McGruder goes on to illustrate how King’s speech had ignited a fire among Black people, increasing black political activity nation-wide. McGruder concludes the episode with a mob of enraged, Black men and women protesting at the gates of the White House, several news channels reporting that all black members of the NBA had decided to sit out their season until troops were withdrawn from Iraq, that drop-out rates among Black Americans had suddenly plummeted, and that Robert Johnson; founder of BET, had issued a public apology for his network’s deployment of negative images of Black American lifestyle.
