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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing to prevent us from paying adequate wages to schoolteachers, social workers and other servants of the public to insure that we have the best available personnel in these positions which are charged with the responsibility of guiding our future generations."
I realized I had never read a whole book by Martin Luther King, Jr. after seeing a Thread post by @theandrehenry discussing this one. So glad I saw that and picked this up. Andre Henry wrote, "In his final book, MLK said white America would rather throw away democracy altogether, and embrace “a native form of fascism,” to preserve their power. We are living in that prophecy today." That was a major theme of this work, and it shouldn't have surprised me how much time King spent on advocating for a universal basic income and other social security projects.
It was interesting how, after calling for guaranteed housing, health care, jobs, and income, King still tacitly supported fighting Communism.
It was very interesting to read this alongside Russell Shoatz's memoir, I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner as King discusses his arguments with Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and criticizes the Black Power movement while Shoatz details how the Panthers and Black Power leaders turned his life around and gave him and his community hope and purpose.
“We will be greatly misled if we feel that the problem will work itself out. Structures of evil do not crumble by passive waiting. If history teaches anything, it is that evil is recalcitrant and determined, and never voluntarily relinquishes its hold short of an almost fanatical resistance. Evil must be attacked by a counteracting persistence, by the day-to-day assault of the battering rams of justice. We must get rid of the false notion that there is some miraculous quality in the flow of time that inevitably heals all evils. There is only one thing certain about time, and that is that it waits for no one. If it is not used constructively, it passes you by.”
I realized I had never read a whole book by Martin Luther King, Jr. after seeing a Thread post by @theandrehenry discussing this one. So glad I saw that and picked this up. Andre Henry wrote, "In his final book, MLK said white America would rather throw away democracy altogether, and embrace “a native form of fascism,” to preserve their power. We are living in that prophecy today." That was a major theme of this work, and it shouldn't have surprised me how much time King spent on advocating for a universal basic income and other social security projects.
It was interesting how, after calling for guaranteed housing, health care, jobs, and income, King still tacitly supported fighting Communism.
It was very interesting to read this alongside Russell Shoatz's memoir, I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner as King discusses his arguments with Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and criticizes the Black Power movement while Shoatz details how the Panthers and Black Power leaders turned his life around and gave him and his community hope and purpose.
“We will be greatly misled if we feel that the problem will work itself out. Structures of evil do not crumble by passive waiting. If history teaches anything, it is that evil is recalcitrant and determined, and never voluntarily relinquishes its hold short of an almost fanatical resistance. Evil must be attacked by a counteracting persistence, by the day-to-day assault of the battering rams of justice. We must get rid of the false notion that there is some miraculous quality in the flow of time that inevitably heals all evils. There is only one thing certain about time, and that is that it waits for no one. If it is not used constructively, it passes you by.”