He told Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist that if Martin Luther King Jr. had lived longer, "we wouldn't be dealing with these issues."
1 / 2Amid nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd, Martin Luther King III, son of the famed civil rights activist, is speaking out about what his father would make of today's racial tensions.
King continued:"We would have a criminal system that is just ... How does 13 percent of the population comprise 60 percent of the jails? That is the first problem. The whole criminal system is not just ... It works if you have money, perhaps, but if you do not have money, and there are many people who do not, the criminal system does not work.
After explaining that people want"immediate" responses to such incidents, he continued:"Why does the system take so long to work? And why is it not working for communities of color, and specifically African Americans? How does it always end up in a fatality? That is unacceptable. We are acting inhumane."
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