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[cartoonnetwork]

“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back.” -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏼🌎 Today we honor Dr. King and his teachings: to go forward united in our fight for equality and justice for all, and to uplift others so that none of us have to do it alone ⚖️👐🏾🕊️

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[blackinperiodfilms]

Genius: MLK/X | The Making Of | National Geographic

In a first for the franchise, the new season of the Emmy® Award-winning anthology series focuses on two iconic geniuses: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) and Malcolm X (Aaron Pierre). Here's a look behind the scenes of the upcoming project Genius MLK/X. The limited series premieres Feb 1. on National Geographic, streams next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

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[joeinct]

Martin Luther King. Atlanta. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1961

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[padawan-historian]

MLK was neither a liberal nor a conservative. He was radical antiracist, anti-imperialist defender of faith and freedom who was publicly murdered by the State for challenging apartheid, war, poverty, and capitalism.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Antiwar political cartoon from 1918

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 Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America, ‘You are too arrogant, and if you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name. Be still and know that I’m God. Men will beat their swords into plowshafts and their spears into pruning hooks, and nations shall not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war anymore.’ I don’t know about you, I ain’t going to study war anymore. 

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

#antiwar #Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #quotes #war #things to think about

[glitterygalaxyballoon]

from VIETNAM: LOTUS IN A SEA OF FIRE: IN SEARCH OF THE ENEMY OF MAN

From a letter by Thich Nhat Hanh addressed to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., June 1, 1965

The self-burning of Vietnamese Buddhist monks in 1963 is somehow difficult for Western Christian conscience to understand. The press spoke then of suicide, but in the essence, it is not. It is not even a protest. What the monks said in the letters they left before burning themselves aimed only at alarming, at moving the hearts of the oppressors, and at calling the attention of the world to the suffering endured then by the Vietnamese. To burn oneself by fire is to prove that what one is saying is of the utmost importance. There is nothing more painful than burning oneself. To say something while experiencing this kind of pain is to say it with utmost courage, frankness, determination, and sincerity. During the ceremony of ordination, as practiced in the Mahayana tradition, the monk-candidate is required to burn one or more small spots on his body in taking the vow to observe the 250 rules of a bhikshu, to live the life of a monk, to attain enlightenment, and to devote his life to the salvation of all beings. One can, of course, say these things while sitting in a comfortable armchair; but when the words are uttered while kneeling before the community of sangha and experiencing this kind of pain, they will express all the seriousness of one’s heart and mind, and carry much greater weight.

The Vietnamese monk, by burning himself, says with all his strength and determination that he can endure the greatest of sufferings to protect his people. But why does he have to burn himself to death? The difference between burning oneself and burning oneself to death is only a difference in degree, not in nature. A man who burns himself too much must die. The importance is not to take one’s life, but to burn. What he really aims at is the expression of his will and determination, not death. In the Buddhist belief, life is not confined to a period of 60 or 80 or 100 years: life is eternal. Life is not confined to this body: life is universal. To express will by burning oneself, therefore, is not to commit an act of destruction but perform an act of construction, that is, to suffer and to die for the sake of one’s people. This is not suicide. Suicide is an act of self-destruction, having as causes the following: (1) lack of courage to live and to cope with difficulties; (2) defeat by life and loss of all hope; (3) desire for nonexistence (abhaya).

This self-destruction is considered by Buddhism as one of the most serious crimes. The monk who burns himself has lost neither courage nor hope; nor does he desire nonexistence. On the contrary, he is very courageous and hopeful and aspires for something good in the future. He does not think that he is destroying himself: he believes in the good fruition of his act of self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Like the Buddha in one of his former lives—as told in a story of Jataka—who gave himself to a hungry lioness which was about to devour her own cubs, the monk believes he is practicing the doctrine of highest compassion by sacrificing himself in order to call the attention of, and to seek help from, the people of the world.

I believe with all my heart that the monks who burned themselves did not aim at the death of the oppressors but only at a change in their policy. Their enemies are not man. They are intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination which lie within the heart of man. I also believe with all of my being that the struggle for equality and freedom you lead in Birmingham, Alabama, is not really aimed at the whites but only at intolerance, hatred, and discrimination. These are real enemies of man—not man himself. In our unfortunate fatherland we are trying to plead desperately: do not kill man, even in man’s name. Please kill the real enemies of man which are present everywhere, in our very hearts and minds.

