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If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were still alive, do you think he would embrace today’s social networking explosion? When the question was posed to Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, who is the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church where King once presided, he wholeheartedly confirmed that King would be on the cutting edge of any and every technological advance.
“He would have embraced it without question,” Warnock expressed, when asked if King would have had a Twitter account. “You would not have had the campaign in Birmingham as we now know it without the importance of a technology that was just emerging in a powerful way during that time. That technology was television. And it was really when people began turning on their television sets, and seeing the spectacle of dogs and fire hoses attacking young children that we began to see a turning point in that movement. So I think that King definitely understood technology, and he certainly used it to his advantage.”
So what are your thoughts on Rev. Warnock’s perspective? Can you see MLK with a Twitter account? If so, what would his username be? While you think on that, we not only came up with our own username for Dr. King, but we also played around with the usernames for several black luminaries who never got the chance to experience this form of technology. Here’s what we came up with. – dewayne rogers
Martin Luther King Jr. – Twitter.com/LivinTheDream
Harriet Tubman – Twitter.com/CatchMeIfYouCan
Fredrick Douglas – Twitter.com/IAmNotMyHair
George Washington Carver –Twitter.com/SuchANut
Marcus Garvey – Twitter.com/ImOutOf Here
Rosa Parks – Twitter.com/BunionBlues
