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There is a version of King, acceptable for national veneration and on display by those who hide their own complicity with injustice, stripped of the fiery righteousness and abiding courage of a man who deplored and struggled against racism, economic injustice and the Vietnam War. This sanitized appropriation of King obscures the prophet who was hunted by the F.B.I., who learned to be anti-war, who was sometimes reviled by both blacks and whites and who moved in his thinking and his action from an awareness of the powerful destructiveness of white supremacy to the recognition that one cannot comprehend racism without an understanding of capitalism — the private control of wealth, resources and information.
King is a model for us precisely because, as he put his body on the line against the forces of injustice, he learned to understand the ways in which race and class are completely interconnected.- Wende Elizabeth Marshall
On the problematic nature of Obama’s inauguration. Every single word of this. Bless you, Ms. Wende.
I mean, whether or not Obama sheds tears for children in other countries — it means something to me that he showed up yesterday, to a vigil where friends of mine went to mourn their dead friends and colleagues.
It was a decent thing to do.
Its a less decent thing, that he doesn’t do it for all — especially since he’s responsible for quite a few of those deaths — but it means something, when an elected official makes a such a personal and meaningful gesture like this to his constituents.
The official portrait of the Obama family dog, “Bo”, a Portuguese water dog, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
Most iconic Pete Souza photos of Obama family’s first 4 years in the White House
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