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Family,

Tomorrow, there will be people tweeting about my father and #MLKDay who are complicit in, complacent about and/or a part of cultivating some form of injustice.

That’s to be expected, and not just regarding voting legislation.
There will be people who are complicit in bombing children tweeting.

There will be people who are complacent about poverty tweeting.

There will be people who cultivate the Prison Industrial Complex tweeting.

And so on.
Let’s not get caught up in that tomorrow.

Please take some time to study what my father taught about the Triple Evils of Racism, Militarism, and Poverty (Extreme Materialism).

And what he taught about the Beloved Community and Nonviolence.
Please join me in committing to #ShiftingPriorities to create the #BelovedCommunity.

Please be a part of a worldwide coalition for justice.

Let’s conquer the Triple Evils.

Let’s meet critical needs and ensure sustainable change.

Follow me here as we grow in doing that.
Let’s channel our love-centered energy into defeating injustice, living and speaking truth (and not just to power), and working for justice, about which my father said:

“Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”

I’ll share more this week.

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More from @BerniceKing

Jan 17,
A thread of color photos of my father, as we commemorate his 93rd birthday.

#MLK #CorettaScottKing #BelovedCommunity  #MLKDay #ShiftingPriorities Image
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.”

#MLK #MLKDay #ItStartsWithMe #ShiftingPriorities #BelovedCommunity Image
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

#MLK #MLKDay 
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Read 20 tweets
Nov 3, 2021
Me and my mother at my father’s funeral.

He wasn’t assassinated because he said he wanted his children to be judged “by the content of their character.”

He was gunned down because he was courageous and strategically working to dismantle racism, poverty and militarism.
He was speaking truth to power about the Vietnam War, about economic injustice + racial injustice, about ‘The Other America’ (), about the violence of the U.S. government.
Today, people who don’t want the truth shared about these things are using one quote (from a speech that my father gave about injustice and his dream that we’ve eradicated injustice, including racism) to ban honest history, under the guise of banning CRT.
Read 9 tweets
Sep 25, 2021
A thread of quotes from my father’s last book, ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’, in which he shares at length about racism. The Beloved Community was his ultimate goal, but he believed that we had be honest about and eradicate racism to get there. #MLK #MLKonRacism
“The white backlash of today is rooted in the same problem that has characterized America ever since the black man landed in chains on the shores of this nation.”
#MLK #MLKonRacism
“The white backlash is an expression of the same vacillations, the same search for rationalizations, the same lack of commitment that have always characterized white America on the question of race.”
#MLK #MLKonRacism
Read 15 tweets
Jun 21, 2021
#MLK #FathersDay - Many have been asking for more color photos of my father :-). Here’s a thread of color photos of him with his family:
Dinner Time. Play Time. We miss you, Daddy. #MLK
Daddy with Yolanda, my older sister and the first-born of #CorettaScottKing and #MLK. #FathersDay
Read 7 tweets
Apr 21, 2021
Can I ask some questions pertaining to our humanity?

Ok, good. Thank you.

The footage of what happened with Ma’Khia didn’t/won’t prevent me from asking how she could still be with us...Why isn’t every human asking this humane question?
I care about EVERYONE I saw in that footage. Given this nation’s treatment of Black people, I am prone to question, Does Ma’Khia’s death demonstrate more of that treatment?

Why do we have to continue to explain this question vs. more white people joining in eradicating racism?
Have you asked why excuses are right on the tip of many tongues (maybe including yours) when police kill a Black person for any reason?

How can we make true public safety a reality for Black and brown people?

Do you care about that? If not, why not?
Read 4 tweets
Apr 3, 2021
My father’s final speech, given the evening before he was assassinated, 53 years ago today.

“I may not get there with you.”
‘I’ve Been To The Mountaintop’ #MLK
April 3, 1968 (the evening before he was assassinated)

Full speech:
“Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal...We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles.” #Mountaintop
Read 5 tweets

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