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Two men cleared 57 years later for the murder of Malcolm X
By Pierre Toussaint
57 years after the assassination of Malcolm X, the two suspects Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were declared innocents by The New York Supreme Court. 36 million dollars and “apologies'' from the state and the city of New York were delivered to the two victims and their families.
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(Copyrights: Muhammad Aziz in 2021 | Seth Wenig / AP)
The murder of Malcolm X
February, the 21st of 1965, Malcolm X were murdered by activists from the Black Muslims a part of the association Nation of Muslim. This murder was “a great tragedy” as Martin Luther King said. Three suspects were arrested and judged guilty. Despite Thomas Hagan, the third suspect, declaring the innocence of the two others, the three of them were thrown in prison. Hagan was released from jail in April 2010. Aziz and Islam were released after more than 20 years in prison.
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Another investigation thanks to Netflix
With the documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X”, in 2020, Netflix permitted the reopening of the case. This Netflix production questioned on the presence of Aziz and Islam at the moment of the murder. After 22 months of investigation, the two Afro-Americans were found innocent in 2021. Unfortunately, Khalil Islam passed away in 2009. He died guilty but now his honor is restored. Even if he will never know it, it’s an important act for his family.
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(Copyrights: Poster of the Netflix series “Who Killed Malcolm X” | Netflix)
Recognition and compensation
The prosecutor Cyrus Vance joins the association “The Innocent Project” to rehabilitate the truth. He presented the “apologies” on behalf of the American judicial authorities for "serious, unacceptable violations of law and the public trust". The state of New York will compensate the two victims by giving them 10 million dollars and the city of New York will give them 26 million dollars. The honor of both men has been restored, but despite this compensation, these two men had their lives broken.
Out last article ⬇️
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also while im on about Tumblrina Behavior some people are UNHINGED about self censoring. someone just sent an ask to aita wondering if their ask got eaten for saying the word sex and comments are literally 'all caps. stop censoring sex im going to explode you with my mind' 'you wont get banned for saying a no no word 🙄' GIRL THEYRE JUST NEW TO THE WEBSITE. AND THE PRECEDENT IS EVERY OTHER WEBSITE. you dont need to immediately rage at them because tumblr is sooo counterculture
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MLK at 95.
January 15, 2024
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born 95 years ago on January 15, 1929. As a Baptist minister, he advocated non-violence while promoting civil rights. He spoke for the poor, the oppressed, and the disenfranchised. While he was imprisoned in a Birmingham jail for protesting segregation, he responded to eight white ministers who had criticized him for participating in protests that they described as “unwise and untimely.”
Dr. King’s famous reply to the white ministers explained why he traveled to Birmingham from Atlanta to protest:
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
While Dr. King was keenly aware of the racism that served as the understructure of the Christian church in the old South, he would be shocked by the virulent, mean-spirited, anti-Christian message that animates many (not all) evangelical congregations in America today. They form the backbone of Donald Trump's support in Iowa and beyond. They have adopted Trump's message that treats the poor, oppressed, and disenfranchised as “outsiders” and “others” who do not belong in America.
Over the last several days, we have learned that members of the Texas National Guard physically blocked federal Border Patrol agents from responding to reports of immigrants in distress in the Rio Grande. The bodies of a mother and two children were later recovered from the river in the area where immigrants were reported to be in distress.
Texas, of course, denies that its cruel actions caused the drownings—a denial that should be viewed skeptically from a state whose governor—Greg Abbott—recently commented Texas troopers could not shoot immigrants crossing the border because the troopers would be charged with murder by the Biden administration. Texas governor criticized after comment about shooting migrants | The Texas Tribune.
Similar animus underlies the recent comments of Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, who withdrew Mississippi from a federal program to provide food to school children during summer breaks. Governor Reeves said Mississippi withdrew from the program to fight “attempts to expand the welfare state.”
Blocking efforts to rescue a drowning mother and her children? Regretting the inability to shoot immigrants because it would be murder? Denying food to poor children out of spite? Who are these people? How do they look at themselves in the mirror?
Ninety-five years after Dr. King’s birth and fifty-five years after his death, it is difficult to believe that people who identify as upstanding members of the Christian church can support such actions.
