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John,
Today, I remember and honor the MLK that America hated, not the one that America created. |
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As we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr, I ponder how many people realize that right before his assassination, King was fighting for economic justice. He believed that racism was entangled in class discrimination and economic inequality. It still is.
His legacy is sanitized for a multitude of reasons, one of them being an attempt to paint his efforts as solely focused on race, while ignoring the connections he made between racial inequality and economic injustice.
Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For we know now that it isn’t enough to integrate lunch counters. What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t have enough money to buy a hamburger?
King had come to Memphis to lead a march by striking sanitation workers when he was assassinated. He was fighting for economic justice when he died.
Our capitalist system is predatory and oppressive. King believed it then, and I believe it now. As a progressive - attempting to be an ally who fights for true justice - it means I will attack economic systems that oppress.
I am grateful for your support as we continue King’s fight for real and lasting equality and justice.
In solidarity, Anthony Clark |
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