Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used non-violence as a strategy that not only exposed white America’s hypocrisy…but reveled it was time to shift his approach in the Civil Rights Movement. The late Malcolm X doesn’t get his roses because he’s depicted in media as a violent man who inherited the teachings of the late honorable Elijah Muhammad.
There’s no celebrating MLK Day without mentioning Malcolm X who teachings factored into Dr. King’s final shift until his 1968 assassination. Rather self-defense or non-violence, both agreed Black America was owed something on the basis of our enslavement, mistreatment and labor which made White America wealthy leaving Blacks struggling with no inheritance.
When the Black Panther Party in the 1960s’ preached self-reliance and economic empowerment, it came from Malcolm’s teachings dating back to the foundation of the late Marcus Garvey (Pan-African). Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 and the fiery feeling he felt…is the same feeling Black America feels after delayed justice and fair treatment.
If Dr. King Jr. was alive today, he would still be hated by the same racist white men who supported Donald Trump just like their grandparents supported J. Edgar Hoover. Imagine Dr. King Jr. seeing Trayvon Martin shot, Breonna Taylor get denied justice and George Floyd have a knee pressed on his neck?
Today is a day where we see white mainstream media who supported the U.S Capitol terrorist attacks from MAGA supporters use Dr. King’s non-violence philosophy to their advantage.
It’s sad, stupid and ridiculous to see a mockery made of a Black man who message was hijacked by racists and sellouts (Black community) that advertised a false depiction of Dr. King.
Nobody understood Dr. King more than his own even in our separation of ideology when he disagreed with the late Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael).
Unfortunately, White America would rather talk about non-violence on a day where they should address their ongoing unrepentant violence towards Black people. Another takeaway would be reparations which is ignored and in 2021…we still coming for that check like Dr. King wanted.
Flip the pages to hear Dr. King’s speech on white America’s denial of reparations and his new phase of the Civil Rights Movement.