Another section from Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail is relevant to this moment in our nation’s history:
But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. I meet young people every day whose disappointment with the church has risen to outright disgust.
Dr. King’s words were prophetic. See Pew Research (10/17/19) In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.
And, of course, as Dr. King recognized, “there are some notable exceptions” among church leaders who supported his work—just as there are exceptions today. Several readers have recommended Faithful America as an antidote to Christian nationalism. The organization’s helpful FAQ page explains why “Christian nationalism” is not Christian. See Resisting Christian Nationalism: FAQ + Resources | Faithful America.
On this day commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, we can see how far we have come—and how much further we must go. He didn’t despair. Neither should we.
Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter
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On this day, 4 April 1968, civil rights activist, socialist and advocate of nonviolence Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated while in Memphis supporting a strike of Black sanitation workers. His ideas had become increasing radical in recent years, and in addition to opposing racism he had begun opposing US imperialism in Vietnam and elsewhere, as well as capitalism itself. King had also begun organising a Poor People's Campaign, to unite working class and poor people, Black and white. Though he is widely lauded by establishment figures now, at the time he was hated by the rich and powerful as well as most white Americans. Fuelled by negative media coverage, only 22% of Americans approved of “Freedom Rides” for the desegregation of public transport, and 63% disapproved of King. The FBI's domestic intelligence chief called him "the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security", and later sent King an anonymous letter attempting to blackmail him into suicide. His murder left many disillusioned with pacifism, and riots broke out across the US in the biggest explosion of social unrest since the civil war. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10400/mlk-assassinated https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=603307621842457&set=a.602588028581083&type=3
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By: Ron Kapeas
Published: Jan 8, 2024
JTA — In a speech marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Rep. Ritchie Torres likened protesters who have celebrated Hamas’s October 7 massacres to white people in the Jim Crow era who celebrated after the lynching of Black people.
“I was profoundly shaken not only by October 7, but by the aftermath,” Torres, a Black Bronx Democrat, said Friday in a speech at Central Synagogue, a prominent Reform congregation in midtown Manhattan. “I found it utterly horrifying. To see fellow Americans openly cheering and celebrating the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And for me, the aftermath of October 7 revealed a barbarity of the American heart that reminded me of an earlier and darker time in our nation’s history, a time when the public mobs of Jim Crow would openly celebrate the lynching of African Americans.”
Protests have proliferated since October 7, when Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, kidnapped around 240 and brutalized thousands more in an invasion from Gaza. They have grown as Israel has waged a war in Gaza to eliminate the terror group, and especially as casualties mounted: So far, close to 25,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and non-combatants and is also believed to tally civilians killed by errant rockets fired by terror groups.
A number of the protests have decried the October 7 violence on Israelis, but others have skated over the initial massacres or have embraced Hamas and described its atrocities as resistance.
Torres, a member of the progressive caucus in Congress, has garnered a reputation as an unstinting supporter of Israel. He has duked it out online with fellow progressives in debates over Israel, a dynamic that has only intensified since October 7. Torres is heavily funded by AIPAC and donors aligned with the pro-Israel lobby, and spoke at a massive rally for Israel in Washington on November 14.
In his speech, Torres alluded to the controversies that assailed elite universities after the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania told Congress that calls to commit genocide against Jews did not necessarily violate the schools’ codes of conduct. The ensuing uproar drove Harvard’s and Penn’s presidents to resign.
“What we’ve seen in the aftermath of October 7, is appalling silence and indifference and cowardice from so called leaders in our society from institutions that we once respected and admired,” he said. “And if we as a society cannot bring ourselves to condemn the murder of innocents with moral clarity, then we must ask, what are we becoming as a society? What does that reveal about the depths of antisemitism in the American soul?”
