martin luther king jr - Forum/Discussions - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T17:24:55Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/feed/tag/martin+luther+king+jrWhat Happened To The Real Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.?https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/what-happened-to-the-real-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr2024-01-12T02:37:18.000Z2024-01-12T02:37:18.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>What Happened to the Real Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr?</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10930014291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10930014291,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10930014291?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;">“<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If students analyze King’s speeches and life’s work more carefully, they’ll see that he promoted a more radical approach to justice—not one that asks citizens to be neutral on racism or one that merely offers comfort.” </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Teaching About King’s Radical Approach To Social Justice - Choshandra Dillard </span></span><a href="https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/teaching-about-kings-radical-approach-to-social-justice">https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/teaching-about-kings-radical-approach-to-social-justice</a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The powers that be are attempting to whitewash the true legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Shortly after they had him cut down on a balcony in Memphis Tennessee in April of 1968, the plutocrats and oligarchs who own and run this country determined to destroy the movement he was building; a movement for social justice, equity, peace and prosperity for all Americans. The psychopaths who own and run this country decided to redefine King’s impact, redirect his righteous fervor for social justice and neuter his push for structural change and replace it with a one day of service thus nullifying persistent activism for a systemic metamorphosis of American society. Thus far it is working, our government is spending trillions for overseas wars while homelessness and despair escalate in this country yet not a peep of protest out of the masses!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The ruling elites weren’t able to dissuade or stop the campaign to make King’s natal day a national holiday so they cunningly recast his image into one of a “dreamer” rather than an ardent activist and champion for peace and social transformation. They always promote the “I have a dream” refrain from his August 28, 1963 March on Washington D.C. speech. They never mention the stirring words that preceded his famous refrain; “… It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds’. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The campaign to tear down legal apartheid and racial cast in America was winning meanwhile the US ruling elites escalated their imperialist campaign to replace French Neo-Colonialism in Indochina with an American brand determined to snuff out the liberation movement in Vietnam. President Lyndon Johnson put the pedal to the metal and intensified the war effort exponentially. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Martin Luther King Jr was one of the few nationally prominent US clergy who stood up against the Military Industrial Complex and courageously denounced the war in Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand). King disparaged the carnage and war profiteering at the expense of justice, morality and obliterating the grinding poverty experienced by Blacks, whites, indigenous peoples and people of color in this country. His efforts earned him the hatred and hostility of the power elites.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> King’s national </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><strong>Poor People’s Campaign</strong></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> was an embarrassment to the </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">US </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">government because it exposed the lies and disingenuous propaganda that portrayed America as the land of the free, home of the brave and a place of unlimited opportunity for all of its citizens. His efforts to mobilize a diverse cross section of Americans to come to Washington and plead their case for social justice and systemic transformation including ending the war marked King as a man to be, to use a CIA term “neutralized”, meaning killed. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The FBI tried all kinds of tricks to make King give up even pushing him to commit suicide, </span></span><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/fbi-martin-luther-king-tapes">https://allthatsinteresting.com/fbi-martin-luther-king-tapes</a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> to no avail. So on April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while assisting Memphis Tennessee sanitation works in their struggle for recognition, decent wages and benefits. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The ruling class then had to decide how to deal with his legacy. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Today little or no mention is made of King’s stance against the war nor his push for radical societal transformation. We never hear his speeches about the ravages of war both at home and far away places like Indochina. We are not exposed to King’s words at Riverside Church in New York one year to the day before his brutal murder in Memphis Tennessee where he said, “… Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. And so we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor…” Beyond Vietnam – A Time To Break Silence.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The billionaires and warmongers who own the media are depriving us of King’s conviction, courage and vision. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">They deliberately suppress words like this</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, “</span></span></span><span style="color:#283741;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. When machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Ironically, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">King warned against superficial acts of kindness versus real change. “</span></span></span><span style="color:#202124;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">One day we must come to see that </span></span></span><span style="color:#202124;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway</span></span></span><span style="color:#202124;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> In 2024 as we celebrate Martin Luther King’s natal day and </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">his </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">life mission, do not allow the warmongers, the corporations and soulless billionaires belittle King’s true legacy, misdirect and rechannel our energies and act</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">ions</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> in ways that pose no threat to their power and maintain the status quo! </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">As wars </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">increasingly</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> ravage our planet, do not allow the warmongers, war profiteers, their bought and paid politicians and controlled media trick us into being silent, passive and acquiescing to their evil! </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Be like Martin Luther King Jr., speak out, act out and live in ways that promote and spread peace.