RIP DR. King, tried to End Poverty and the Military Industrial Complex Before Voice Snuffed Out
Where Do We Go From Here? Recommend Start at 40:34
This is a beautiful speech from Dr. King 8 months before his assassination, in his last speech to SCLC. SCLC was a major organization at the time, as academic elite Aldon Morris asserted, the black church was the "institutional center of the modern civil rights movement."
In this speech King asserts nonviolence as the only true pragmatism for a minority group like blacks. He also emphasizes love as "the key that will unlock the ultimate reality." And that "Darkness cannot put out darkness, only light can do that." Though these phrases might seem to simple for our complex juggernaut of modernity, I think upon closest inspection diffuse reciprocity and tolerance are the keys to making a great society.
King also discusses non market mechanisms like Operation Bread, and other protests like in the vein of Alinsky in Rochester NY at Eastman Kodak that sought to move the weight of the world organizing voluntarily on the consumption end of the market process rather than via interventionism via regulations on the production end--a concept seemingly lost on the "social justice" elites of our day.
Most noteworthy to me King makes a convincing case I find for a guaranteed minimum income and ending the bloody war in Vietnam--which this was 68' at the time, before the riots. And before Bobby's voice was also silenced. So it goes.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html
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Oh Sad News man. Actually he did his job. Je tried to to something for his nation. He loved it that's why he tried. Hats off for him. btw We should pray for him and this time badly needed this type of man.
Thanks for sharing. Good job man. @fatkat
He really was a peace maker. So sad his voice was snuffed out.
Great post!
Thanks, glad it has impacted you in a positive way!!
Thanks for this excellent post.
It sickens me when corporate media pundits and neoliberals try to hijack the legacy of MLK to promote their own agendas. They try to twist Dr. King's message into one of identity politics rather than true social and economic justice (including, importantly, the critical link between social and economic justice at home and in abroad). King's message that an imperialist United States that doles out misery and death around the world via both military and economic policies cannot be a "just" government here at home is more important today than ever.
Thanks for your ideas. Hopefully we can realize a just and free world someday
Beautiful post noble Kat. Sounds like King's spirit lives on through you.
thanks, glad you liked it, hopefully we can abolish poverty someday, especially in this world of abundance.
big corp would not like his message and that is why he had to be stopped, government dont like people who think and question their ability to manipulate people free will
yep conform and consume all they want
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Sorry peeps, the program King discussed was Operation Breadbasket, not Operation Bread, He discussesd them in Cleveland and Chicago I believe.
R.I.P legend King
great man, the world i think is much less good today than it could have been. I wonder if Eric Garner and his daughter would be dead? If Kenneth Chamberlain Sr and Jon Crawford the III would still be with us today.
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