American rapper Chance The Rapper honors Martin Luther King Jr & Shares A Picture of him and Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda
Chancelor Johnathan Bennett, known professionally as Chance the Rapper, an American rapper, singer, and record producer honors Martin Luther King Jr & Shares A Picture of him and Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda.
The rapper shared a pictures of Late Martin Luther King Jr with his legendary friends with a caption ”Radical friendships. Happy Birthday King 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊” hence the shared photos included a Zambian politician known as KK or Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda who served as the first president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. He was at the forefront of the struggle for independence from British rule.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero. Almost every American adult (95%) believes he was an important figure in American history in CBS News polling.
But it wasn’t always that way. The fact that King is now beloved and has a national holiday commemorating his birthday wasn’t something that obviously was going to happen during his lifetime.
This shows us that often the fight for civil rights is unpopular at the time, and it only becomes popular retrospectively.
During the 1960s, King was a very divisive figure. The last Gallup poll to ask about his popularity during his lifetime, taken in 1966, found his unfavorable rating was 63%.
This included 39% of Americans who gave him a -5 rating on a scale, with -5 being least favorable and +5 being most favorable.
In other words, King’s now uniform popularity isn’t only because older generations died out. People’s minds changed. King became a lot more popular among many people who didn’t like him when he was alive.