I had the honor of delivering the annual MLK sermon at Central Synagogue.  My speech touches on a range of topics and themes: October 7th, Jim Crow, Leo Frank, MLK, Elie Wiesel, silence, indifference, moral clarity, nonviolence, Israel, Am Yisrael Chai, Hatikvah, and hope. pic.twitter.com/stxqxzgyLi — Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) January 16, 2024
Central is a locus for some of the city’s wealthiest liberal Jewish families, many of whom are also firm supporters of Israel. Dr. Shonni Silverberg, the synagogue president, introduced Torres as a champion of progressive priorities as well as an advocate for Israel, and noted that he is the first openly LGBTQ representative elected from the Bronx.
“Ritchie remains steadfastly focused on the priorities of his South Bronx constituents, expanding access to safe and affordable housing, rebuilding New York economically and ensuring that no child goes hungry and that all receive a good education,” she said. “But he has also shown himself both in and out of Congress to be a great friend of the American Jewish community and Israel.”
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I was shocked, but not surprised. Shocked at how openly, how loudly and how quickly pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism supporters emerged from their Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Intersectional Feminism Studies and other fraudulent sewers in the ivory towers long before Israel ever fired a shot back.
I was not surprised, however, since antisemitism is a cornerstone of Intersectionality, as I posted about more than two years ago:
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I naïvely expected that they'd go, "whoa, we didn't mean it like that, that's not what we were after," the standard No True Scotman tactic to distance their enlightened antisemitism from the antisemitism of murderous Islamic jihadists.
But they went the other way and leaned into it, cheering it on, while others tried to gaslight everyone with the usual array of denials that they weren't saying what they were openly saying, and that anyway, if they were saying it, that's not what they meant.
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On this day, 12 February 1968, the Memphis sanitation strike by 1,300 Black sanitation workers began in protest against mistreatment, discrimination, dangerous working conditions, and the recent deaths of two workers. Martin Luther King Jr came to the city to support the strike. The following day he was murdered. But the workers held out and in April, the city caved to most of their demands.
I was 2 1/2 when this happened, but I remember it. The day MLK was assonated we had a city wide curfew. I remember my parents being nervous. I lost my pacifier and my father broke curfew to go buy me another on.
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Celebrating the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King by Jonathan Eig
In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, Jonathan Eig gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. Casting a fresh light on the King family’s origins, as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists, this volume reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death.
The Heavens Might Crack by Jason Sokol
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing figure - scorned by many white Americans, worshipped by some African Americans and liberal whites, and deemed irrelevant by many black youth. In this volume, historian Jason Sokol traces the diverse responses, both in America and throughout the world, to King's death. 
The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, who were all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow as Black women. These three mothers taught resistance and a fundamental belief in the worth of Black people to their sons, even when these beliefs flew in the face of America's racist practices and led to ramifications for all three families' safety.
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix
In this volume, Paul Kix takes the reader behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s pivotal 10- week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time, he also provides a window into the minds of the four extraordinary men who led the campaign - Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel. With page-turning prose that reads like a thriller, Kix’s book is the first to zero in on the ten weeks of Project C.
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The Kind White Moderate Racism of Ted Lasso
"the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a '"'more convenient season" - Martin Luther King Jr from 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' 16th April 1963
It is 60 years, to the day, almost, since MLK Jr wrote those words, at a time when Black people were being jailed and murdered, by a white supremacist state, accompanied by the mealy-mouthed hand-wringing of the white moderates.
In 2023, Black people are still being jailed and murdered, by a white supremacist state. (This is true for the US and the UK, as well as across the world. I write this from a brown post-colonial nation where also, anti-Blackness has proven repeatedly murderous.)
And the white moderates are still at it.
I could write an essay breaking down all the macro and micro racist moments in Ted Lasso, a show that exemplifies how kind moderate white men see themselves and the world - but I won't. (I'd rather be paid for the labour, if I have to rewatch actively triggering scenes to do it.)
Instead, I will ask the Ted Lasso fandom - does this show disgust you?
And if not, what will it take for a story told by white men to get you there?
Disgust can sit alongside critical appreciation for craft, and emotional affection for characters you have invested in. Anyone who has interacted with white art and culture has learned the ability to weave their love for it alongside the weft of contempt we must cultivate for its racism.
I am not asking if you have stopped loving the show, or its characters. I am asking if you have felt disgusted - truly, viscerally disgusted - by its politics.
