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NOW PLAYING == Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: What the US owes its #immigrants
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Dr King represents the perpetual struggle for Black freedom. We will never back down or be afraid. We are marching forward to victory. #MlK #BlackLiberation
“All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper….somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights!” ✊🏿🙏🏿
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, April 3, 1968
Just in case your feeds are filled with white washed, feel-good quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Chatting with the public library's librarian in Presidio, Texas (on the MX border) on MLK Day:
Me: "I'm surprised that the library is open today."
Her: "Yeah, they took that away last year. There aren't any black people in Presidio."
Yes, THIS!👇👇👇 #MLK was spot on. the best way to disrupt power = take their💲
i didn't know people boycotted buses in Birmingham for a year after Rosa Parks, walking miles to work instead
& to think, we can't even get people to give up Amazon prime
i wish Velshi had named more of the corporations, like #Hilton housing #ICENazis
I've written multiple stacks about boycotting, not giving them our $, & making lists of fascist appeasers to help people avoid them
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.
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I'm at a celebration of #MLK at the University of Houston.
One of the panelists (sorry, I had to sit in the back, so I don't know who) talked about #risk.
This is in relation to the #redemption that comes from #suffering.
There is #truth in this. I'm old. But the three times I felt something almost #holy was when I risked.
The first time. . .
After my sister changed her major to Women's Studies, she volunteered to be #security at the local #Pride #Parade. I did the training with her. Basically, we were part of a wall of bodies between the parade and the crowd. At one point, there was.a woman yelling and screaming about the Bible, and as I stood in front of her, I didn't even hear her. I felt this deep abiding #calm. I'm not a #believer, but if I were, I would describe it as some kind of divine Presence.
The second time. . .
A coworker was going to the drugstore down the street to get baseball cards, and while I walked down with him, I mentioned that I was treated better at work than at home. He asked me, "What are you going to do about it?" The same calm came to me as I realized I could leave. It was so powerful I went back to work and told my boss that I was feeling weird and I thought I needed to go home. Which I did. I moved in with my sister until I found an apartment.
The third time. . .
I had been working for about thre months when the staffing agency that all of the staff was contracted through wac bought by a bigger agency that mostly staffed the #defense #industry. Instead of #HR, they sent #attorneys. They pulled some shenanigans, but my coworkers in California didn't have to sign #nonCompete #agreements. So they allowed the rest of us to opt out. They even allowed us to jump to a different staffing agency that had profit-sharing. Except the #BigTech we worked for was slow-walkimg the paperwork for the four who were trying to do it. I very carefully set up my remaining PTO and was in another state when my final dey rolled around. Unlike the other four, my role was support. They could survive without me until the paperwork was ready. And, when my boss called and asked if I was not going to work, I felt that calm when I said that I wasn't going to work if I wasn't going to be paid.
In two weeks, all of our paperwork went through, so we all had the same hire date.
It's about MLK—the real MLK they don't teach.
It's about what we owe the next generation.
It's about choosing To Be.
"#communism is based on an ethical relativism, a metaphysical materialism, a denial of human #freedom, and a crippling #totalitarianism that I could never accept".
-Martin Luther King Jr.
(EDIT; spelling)
Autism, MLK, and a Third Grader’s Brave Connection #autism #mlk #school… https://ift.tt/GT2HAt8
We ain't need no leaders at all
#MLK: "Man has the capacity to do right as well as wrong, & his history is a path upward, not downward. The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man’s blunders but to his capacity to overcome them." bit.ly/4ac22qY
King’s Optimism & Realism amid...
#MLK: "Man has the capacity to do right as well as wrong, & his history is a path upward, not downward. The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man’s blunders but to his capacity to overcome them." https://bit.ly/4ac22qY
This is Martin Luther King Jr Day, time to virtually #travel to Montgomery https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/montgomery-alabama/?s=mb #MLK #BLM
