Stanford University’s King Papers Project is a trove of the late civil rights leader’s writings, from sermons to letters to world leaders and celebrities. That collection also contains King’s overlooked advice column, “Advice for Living,” which ran during the late 1950s in Ebony magazine…
But King was an actual human being, and not all that long ago. And despite the fact that so many people can readily summon his voice and visage, we still don’t know all that much about his inner life.
According to David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his King biography Bearing the Cross, that’s the way King wanted it.
“It’s why he’s always out there in a dour, dark suit and a white shirt and a dark tie,” Garrow said. King felt that he was the face of black Americans; he wanted to be taken very seriously.
…King’s response? Maybe you should get over yourself.
“Lonesomeness and fearfulness almost always stem from an over absorption in self,” he says to her. “When one thinks only about his problems and misfortunes he cannot help living in fear and worry. First, you must rise above your misfortune enough to see that it is not so bad that it couldn’t be worse. Second, you must find proper avenues of escape from self pity. Cultivate a love for great music. Give yourself to some purpose or cause beyond yourself.”
…And there’s something humanizing about the experience of reading King, who in death has become a hero shorn of most of his controversial contours, and disagreeing with him — not even in grand terms but just because his opinions might be kind of annoying. On the occasion of his holiday, we should consider the fullness of him as a person with ordinary myopias, and not simply as an ideal or an idea. He’s certainly worthy of it.
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1968:
Municipal Workers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People’s Campaign
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
traveled to the battleground state of Wisconsin Monday,
looking to seize a bit of the spotlight
from the Democratic National Convention’s opening day.
He stated IF he did NOT win,
the election was rigged.
17 August 2019
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WATCH!!!!
President Trump aka toxic tiny’s
Save America Rally
Hundreds of rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday as Congress met to certify electoral college votes for President-elect Joe Biden. The chaotic scene unfolded on a day when thousands of President Trump’s supporters gathered in Washington to protest the outcome of the 2020 election. Trump continues to falsely assert, without evidence, that the presidential election was stolen from him.
He encouraged his supporters to attend rallies contesting the election results and spoke on Wednesday moments before rioters breached the Capitol.
“We will never give up.
We will never concede.
It doesn’t happen.
You don’t concede when there’s theft involved,”
he said shortly
before
the mob
began moving toward the barricades.
6 January 2021
The very same day that the United States Congress met to
certify the Electoral College vote.
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“ONE REAPS WHAT ONE SOWS.”
As OUR president, WE reap what HE sowed.
HE called out crosshairs
on ALL who counteredHIS false reality
– including AMERICA’s democracy.
DEADLY.
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X
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Americans
by their right to vote
ELECTED
Joe Biden
and
Kamala Harris
to
LEAD
America
as
President
and
Vice-President.
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The sitting president of the United States
threatened
the lives ofALLin the Congress
by his CALLING OUTfor violence
based on his
gaslighting,
lies
and
deception
– and his aligned enablers were/are complicit.
ALLinvolved/aligned with the coup
areaccountablein their attempt
to assassinate
OUR Constitution
for their skewered reality / personal agenda.
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WE ARE TRAUMATIZED.
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How pro-Trump insurrectionists broke into the U.S. Capitol
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UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)
CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 