If he is Anthony Monteiro, a distinguished American scholar, he proudly declares from the podium: “I am standing upon [their] shoulders. ..” Mumbai: How does a public intellectual describe his duty as an inheritor of the legacies of Mahatma Gandhi and American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr?
Around 80% of Americans feel that America is going in the wrong direction. Around 62% of American youth prefer socialism to capitalism, while 34% of the youth prefer communism,” said Monteiro (81).
He said the 20th century witnessed many revolutions and yet, Du Bois saw India’s independence as the biggest achievement of humanity. Underscoring the contributions of Gandhi and MLK Jr to their respective countries and the recognition accorded to them in turn, he said: “If Gandhi is the father of India, Martin Luther King Jr is the father of the new American nation. The friend saw that he suffered from serious bouts of depression, but MLK Jr refused to see a doctor, he said. “My visit to the psychiatrist will be reported in the media and then they (white supremacists) will sneer at me,” is how he would brush aside his friend’s suggestions to take medical help. He called the US-backed Israel-Iran war “an American defeat”. “Iran is stronger than it was before the war,” he said.
“I am an ordinary American. I must say that the American nation is in an existential crisis. He recalled Du Bois’s statement from the 1950s: “The greatest human achievement of the 20th century was the independence of India. He recalled that MLK Jr would stay at a close friend’s apartment whenever he visited New York. “Donald Trump overstepped and went beyond the mandate of the American army. He miscalculated that Iran would collapse after the death of its spiritual leader. Trump wanted war to weaken Iran.
Today, the US is weaker, Iran is stronger.”