Dr. King Is Not Your Negro

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(A Plea to Stop the “Teddy Bearization” of a Black Radical Revolutionary)

Pricey American Citizen — Dr. King shouldn't be your negro (at the moment, or some other day).

Dr. King is NOT your squishy-cute Teddy Bear who barks “Can’t we all just get along” upon command. On this MLK Day 2020, politicians and the media have to cease and desist from contorting his true work and legacy. Utilizing a radical revolutionary for the propaganda functions of social suppression is a legal distortion of the details. “Heroes” and “saints” are thought-about demons when they are actively working. He was American Enemy #1.

Dr. King was a Black radical revolutionary who was the FBI’s important target for COINTELPRO. “Agent Provocateurs” infiltrated his group organizing efforts, illegally wiretapped conferences, and tried to get him to commit suicide. He was arrested regularly. He was despised throughout his lifetime by most People (together with too many Black leaders). He was thought-about (falsely) a Communist agent and agitator. Zero “Teddy Bearness” on this radical activist.

Dr. King isn't your negro.

Evidence strongly suggests he was executed by his personal authorities by a army hit squad introduced into Memphis every week before his arrival (confer with “The Legacy Constructing Exhibit” on the “Nationwide Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Lodge,” in Memphis, Tennessee). Governments have a tendency to not assassinate their “heroes.” They do not are likely to execute protected, cuddly, Teddy Bears. They execute and assassinate their perceived “Enemies of the State.” Dr. King just isn't, and never has been your negro.

I personally might by no means be fooled by the Corporatocracies’ appropriation of Dr. King’s picture. That is completed, in fact, to take care of our established order systemic oppression that's in full bloom in 2020.

As a four-year-old baby, I sat on a sparse picket flooring in a poor flat, watching Walter Cronkite on a broke down B & W tv set. I used to be tired from the lengthy walk residence with my mother from the babysitters, when she picked me up after her lengthy shift on the floor, doing “piecemeal” work.

As an ignorant poor White baby, I seen on this B & W television set, the black and white pictures of horror — Dr. King’s peaceable marchers (males, ladies and youngsters, like me) hosed down and attacked by police assault canine. By means of my shocked tears, I cried out to my poor, manufacturing unit working, White mother who was making dinner, “Mommy, why are they treating those individuals like that!?”

She stopped, put the spatula down, and checked out me. Her robust blue eyes preventing tears. After too long of a pause; “I don’t know, Frankie . . . It is unnecessary to me.” She labored with principally Black and Latino people in the low wage manufacturing unit job she had. They have been her buddies. This incident began my lifelong bewilderment at the phenomenon of racism and hatred as being one thing “normal.”

Dr. King was hated because he was a Black radical revolutionary towards such profitable and cozy “normalcy.” Dr. King was organizing (a.okay.a., “agitating”) others to yank out the roots of economic and racial oppression — the very roots of the nation of his and my delivery. Dr. King was no one’s negro.

This yr I do not need to hear another dam clip of the “I Have a Dream” speech. That dream has pale into our nightmarish reality. I am spending this MLK Day 2020 doing research on violent White Supremacy extremist teams for “The Rise & Fall of White Supremacy” Venture.

In doing this research, I really feel as sick and disoriented as that four-year-old boy sitting on that naked flooring, absorbing that first style of the American B & W nightmare played out on B & W tv set. We need to change that channel actual quickly.

Black and White youngsters usually are not enjoying collectively in playgrounds. They are actually, statistically extra segregated in the public faculty system and economically as they have been before Brown vs. Board of Schooling. The Jail-Industrial Complicated has extra Black and Brown individuals working as slaves than before the Civil Struggle. Two steps forward, seven steps again.

After working with Black and Brown youth for 17 years in low-income neighborhoods in Los Angeles, I know that the oppression Dr. King spilled his blood for has never ended. The racist and financial exploitation merely morphed into an animal of a unique shade, however the identical breed.

Dr. King shouldn't be your negro.

As a young man in my late teenagers in the 80’s, I noticed the activism of the ’70s capitulated into the nice and cozy embrace of Ronald Regan’s Cowboy persona and “warm-hearted” (however cold-blooded) reassurances of a greater, capitalist tomorrow. Peace and prosperity have been presupposed to trickle on right down to us all, even Black and Brown people, poor White people, and immigrants. Solely blood trickled down from the “Warfare” on Medicine and Central American Contras violence.

So I assumed the most effective factor to do was to champion for an actual champion of the individuals. I wrote letters to all U.S. congressmen, senators, and my California governor to move laws to make Dr. King’s Birthday a national vacation. I donated cash from my restricted wages to Stevie Marvel’s efforts for this movement. It was an uphill battle because the “Power’s That Be” nonetheless hated and feared Black Radical Revolutionary Warriors.

Ultimately, they passed it. Years later after working for non-violence in communities of shade, and being educated in Kingian Non-Violence methods, I observed that the aggressive confrontation of Dr. King’s techniques have been being misrepresented as “pacifism.” They have been making an attempt to defang the ferocity of the Lion.

This MLK Day, do not take heed to “I Have a Dream,” Clips. Pay attention as an alternative of his speech confronting worldwide warfare, imperialism, and poverty, “Beyond Vietnam.” The audacity of this Black radical revolutionary talking out towards the struggle atrocities of his own authorities earned him an murderer’s bullet within the head precisely one yr later.

Symbolism is necessary to tyranny. It's also essential for liberation. “The arc of the moral universe is lengthy, nevertheless it bends in the direction of justice.” Peace and justice work is highly effective, even “violent” in its urgency.

Take heed that we don't distort the reality — blood crammed the balcony of the Lorraine Lodge where Dr. King was executed. The “Lovely Wrestle” received very ugly that day. It still is.

Dr. King shouldn't be your negro.

He by no means was and by no means can be. He paid for that reality together with his personal blood.

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This publish was previously published on Medium.com and is republished right here with permission from the writer.

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