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One year ago America paused to honor Dr. King on the same day Donald J. Trump was inaugurated President. Though Trump promised to be a “dictator on day one,” the speed with which the tools of our government have been dismantled, guardrails destroyed, Congressional authority disregarded, and Constitutional rights violated has been breathtaking.
Still, we keep breathing together.
The pain is real because real goods have been stolen from us. But we are not alone. Not only are Americans coming together in every city ICE tries to occupy, in every election where we’ve made our voices heard, in every direct action to challenge the lawlessness of this regime. As we contemplate how to challenge an authoritarian regime, we are also learning that those who marched before us faced more with less and still prevailed.
We are reclaiming our a moral inheritance.
Harriet Tubman faced worse. She had epilepsy. They put a bounty on her head. She didn’t have Snapchat. She didn’t have TikTok. She didn’t have email. She didn’t have a cell phone. But she got 400 people to freedom before she volunteered to be a spy for the Union army.
Fannie Lou Hamer said, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” And even after they beat her and made her own people beat her, she still stood. She still spoke. She still walked.
Dr. King did not march alone. He walked in a great moral tradition of people who knew that, even if you don’t have the government or the courts on your side, you can stand on truth. You can stand on justice. You can stand on love and the power of the people united.
But we can’t live off the interest of our ancestor’s investment. They marched then. It’s our time now.
That’s why Repairers of the Breach [ [link removed] ] is organizing and mobilizing poor and low-wage people to join a four-day Moral March from Wilson to Raleigh – and to the polls this February!
We invite you to join us as we mobilize voters [ [link removed] ] to fight back against the new racist congressional map passed by the North Carolina General Assembly. This map unfairly redrew the 1st Congressional district, taking away the voting power of Black, Latino, and poor and low-wage people.
We invite you to come to Raleigh and invite others to join us for a mass assembly and commitment to Love Forward Together on Valentine’s Day.
And we invite you to share this video at events to honor Dr. King in your community this weekend.

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