White friends, we cannot celebrate Martin Luther King's Jr's life without fully grieving.
We can't do it without lamenting Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka and Jeff Sessions and Mitch McConnell.
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We can't do it without lamenting Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka and Jeff Sessions and Mitch McConnell.
johnpavlovitz.com/2018/01/15/he-…
#MartinLutherKing
We can't do it while defending the expulsion of immigrants and the denial of refugees.
We can't do it while waving Confederate flags and worshiping monuments to slavery's dehumanizing legacy.
We can't do it while waving Confederate flags and worshiping monuments to slavery's dehumanizing legacy.
We can't do it without mourning the young black men who still die without cause during traffic stops and officers who face no accountability when they murder them.
We can't do it while funding border walls and voter ID laws and gerrymandering, and allowing the voices of people of color to be silenced and disregarded and ignored.
We can't do it without confronting our racist uncles and xenophobic neighbors; our prejudiced pastors, bigoted bosses, and supremacist Presidents—and the blind spots of these things within ourselves that enable and unknowingly partner with them all.
We can't do it without seeing the privilege we are both blessed and afflicted with; without fighting to craft something redemptive out of it, without leveraging it in the cause of the Dream, without fashioning it into a shield against the dream-killers.
And we can't celebrate Martin Luther King Jr's life, honor his memory, mourn his passing, or continue his work, without actively and loudly resisting this President; without pushing back at the supremacy on display in his Cabinet.
We can't do it while tolerating legislation that deports dreamers.
We can't do it while excusing his remarks about shithole countries.
We can't do it while normalizing the way he dehumanizes Muslims.
We can't do it while letting him vilify kneeling black NFL players.
We can't do it while excusing his remarks about shithole countries.
We can't do it while normalizing the way he dehumanizes Muslims.
We can't do it while letting him vilify kneeling black NFL players.
White friends, this America is not the America Dr. King dreamed of—and until it is, we who share that dream need to nurture it in such a way that it brings us conflict and discomfort and injury; because his dream requires such things from the privileged.
May we who share his dream, steward it well until it is no longer a dream at all—but the glorious reality of our national daylight.
May we see the dawn arrive in our time.
May we see the dawn arrive in our time.
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