If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would be leading protest marches against President Barack Obama during Obama’s inauguration ceremony today.
King’s 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
He protested the war policies of President Lyndon Johnson, even though Johnson was manifestly a lesser evil than Richard Nixon or George Wallace. Today he would be protesting President Obama’s global military interventions, his kill lists, his bailout of Wall Street and his continuation of a war on drugs that results in mass incarceration of black men.
Here are links to commentary on Dr. King’s legacy.
Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama by Glen Ford for the Black Agenda Report.
How We Can Truly Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Marion Wright Edelman for Huffington Post.
The Radicalization of Martin Luther King by Antony Monteiro for the Real News Network.
MLK’s vehement condemnations of US militarism are more relevant than ever by Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian.
Phil Ebersole's Blog 