This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a good time to contemplate not just the physical assassination (or execution) of Dr. King on April 4, 1968, but also and above all King’s subsequent and ongoing moral, intellectual, and ideological assassination. I am referring to the conventional, neo-McCarthyite, and whitewashed narrative of King that rolls across the nation every year during the national holiday that bears his name. This domesticated, bourgeois airbrushing exercise portrays King as nothing more radical than a mild liberal reformist who wanted little but a few basic civil rights adjustments in a supposedly good and decent American System – a loyal supplicant who was grateful to the nation’s leaders for finally making noble alterations.
Those who lived and participated in the civil rights struggles are appalled and disgusted by the whitewashing and dilution of both Martin and his advocacy.
All the problems that MLK spoke against are still with us. Many worst than when he was alive. Today I heard a very disturbing report about who and how MLK was assassinated. If true, this is another example of how the deep state can can anything with little repercussions and that the US has always had a fascist streak running through it.
For me having MLK's voice get used in a voice over for a superbowl truck commercial was the moment where US capitalism made itself unredeemable.
Those who lived and participated in the civil rights struggles are appalled and disgusted by the whitewashing and dilution of both Martin and his advocacy.
An excellent, informative tribute to an American hero!
All the problems that MLK spoke against are still with us. Many worst than when he was alive. Today I heard a very disturbing report about who and how MLK was assassinated. If true, this is another example of how the deep state can can anything with little repercussions and that the US has always had a fascist streak running through it.
See you folks in August!