King, in a speech that’s bang on point here, said: “I close by quoting the words of an old Negro slave preacher, who didn’t quite have his grammar and diction right, but who uttered words of great symbolic profundity: ‘Lord, we ain’t what we want to be. We ain’t what we ought to be. We ain’t what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain’t what we was.’”
Thank you for your comments. Debates such as ours are always useful. No disrespect from me either and I do not entirely disagree with you.
King, in a speech that’s bang on point here, said: “I close by quoting the words of an old Negro slave preacher, who didn’t quite have his grammar and diction right, but who uttered words of great symbolic profundity: ‘Lord, we ain’t what we want to be. We ain’t what we ought to be. We ain’t what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain’t what we was.’”
Epic speech, required listening/reading for sure.