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[quote=Anonymous]As people reflect on Dr MLK Jr day:

"The same people who will inevitably praise and misquote Dr. King about being colorblind are in fact funding a regime that is actively racially profiling individuals on the street to ask for their papers. They are the very same people canceling critical health research grants for the mere mention of the word “diversity” in a grant proposal. Brace yourself – hypocrisy will be on high display in America come Monday."

"Though Dr. King was committed to non-violence, that did not make him a so-called moderate in his demands for change. Dr. King was fiercely opposed to systemic racism. He was anti-war and critiqued the United States for placing “insatiable military demands” above the critical needs of our own underprivileged citizens. Dr. King called out Democrats and Republicans alike for not doing enough to advance civil rights. He believed in racial alliances and labor solidarity to break economic inequality. It is crazy the number of speeches and writings of King in the 1960s that apply to our current times. But as it turns out, racism was not just “a passing phase” in the cycles of our nation’s life."

"Given the way school curriculums are set today, I hope that people have read King’s work beyond “I Have a Dream.”"

Speech: The Three Evils of Society, keynote address delivered at the National Conference on New Politics, Chicago, IL, August 31, 1967

Speech: Beyond Vietnam, speech at Riverside Church in New York City, February 4, 1967

Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

Sermon: The Drum Major Instinct, sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA February 4, 1968."[/quote]

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