Now in the confrontation of the big powers occurring in our country, hundreds and perhaps thousands of Vietnamese peasants and children lose their lives every day, and our land is unmercifully and tragically torn by a war which is already twenty years old. I am sure that since you have been engaged in one of the hardest struggles for equality and human rights, you are among those who understand fully, and who share with all their heart, the indescribable suffering of the Vietnamese people. The world’s greatest humanists would not remain silent. You yourself cannot remain silent. America is said to have a strong religious foundation and spiritual leaders would not allow American political and economic doctrines to be deprived of the spiritual element. You cannot be silent since you have already been in action and you are in action because, in you, God is in action, too—to use Karl Barth’s expression. And Albert Schweitzer, with his stress on the reverence for life. And Paul Tillich with his courage to be, and thus, to love. And Niebuhr. And Mackay. And Fletcher. And Donald Harrington. All these religious humanists and many more, are not going to favor the existence of a shame such as the one mankind has to endure in Vietnam. Recently a young Buddhist monk named Thich Giac Thanh burned himself [April 20, 1965, in Saigon] to call the attention of the world to the suffering endured by the Vietnamese, the suffering caused by this unnecessary war—and you know that war is never necessary. Another young Buddhist, a nun named Hue Thien, was about to sacrifice herself in the same way and with the same intent, but her will was not fulfilled because she did not have the time to strike a match before people saw and interfered. Nobody here wants the war. What is the war for, then? And whose is the war?

Yesterday in a class meeting, a student of mine prayed: “Lord Buddha, help us to be alert to realize that we are not victims of each other. We are victims of our own ignorance and the ignorance of others. Help us to avoid engaging ourselves more in mutual slaughter because of the will of others to power and to predominance.” In writing to you, I profess my faith in Love, in Communion, and in the World’s Humanists, whose thoughts and attitude should be the guide for all humankind in finding who is the real enemy of Man.

#aaron bushnell #peace #love #buddhism #nonviolence #protest #civic rights #basic rights #dr. martin luther king jr. #thich nhat hanh

[igotswag77]

Saw this somewhere else. Dr. Martin Luther King as a Jedi Master with a lightsaber.

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John Coltrane: The Colossus of Jazz

Introduction: John Coltrane, often referred to simply as ‘Trane,’ stands as one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz. His innovative approach to improvisation, coupled with a tireless quest for musical exploration, reshaped the landscape of jazz and inspired countless musicians across genres. This blog post endeavors to illuminate the life, music, and legacy of the colossus of…

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Joan Baez on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, April 12, 2023.

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7300 Hollywood Boulevard where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in February 1965.

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[thechanelmuse]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Reparations

“We’re coming to get our check.”

Talk that talk, King. The debt been owed to the descendants of Black Americans for American chattel slavery, Jim Crow, domestic bombings, and all of its present genocidal remnants. We’ve been used as a launchpad for immigrants & their descendants to come here with governmental programs, safety, and bootstrap set asides ready while we’re pushed down further at the bottom in our own home. Countless foreign aid for everybody else’s house like it’s the world’s government while we’re told to wait or given the lip in our homeland from people who willingly moved here. Just like them “old stock” and their descendants who were exclusively rolled out the Homestead Act, New Deal, GI (WWII) Bill, tax breaks, and other thieving discriminatory programs/laws.

Real talk. We were supposed to be dead and extinct a long time ago. They bombed us, but we’re still here. Torched/flooded/eminent domained our properties, and turned our communities into lakes, parks, pathways for bridges and gentrification hubs. Still here. Stole our wealth. Still here. Medically experimented on us. Still here. Pushed heroin & crack into our neighborhoods as confessed by then-presidents. Still here. They subject us to an ongoing slow genocide. Bitch, we still here.

The only reason why this land hasn’t imploded with all the trauma, barbarism and evil it’s witnessed is because it knows its children are still here. Our feet still kisses the ground.

This is a new generation. The centuries-deep interest is up and counting. They gon cut these lineage-based federal and state checks with protective policies and our stolen land to boot...soon. Our grandparents and great-grandparents, first, will be seeing pure, non-loopholed, legit reparations paid to them in their lifetime. Bootstraps, my ass. They gon give us back our multiple boots. Gimme all my straps.