Today is my annual MLK Blog post. While so many out there in our circles and on the media will be quoting him, I hope they are reminded of what he was fighting and why he was assassinated.


Having to read it from his own daughter should give everyone pause.

My father didn’t just happen upon death.

White supremacists assassinated him to silence his voice & stop his work of eradicating the “Triple Evils”: Racism, Militarism, Poverty.

Those who unrepentantly benefited from these evils railed against their eradication. They still do. pic.twitter.com/JrKOnvVDvN

— Be A King (@BerniceKing) January 16, 2022

To put a finer point in it, while so many people, particularly modern-day conservatives, will quote Dr. King today they will most likely not use a quote from this interview in 1967. They won't because it goes straight to the heart of what this movement is defending today.

Tomorrow conservatives will share I have a dream quotes as they move to expunge history from classrooms, demonize CRT & whitewash Dr King’s legacy. They fail to acknowledge interviews like this. Dr King at his most radical, unapologetic best. Condemning white privilege #MLK pic.twitter.com/kd0JVOnkwN

— Francis Maxwell (@francismmaxwell) January 17, 2022

Make no mistake, even if it is uncomfortable -- not expanding voting rights goes hand in hand with our nation's institutional racism. Those that want to remain supreme over others are doing the same thing they have always done. They don't like their status quo challenged. and that why this is so powerful.

.@ArndreaKing, wife of @OfficialMLK3 drops the truth here in Phoenix. #DeliverForVotingRights #GoodTrouble pic.twitter.com/8LYHWzsFC2

— Prescott Indivisible (@IndivisPrescott) January 15, 2022

Make good trouble, no matter the danger.

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Raine