IT IS OF COURSE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
ASSASSINATION OF DR.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., AND IT'S A DAY
PEOPLE ARE APPROACHING IN THEIR OWN WAYS UNDERSTANDABLY, SOME
PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ACTUAL ACTIVISM WITH HIM ARE
TALKING ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES, IT'S A TIME TO REFLECT ON WHAT
WAS LOST WHEN HE DIED, TO REFLECT ON HIS LEGACY ITSELF,
AND FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE TOO TO CONSIDER WHERE WE ARE AT NOW,
WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER AND WHAT HAS NOT, IN FACT SOME
THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE.
WE'VE COVERED ANNIVERSARIES LIKE THIS
BEFORE AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN APPROACH IT, I HAVE
A FEW IN MIND BUT WE CAN TALK ABOUT PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING YOU
WANT, ONE THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT WAS WHAT HE WAS WORKING ON
WHEN HE WAS KILLED.
IN THE WEEKS LEADING UP TO HIS ASSASSINATION
DR.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
WAS PREPARING FOR WHAT WOULD HAVE
BEEN HIS GREATEST DEMONSTRATION, THE POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN --
>>AND TO GIVE YOU JUST A TASTE OF SOME OF THE THINGS THEY
WANTED TO PUSH FOR --
>>AND SO VERY AMBITIOUS, OBVIOUSLY, ON A TOPIC THAT
DOESN'T NECESSARILY GET TALKED ABOUT ALL THAT OFTEN WHEN HIS
LEGACY AND WORK IS DISCUSSED.
YOU EVEN SEE SOME THINGS THAT
ARE DECADES AHEAD OF THEIR TIME LIKE SOME SORT OF GUARANTEED
BASIC INCOME OF SOME FORM, SOMETHING WE ARE JUST NOW
CIRCLING BACK TO CONSIDERATION OF HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD.
VERY INTERESTING, AND WE WILL HAVE A NUMBER OF QUOTES AND SOME
INTERESTING STATISTICS ABOUT THE AREAS HE WORKED IN, BUT I LIKE
TO THINK, MAN, IMAGINE IF HE HAD HAD THAT, IMAGINE IF THAT
COULD'VE CONTINUED THROUGH IN THE WAY HE HAD PLANNED.
>>YES. AND OF COURSE AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET ENDED ALL
THAT.
SO ONCE AGAIN, POOR PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY WERE NOT
REPRESENTED, AND THE TAKEOVER OF WASHINGTON, DC DID NOT HAPPEN.
ANOTHER LUCKY BREAK FOR THE POWERFUL.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, I
WANT TO READ A QUOTE FROM DR.
KING, IT'S THE NEXT GRAPHIC
HERE.
HE SAID ABOUT GOING TO DC, IF THEY COULD, AND KNOWING DR.
KING'S LEGACY AT THE TIME HE PROBABLY COULD HAVE, HE SAID --
>>WHAT DOES THAT SOUND LIKE?
THAT KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE OCCUPY.
SO I BRING THAT UP FOR TWO REASONS.
ONE, THE MAN WAS SO FAR
AHEAD OF HIS TIME IT'S ASTOUNDING, WHETHER IT WAS THE
GUARANTEED INCOME THAT PEOPLE ARE NOW FINALLY TALKING ABOUT 50
YEARS LATER, OR THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT.
AND THE SECOND REASON
IS HE KNEW SOMETHING THAT THE MASS MEDIA AND OUR POLITICIANS
HAVE BEEN AVOIDING FOR THESE LAST 50 YEARS, WHICH IS THINGS
DON'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT.
THAT YOU CAN CHANGE THE RULES, AND
THE RULES HAVE ALL THE EFFECT IN THE WORLD.
SO FOR EXAMPLE ON THE
ISSUE OF RACE THEY CHANGED THE RULES SO IT ALLOWED
AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH TO BE ABLE TO VOTE.
THE CIVIL
RIGHTS ACT MADE A GIANT DIFFERENCE.
WHAT WAS THAT?
THAT
WAS LEGISLATION, CHANGING THE RULES TO MAKE IT MORE FAIR AND
SEEK JUSTICE.
AND ON THE ISSUE OF INCOME IS THE SAME SITUATION.
IN FACT IN A LOT OF WAYS IT IS MORE CLEAR.
SO THEY LOWERED
TAXES ON THE RICH, THAT'S A LAW, THEY CHANGED IT, YOU COULD SAY
THEY RIGGED THE SYSTEM ON BEHALF OF THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS,
THEY JUST DID IT AGAIN TO THE TUNE OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
AND THEN YOU SAY A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF TAXES WILL BE PAID
BY THE PAYROLL TAX, THAT'S THE ONE YOU PUT IN FOR SOCIAL
SECURITY AND MEDICARE.
WHO PAYS THAT?
THE MIDDLE CLASS PAYS
THAT, THAT'S HOW YOU READ THE RULES.
ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE
MORE DEREGULATION FOR MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS?
YES.
THAT HOW YOU STACK THE SYSTEM.
AND WHAT HE WAS SAYING AND THAT
QUOTE IS, IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT THAT YOU ARE POOR.
THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT SO LET'S DEMAND
THAT OUR REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENT US.
>>YEAH.
THE SYSTEM PILES WEIGHT ON TOP OF YOU AND THAT MAKES YOU
FEEL BAD FOR BENDING OVER, BASICALLY.
THERE ARE SOME QUOTES
I WANT TO READ.
