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He’d think you were jerks #MLK

He’d think you were jerks #MLK

by digby

This crude divide and conquer strategy is bound to fail. African Americans can’t be fooled as easily as some other people:

On Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, we must ask how would he feel about: 20 percent African Americans unemployed or underemployed; About giving amnesty and jobs to 11 million illegal aliens with so many jobless Americans; About admitting 30 million more immigrant workers when 17 percent of Hispanic Americans are having trouble finding work; About Americans of all races not seeing a wage increase in 40 years.

Was that Dr. King’s dream?

Yeah, they really care.

I’ll just quote this passage from King’s “Letter from a Birmingham jail”:

I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

The right is desperate to appropriate the legacy of Martin Luther King because it’s so powerful. He was a giant in American public life and the best they can do in response is lift up some callow movie actor who couldn’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy in response. But it won’t fly. He was not a conservative. That’s just a fact.

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