The idea or dream that is the Untied States of America that cannot be realized without taking significant and meaningful action to make right the evils upon which this nation is founded… stealing land, genocide of its first inhabitants, and slavery.
Economic retributions, a real democratic vote, universal health care, criminal justice & policing reform, and equal access to quality education are clear starting points… this is my prayer on this MLK Day.
Here’s a link to a Seattle Medium article titled, “Remembering Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: A Tireless Champion For Economic Justice” by Charlene Crowell.
“A second evil which plagues the modern world is that of poverty. Like a monstrous octopus, it projects its nagging, prehensile tentacles in lands and villages all over the world. Almost two-thirds of the peoples of the world go to bed hungry at night. They are undernourished, ill-housed, and shabbily clad. Many of them have no houses or beds to sleep in. Their only beds are the sidewalks of the cities and the dusty roads of the villages. Most of these poverty-stricken children of God have never seen a physician or a dentist.”
Rev. Dr. King, Nobel Peace Prize address, 1964
Peace, dwight
The sad fact is that the right has embraced ‘equality’ with a vengeance. To them it is a formal requirement, a prerequisite for meritocracy, even an argument argument in favor of economic hierarchy. They seem to think equal treatment can survive in a world saturated with economic disparities.