BEFORE I DO THAT THOUGH I WANT TO SAY ONE THING,
BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE'RE REMEMBERING THIS PARTICULAR
INDIVIDUAL BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS TRAGIC
ASSASSINATION, BUT IN THE PAST TWO DECADES A LOT OF PEOPLE, A
LOT OF THEM LOOK LIKE ME, REMEMBER HIM IN A WAY THAT
REALLY DOES A DISSERVICE TO BOTH HIM AND THE MOVEMENT HE
REPRESENTED, AND THERE'S A VARIETY OF WAYS THAT HAPPENS.
OBVIOUSLY THERE'S THE CONSTANT SANITIZING OF WHAT HE STOOD FOR,
OF THE POSITIONS HE WAS A RADICAL ON, HIS VIEWS ABOUT
OTHER COUNTRIES, HIS FOCUS ON NOT JUST SEGREGATION AND RACISM
BUT ALSO ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND THINGS LIKE THAT, HIS INTEREST
IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AS WELL, MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF
HIS OWN HISTORY GET WASHED AWAY IN REMEMBERING HIM.
BUT THAT
ALSO PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER HIM IN A WAY THAT TO SOME EXTENT STRESS
IS ONE INDIVIDUAL.
HE DESERVES TO BE RECOGNIZED OBVIOUSLY BUT
HE EXISTED IN THE CONTEXT OF ANY NUMBER OF GROUPS AND
INDIVIDUALS, SOME OF WHICH HAD BEEN WORKING AND ORGANIZING AND
PUSHING FOR CHANGE FOR DECADES OR A CENTURY OR LONGER BEFORE HE
WAS ALIVE, AND HE WAS A CONTINUATION OF THAT.
SO I WANT
TO RECOGNIZE SOME OF THESE QUOTES BUT WE ARE NOT IN ANY WAY
TRYING TO SAY THIS IS ALL HE WAS, HE WAS OBVIOUSLY MUCH MORE.
WITH THAT SAID, HERE ARE SOME QUOTES THAT STOOD OUT TO ME --
>>AND SO I DEFINITELY LIKE THAT ONE, HE WAS NOT SIMPLY FOCUSED
ON THE UNITED STATES OBVIOUSLY, HE UNDERSTOOD NOT JUST HOW THE
SYSTEM INSIDE THE U.S. HAS HELD BACK, PURPOSEFULLY, MANY HERE IN
AMERICA, BUT THAT WE AND OTHER WESTERN POWERS HISTORICALLY HAVE
DONE THAT TO A GREAT NUMBER OF OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL.
>>ONE OTHER QUOTE I WILL PARAPHRASE HERE, IT'S ACTUALLY
ON ONE OF OUR SHIRTS THAT THE YOUNG TURKS OFFERS OUT THERE,
BECAUSE I LOVED IT SO MUCH, IS SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING
ABOUT HIM EARLIER, AND IT GOES TO THE EFFECT OF A MAN CANNOT
RIDE YOU UNLESS YOUR BACK IS BENT.
NOT ONLY DID HE HAVE GREAT
DIGNITY, HE HAD GREAT STRENGTH.
HE HAS BEEN IS CHARACTERIZED, ON
PURPOSE IN A LOT OF WAYS, AND THERE'S THE HILARIOUS THING OF
FOX NEWS TRYING TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF HIM SAYING HE WAS A
REPUBLICAN -- PREPOSTEROUS.
AND SAYING, OH, HE SAW PAST RACE SO
WE SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT RACE ANYMORE.
THAT'S NOT WHAT HE
SAID.
AND EVEN IN THE I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH HE TALKED ABOUT THE
VICIOUS RACISTS IN ALABAMA, AND TALKED ABOUT BRUTAL POLICE
ACTIONS AND VIOLENT POLICE BRUTALITY, WHICH OF COURSE NOT
ONLY EXISTED AT THE TIME AS WELL, BUT WAS PRACTICED UPON
HIM. AND FOR THEM TO SAY THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD HAVE
BEEN OPPOSED TO BLACK LIVES MATTER IS HILARIOUS, AND TOTALLY
COUNTERFACTUAL, AND COUNTER HISTORICAL.
JUST READ WHAT
MARTIN LUTHER KING WROTE AND SAID, AND IT WILL BE ABSOLUTELY
OBVIOUS.
BUT AGAIN I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE STRENGTH BECAUSE
HE DIDN'T COME BESEECHING, YES HE WAS NONVIOLENT, BUT HE
HAD TREMENDOUS STRENGTH IN THAT NONVIOLENCE.
DEMANDED ACTION.
AGAIN, IF YOU STUDY THE HISTORY OF IT, WHEN LYNDON JOHNSON WAS
SLOW TO ACT, AND ALSO WHEN JFK WAS SLOW TO ACT, HE BROUGHT DOWN
PAIN UPON THEIR SHOULDERS THROUGH TREMENDOUS CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE THAT SHOOK THEM TO THEIR CORE.
THAT'S WHY AMONG THE
REASONS I EMPHASIZE NONVIOLENCE IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT -- THE
RIGHT WING IDEOLOGY IS THE ONLY THING THAT IS STRONG AS WAR,
VIOLENCE, AND CONFLICT.
THAT'S NOT TRUE, THERE IS GREAT
STRENGTH IN PEOPLE LIKE MAHATMA GANDHI, MARTIN LUTHER KING,
NELSON MANDELA.
IN FACT, AS KING LIVED, IT TAKES A LOT MORE
COURAGE TO TAKE A PUNCH THAN TO THROW A PUNCH.
IT'S AN ABSOLUTE
PILLAR OF STRENGTH.
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