Martin Luther King III, son of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., said his father would be “pretty disappointed” in the world today, but he wasn't surprised.
Dr. King appeared on NBC News' “Meet the Press” and was asked about the current state of the country and what his father would think.
“Frankly, he'd be pretty disappointed that we're in the situation we're in right now,” he said. “I probably won't be surprised, but he'll definitely be disappointed, because he always injected positive energy and brought out the best in us as Americans.”
Dr. King said that while Americans are more divided than ever, there can be good in times like these.
“Unfortunately, in great tragedies, we see the best of Americans,” he said. “But when it's over, we go back into our corners, live in bubbles, and separate. We need to always and universally display the kind of behavior we show in tragedy.”
President-elect Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated on a day commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s father, and said he expected Trump to “talk to all kinds of people.”
“If you really want to unite the country so that it is a manifestation of what we call ourselves the United States of America, in my judgment, we do not reflect the United States of America at this point. “I haven't,” he said.
