Just in case your feeds are filled with white washed, feel-good quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
#BlackHistoryMonth #MLK #DrMartinLutherKingJr #Resist #Antifascism #Antifascist
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Today in Labor History January 30, 1956: Klansmen bombed the home of Martin Luther King Jr in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott. No one died in the bombing. However, the explosion destroyed the King’s porch and blasted out their windows. At the time of the bombing, King was giving a speech at the Montgomery Improvement Association at Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s First Baptist Church. No one was ever indicted or convicted for the bombing. The authorities did indict King, and 80 other activists, for “interfering with business,” during the bus boycott and demonstrations.
#LaborHistory #workingclass #rosaparks #mlk #civilrights #bombing #racism #boycott #jimcrow #montgomery #alabama #kkk #klan #BlackMastodon
Today in Labor History January 30, 1956: Klansmen bombed the home of Martin Luther King Jr in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott. No one died in the bombing. However, the explosion destroyed the King’s porch and blasted out their windows. At the time of the bombing, King was giving a speech at the Montgomery Improvement Association at Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s First Baptist Church. No one was ever indicted or convicted for the bombing. The authorities did indict King, and 80 other activists, for “interfering with business,” during the bus boycott and demonstrations.
#LaborHistory #workingclass #rosaparks #mlk #civilrights #bombing #racism #boycott #jimcrow #montgomery #alabama #kkk #klan #BlackMastodon
I just saw a program sponsored by my small city's Human Rights Committee. They played a documentary at my local library made by a retired local professor about a local civil rights hero named Jonathan Daniels.
One of the reasons I've chosen this place as my forever home is because of this community's support for each other. More than most places I've been, people care for others. It was touching to see all of that come together in one room on #MLK day.
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More prescient today in America than “I Have a Dream.”
“I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again.
How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.
How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow.
How long? Not long: Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future.”
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#history #mlk
https://youtu.be/NwdHeylre6c?si=r64lplqgjDfubK4i
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On Martin Luther King Day, here's a @Flipboard Storyboard from @Newsone@flipboard.com with suggestions for how to make an impact and more, including a story on how we can use MLK's legacy to explain the differences between hope and optimism. "Long-term hope is not about looking on the bright side. It is a mindset that helps people endure challenges, tackle them head-on and keep their eyes on the goal — a virtue that King and other community leaders exemplify," writes Kendra Thomas.
https://flipboard.com/@newsone/10-meaningful-ways-to-observe-mlk-day-bbofaq618n1r976h
On Martin Luther King Day, here's a @Flipboard Storyboard from @Newsone@flipboard.com with suggestions for how to make an impact and more, including a story on how we can use MLK's legacy to explain the differences between hope and optimism. "Long-term hope is not about looking on the bright side. It is a mindset that helps people endure challenges, tackle them head-on and keep their eyes on the goal — a virtue that King and other community leaders exemplify," writes Kendra Thomas.
https://flipboard.com/@newsone/10-meaningful-ways-to-observe-mlk-day-bbofaq618n1r976h
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
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Somber mood as I believe MLK Jr. is turning in his grave.
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Somber mood as I believe MLK Jr. is turning in his grave.
#dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #rescuedog #photography #FujiFilm #monochrome #mlk
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I literally broke into rage tears when I read this morning that #trump declared Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth will no longer be free admission days for national parks and monuments. The replacement day is DaddyDiaperPants’s birthday instead.
I’m aware that profanity suggests a lack of vocabulary, but also I am a member of GenX, and thus:
Fucking fuck ALL of this fucking nonsense. Fuck him, fuck the regime, fuck them all sideways with their own executive orders.
Ahem.
I am old enough to remember segregation. My parents were in the crowd that heard MLK’s dream. I rode one of the first busses, when they finally rolled in the Deep South, decades after legislation demanded it. I remember being a student being given a ride home by a football player, and we both ended up with cop inflicted bruises, because they assumed a “white” girl was messing with a black boy.
We fought then, we fight now. Fuck compliance.
More prescient today in America than “I Have a Dream.”
“I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again.
How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.
How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow.
How long? Not long: Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future.”
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#history #mlk
https://youtu.be/NwdHeylre6c?si=r64lplqgjDfubK4i
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On #MLKDay the UFW commemorates the legacy of a courageous hero. #MLK's words are just as powerful today as when he wrote them in 1958.
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
📽️ #MLK Jr’s Audacity to Believe🗽
🗣️Earlier today, I shared a reflection on Dr. King’s legacy and the urgent need for economic justice, service, and the vote. Now, I’m sharing a short video that brings that message to life.
📌From food insecurity to systemic inequities, the fight for dignity and equity continues.
Let’s honor the legacy not just in words—but through action.🇺🇸
🗳️Register to vote
🗳️ #Vote in local and national elections
🇺🇸Be the change
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113862388549067031
am going to keep boosting this thread til y’all start posting new quotes back at me.
and do us all a favor: never, ever say that Dr Martin Luther King Jr DIED.
the fascist fuck Henry Kissinger died in his sleep. Dr. King was ASSASSINATED. so were Medgar Evars, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton.
today should be a day of atonement for white Americans. unfortunately, most don't know the meaning of the word.
❝ I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money, like some demonic, destructive suction tube. […] it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor.