It's Martin Luther King, Jr. day in the United States

[boingboing]

Originally published at: It's Martin Luther King, Jr. day in the United States | Boing Boing

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[Mindysan33]

@boingboing

Marc Lamont Hill has also suggested (see the video, below) that MLK Day should be a “day of radical action” focused on how to restructure our economic system so that we can eliminate the huge disparities of wealth that plague the United States, and how to reimagine an American democratic experiment that doesn’t rely on war as a primary instrument of foreign policy.

Something like this…

Help Stop Atlanta's "Cop City"

[Medievalist]

JP Morgan Chase & co would like to remind you of their commitment to honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy!

JPMorgan Chase launches website of MLK Jr.'s papers

Stuff like this is SOOO problematic - Reverend King would not consider the world’s largest financial organization an ally in the fight for a just and equitable society, but at the same time the King Center is a fantastic resource for those fighting the real battles… I personally feel that it’s necessary to applaud the good acts of bad actors, but it does leave a sour aftertaste.

[Melizmatic]

And how did you choose to honor Doctor King’s legacy yesterday, aside from not making your own post and trying to co-opt this one?

Just curious…

[chenille]

@Martin Luther King Jr.

First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

 

[Melizmatic]

Edit;

Wrong thread.

My bad.

[Melizmatic]

On the actual topic at hand:

“I may not get there with you. But, I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land…”

Martin Luther King's Last Speech: "I've Been To The Mountaintop"

[Mindysan33]

I heard this last night…

King's Last March

Very well done and a timely reminder that white people did not love King, especially when he embraced the anti-war movement and started the poor people’s campaign, and being critical and the racial and class power structure in america.

[Melizmatic]

Good share.

Many bigoted White people didn’t “love” MLK Jr… until he’d been long since assassinated, and they could start trying to appropriate his legacy to suit their own twisted agenda.

[Mindysan33]

@Melizmatic

until he’d been long since assassinated, and they could start trying to appropriate his legacy to suit their own twisted agenda.

[Melizmatic]

Also merely being in a “blended” family or community in no way negates one’s White privilege, nor does such happenstance automatically mean that someone is “anti-racist.”

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