People forget that Dr. King’s real life was filled with threats, violence & injuries, not speeches and “dreams.”

Dr. King would’ve been 88 this past Friday.

“ When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of #racism , materialism, & militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

#MLK @blackvoices @democracy #USA @news #AI #ICE #Minnesota #immigration #Minneapolis #Imperialism #socialmedia #mastodon #war #US #love

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    16 hours ago

    My grandmother was born in 1922, and there were people who had been slaves and people who had been slaveholders still around for her entire childhood in the US south