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Martin Luther King Jr. was not just the safe-for-all-political-stripes civil-rights activist he is often portrayed as today. He was an antiwar, anti-materialist activist whose views on American power would shock many of the same politicians who now scramble to sing his praises. He came out strongly against the US war in Vietnam and called America “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” He decried the “triple threat of racism, poverty, and militarism.” tinyurl/kackhtx + Vincent Intondi: In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. King argued that the spiritual and moral lag in modern man was due to what he later referred to as the triple evils of society: capitalism, militarism and racism. For King, the genocide that took place in Vietnam, combined with the ongoing racism and extreme poverty, especially in the black community, only solidified the idea that the three were inextricably linked and part of the same fight for universal human rights. tinyurl/muxs2z2
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:18:26 +0000

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