Because if you have not - if a bunch of white men turning a Black man into a puppet to preach forgiveness to a Black man who has experienced racist violence - if that does not disgust you...
then you are aligned with white supremacy, no matter how much you may disclaim the crude, ugly right-wing manifestation of it.
Do you choose to forgive the racist show that you love?
Or do you choose to hold it accountable for its racism?
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How do you feel about people that say that James Earl Ray murdering MLK Jr and Nation of Islam or local drug dealers killing Malcom X are false? But that they are scapegoats and that the assassinations were actually carried over by law enforcement/government agencies? I just want to know since that there have been a wide range of theories surrounding their deaths with people believing that this was the government trying to silence black leaders. And I am not really familiar with this topic to know for sure what is factual so I want to see your response.
I've heard of the FBI being behind MLK, which I think is plausible considering the "please kill yourself or we'll expose your affairs" letter the FBI sent him, but I haven't heard the other one. I know next to nothing about Malcom X, so I'm not the right person to ask about that. But in general, while I won't put any awful action past the government (especially the CIA or FBI), I don't bite on every crazy conspiracy of "actually it was the government/the CIA/Bush/etc who did the bad thing" without compelling proof.
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Is X-Men woke? Women in the X-Men comics and in animation were still drawn sexy before Disney even had their dirty hands on the property. Disney decided to Woke-It-Up with their latest take on X-Men(X-Men 97). Thus desexualizing the women, as well as turning Morph into a woke "non-binary" weirdo.
Yet the wokecels are now trying to claim that X-Men has been "woke" since 1963. That wasn't wokeism. Those comics pushed MLK Jr's message of "judge not by the color of the skin, but by the content of their character".
A message that Wokecels have been fighting against since they demonize and stereotype all "cis white men" of being KKK, Nazis, racist or white supremacists. Thus judging by the color of someone's skin, rather than judging by the content of their character.
Yet they ignore the Democrats history of creating the KKK, Biden's racism, the Nazis being National SOCIALISTS, Hitler being pro socialism, and the murderous history of communist dictators.
It took a "cis" white man to free the slaves(Abraham Lincoln), who happens to be a Republican, the party of Anti-Slavery. Yet the DemoKKKrats want to rewrite history by claiming that the parties switched sometime in the 1960's. They always want to rewrite history because they refuse to accept responsibility for their own mistakes.
Just because a few politicians might have "switched" parties, doesn't change an entire party. DemoKKKrats are still racist, even KKK members such as President Truman and senator Robert Byrd were still DemoKKKrats.
DemoKKKrats and the woke cult are still antisemitic through their hate of Israel and support of HAMAS/Palestine. The DemoKKKrats still has a domestic terrorist group who acts exactly like the KKK(Antifa).
So is X-Men truly woke? Hell no.
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@balioc here I'll break this off into its own thread.
You're really helping me to understand why people sneer at "Respectability Politics"
Basically, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying but I feel it's very imprecise.
For example:
"the most extreme hippies were killing people in scary numbers, not to achieve any coherent political objective, but to strike blows against mainstream culture in the name of their own vague ideology."
Which you justify with the following passage:
The 1960s saw the rise of various ethno-nationalist groups such as the Black Panther Party, Chicano Liberation Front, pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups, and the Jewish Defense League. The Chicano Liberation Front was one of the most active, claiming credit for 28 bombings of banks, schools, government buildings, and supermarkets in 1970-71. The group also claimed credit for the shooting of the police chief of Union City in 1974. Between 1973 and 1976, a group known as the Death Angels was responsible for a string of 12 murders in San Francisco (known as the Zebra Killings). The Los Angeles Times reported in 1975 that this group had a plan to run all whites out of San Francisco.
Which is a little tough for me. The Chicano Liberation Front killed such a scary number of people that they don't even have a wikipedia page. There was a large spate of bombings in the early 70s but these tended to be non-lethal events. Don't get me wrong, I'm not excusing it or even really saying it's something not to be afraid of.
Just that "Hippies were killing people in scary numbers" makes it sound like they were killing a lot of people, but I'm having trouble determining exactly how many people were killed by the organizations you named.
