#mlk2024 — Public Fediverse posts
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MLK's Address to End the War from 1967 still relevant for us on #MLKDay2024:
"While the anti-poverty program is cautiously initiated, zealously supervised and required to be an instant success, billions are liberally expended for this ill-considered war. The security we profess to seek in foreign adventures we will lose in our decaying cities. The bombs in Vietnam explode at home, they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
It is estimated that we spend $322,000 for each enemy we kill, while we spend in the so-called War on Poverty in America only about $53 for each person classified as "poor." And much of that $53 goes for salaries of people who are not poor. We have escalated the war in Vietnam and de-escalated the skirmish against poverty. It challenges the imagination to contemplate what lives we could transform if we were to cease killing.”
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"I had seen police brutality with my own eyes and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustice in the court. All of these things had done something to my growing personality."
- Dr. Martin Luther King
That this brutality and injustice continues so many years since should do something to ours.
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Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Two ground-breaking speeches from the year before he was assassinated -- often ignored in his bios:
The Three Evils of Society (speech): War, Racism and Poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sT9Hjh0cHMBeyond Vietnam (transcript and audio)
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htmNote: it seems youtube took down the second speech, which seems odd. In any case, we're happy to prodded to find this other one -- which has no ads and doesn't enrich Google (or anyone)
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#MLK2024 at the children’s museum NoireSTEMinist,com #MySTEMIsForTheStreets
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#MLK2024 at the children’s museum NoireSTEMinist,com #MySTEMIsForTheStreets
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As we get ready for Martin Luther King Jr day, remember this about him before they killed him. #Reparations #MLK #MLK2024 #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MLKDay
