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Der dokumentarische Kurzfilm Hoops, Hopes & Dreams wirft einen Blick auf einen weniger häufig gezeigten Teil von Martin Luther Kings Kampagnen für das Civil Rights Movement: Er und einige andere Mitglieder seiner Widerstandsbewegung traten auf dem Basketballplatz und über sportliche Motivation mit jüngeren Wähler:innen in Kontakt – eine Maßnahme, die auch in Barack Obamas Kampagnen widerhallen sollte.  Mehr dazu: https://www.moviepilot.de/movies/hoops-hopes-dreams

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00:00People tend to think of Martin Luther King saying,

00:04I have a brain.

00:05But he was a young man, and he really

00:08played a decent game of basketball.

00:11In the Civil Rights Movement, nobody

00:13knew about what was going on in the South,

00:16and we had to do something about it.

00:19The only thing we could do was go where the kids were.

00:22They were on the basketball court.

00:25To know that Martin Luther King could have played their game

00:28makes them listen, and then you could talk to them

00:31about trying to stop violence in the streets.

00:34Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he gave us the playbook.

00:38The first time I played basketball with Barack Obama,

00:40he says to me, we want to win, but we want their support, too.

00:43We played every election day for a year.

00:47Martin Luther King.

00:48Barack Obama.

00:49Their destiny is connected to each other with basketball.

00:54Basketball, it lends itself to all these unifying elements

00:58and make it a perfect fixture for a movement.

01:02Martin Luther King could redeem the soul of this nation.

01:07He'd say, what is it you're willing to give your life for?

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