The Real MLK | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Jan. 11, 2014

“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”

- MLK


This year, as we mark the 85rd birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have two revolutionary suggestions:

1. Learn about the real MLK, not the whitewashed product.
2. Apply his vision in the name of our shared heritage.

Dr. King understood what it meant to commit to a movement. He comprehended and accepted the risks involved. He was fully aware of the urgency. He never wavered in his efforts to create radical changes in human culture and society and he left behind enough words to help us realistically imagine what he might say and do today.

For example, he is on record as saying: “If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of socialism.”

What? You haven’t ever heard that one? Well, that’s what I mean by whitewashing…

And while we can’t know exactly how Dr. King would feel about the persistent parade of U.S. military interventions, his thoughts on another contemptible intercession are also on the record. The Vietnamese, King said, “must see Americans as strange liberators … For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy.”

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