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> -30-</span></span></span></p><p> </p></div>Martin Luther King Jr. vs. The Great Resethttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/martin-luther-king-jr-vs-the-great-reset2023-01-13T04:30:14.000Z2023-01-13T04:30:14.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Martin Luther King Jr. vs The Great Reset</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10930014291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10930014291,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10930014291?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p>"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered." -- Martin Luther King </p><p> </p><p> As we pause to celebrate the ninety-forth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. perhaps we should ponder and contemplate what Martin Luther King Jr would say about current events, the war in Ukraine, COVID lockdowns and the insane income and wealth gaps that currently exist. We know that King railed against the war in Southeast Asia and was planning a Poor People’s Campaign with massive demonstrations and live-in in Washington D.C. His goal was to raise awareness about the entrenched socio-economic inequities in America and to force the government to change its priorities and policies when he was shot down in Memphis Tennessee on April 4, 1968.</p><p> What would King’s positions be on these issues and topics in 2023? As an older man what would King’s approach be to addressing and attempting to solve the existential issues of the day? If we look at what he said then, can we extrapolate what his positions might be today on the issues of war, greed, avarice, poverty and in this modern era transhumanism? Would he be censored, deplatformed and silenced like so many others? Would he be silenced by a bullet or an injection supposedly to mitigate a virus?</p><p> Unlike the ‘60’s when there was: a modicum of free speech, the right to peacefully, assemble, protest and dissent; today’s authoritarian environment would offer major challenges to a man of conscience and action like Martin Luther King Jr. In all probability he would be cut off from mainstream media access, denied a platform to speak to denounce the government’s actions overseas and here at home. If he were on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter he would in all likelihood be suspended and or deplatformed!</p><p> In 2023 he would be censored but unlike during the 1950’s and ‘60’s when it was only the FBI and local police who incessantly monitored and tracked him electronically, today Martin Luther King Jr. would be surveilled by the fascistic Deep State meaning the, police, military, intelligence community and corporate America! How would King address this country’s ongoing metamorphosis into a fascist police state?</p><p> Would King have the same uncompromising courage today he had in 1968? Would he be willing to stand virtually alone in 2023 against what he called in 1968 the triplets of racism, materialism and militarism? In 2023 would King add eugenics, genocide and transhumanism to that group? What would he say about them?!</p><p>King was valiant, he was courageous but how would he be able to get his message out in today’s environment of censorship and suppression? How would he use today’s technology to organize and galvanize a following, raise consciousness and exhort others to decisive action?</p><p> What would Martin Luther King Jr. say about Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and the other megalomaniacal plutocrats who are conspiring to usurp the natural order, who are engaged in planetary terraforming, transhumanism and attempting to disconnect us from our Divinity?! What solutions would he offer to derail and checkmate their nefarious agenda?</p><p> Would today’s King challenge Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, the CDC, FDA and the various national governments like he challenged LBJ, the US Military Industrial Complex and the American people to reorient their moral compass towards Peace, Love and Brotherhood instead of war, greed, hedonism and covetousness? What would Martin Luther King Jr. think of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum’s <strong>Great Reset</strong>? Would he call them out on their hypocrisy, mendacity and disingenuousness?</p><p>Would he tell them to give all their money to the poor, forsake megalomania and worldly power and dedicate themselves totally to the service of humanity? Would a ninety-four year old Martin Luther King Jr. be able to spark the radical revolution of values he spoke so passionately and eloquently about in 1968 or would his modern message fall on deaf ears?</p><p> Martin Luther King Jr. is not here for us to see, but we still are. We can choose to allow the plutocrats to misdirect us to days of service and temporarily doing good or we can make the difficult changes King advocated, a change and shift of values. We can change from materialism, desensitization and selfishness to core values of empathy, integrity, self and collective transformation. Today is a good day to decide.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> -30-</p></div>What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Say About Transhumanismhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/what-would-martin-luther-king-jr-say-about-transhumanism2022-01-15T16:29:01.000Z2022-01-15T16:29:01.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10014348885,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10014348885,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10014348885?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="710" /></a></strong></p>
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<p> “Eugenics is the science of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific, ‘desirable’ hereditary traits to breed out disease, disabilities, and other ‘undesirable’ human traits. <a href="https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/bioscience/the-era-of-eugenics-when-pseudoscience-became-law/"><strong>It was super popular with the Nazis</strong></a>. While even transhumanism does not explicitly encourage breeding for the superiority of one specific group, the methods endorsed by some prominent transhumanists aim for the same end.” What Is Transhumanism and Why Do People Associate It With Eugenics Aditi Murti <a href="https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/what-transhumanism-and-why-do-people-associate-it-eugenics">https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/what-transhumanism-and-why-do-people-associate-it-eugenics</a></p>
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<p> Last year I did a two part series on eugenics exposing how the oligarchs want to limit human procreation through sterilization, selective breeding and new technologies like gene splicing to create “better” human beings via “designer babies”. As we celebrate the ninety-third natal day of Martin Luther King Jr. I wonder what he would think, say and do about the eugenics movement, the transhumanist movement and what would be his thoughts on how the “pandemic” responses are playing out.</p>
