HONORING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The United States: “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today”

Decades later, nothing has changed

Lola Rosario Aponte (aka, La Revolution)

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., pensive, revolutionary, extraordinary Black man, icon — Credit: Melissa Aase at University Settlement

Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
~ A quote by one of the world’s most eloquent and intelligent souls

Ninety seven years ago, Alberta Christine Williams King gifted the world with a revolution. She was, in the words of her son, “the best mother in the world.”

Her beloved son, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had his life ahead of him. I can only wonder — as I imagine millions around the globe also do — what he would have achieved had he not been assassinated by those whose only language was (is) cowardice and h8.

A short while ago, I checked out a recorded clip honoring the late civil rights icon on Democracy Now! In it, Dr. King gives his speech of 4 April 1967 at NYC’s Riverside Church.

Transcribed at American Rhetoric, this part struck me as I listened to his words at Democracy Now! (Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence) —

My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years — especially the last three summers. As I have…