The SLA killed at least two people, a brief read-through of their history doesn't tell me more.
But never mind, the SLA was a bizarre and frightening group and that doesn't change if they "only" killed two people.
But you also brought that up in relation to this statement:
The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. There was no general sense, in let's say 1970, that race relations were getting better or that the racial-politics left had been in any way mollified or appeased.
If someone in 1970 felt that race relations weren't getting better it sure as heck wasn't because of the Death Angels, four black serial killers who wouldn't make the news for another three years; it must have been something else. I would again point my finger at, you know, MLK Jr. having been shot to death two years prior, and the riots that followed.
Here's the thing: If we include all this stuff about the SLA and the Death Angels and what have you, we start pushing the timeline back to, say, '76. At which point I would ask,
"Really? You think the average person in 1976 or 1978 would agree that there had been no progress in race relations since the passage of the civil rights act?"
Because I'd like to see some polls, please.
There's also this:
"The hippies did not, for the most part, have a plan for the revolution. They certainly did not have a preferred set of policies that would have constituted the revolution (past a certain point, at least). They had...an affect. A lifestyle. A set of people and attitudes that they lionized. They had their own religion, if you want to think of it in those terms."
No, I do not want to think of it in those terms, as they are wholly misleading.
"The entire population of every self-identified hippie on planet earth did not share a single, unified goal" is true but also meaningless. Americans also don't have a single unified vision of the world, but it would be senseless to then use that to say, "And therefore the average American cannot articulate any real policy preferences."
You started off by saying,
"In both the civil-disintegration period of the late '60s / early '70s, there was a sense that the revolution had no natural stopping place. This is also very much true right now.
If you went to a standard-issue Culture War Vanguard Soldier (on the left side), and asked "what would have to happen for you to be willing to end this? what concessions would you have to get in order to be satisfied?" -- well, it's basically impossible to imagine receiving an answer that seemed both cogent and honest."
Yeah, but that impossibility lives in you, not the activist.
The Death Angels above were four men. The SLA had, wikipedia tells me, at most 22 members. Dr Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference started off with 60 ministers. And of course he was able to organize enormous numbers of people who weren't necessarily members of an organization into all kinds of political projects.
MLK Jr. was a man who could cogently articulate specific political goals, and of course became famous around the world for his disciplined, non-violent approach to protest which, of course, represents both a stated and actually practiced limit on what he would demand of other people.
And then he got shot to death.
The question to me is not "Are there scary hippies?" (The answer is yes, of course) and it's not "Do the scary hippies scare reactionaries?" (Obviously) but on what's to be done about it.
Because you say that there's this "implicit promise" in every bus boycott or anti-war march that the revolution has no stopping place and will spin out of control.
Well, okay, suppose I'm at one of the marches against desegregation, how do I, me, a specific person, convince you that I'm there because I have specific goals, and not because I'm a religious radical bent on destroying America?
The answer is, I can't, because as soon as a bunch of burn-out creeps kidnap an heiress, that's proof that I'm out of control.
So what's the alternative? I put a complete stop to all left-wing violence for the next decade? You understand that nobody is actually in a position to accomplish that, right? That expecting a person in a civil rights march to make sure that four serial killers never ever use left-wing rhetoric is an insane and impossible demand?
It's a similar kind of passive aggressive thing I used to see in interpersonal battles between people on the left. Ostensibly, you'd love to trust me if only I could allay your fears and articulate a real vision.
But when I articulate a real vision you point at four killers in another city across the country and say, "Prove to me that it's impossible for anybody in your movement to be like them."
You can't prove a negative!
Mitigated Chaos does this all the time since the George Floyd Riots. He just knows that the riots can't have actually been about police accountability, they're actually about how the left won't stop until there is a Harrison Bergeron-esque equality of outcome between all races. And since that's impossible, it's clear that the rioters can't be appeased by anything.
But get out of that head-space, come up for air. We of course, have barely tried to appease the rioters, with a tiny smattering of police accountability reforms, many of which have been blocked or rejected by the police.
"I would like police accountability please."
"No, you wouldn't, and if I gave it to you it wouldn't satisfy you, so there's no point in trying."
