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[mimi-0007]

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[dyscomancer]

as a reminder of how fucking terribly racist the United States is at a fundamental level, up until 2000 at the latest several states refused to celebrate a holiday singularly named "Martin Luther King Jr. Day" and insisted that the holiday be shared with another historical figure.

what other historical figure you ask? well in most cases, robert e. fucking lee

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Ron Kapeas

Published: Jan 8, 2024

JTA — In a speech marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Rep. Ritchie Torres likened protesters who have celebrated Hamas’s October 7 massacres to white people in the Jim Crow era who celebrated after the lynching of Black people.

“I was profoundly shaken not only by October 7, but by the aftermath,” Torres, a Black Bronx Democrat, said Friday in a speech at Central Synagogue, a prominent Reform congregation in midtown Manhattan. “I found it utterly horrifying. To see fellow Americans openly cheering and celebrating the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And for me, the aftermath of October 7 revealed a barbarity of the American heart that reminded me of an earlier and darker time in our nation’s history, a time when the public mobs of Jim Crow would openly celebrate the lynching of African Americans.”

Protests have proliferated since October 7, when Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, kidnapped around 240 and brutalized thousands more in an invasion from Gaza. They have grown as Israel has waged a war in Gaza to eliminate the terror group, and especially as casualties mounted: So far, close to 25,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and non-combatants and is also believed to tally civilians killed by errant rockets fired by terror groups.

A number of the protests have decried the October 7 violence on Israelis, but others have skated over the initial massacres or have embraced Hamas and described its atrocities as resistance.

Torres, a member of the progressive caucus in Congress, has garnered a reputation as an unstinting supporter of Israel. He has duked it out online with fellow progressives in debates over Israel, a dynamic that has only intensified since October 7. Torres is heavily funded by AIPAC and donors aligned with the pro-Israel lobby, and spoke at a massive rally for Israel in Washington on November 14.

In his speech, Torres alluded to the controversies that assailed elite universities after the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania told Congress that calls to commit genocide against Jews did not necessarily violate the schools’ codes of conduct. The ensuing uproar drove Harvard’s and Penn’s presidents to resign.

“What we’ve seen in the aftermath of October 7, is appalling silence and indifference and cowardice from so called leaders in our society from institutions that we once respected and admired,” he said. “And if we as a society cannot bring ourselves to condemn the murder of innocents with moral clarity, then we must ask, what are we becoming as a society? What does that reveal about the depths of antisemitism in the American soul?”

I had the honor of delivering the annual MLK sermon at Central Synagogue.  My speech touches on a range of topics and themes: October 7th, Jim Crow, Leo Frank, MLK, Elie Wiesel, silence, indifference, moral clarity, nonviolence, Israel, Am Yisrael Chai, Hatikvah, and hope. pic.twitter.com/stxqxzgyLi — Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) January 16, 2024

Central is a locus for some of the city’s wealthiest liberal Jewish families, many of whom are also firm supporters of Israel. Dr. Shonni Silverberg, the synagogue president, introduced Torres as a champion of progressive priorities as well as an advocate for Israel, and noted that he is the first openly LGBTQ representative elected from the Bronx.

“Ritchie remains steadfastly focused on the priorities of his South Bronx constituents, expanding access to safe and affordable housing, rebuilding New York economically and ensuring that no child goes hungry and that all receive a good education,” she said. “But he has also shown himself both in and out of Congress to be a great friend of the American Jewish community and Israel.”

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I was shocked, but not surprised. Shocked at how openly, how loudly and how quickly pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism supporters emerged from their Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Intersectional Feminism Studies and other fraudulent sewers in the ivory towers long before Israel ever fired a shot back.

I was not surprised, however, since antisemitism is a cornerstone of Intersectionality, as I posted about more than two years ago:

I naïvely expected that they'd go, "whoa, we didn't mean it like that, that's not what we were after," the standard No True Scotman tactic to distance their enlightened antisemitism from the antisemitism of murderous Islamic jihadists.

But they went the other way and leaned into it, cheering it on, while others tried to gaslight everyone with the usual array of denials that they weren't saying what they were openly saying, and that anyway, if they were saying it, that's not what they meant.

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[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

@decolonize-the-left I'm sorry if this is an imposition but I thought you might be interested.

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[contemplatingoutlander]

Contemplations on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 16, 2023

The coming Republican nightmare | Cartoon by Ann Telnaes

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream.

Sadly, what is currently happening the in U.S. isn't it.

Given the anti-CRT movement in red states, the rampant banning of books by Black and Brown authors across the U.S., the vitriol on the right regarding the BLM movement, the unrestrained right-wing zeal of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court who have been slowly dismantling the Voting Rights Act and who are now poised to ban affirmative action programs at universities, and the acceptance of blatant racist remarks by many of today's GOP politicians (most notably their leader Trump), Martin Luther King would probably think that what is currently happening in the U.S. is indeed a nightmare.

