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Thursday, May 15, 2008 --- 72 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDaily-Latest/~3/290817054/
| A black minister sat and worked on a sermon that he was to deliver the following Sunday. The title: “Why America may go to Hell.”
In the months leading up to that day, he spent time delivering fiery speeches condemning the United States as the “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” and said it was “on the wrong side of a world revolution” in movements across the globe.
He railed against the imperialistic policies of the United States and spoke out vehemently against the war.
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” he said.
He condemned social and class inequalities in the United States and argued for a mandatory wage for all.
No, the minister in question wasn’t Jeremiah Wright. It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and like Mark Twain and other great dissidents before him, his public legacy has been largely whitewashed to fit acceptable political debate.
“If America does not use her vast wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life,” King said, “she too is going to hell.”
Wright speaks forcefully, and some of his views are discomforting — just as King’s were in the days leading to his death. And a media that has largely served elite interests acted similarly back then.
Time magazine labeled King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech “dema ... |
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