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I appreciate the sentiment for which this was submitted, but in reflecting upon MLKJr's legacy, please realize that he was far more than this one speech. He spo

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• AddisonRyan 5y ago
  Indeed, his life was dedicated to defeating three evils: Racism, Militarism, and Poverty. Reducing it to only racism ignores most of what made his work so important.
  • zackmorris 5y ago
    With that ignorance fueling the autocolonization we're under today, having extracted the human and material wealth from all the developing nations of the world. Colonizing ourselves through the systems of control that we mastered, regardless of gender, race or creed, driven by the fear of some other doing better than we are.
  • hulitu 5y ago
    But this is the point. To show the world that he died for racism. America wants him to be a hero, but an American hero, not a socialist hero. I wonder what opiniob had Dulles about him.
• dimitrios1 5y ago
  And also something he gave more speeches (sermons) on than anything else, was that on the topic of the Bible, and his faith. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/index-sermon-topics https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/ind...
• slibhb 5y ago
  The turf war over King's legacy (evidenced by your post) is certainly interesting.
• gadders 5y ago
  • losteric 5y ago
    Allegedly* - based on supposed unreleased secret FBI recordings
    • gadders 5y ago
      I did say reputedly. We will find out in 2027, potentially: "The tape recording, which is resting under court seal in a National Archives vault, will not be released until 2027."
      • AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
        Who wants to put money down on it mysteriously going missing or being irrecoverably damaged in 2027?
        • AvocadoPanic 5y ago
          If not, will he be canceled?
  • openknot 5y ago
    The sole source for this information are notes taken by the FBI, according to the article you linked, with the recording that allegedly backs up these claims as sealed until 2027. I'm in alignment with the American studies professor quoted in the article who says: "My experience has been that there are some transcripts of FBI surveillance but no actual tapes released so we are dependent on their reporting and whether we can trust it since its purpose was to gather negative intelligence on MLK. I did not know about the rape incident that King is alleged to have witnessed without intervening."
  • dcow 5y ago
    Also openly homophobic. But IMO these things only matter in that they demonstrate the man is human. We can’t reduce our impressions of people to one dimensional snapshots. If we did MLK would have been canceled already… so don’t do it to others either, especially on Twitter.
• divbzero 5y ago
  His actions too, e.g. backing up Hosea Williams, John Lewis, and others in the march from Selma to Montgomery [1] that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 [2]. [1]: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/selma-montgomery-march https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/selma-montgo... [2]: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/voting-rights-act-1965 https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/voting-right...
• zozbot234 5y ago
  At the same time though, your links point out that he consistently opposed ideologies that glorify social deviance as some means of "fighting oppression", or espouse black supremacism: "And so I'm not gonna give you a motto or preach a philosophy burn, baby burn. I'm gonna say build, baby build organize, baby, organize. I've decided to stick with love. Somebody’s gotta have some sense in this world. And a lot of white folks have demonstrated eloquently that they don't have no sense and why should we be that way? The reason I'm not gonna preach a doctrine of black supremacy is because I'm sick and tired of white supremacy." MLK would not want to be a "woke" figure today. Even his pursuit of meaningful economic equality as equally important to racial equality is enough to make that abundantly clear.