Finally, MLK would be livid if he knew that the GQP anti-CRT, covert white nationalist movement has been repeatedly misusing his "dream" quote:

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” --Martin Luther King Jr.

According to Melinda Guerra this quote has been:

Used: to defend the incredibly patronizing and trivializing thought that claiming to be colorblind is something laudable, rather than a way of discounting the fact that people of color have the privilege of being because we have to deal with the fact that our non-whiteness dictates parts of our experiences in ways those who talk about being will never understand. Also used to defend the idea of America being post-race, which would be laughable if its very falseness lead to so many awful things. Also used to suggest King would be against affirmative action, as if he hadn't been part of a group of leaders proposing an affirmative-action-like employment program (See #5 below).

Guerra goes on to suggest that we

Remind people: 1. This speech actually consists of more than the 2-3 sentences that get quoted. (Seriously, remind them of that. I'm almost convinced people don't know that.) 2. It is foolish and trivializing to claim you don't see color or suggest America is post-race, and flat-out wrong to suggest King wouldn't support affirmative action programs. 3. The march at which he delivered this speech was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. As a result of that march, meetings with administration, and a ton of work done by other leaders in the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights act of 1965 were passed, with provisions reflecting the demands of that march. But, contrary to popular opinion, that didn't lead King to suggest we’d “arrived” and the civil rights movement should pack up and go home [...] 4. King’s speaking and activism stretched from before this speech to after it. This speech–and even the passage of important (but baby step) laws like the aforementioned Civil Rights Act and Voting Act–was not some final “end” to all he’d said. It was but one speech (and the lines people love to claim were but a few lines) in a long legacy of things he said, and his lifetime should not be reduced to a few nonthreatening lines white people like to remember. 5. King and others actually proposed something that sounds an awful lot like the affirmative action programs people use this quote to suggest he was opposed to. He supported a “massive program of economic aid, financed by the Federal Government, to improve the lot of the nation’s 20,000,000 Negroes.” Answering an interviewer’s question about whether it was fair to request a “multibillion-dollar program of preferential treatment for the Negro, or for any other minority group,” King responded as follows:

“I do indeed. Can any fair-minded citizen deny that the Negro has been deprived? Few people reflect that for two centuries the Negro was enslaved, and robbed of any wages—potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America’s wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro; it should benefit the disadvantaged of all races.”*

I’m sure you’ll see plenty of your own memes misquoting King this year. If you have the emotional energy (and I do understand if you don’t), consider using some of the above responses (or researching your own) and responding, instead of just scrolling past them.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

_____________ * http://playboysfw.kinja.com/martin-luther-king-jr-part-2-of-a-candid-conversation-1502358645

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[daneiarwrites]

“We’re in this together. How can I help you?”

Aaron Pierre and Jayme Lawson as Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz

Genius: MLK/X (Feb 1.)

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[todaysdocument]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series: Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs

Image description: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at a podium in front of the fluted columns of the Lincoln Memorial. A National Park Service ranger is standing in the foreground.

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[dougydoug8797]

Happy MLK Day.

#Martin Luther King Jr. #Martin Luther King Jr Day #Equallity #Unity

[super-lad]

martin luther king jr day encourages community service. volunteer, donate, and learn black history at a time where many conservative officials would rather ban it from our schools.

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[mimi-0007]

Happy heavenly birthday to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Have a great Martin Luther King Jr day! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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[floridaboiler]

source - https://twitter.com/PurdueSports

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[pixoplanet]

🤎 It's January 15th – Martin Luther King Day! 🎂

🤎 On this day in 1929, Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia. The leader and enduring symbol of the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s is revered for using civil disobedience to combat institutional racism.

In 1955, at the age of 26, Martin Luther King Jr helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Inspired by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white woman, he led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, which helped end racial segregation on the Montgomery, Alabama, public transit systems.

On August 28th, 1963, the African-American Civil Rights Movement reached its high-water mark. The peaceful "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" rally attracted 250,000 civil rights protesters to the Washington Mall. Martin Luther King Jr was the last speaker and delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.

On December 10th, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights for the African American population." He turned over the $54,123 in prize money to the furtherance of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, allegedly by a lone white racist, James Earl Ray, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march for striking sanitation workers. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy, however, will never die. ☮️ Peace… Jamiese

📚 Sources: 

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[humanrightsconnected]

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, find out from the nonprofit organization Teach For America how you can honor and celebrate the civil rights leader’s life & legacy.

➡️ http://bit.ly/3CLhMjT

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[afrotumble]

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[escondidolibrary]

The Library will be closed on Monday, January 16, 2023 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  

It will reopen with normal business hours on Tuesday, January 17.

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