."
ALCINDOR:" As a reminder, King said, 'History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
MITCHELL: "Also sending a message to many people who quote him, yet deter justice and do not understand who he was, referencing words shared by Dr. King's daughter Bernice King."
ALCINDOR: "Let’s remember in this Martin Luther King Day not to romanticize who Martin Luther King was. He was someone who wanted radical change, who made people uncomfortable, who was arrested, who was assassinated..."

(via NewsBusters)