https://truthout.org/articles/its-time-to-heed-kings-call-for-the-abolition-of-poverty/
As long as what’s called “Western civilization” has existed, people have been punished for being poor. This isn’t something the Western world invented, but it’s been a consistent characteristic of it. In Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. … The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct, and immediate abolition of poverty.”...
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The MLK Speech We Need Today is Not the One We Remember Most. Time magazine.
http://time.com/5505453/martin-luther-king-beyond-vietnam/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=2019012114pm&xid=newsletter-brief&eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%22THKPJtK0BjLD%2bB7mBKziPw%3d%3d%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22TD%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22TD_TBR_1C77AC81-C1C8-46A4-A013-D6A4035F2012%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2225193109%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22936665%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22THE_BRIEF%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22USA%22%7d
As long as what’s called “Western civilization” has existed, people have been punished for being poor. This isn’t something the Western world invented, but it’s been a consistent characteristic of it. In Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. … The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct, and immediate abolition of poverty.”...
AND
The MLK Speech We Need Today is Not the One We Remember Most. Time magazine.
http://time.com/5505453/martin-luther-king-beyond-vietnam/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=2019012114pm&xid=newsletter-brief&eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%22THKPJtK0BjLD%2bB7mBKziPw%3d%3d%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22TD%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22TD_TBR_1C77AC81-C1C8-46A4-A013-D6A4035F2012%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2225193109%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22936665%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22THE_BRIEF%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22USA%22%7d
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Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards.
Most Americans remember Martin Luther King Jr. for his dream of what this country could be, a nation where his children would “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” While those words from 1963 are necessary, his speech “Beyond Vietnam,” from 1967, is actually the more insightful one.
It is also a much more dangerous and disturbing speech, which is why far fewer Americans have heard of it. And yet it is the speech that we needed to hear then–and need to hear today...
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