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
People also forget his tactics were largely ineffective. Only an armed population managed to force Congress to appease for equalier rigths.
You need both. Discourse without teeth is ignored, and violence without a face to negotiate achieves little. You need both and reasonably separated, so that people turn to the demands of discourse in fear of what violence might do if they don’t.