"Well, that makes me rather cross, you ignoring me like that."
"SEE! You're so angry, how could anybody possibly compromise with you when you act like that!"
Same in 1970. The racial unrest was caused not by the crazed radicals being given everything that they wanted and still refusing to calm down, it was caused by a string of violent assassinations of Civil Rights leaders! To use the riots that occurred after MLK Jr. was assassinated as proof that the race radicals couldn't ever have been appeased is truly perverse.
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Oh citation needed on the MLK jr assassination, the king family don’t even believe the person the FBI accused of killing MLK.
Not to mention that MLK brother was suspiciously found dead in his pool shortly afterwards.
And it’s tragic how Anna Frank was killed, and I sure hope that antisemitism was never again on the rise and the mindsets that created the Holocaust isn’t being praised because they are going after different targets
Let me check Free Palestine, Feminists, and black Twitter
Also where this idea that you can’t find colored pictures of MLK and Anna Frank came from? Like the picture they used for MLK was in my 4th grade textbook
Yeah it was in living memory, but when you ask a white liberal, LBGT activist, rad fem, black activists, and other left wings people about white conservatives males or Israel. The new editions of Mein Kampf comes out
Now I gotta scroll and find that post, lol
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the king family don’t even believe the person the FBI accused of killing MLK.
I thought they'd shifted position on that, but today I learned.
Skipping to the end
A Different Gunman?
Coretta King’s specific belief in Ray’s innocence is a little tougher to explain. The King family started to publicly voice the opinion in 1997. That year, King’s son Dexter Scott King visited Ray in prison to draw attention to the family’s push to appeal his case. Even after Ray died in 1998 from complications caused by hepatitis C, the family continued to assert there was, as Coretta King said in 1999, “overwhelming evidence that identified someone else, not James Earl Ray, as the shooter, and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame.”
The King family’s belief in Ray’s innocence was partly influenced by the strange case of Loyd Jowers, who’d owned the restaurant below Ray’s rented room in Memphis. For the first 25 years after King’s death, Jowers did not claim any involvement in the murder. But after HBO conducted a televised mock trial about the assassination in 1993—in which Ray gave his first public testimony and was found not guilty—Jowers declared that he’d been part of a conspiracy to kill King, and that Ray had been set up to take to fall. The other people involved in this conspiracy, Jowers said, included Memphis police officers, a Mafia member and the infamous Raoul.
These claims led King’s estate to sue Jowers in 1999 for a symbolic $100 in a wrongful death civil action. During the four-week trial in Memphis, a 12-person jury heard testimony from over 70 witnesses; but not Jowers, who didn’t testify because there were no criminal charges at stake. The jury awarded the money to the estate, deciding that King’s assassination had likely been the result of a conspiracy that involved Jowers, not Ray, as well as ''others, including governmental agencies.''
The day after the trial ended, Coretta King held a press conference in Atlanta to praise the decision.
“I wholeheartedly applaud the verdict of the jury and I feel that justice has been well served in their deliberations,” she said. “The jury was clearly convinced by the extensive evidence that was presented during the trial that, in addition to Mr. Jowers, the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband.”
It’s important to note that this verdict was not a criminal conviction, as is sometimes erroneously implied when this case surfaces online. Between 1998 and 2000, the Department of Justice investigated Jower’s claims and the evidence in the civil trial, and concluded that Jowers’s claims weren’t credible. Among the evidence was a recording of Jowers in which he suggested he was interested in fabricating his story for financial gain.
So, are there are still remaining questions about how everything happened the day of King’s assassination? As with most cases, the answer is yes. But among legal and historical scholars, there is a broad consensus that James Earl Ray, though he may not have acted alone, is the gunman who shot Martin Luther King. __________________
I will agree that they don't believe Ray was the killer, the statement in the response to the post was 'shot in the head by a racist' which one way or the other I think it's fairly safe to say that whoever did it was racist.
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having Malcolm X murdered because he decided building bridges might be a better way than hate racist or kkk racist I couldn't say but the odds of his assassination being done by a racist are pretty high, so even if it wasn't ray he was still killed by a racist.
