King & Beck: Tracing the Trajectories

Trace the trajectory of Rev. King from his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (April 16, 1963) to his speech at the Washington Mall (August 28, 1963) at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; to the Riverside Church speech decrying the war in Vietnam (April 4, 1967); to his final speech in Memphis (April 3, 1968), where he had come to support striking sanitation workers.


With King we see a leader growing into his role with grace and humility and recognizing that race, gender, class, and peace are woven together in systems of oppression and aggression.
Tracing Glenn Beck reveals no trajectory. His leadership is that of a smug, self-impressed demagogue aggressively mobilizing resentment toward the oppressed on behalf of unfair power and privilege.

King offered the dove of peace.
Beck unleashes the vultures of anger.

King opened a door to reconciliation.
Beck slams the door in the face of those he fears and loathes.

King imagined justice running down like refreshing water.
Beck poisons the wells with toxic conspiracy theories.

King offers a dream.
Beck is our nightmare.

Which vision becomes our future is up to us.

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