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ilanaprincilus06

Review: 'MLK/FBI' Adds Dimension To The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. : NPR - 0 views

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MLK documentary FBI

shared by ilanaprincilus06 on 15 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • and the responses to the ostensible hypocrisy of it all were no less colorful than they had been in previous years: expletive-filled kiss-offs, angry memes, and links or screenshots from articles detailing the agency's notoriously relentless surveillance of King in the final years of his life.
  • This is neither new nor little-known information, but that doesn't render Sam Pollard's documentary MLK/FBI
  • On a federal judge's order, the surveillance tapes of King are sealed in the National Archives until at least 2027, and ethical questions are posed about whether dissecting these details are yet another invasion of King's privacy.
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  • the film aims to restore dimensions to the now-flattened image of King, who today is often reduced to iconography and erroneously viewed by many as having been a noncontroversial figure during his lifetime.
  • And of course, there's the concern over King's legacy and how it might crack under revelations that seemingly contradict his near-deified memory.
  • "Does [the truth of his romantic dalliances] make him in my mind less of an historic civil rights leader?
  • King's legacy is complicated, but certainly not undone, by MLK/FBI. That's a good thing; the more we see him as an extraordinary but flawed human being, the easier it is to envision a path forward.
jmfinizio

Atlanta synagogue says it was targeted by cyber attack before joint service with Ebenez... - 0 views

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targeted cyber attack

shared by jmfinizio on 17 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • The president of an Atlanta synagogue says its website was the target of a cyberattack
  • The Temple's website service provider told the synagogue's executive director that "'malicious user agents' had continuously loaded the Temple website with the objective of shutting it down,"
  • it was the "largest-ever attack affecting the provider's network,"
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  • The Temple was singled out by a racist and anti-Semitic group or individual bent on silencing our joint Temple-Ebenezer Baptist Church MLK Jr. Shabbat,
  • The MLK Jr. Shabbat service is an annual event honoring King's legacy held by The Temple, the oldest Jewish congregation in the city, along with the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was a pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968.
  • The Temple was bombed by suspected white supremacists in response to Rothschild's activism, though no one was ever convicted of the crime.
tongoscar

Why MLK Is America's Last Founding Father - 0 views

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shared by tongoscar on 20 Jan 20 - No Cached
  • The United States at large had a race problem that traced back to when the first African slaves were first imported to Virginia in 1619.
  • King’s efforts to improve conditions for blacks in the American South first attracted national attention in December 1955 when King’s Montgomery Improvement Association organized a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama’s segregated busing system to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks. She had refused to join three other blacks in giving up her seat for one white man. 
  • Hating and resenting one’s enemies was unbecoming of the organization’s members, who were activists “guided by Christian love” in their efforts to attain justice from a system of color-conscious laws. 
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  • King reconciled militancy and moderation by 1963 in his “Letter From a Jail in Birmingham.”
  • As the 1950s came to an end, New York Times correspondent Michael Clark was covering raucous gatherings of black nationalists in Harlem, New York. He reported one encounter at an event organized in November 1959 by James Lawson, president of the black nationalist organization called the United African Nationalist. 
  • King understood the temptation to fight identity politics with identity politics, but refused. He preached that any form of race nationalism defied the “edicts of the Almighty God himself.” 
caelengrubb

How We've Failed MLK Jr's Dream of Economic Justice | Time - 0 views

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shared by caelengrubb on 26 Mar 21 - No Cached
  • Economic justice was not new to his agenda
  • The March on Washington sought equality before the law, but also an economic bill of rights for poor white, black and brown workers. He had constantly linked civil rights and labor and poor people’s movements; as far back as 1957, he condemned “the tragic inequalities of an economic system which takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”
  • Trump Administration tax cuts have allowed the wealthiest Americans to pay a lower tax rate than the poorest, and multibillion-dollar companies like Amazon are often able to effectively avoid paying federal taxes.
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  • Worker and union rights established in the New Deal era are fading, and Census Bureau figures released last fall show that income inequality in the U.S. is at its highest level on record.
  • Today, nearly 40 million Americans remain poor, and a majority of students in many schools do not have enough to eat
  • One-third of African Americans there lived in poverty in 2018, the year for which the most recent data is available. Most of the city’s public-school students need subsidized lunches, and black child-poverty rates are above 50%
  • Tax and budget cuts in the 1980s and again after the 2007–2008 financial meltdown destroyed budgets and crippled education. And though the police department is now “integrated,” police-community relations remain tense and often explosive.
  • This all sounds too familiar to a country that spends twice as much on health care as any other advanced nation, where “right to work” laws subvert unions, where gun violence is at epidemic levels, where greed overpowers concern for the earth, where the top 1% of earners own more wealth than 90% of the rest of us combined.
  • To address interrelated evils, King called for a revolution of values
  • To his dying day, King saw a new dispensation of economic justice as attainable. On April 3, 1968, he told a mass meeting of sanitation strikers and their supporters to remember that “either we go up together or we go down together.”
  • More than a half-century later, that promised land of economic justice remains out of reach.
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