“#Nakba and #Shoah, the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, both mean ‘catastrophe’ in English, and because both are rooted in the 1940s, they are often equated or conflated.”
Martin Luther King Jr., who said in 1967: “I think for the ultimate peace and security of the situation it will probably be necessary for Israel to give up this conquered territory because to hold on to it will only exacerbate the tensions and deepen the bitterness of the Arabs.”
“as unhelpful as Black History Month and Juneteenth without real policies toward racial equity, or driver’s licenses for unauthorized immigrants without fixing our immigration system’s doom loop.”
WCK: 3X Israel bombed us in the area it ordered us to drive through for safety
NBC News: 7X Israel bombed the area it ordered civilians to go to for safety
NYT: 200X Israel bombed the area it ordered civilians to go to for safety
How can anyone STILL argue there's no intent?? What more needs to happen for it to be clear these bombings are intentional? How many more innocent people need to be killed? Horrific.
Biden is the graduation speaker for Martin Luther King’s alma mater. It's a moral disaster
"Students around the country, including many in the AUCC, are standing in the tradition of Dr King. They do so in the context of a broader movement and crackdown – the most intense this country has seen since 1968. Biden has smeared these students – the very people he needs to secure his electoral prospects – as “antisemitic” and uninformed."
April 4, 1968, #CivilRights leader Reverend #MartinLutherKing Jr., was shot & killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in #Memphis, #Tennessee. Considered one of the greatest Americans to ever live, he was assassinated 56 years ago today.
Rising numbers of people, particularly #Republicans, say such #violence may be necessary to "save our country” & coincides w/ #Trump stepping up his violent rhetoric.
#MLK’s son, #MartinLutherKing III, said the family feels it's important to be there in an #election yr, "This is the first yr that we actually are going back as a family to #Memphis, & we felt that it was extraordinarily important…," said King III's wife, Arndrea Waters King.
She said the King family sees little difference between the #violent rhetoric coming from some #ChristianNationalists today & the violent rhetoric from the #KKK 60 yrs ago.
King III says #civility in #politics is diminishing, & he worries that more lives will be lost unless the nation recommits itself to #nonviolence, as his father preached.
"We believe we have to go into difficult areas, to use our platform, to use our voice to lift up what we believe is #good, #just & #right. And so we're willing to make a sacrifice" to visit #Memphis despite the painful memories it brings, he said.
"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice..."
People really MUST study Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This (see book below) is where you should start. Much of what people know about Dr. King is what the media gasp—the media that attacked him when he was alive—tells them. #MLK#MLKJr 🖤🙏🏿
Suprémacisme blanc...
Les blancs de gôche n'ont AUCUNE idée du racisme systémique et institutionnel #onu que nous les RACISÉS subissons au quotidien, défendre MML c'est défendre le fascisme... #RaciséEtFier ne comptez que sur vos propres forces #MLX#MLK#Che#antifa
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Here's another that, if someone doesn't buy it soon, I may just take home. Not an audiobook but, a collection of audio from historic events on 2 CDs, compiled with a book of background info. Primarily concerned with US events.
If a #Democrat wants change, they just wait 40 or 50 lifetimes, and maybe, just maybe, the billionaires will find a cookie for you that they haven't peed on first.
#SCOTUS is the Supreme Court for Billionaire Rapists, Thieves, Seditionists and Traitors.
The price of justice in #America is money. Open a bag of it. Spread it around. Pay for dirt on everyone. Use that dirt to get your way. Make everyone bow.
MLK's paternal grandfather "Jim King—born the year before the abolition of chattel slavery—personified the crushing frustrations of Black life in the South. He never learned to read or write. He never voted. He never owned property. Instead, he lived in a perpetual state of debt to the white men for whom he farmed."
Today in Labor History January 30, 1956: Klansmen bombed the home of Martin Luther King Jr in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott. No one died in the bombing. However, the explosion destroyed the King’s porch and blasted out their windows. At the time of the bombing, King was giving a speech at the Montgomery Improvement Association at Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s First Baptist Church. No one was ever indicted or convicted for the bombing. The authorities did indict King, and 80 other activists, for “interfering with business,” during the bus boycott and demonstrations.
“The third of the Kings’ four children, Dexter King was named for the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father served as a pastor when the Montgomery bus boycott launched him to national prominence in the wake of the 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks.
Meet the Ravens fan who went viral for looking like Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everybody started sending it. They’re all saying, ‘You’re trending right now.’ It was everywhere. Even Dr. King’s daughter [Bernice King] saw it and got a chuckle out of it.”
Meet the Ravens fan who went viral for looking like Martin Luther King Jr.
April 3, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his final speech, calling on America to live up to her promise. He was assassinated the following day. #MLK