“The violence, the hate, the looting and burning that spread across this nation after Dr. King’s death is something…
“The violence, the hate, the looting and burning that spread across this nation after Dr. King’s death is something Dr King would have deplored just has he had deplored the violence that brought death to civil rights workers Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, the Reverend James Reeb, Jimmie Lee Jackson and a host of others whose lives were snuffed out because they believed that all men are created equal.”
“If this violence on both sides continues then the death of Dr. King will have been in vain. If white against black, nation against nation, class against class is to be the way of the world in the future, as it too often has been in the past, then Dr. King is the lucky one. He will have to see and suffer it no longer. We who are left will be the ones who live in tragedy.
The Prince of Peace is dead. It is up to the millions who still live to see that his dream is brought to pass.”
#MLK
AMEN!!! 😇
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Lovely, BobbieZen… Thanks so much.
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Even if the violence continues (and it too will eventually subside), Martin Luther King Jr.s death was not in vain, as I argue in this piece on linguistic change due to his assassination: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0WgX_l7TL3QZjUyYzc3MzgtNjRhMS00YzY5LWJkYjUtZDkyZGYxNTQ0NWEz/edit?usp=docslist_api
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*vain…
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Context is everything, so I’ll just stress, The words above are direct quotes from the editorial piece in this Ebony Magazine, May 1968.
Peace.
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Laurie Davis spellcheck on my phone!
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Interesting study, Jacob Dix
Thanks for sharing. I’ve witnessed these shifts throughout my lifetime, as a child of 1962 growing up in the South.
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Sorry Jacob Dix I’m (honestly!) not usually that person but for some reason it really distracted me & I didn’t want it to take away from your very interesting article! ✌️😬
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Laurie Davis BobbieZen the good news is, as long as the trend of thought changes (for the better), the behavior will follow behind. Evolution is slow. It has its reversals. But there is a trend for the better.
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I’m forever hopeful.
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