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Where Do We Go From Here?
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This is an awesome autobiography of the charismatic, Bible-cadenced Doctor Martin Luther King Jr ,written at the young age of 29, as well as a gripping account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in December, 1955. The first chapter is King's autobiograpy of growing up in a segregated Atlanta, but managing to get educated up to a full doctorate.
The second chapter is subtitled "Montgomery Before the Protest". King describes segregation and its effect on 50,000 second-class citizens - the offspring of uprooted African victims of slavery. Although the Supreme Court ruled 3 years prior that "in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place", six southern states including Alabama had not even one African-American child attending school with Anglos by 1956.
Then on December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat so an Anglo could sit in it. In response to her unAmerican, Nazi-like arrest by officials who were servants of hatred rather than justice, African-American community leaders met in a Baptist church and organized the Montgomery bus boycott. It worked in a wonderful show of solidarity, but the haters's hatred was not extinguished. King and his compatriot R. David Abernathy had their houses bombed by local KKK terrorists. So the Supreme Court stepped in like they did with the public schools and said "the separate but equal" buffalo pucky was incorrect, thereby giving Jim Crow a black eye. (Jim Crow is a metaphor for the anti-African American laws that got started in 1890 by Southern Anglos to deny the African-American his right to vote - this after Mississippi had already put 2 African-Americans into the Senate in our nation's capitol).
The last chapter is "Where Do We Go From Here?" Dr. King noticed that the judiciary could do only so much - somebody had to implement the law that the judiciary laid down. No doubt, King was thinking back to the early 1800s when the Cherokee-Americans won their Supreme Court case to keep their land in Georgia, but President Andy Jackson (the state terrorist on the $20 dollar bill) sent the Yankee army to illegally force them to walk to Oklahoma (called the Trail of Tears because 10,000 died).
King advocated direct action, not the militant direct action embraced by the Black Panther Party and other African-American groups in defense of their civil rights, but the Gandhi-type of nonviolent direct action that the Indians had used against their British oppressors in India to get their civil rights back. "We must use the weapon of love", King said. King was out to wear down the hatred of the haters with love and kindness, fortified by an endless capacity to suffer whatever it took to take the kryptonite to hatred.
May God Bless this man of peace with His Mercy and Grace and forgive him his manly shortcomings. |
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