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Tag Archives: Martin Luther King Jr.
KING’S “REVOLUTION OF VALUES”
At the end of the classic Civil Rights Movement that fought for desegregation in public accommodations and safeguarding the right to vote, Martin Luther King, Jr., began to focus on the plight of northern cities. The issues there were manifold: … Continue reading
SIZE MATTERS: PAUL, TOM & FOREST
I was looking forward to the first epic movie on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. His voice would always pique my ears and any pictorial of his figure lying on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel … Continue reading
Smarting Over Intelligence
I am experiencing a bit of dissonance these days as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are constantly in the news. In terms of the agential members of these organizations pursuing the issue of other … Continue reading
Posted in Social Ethics
Tagged American Experiment, Assassinations, Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Conspiracy, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hermeneutic of suspicion, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Obstruction of justice, Robert F. Kennedy, Russian interference, South Africa, Systemic Racism
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THE “USEFULNESS” OF MLK, JR.
On April 4, 1968, I was grounded for some reason that now escapes me—probably because of paternal capriciousness rather than childhood petulance. I recall a few days earlier that I overheard my father opine that Martin Luther King, Jr., would … Continue reading
Posted in Social Ethics
Tagged 1960s, 50th anniversary, April 4 1968, assassination, Black Lives Matter, Boston University, Christianity, Ebenezer Baptist Church, ethic of love, human dignity and worth, Jesus, justice, March for Our Lives, Martin Luther King Jr., materialism, Me Too, Memphis, militarism, Poverty, Pres. Kennedy, Racism, social movements, Voter Suppression
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The Supremacy of Sacrifice
In 1982, as I was finishing my final courses for the master of divinity degree at Yale University, I wrote an op-ed piece for Newsweek’s “My Turn” column. I had the belief that the editors would look favorably upon a … Continue reading
Posted in Race Relations, Social Ethics
Tagged #MAGA, James Baldwin, Manning Marable, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Newsweek, Race Relations, Sacrifice, Structural Racism, Systemic Racism, Tears We Cannot Stop, Tim Wise, W. E. B. Du Bois, White Privilege, white racism, white supremacy
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America, Wake Up!
In the last section of the final chapter of his June 1967 book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, Martin Luther King, Jr., focuses on the evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. Analyzing and assessing the … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty, Social Ethics, War & Peace
Tagged beloved community, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Demagoguery, Democratic Socialism, Discrimination, Distributive Justice, human-rights, income inequality, Macbeth, Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolence, Poverty, Racism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Revolution, Rip Van Winkle, Values, Washington Irving, White Privilege, William Shakespeare
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THE REAL KING
During the last three years of his life, Martin Luther King, Jr., was making some changes in his approach to realizing his vision of the beloved community. After having received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1964 and witnessing the … Continue reading
CALIFANO MISREPRESENTS JOHNSON’S ROLE
Any representation of Martin Luther King, Jr., will always be hopelessly inadequate in my estimation—so enamored of the real deal am I! I think the enactment by David Oyelowo is less than satisfactory; I feel he does not really capture … Continue reading
REMEMBERING MARIO CUOMO
I did not know Mario Cuomo personally, but I came to admire him a lot—not for his role as a politician and three-term governor of New York, but for his citizenship, service, and truth-telling about the obscenities of xenophobia in … Continue reading
