Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers in Auschwitz.
It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs them”.
It started with intolerance and hate speech.
It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.
Remember.
If media runs with fully vaxxed Powell died of Covid and allows 'see, vaccines don’t work!' without reporting he had multiple myeloma and a compromised immune system and so ability to develop antibodies was a concern, then they are doing dangerously compromised work themselves.
So many people who furiously and erroneously tell me what my father believed absolutely refuse to study his teachings beyond a few quotes.
That’s very telling and extremely unfortunate.
It’s important not to ‘sample’ from MLK’s words; it undermines his principles and his work. Read widely, understand the complete meaning…no more sound bites.
Many are, as my father said, “more devoted to order than to justice.”
Some of that many use 2-3 quotes from my father to justify that.
But Daddy believed that we have to eradicate racism, militarism and poverty to ensure our survival.
Why not engage his words to do that work?
Please stop for a moment and watch this, with the sound on. Share with others. An unflinching rebuttal to all those who are politicizing studies of race and injustice courtesy of Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
This #Juneteenth, we celebrate the emancipation of Black Americans & reflect on their activism pushing our nation towards its founding ideals.
From the ballot box to housing, employment, & more — we must continue working for equal justice. The march towards freedom continues.
On this day in 1865, after white Southerners had extended the enslavement of countless Black people by concealing the Civil War’s end for months, Union troops arrived in Texas. #Juneteenth https://t.co/AlNI2YW18w
Derek Chauvin’s defense strategy is essentially to put George Floyd on trial; people and news organizations referring to these proceedings as the “George Floyd trial” are knowingly or unknowingly supporting that strategy.