"They are small men and women above whom King’s legacy towers. Their lives are focused on acquisition, artifice, money, theft, deceit, dominance, and control. They wish to unravel the systems created by the sacrifices of those in the Civil Rights Movement – from Claudette Colvin and Diane Nash from Amelia Boynton, and Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses,Dr. King and hundreds more - people who put their lives and bodies on the line for freedom and justice."
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Jay Kuo highlights three parts of Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" "in light of what we’re seeing coming out of Minneapolis in 2026 on our own screens across the country. Once again, the government has turned its power upon peaceful protesters seeking to bring attention to brutal racist practices."
1. Nonviolence as power
2. White folks are not sitting on the sidelines
3. The strategy forward
"I grew up in the white evangelical tradition. And the main thing I knew about Martin Luther King is that, yeah, he did the he did civil rights, blah, blah, blah, blah. But also he had a lot of affairs and he was very immoral. And that tells you all you need to know about the white evangelical tradition."
~ Holly Berkley Fletcher
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteSupremacy
/23
"A sign that your religious tradition is probably a little bit racist is you are more focused on Martin Luther King's infidelities, which are real, and you are not focused on the many pastors who continue to abuse women and children and some men in your own churches. Yeah. that's a sign that you might be a racist religious tradition."
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteSupremacy
/24
"Dr. King did not merely seek a seat at the lunch counter; he sought to dismantle what he called the 'giant triplets': racism, materialism (capitalism), and militarism. He understood that these three forces were inextricably linked, forming the scaffolding of American society. ...
Dr. King’s ultimate call was for a 'radical redistribution of political and economic power.'”
~ Danielle Moody
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #racism #capitalism #EconomicElites
/25
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-radical-king-we-forgot-why-the
"Trump is the king of shamelessness, invulnerable to any kind of shame. …
Even as they lost their shame, the powerful in America—and elsewhere—have not lost their fear. What we need to do now is forget shame and work on fear and love. Their fear of our strength, our love for one another and for the legacy of change that followed King’s life and work."
~ Timothy Burke
