The real MLK was a radical.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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@amerpie A tweet from Andre Henry ([@]andrehenry), marked with "sos" in red, displays the text: "Once again, it's that time of year that we pretend Dr. King never said things like this:" Below, a quote image features a black - and - white photo of a person on the left, and on the right, text reads: "Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. — Martin Luther King — AZ QUOTES"
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
So weird reading all those comments. I tought most Mastodon users would be anti-capitalist^^
"Capitalism makes tons of people live in poverty" isn't a radical view, just facts.
Americans especially did a really good job at convincing people that the only alternative to capitalism is (a fake representation of) communism.
When in reality there are a ton of other systems (also you can't directly jump from capitalism to communism, there are steps/systems in between)
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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In my observation for what it's worth, he was not a "radical", just a decent, caring, thoughtful human being.
Generations of corporate media has tried desperately to surpress, erase, distort and vilify the man, just for being that kind of person.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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That IS being a radical. That's why they shot him.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
@amerpie Radical in the sense that he believed in the redistribution of economic and political power. He challenged America’s class system and its racial caste system. He was a strong ally of the nation’s labor union movement. He was assassinated in April 1968 in Memphis, where he had gone to support a sanitation workers’ strike. He opposed U.S. militarism and imperialism, especially the country’s misadventure in Vietnam.
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@amerpie It's speech like this that got him assassinated by the FBI. They want you to think it was some crazy racist who assassinated him for civil rights, but it was the FBI who killed him because he started criticizing capitalism.
@DirtyAnCom @amerpie As is the case for many of these types of killings, it is fully possible for authorities to be responsible at the same time as they are not actively contracting a murder.
I know far too little about this specific case, but a very plausible hypothesis in general is that authorities lets someone be killed through inaction, stokes antipathy towards the person, or even provides resources to violent people.
There’s a whole spectrum of this, and all could be called ”killed him”.
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In my observation for what it's worth, he was not a "radical", just a decent, caring, thoughtful human being.
Generations of corporate media has tried desperately to surpress, erase, distort and vilify the man, just for being that kind of person.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
@amerpie I hate this holiday because the hypocrisy is palpable. While alive the government did their level best to literally and figuratively destroy this man. And now that he's dead, they've co-opted and watered down his messages to a kindergarten-level "we should all get along" thing.
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In my observation for what it's worth, he was not a "radical", just a decent, caring, thoughtful human being.
Generations of corporate media has tried desperately to surpress, erase, distort and vilify the man, just for being that kind of person.
@Ultraverified @amerpie In an indecent, uncaring, and thoughtless society, that is radical.
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@DirtyAnCom @amerpie As is the case for many of these types of killings, it is fully possible for authorities to be responsible at the same time as they are not actively contracting a murder.
I know far too little about this specific case, but a very plausible hypothesis in general is that authorities lets someone be killed through inaction, stokes antipathy towards the person, or even provides resources to violent people.
There’s a whole spectrum of this, and all could be called ”killed him”.
@ahltorp @amerpie What we do have confirmation of is that the FBI sent him a threatening letter demanding that he kill himself or else they would release evidence of his affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_letter).
The Trump Regime released thousands of files related to his assassination (as part of the "flood the zone" strategy to distract from everything else), but as far as I know, there's nothing that explicitly admits they were responsible for his assassination, beyond that they saw him as a dangerous adversary. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-releases-fbi-records-on-mlk-jr-despite-his-familys-opposition)
I just firmly believe they were responsible, whether directly or by proxy, like you say.
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@amerpie I don't think was as controversial back when it was said.
I don't think there is anything making you inherently evil if you criticize capitalism, so even today, you might come across as naive, but you're not really Stalin, though.
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@amerpie Many young people are so angry at the excesses of capitalism that they want to tear the whole thing down. But somehow they fail to appreciate that the right-wing politicians tearing things down are agents of capitalism.
@humourmetom @amerpie
If you step back further you realize that the communist elites and the capitalist elites are identical apart from their costumes and fairy tales they speak out loud.The only way out of the lies os to realize both systems must coexist for durable peace. Either "ism" one on its own can only end in tears.
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The real MLK was a radical. Take a moment today to learn something new about him. You will be glad you did.
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