Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Heres some good food for thought: Too often, we are treated to a view of a romanticized version of Dr. King in order to fit the man and his struggle neatly within the prevailing political and economic power structures in a largely uncritical and non-threatening manner. Dr. King has been mass marketed as an accommodationist figure and this portrayal is now so pervasive in our schools, media, etc. that it threatens to neutralize and placate the most ambitious, daring and challenging of Kings critique along with his struggle to confront and organize against not only racism, but economic exploitation and militarism-imperialism as well.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:46:00 +0000