How The Legacy of MLK Was Sidetracked
How The MLK Legacy Was Sidetracked
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The powers who shouldn’t be thought during the height of their hubris and thuggery during the 1960’s, once they killed Martin Luther King Jr., they would eliminate a major obstacle to their imperialistic wars in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Loas and Cambodia and the use of Thailand as a staging area for these wars).
King gained international fame as
the spokesperson for the Montgomery bus boycott which dealt a crippling blow to
the racial apartheid in the city of Montgomery Alabama by using economic
boycotts as a tool but also to US policies of racial oppression. His success in
Montgomery along with an unprecedented string of legal victories by the NAACP led
to intensified challenges to the US system of racial apartheid and oppression not
just in the South but throughout the country. King won a Nobel Peace Prize for
his non-violent movement that shook the foundations of US racial oppression in
the 1950’s.
In addition to his push for full inclusion within
US society, King stood for international peace. He was uncompromising in his
determination to bring an end to US imperialism. King linked the struggles of
poor and marginalized people in America with this government’s racist
imperialistic policies around the world. In addition to his outspoken opposition
and condemnation of the war, King was planning to confront the US government regarding
its domestic policies by staging a multi-ethnic Poor People’s Campaign in
Washington D.C.
King was actively recruiting a
multi-ethnic coalition of poor, marginalized and disposed Americans to join
with him in his efforts to force the US to alter its priorities from war to
peace and from class-based greed to a broad policy of prosperity for all
Americans. None of his popular peers in the American clergy were doing what
King did, not Billy Graham, not Norman Vincent Peale, not Bishop Sheen, not
Cardinal Spellman; none of the television evangelists nor the major Rabbis. None
of them.
None of them stood up to openly oppose
the carnage in Southeast Asia, or the devastation and division the war was
causing at home. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke up and stood up and the peace
movement embraced him for it. King’s vision was an anathema to the ruling class
and their lackies in the government. His ideas posed an existential threat to
the overlord’s dreams of expanded empire, global rapine, pillage and plunder.
So, like the thugs and psychopaths
they are, they ordered his murder. King’s assassination triggered a backlash of
shock and violence. Riots erupted in over one hundred US cities and towns as
people reacted to the brutal murder of a man who worked to bring peace and deep
societal change to America.
Not satisfied with King’s elimination
these demons set out to obscure his mission, to obfuscate what he was really
about and what he was attempting to accomplish. Immediately they began referring
to him as a dreamer rather than a visionary man of action.
A dreamer is asleep. King was not asleep, he
was awake, keenly conscious of the evils and danger America imperialism posed
to the world. He was forced to recognize and admit the greatest purveyor of
violence in the world was his own government and he said so on numerous occasions!
King pulled the scab off of the sore that was American fascism allowing people
to see how they were being oppressed, manipulated and used to further the
ambitions of empire.
In order to obscure what King was
really about they distracted the us. They kept referring to the I Have a
Dream portion of a 1963 speech he delivered at the March on Washington,
totally ignoring the parts of the speech where he said “Instead of honoring
this sacred obligation (of freedom) America has given the Negro people a bad
check; a check which has come back marked insufficient funds… So, we have come to cash this check – a check
that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice”.
The ruling class’s media never plays
that portion of the speech or reminds us of his subsequent attempts to cash the
check he was organizing his Poor People’s Campaign to present to the US
government!
Instead of calling Martin Luther King Jr. a sage
and pushing his agenda of peace, reconciliation and domestic prosperity; the
ruling class concocted a Day of Service to misdirect and dupe the masses
into preserving the very system King was attempting to tear down by doing
isolated deeds of service rather than demolishing the edifice which benefits
from actions like Trump is doing in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Iran and Venezuela!
Don’t fall for the okey-doke. Keep
King’s real legacy alive, resist!
posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 10:55 AM
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