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Martin Luther King Jr. In Berlin

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It's a small world. During Martin Luther King Jr. visit to Berlin he was also awarded a honorary degree by the Theological School of the Protestant Church of West Berlin. The theologian and pastor handing over the degree during the ceremony is part of our family history. We still have a picture of both of them during the ceremony.

Here is a more detailed itinerary of MLKs visit to Berlin. https://www.aacvr-germany.org/dr-kings-visit-to-cold-war-ber...

This article was very educational. I did not know that Martin Luther King Sr. was such a prominent person, and the connection of the King family with Berlin. Thank you for posting it.

Oh how did I know the bigots would jump in these comments.

Hacker News is well on its way to become the Nazi bar by allowing the thinly veiled racism to survive.

A slowly boiling frog.

Thank you for sharing this. Really insightful and enlightening.

Succinct and englightening - I had no knowledge of his visit to Berlin (East & West).

Great article. Oru view of history is all to common insular and compressed - it puts things in context that MLK was walking around Berlin at the same time as Hitler.

It does not. His father did. MLK visited Berlin when the wall was up

In fairness, they were both MLK.

Not just odd, but ironic that an American president who claims to admire MLK would fail to acknowledge him and in doing so helped create an optical divide in appearance between himself and the past American leaders, whom he did acknowledge, that had visited Berlin.

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Obama was correct in observing that he looked different from past American presidents. As for “claims to admire”, the implication that Obama doesn’t really admire MLK (and that this speech proves it!) is just ludicrous.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you just don’t like Obama. Didn’t like him before you read this article, don’t like him now.

You’re not just going out on a limb, you’re jumping to conclusions. I’m specifically responding to the point already made in the article: “For whatever reason, Obama preferred to evoke memories of Kennedy and Reagan rather than the iconic black man he claims to greatly admire. Whether intentional or an oversight, the omission was odd, especially since his target audience was Americans, and Obama didn’t want his speech to sound too “European.””

As you can see “claims to admire” didn’t originate from me.

Perhaps you didn’t read the article?

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