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A year before the Empire put a bullet in his head, Dr King gave his "Beyond Vietnam" speech.. As with so many of Dr King's writings - the main thrust of this speech is just as applicable in today's Empire Of Things.
To wit:
“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems… But they asked, and rightly so, ‘what about Vietnam?’ They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.”
~ Dr Martin Luther King "Beyond Vietnam"
When you are watching the Network News or doom-scrolling through the Drudge Report today, all the while clucking at the violence around us - keep in mind where you live..
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