Also where this idea that you can’t find colored pictures of MLK and Anna Frank came from? Like the picture they used for MLK was in my 4th grade textbook.
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That or laziness or maybe trying to compound oppression points, remember there's people that piss and moan that a lot of the different sexual stuff was edited out of her diary because their heads are so far up their own asses they can't stop to think that it wouldn't have been published if that was in there.
Yeah it was in living memory, but when you ask a white liberal, LBGT activist, rad fem, black activists, and other left wings people about white conservatives males or Israel. The new editions of Mein Kampf comes out
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Funny you should say that.
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inqilabi · 1 year
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I've been seeing this post about MLK Jr being a misogynistic abuser going around this site and how no woman should support him. Then I searched for sources and it turns out that it's from the FBI.
https://www.insider.com/mlk-jr-rape-allegations-fbi-2019-5
I'm not some MLK worshipper who believes he could do no wrong, and I do have plenty of disagreements with him, but I just wish people would stop spreading baseless rumours, and that too from the FBI of all things. I actually would've taken this seriously if this allegation was made by the actual woman concerned. The tape of this alleged incident is not even released yet, it's sealed until 2027. The least that feminists could do here is to atleast wait till it is made public, and then make their judgements.
Anyone who knows anything about the history of the civil rights movement knows how much the FBI had tried to destroy and discredit MLK and many other black freedom movement leaders. It's so annoying when you see people who have absolutely no idea of the struggles that black people face in a white supremacist state or about how the FBI had murdered black panthers, happily spreading FBI propaganda without any critical thought. But I guess it's too much to ask for white feminists to understand this.
Yes I agree. And there's so many other examples of this type of stuff being used against male revolutionaries. So I think we should give it a fair consideration that ruling class actually does use some feminist points and concerns against males. I've used the Gaddafi viagara troops as an example before because that's a good one. John Stockwell talked about how CIA worked with journalists to create fake stories in print of Cuban rapists. I mean even journalism is in the control of ruling class. Ofc we know male revolutionaries are capable of misogyny so this isnt to say it's not possible. But a lot of feminists certainly do not consider how far the ruling may be willing to play at with emotions, tendencies, and today with making viral outrage of things eg is a new and common tactic.
I also think it's hard to tell what is fake/ruling class created outrage for a lot of ppl. I feel that I'm very good at telling now but it's taken me 2 years to learn this skill. And now I probably just sound crazy because a fair number of things that grasp the public imigation very fast are planted
Also I thought that was meant to be unsealed in 2021 or something. Did they push it back?
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lightdancer1 · 1 year
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Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. is rightly one of the most famous faces of the Civil Rights Movement:
And there are two faces of Doctor King. One is the face beloved by the sanitized white version that makes him a Jesus figure martyred and his movement sanitized into something it never was. The other was the complex exemplar of the role of the Black Church in an age where the Black Church was still one of the main centers of the most ambitious and skillful people in Black culture. His social vision was far more breathtakingly radical than given credit for, it made full use of the new media of the time of television. It deliberately risked people's lives and limbs in the most literal sense, and it did so counting on precisely what did happen.....most of the time.
There were two cities where the local authorities were no less repressive than elsewhere who were smart enough to see this and refused to play their assigned roles and they were the two cities where he failed. Both of them, incidentally, were in the North. It is impossible to understand MLK's brand of non-violent radicalism without the reminder that he was very much a Christian pastor who truly believed in the merits of 'turning the other cheek', to the point of so many of his speeches sharing a motif derived from the words of the Prophet Amos.
"And justice shall roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
Like many Black preachers his Bible was heavily reliant on both Jewish motifs and the Gospels and somewhat less on the words of the Apostle Paul whom white Christianity tends to favor in its own selective takes. His very religiosity led John Lewis and his SNCC to give him the somewhat less than complimentary nickname of "The Lord". Like Malcolm X he was murdered in the course of his activism and the murders mean both attained a kind of saintly aura, where the surviving movement leaders like John Lewis, James Farmer, A. Philip Randolph, and Jesse Jackson have had somewhat more checkered aspects or had this side of their lives papered over in different ways.
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