King’s dream ‘did not go far enough’

Yanga Nkruma’s father was a Black Panther leader during the 1970s – and remains one to this day. Yanga grew up a revolutionary young African-American.

To this day, he remains outraged by the failure of the United States of America to honour the promise of equality spelled out in the “unfinished” revolution of 1776. He believes Martin Luther King Jr’s dream was betrayed, corrupted and remains unrealised.

It is a dream he says he does not share because it did not go far enough. His party, the New Black Panthers, is branded a black rascist hate group by other civil rights organisations.

But the views he articulates, as he speaks to our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller, are shared by many African-Americans in Martin Luther King’s home city of Atlanta.