the way MLK’s legacy is taught in schools is highly sanitized, I highly encourage other white ppl to follow and share this with our white friends and family
Let us say boldly that if the violations of law by the white man in the slums over the years were calculated and compared with the law-breaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.
The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism #MLK#America#antiwar#BLM
It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat.
When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” #BLM#MLK
“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition. #MLK#BLM#antiwar
Is our nation planning to build on political myth again, and then shore it up upon the power of new violence? Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy’s point of view, to hear his questions,
[speaking of riots] “The looting, which is their principal feature, serves many functions. It enables the most enraged and deprived Negro to take hold of consumer goods with the ease the white man does by using his purse.”
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.[...] True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. #antiwar#BLM
the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. #MLK#BLM#antiwar
the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken,
only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, […] The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. #UnitedStatesOfAmerica#MLK#antiwar#BLM
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America,
continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.” —The Three Evils speech, 1967
#racism#MLK#BlackLivesMatter#capitalism
Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and
We must come to see that the roots of racism are very deep in our country, and there must be something positive and massive in order to get rid of all the effects of racism and the tragedies of racial injustice. #MLK#BlackLivesMatter#UnitedStatesOfAmerica#racism