<p> Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister, a human and civil rights activist who spoke out boldly and vociferously against militarism, racism and imperialism. At the time of his assassination he was making preparations for a massive Poor People’s March and encampment in Washington D.C. to call attention to, seek redress and a radical change in US domestic and foreign policies, which is why he was murdered.</p>
<p> King, like Malcolm X before him, made the direct link between US aggression and imperialism directed against Brown people in Southeast Asia and the sordid history of US domestic racial and class oppression. He saw the challenges of poverty and economic caste as Siamese twins with an insatiable appetite that was draining the US of resources, while causing irrevocable pain and suffering here in the US and thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia (the US was running a full fledged war in Viet Nam and micro aggressions in Cambodia and Laos).</p>
<p>King’s open denunciation of these crimes against humanity put him in the cross hairs of the same psychopaths who killed John F. Kennedy and Malcolm X before him. Given King’s uncompromising stand for Peace, Justice and economic fairness it was inevitable the US Deep State would murder him just as they did Kennedy and Malcolm earlier. (The same reactionary consciousness was behind the attempted assassination of third party candidate George Wallace who was threatening to upset the status quo with his brand of demagogic populism). </p>
<p> But let’s imagine a state of affairs where Kennedy, Malcolm and King were protected by their supporters and their supporters thwarted the Deep State’s murderous intentions. What if they all were still alive today, in their right minds still advocating for justice, human rights and empowerment, would any of them be for what is going on now?</p>
<p>What do you think Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance would be on the COVID response and mitigations given he lived in Alabama and was familiar with the Tuskegee syphilis experiments run by United States Public Health Service and Johns Hopkins University? King would have been aware of the fact for forty years Black men in and around Tuskegee went untreated for venereal disease so the government could track the debilitating and deadly progress and effects of that disease?! What do you think Martin Luther King Jr. would have said about that crime against humanity? </p>
<p> Let’s jump forward to today, what would MLK say about sticking people who have been denied informed consent <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/informed-consent">https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/informed-consent</a> before being given experimental, untested DNA altering concoctions? What would a preacher who espoused social and economic justice say about a philosophy that wanted to reduce or cull the human population based upon a notion of racial superiority? What do you think Martin Luther King Jr., who preached about the brotherhood of man, who warned America was approaching spiritual death in 1968 would say in 2022 about transhumanism the goal of megalomaniacal scientists to “augment” humans by implanting chips, bio-technologies and prosthetics, hooking us to computers or turning us into cyborgs, laboratory created chimeras or mixed species beings?</p>
<p> Looking at our current situation it appears we have no champions for justice, no drum majors for peace, no prophets denouncing the miscreants and advocating for the sanctity and sovereignty of our bodies. There are no heroes charging over the horizon to save us from mad scientists, psychopaths and corrupt politicians (yeah I know they are all the same). I guess we will have to be the ones to do it; we will have to be the Medgar, Malcolm and Martins of our era. Ashe’</p>
<p> </p></div>How Would Martin Luther King Jr View 2021 USA?https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/how-would-martin-luther-king-jr-view-2021-usa2021-01-15T16:47:14.000Z2021-01-15T16:47:14.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8426751086,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}8426751086,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="8426751086?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="710" /></a></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><em>“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”</em>- Martin Luther King Jr.</p>
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<p> Martin Luther King Jr was murdered by government forces attempting to neutralize his influence, shut down his peace movement and destroy the objective of his Poor People’s Campaign: to funnel and redistribute funds from the war in Southeast Asia to social programs. King was a passionate proponent of love, nonviolence and virtuous civil disobedience. He became a thorn in the side of the warmongers, corporate profiteers and immoral politicians who were wedded to the status quo.</p>
<p> Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 and murdered on April 4, 1968. If he were alive today what would King think of America in 2021? What would he say about the today’s America? What would he say about the obscene wealth and income gaps in this country, the growing poverty, homelessness and unemployment? What would King say about the demagoguery, the deep ideological fissures, the government gridlock, the unyielding political partisanship on all levels and the widening social divide in America in 2021? What would King say about Donald Trump’s divisive presidency or Joe Biden’s record of being pro Wall Street and warmongering? How would King, if he were still alive at ninety-two years old, address the response to COVID-19 given his familiarity with the infamous Alabama Tuskegee syphilis scandal and the government violence heaped upon him and his fellow civil rights activists in the 50’ and 60’s?</p>
<p> The corporate media when they mention King’s birthday always play one part of his 1963 March on Washington speech; the I have a dream refrain. They always play the “I’ve been to the mountain top” part of the last speech he gave mere hours before he was murdered in Memphis Tennessee. They never share the earlier parts, the real meat of these speeches because his words were cutting, historic and extremely pragmatic.</p>
<p> King was no head in the clouds dreamer when he said, “… But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.</p>
<p> In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.”</p>
<p> King always emphasized the urgency of the moment. At the March on Washington he said, “It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”</p>
<p> What do you think King would say now about the debilitating relations between law enforcement and citizens of all colors, the militarization of the police, the shootings, the asset forfeiture and the prison industrial complex? What do you think he would say about his hard core, non-violent in your face, direct confrontation approach being high jacked and turned into an annual one and done “Day of Service” that maintains the very status quo he was trying to change?!</p>
<p>What would King on his ninety-second natal day say about Black “leadership” in America? Would he be pleased and proud or would he be greatly disappointed at how soft, apathetic and sedentary we have become? I for one firmly believe Martin Luther King Jr, if he were alive and of sound mind would be very frustrated. I also believe that somehow he would still be in the game, still in the fight and still moving towards the goal of peace and social and economic justice for all.</p>
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